Cliff Carlisle's Buckle Busters
Footprints in the snow is from an old black Decca 78 rpm record.Recorded in 1939. It's a little scratchy but geez, It\"s old!!! It's one of the THOUSANDS of old records that I had gone through at the record store I worked in.
Living in Minnesota, we thought this song would go good with this picture!
I must tell you about this picture. When I was working at the record store I would take my break and walk down to the corner grocery store \"Romano's\". I always bought the same thing, Oreo cookies and milk. The owner Mike Romano and I became friends. One day I noticed this poster board with Mike's face on it. I asked him about it and it turns out this picture is really a photo proof for the billboards that used to be up all over Duluth advertising our local ski resort \"Spirit Mountain\" ! So, asking Mike about it and showing some interest in it, he said to me that I could have it and so kindly gave it to me.It was then, that I asked him to autograph this because it's not often you get to meet a billboard star!
Let alone..... OLD MAN WINTER!!!
Thank you kindly my friend.
Years before I started working at the (now defunct) book & record store, I used to visit there as often as I could. On one occasion I met the man who was running the bookstore at that time. During our conversation I had asked about 78 rpm records, he said that he had many upstairs but no one goes up there without his consent. That seemed to be that....until one day he approaches with a proposition, I go through his mess of 78's, straighten it up so that he could present his collection to buyers and I get a deal on any 78's that I might want...except I was to give him all of the SUN label records. I accepted with the understanding that if he was selling any of his SUN records that I would have a chance at them once he had them appraised. Well, I found several and he never offered one back....he just sold them off.
I used to spend hours in a dusty/musty dark room (upstairs of the record store, before & during the time i worked there) going through thousands trying to guess which one is worth the effort... you have to, there was literally thousands waiting to be discarded. I just can't process the thought of what didn't get saved!
