Speck Rhodes(1915-2000)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Known to millions of fans for his work on the weekly Porter Wagoner
television show. Born Gilbert Ray Rhodes in the southern Missouri town
of West Plains in 1915, Speck was one of six children. All were
musical, but the three boys -- Speck, Slim, and Dusty -- were turning
professional by the time they were in their teens. By 1934 they were
touring the RKO vaudeville circuit as the Log Cabin Mountaineers. Later
on, Dusty became a fiddle champion, and Slim organized one of the
best-known radio bands in the Memphis-Arkansas area. During this time
Speck played a little banjo, a lot of bass fiddle and developed his
comic character. In 1960 Speck auditioned for the new TV show Porter
Wagoner was starting in Nashville. Though both he and Porter had come
from West Plains, and though they knew each other, they had not worked
together before. The chemistry was there, though, and Speck began an
association with Porter that would last over 20 years. His colleagues
in the show were banjoist Buck Trent, dancing fiddler Mack Magaha,
guitarist George McCormick and Don Warden.
TV Series
- Soundtrack("The Fellow That Looked Like Me", "Shortening Bread", "Mountain Dew", "Shortnin' Bread", "Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms", "Running Bear", "John Henry", "Running Bare", "I'm Goin' Back to Where I Come From", "Plain Ole Country Kid", "Shindig in the Barn", "The Crawdad Song", "Little Shirt My Mother Made For Me", "That's the Life of a Sailor Man", "There's More Pretty Girls Than One", "When It's Long Handle Time in Tennessee", "Wait a Little Longer", "Runnin' Bare", "Please Help Me I'm Falling", "Sweet Fern", "Too Old to Cut the Mustard", "I Done Fell Too Far", "Stop That Ticklin' Me", "Movin' On #2", "You're Bound to Look Like a Monkey When You Get Old", "Hound Dog", "Tennessee Border #2", "A-Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed", "Shindig In the Barn", "The Little Shirt My Mother Made For Me", "Don't Take No For An Answer", "I'm an Old Cowhand", "How Much is that Hound Dog in the Window?", "Wait A Little Longer", "Please Help Me I'm Crawling", "Crawdad Song", "Movin' On", "If I Could Just Go Back and Know What I Know Now", "I Wish I Was in Arkansas A Settin' on a Rail", "You Ain't Nothing but a Hound Dog", "In The Shade of The Old Apple Tree", "Country Boy", "The Life of a Sailor Man", "When It's Long Handle Time In Tennessee", "I Like Mountain Music", "Please Help Me I'm Crawlin'", "You Get a Line, I'll Get a Pole (The Crawdad Song)", "Sweet Fern", "A Chevy-Kaiser-Olds-Mo-Laca-Stud-War-Linco-Baker", "More Pretty Girls Than One", "Sleeping At The Foot of The Bed", "The Little Shirt My Mama Made For Me", "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes", "You Better Not Do That", "I'm A Plain Old Country Boy", "Hello Dolly/Too Old to Cut the Mustard Medley")
