Doug Tubb .
Mart Record Company # 1003 - 1954
The World Is A Monster / Deaf, Dumb And Blind .
Written by Doug and Roy Duke this is killer country music, not a mover i'll give you that .....but changing from minor to major chords this lil' devil rolls and bops for sure and when Doug states "For the world is a monster and it's food is mans heart" you better believe it buddy ......I just love this 78, not in the greatest condition but it's a monster all the same !
Born Douglas Tubb (Son of Ernest Tubb), June 29, 1935 in San Antonio (Texas). Glenn Douglas is still active as Country singer
Roy Duke - Mart Records # 1001 - 1953
Side A - Goo Goo Eyes
Side B - My Heart Can't Talk
This is the first release on the Mart label and what a great start it is to with some great vocals and musicianship from Roy and the band. Goo Goo Eyes is just brilliant and, superb lead guitar kicks it off and then some lovely sounding fiddle and electric lead in the 1st solo. This is just a great country bopper and that's a fact folks!
Roy James Duke was born on 11th April 1922 at the Rutherford County Seminary Community in Tennessee. Died 1994.
Roy saw the inaugural release on Mart with My Heart Can't Talk (co-written with Frank and Ted) and the wonderfully simplistic and undoubtedly Ernest Tubb inspired Goo Goo Eyes (penned by Joyce Duke, the wife of Roy) on Mart 1001. Retrospectively, Goo Goo Eyes proved a blue print for the recordings Roy would make in the coming years, if not less subdued than his later sides. Maybe slightly more jovial than his Decca recordings, his drowsy, yet infectious vocal was unmistakable. Roy's hopelessly obscure Mart release was followed by his brother Frank's offering of Web Of Lies and They Made Me Fall In Love (Mart 1002), Douglas Tubb's The World Is A Monster and Deaf, Dumb, And Blind (another tune Joyce Duke had a hand in writing) (Mart 1003) and finally Ted Edlin himself with Only One God and Hello Little Boy (Mart 1004).
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