{"id":50,"date":"2009-02-15T07:48:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gerrytaylor.thedrawlyn.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2015-12-09T19:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:00:56","slug":"stew-clayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/gerrytaylor\/2009\/02\/15\/stew-clayton\/","title":{"rendered":"Stew Clayton\u2019s Yodeling My Way Back Home CD Released!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stew and Juanita Clayton giving an impromptu performance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seldom have I seen an audience rise so quickly to sweep in a wave across an auditorium floor to a CDs for sale booth than at intermission during the Stew and Juanita Clayton Concert at Exhibition Park, September 1. The nearly 800 rose almost as one to meet the father and daughter duo as they reached it and, at 5 a.m. when we drove them to the airport their CD cases were all but empty.<\/p>\n

Seldom, either, have I had as many calls after a concert for a recording stars address saying \u201cwell, I bought one but I\u2019d like to get a couple more\u201d or \u201cI bought Juanita\u2019s because I only had enough for one, now I\u2019d like to get one of her father\u2019s\u201d or \u201cthere were so many I couldn\u2019t make up my mind. How do I contact them?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, the long reigning star of Winnipeg\u2019s Sunshine Record label has recorded over 30 lps, cassettes and CD\u2019s in the past half century and he said while here that he was thinking of doing another.<\/p>\n

That one Yodeling My Way Back Home<\/em>arrived Christmas week! Stew records the old fashioned way: He walks into a studio with backing musicians and wings it the way Wilf Carter always did! And if you think that didn\u2019t work for Wilf in fairly modern times\u2026well, toward the end of his recording career in the early 1980s, Wilf\u2019sWalking The Streets of Calgary<\/em> RCA Camden lp according to a survey by a Sam the Record Man Halifax store manager, Jimmy Dean, of their outlets and other national distributors was the top seller of its release year but when R.P.M. Magazine, compilers of Canada\u2019s Top 100 records at the time, didn\u2019t even list it, their answer when he inquired was: \u201cOh, we don\u2019t chart anyone over 60. They\u2019ve no career left.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyhow though it may never officially get its dues either, Stew\u2019s new CD Yodeling My Way Back Home<\/em>will be a joy to the ears of anyone who remembers the great years of Country & Western music. An eleven times international yodeling champion Stew explains his choice of songs for this CD in this way: \u2018For many years I have been asked why I don\u2019t put more yodel songs on my recordings. When doing shows, folks who stop by my booth will nearly always ask \u2018which album has the most yodel songs on it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, on this new release there is only one selection\u2026the Johnny Cash Song \u2026that isn\u2019t a yodel song. I sincerely hope all my fans and all those who have ever felt bereft at the lack of yodeling on records now will enjoy this recording. I made it especially for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The yodel songs are: The Old Harvest Waltz, I Love To Hear Her Yodel, The Yodeling Trucker <\/em>(a comedic demonstration of voice dexterity and endurance), Answer To My Little Yodel Lady, The Yodeling Farmers Song, Blue Mountain Yodel, My Little Artic Sweetheart, Yodeler\u2019s Waltz <\/em>and the title song: Yodeling My Way Back Home.<\/em> All ten were penned by Stew.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copies of it are available by calling him at (204) 242-2670. You will likely get the message: \u201cHello, this is Yodeling Stew from Manitou. If I\u2019m not here I\u2019m most likely out doing a show somewhere but leave a message and I\u2019ll get back to you.\u201d Which he will do! Or write: Stew Clayton, P.O. Box 147, Manitou, Manitoba, Canada R0G 1G0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seldom have I seen an audience rise so quickly to sweep in a wave across an auditorium floor to a CDs for sale booth than at intermission during the Stew and Juanita Clayton Concert at Exhibition Park, September 1. The nearly 800 rose almost as one to meet the father and daughter duo as they reached it and, at 5 a.m. when we drove them to the airport their CD cases were all but empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,19,20],"tags":[41,64],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2008-performers","category-album-release","category-concert","category-country","tag-exhibition-park","tag-stew-clayton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/gerrytaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/gerrytaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/gerrytaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/gerrytaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/gerrytaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/gerrytaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/gerrytaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/gerrytaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/gerrytaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/gerrytaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/gerrytaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}