El Randa / Sledd Riding - The Osborne Brothers

[@freighttrain9667]

Sonny is pulling such great tone out of that old great Granada and he is enjoying every minute!!!!! R.I.P. my Friend Love you and miss You!!!

[@jeswanderyn]

RIP Sonny. He was a true MASTER!

[@scottdozier944]

Sonny influenced a lot of banjo pickers, myself included. His drive, tone, and just the smoothness of his playing is what we all strive for. Thank you for sharing your talents!!!

[@brasspick]

The Album was "Pick'in Grass and Sing'in Country", in case you find it at a flea market somewhere.

[@edmcfatter3766]

Great musicians. Always seem happy like my family was. Thanks so much,!

[@BanjoChief]

Sonny and Bobby recorded El Randa in 1974, and it was released by MCA in 1975.

[@Outdoors_with_Isaiah]

Would you happen to know what record it was featured on sir?

[@BanjoChief]

@@Outdoors_with_Isaiah In 1975 El Randa was on the LP MCA 468, "Pickin' grass & singin' country."

[@Outdoors_with_Isaiah]

@@BanjoChief ok awesome thanks!!

[@DavidHedrick]

Tom takes me back to Bean Blossom, when they were on top of the game....... Paul Brewster was never that young LOL thanks for sharing this.

[@alanniederland3477]

Terrific. Boys in their prime.

[@kevinchilton431]

OUTSTANDING!!! Thank you Tom!!!!

[@dennissledd9666]

I understand my Dad's cousin Dale Sledd wrote Sledd Ridding when he was with the Osborne Brothers Dale was a Good Banjo player too but he only play guitar when he played with Sonny

[@fiddlingary]

El Randa “The Pickpocket.”

[@65gmb]

Anywhere to access the rest of this KET program? Great quaility!

[@gabemoore3189]

If you don't mind me asking I'm curious as to where you've gotten all of these clips from these shows from? I absolutely live the clips you put out. I'm just interested in watching it in its entirety

[@BanjoChief]

As I SAID in the description for this video, it came from a show videotaped and edited by the crew of the Kentucky Educational Television show "Jubilee." For 10 years, more or less, I was the off-screen interviewer for Jubilee,having been hired in that role by my friend and former bandmate Russ Farmer, who produced and directed those great shows. A lot of the early Jubilee shows are no longer available at all, either because they're no longer shown by KET or -- worse -- because KET's own archives no longer contain them after they re-used the original tapes. Fortunately I copied and kept many early KET "Jubilee" shows, and/or was given VHS copies years ago by Russ. THAT's where some of these clips have come from!

[@PoplarvilleMan]

@@BanjoChief This video is actually not from "Jubilee" Tom. It was 1979 at the McLain Family Festival. Jubilee didn't start until the 90's. I did direct this video though and probably gave it to you. It was the first time I met Sonny.

[@BanjoChief]

@@PoplarvilleMan Thanks for the correction! NOT "Jubilee," but your typically wonderful direction of the KET crew...

[@SteelguitarLane]

Sonny is, of course, welcome to make his own grammatical mistakes, but if it's "El" anything, it'd have to end in an o, as El denotes a masculine-gendered noun, which ends in o. If you mean Randa, you'd need the feminine definite article "La." Cool tune regardless

[@BanjoChief]

Does "El Rondo" make more sense? And does it actually mean something like "The Pickpocket?"

[@SteelguitarLane]

@@BanjoChief, it means literally "the round." I suspect it can mean a rounder, as it also means the dance called a rondo (as in Mozart's Rondo alla Turka, which got done bluegrass as "Fuji Mountain Breakdown") and a roundabout.