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Everybody Will Be Happy

Carl Story and His Rambling Mountaineers

Album · 1961 · Starday SLP 137

Everybody Will Be Happy was released by Starday in 1961 (SLP 137). It was recorded in December 1960 at the radio station WCRS in Greenwood, South Carolina, by Carl Story and His Rambling Mountaineers: Story on guitar and tenor vocal, Bud Brewster on banjo, Willie Brewster on mandolin and Claude Boone on bass. The matrix numbers run from 4618 to 4629, and the album’s printed credit gives the banjo to Willie Brewster, an error that Discogs corrects from the Bluegrass Discography.

The twelve songs are gospel: “Tramp on the Street,” credited to Grady and Hazel Cole, “Nearer My God to Thee,” “Hiding Place,” “Cabin in Glory,” “He Set Me Free,” “If We Never Meet Again,” “Hear Jerusalem Moan,” “What a Wonderful Saviour” (credited to the Brewsters), “I’ve Got a Home,” “Were You There,” “Long Ago” and the title song. Most of the writing credits read “Story–York.” Discogs identifies William York as Don Pierce, the head of Starday, who also wrote the liner notes. The same band recorded another set of sacred songs at WCRS about a month earlier, around November 1960, which Starday issued as Get Religion (SLP 152). Praguefrank’s discography records that Everybody Will Be Happy was reissued in 1965 on Nashville NLP 2024 with two songs left off.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Tramp On The Street 3:23
  2. 2 Nearer My God To Thee 2:26
  3. 3 Hiding Place 3:24
  4. 4 Cabin In Glory 2:03
  5. 5 I Didn't Hear Nobody Pray 2:09
  6. 6 Somebody Touched Me alt version 2:17
  7. 7 Hear Jerusalem Moan alt version 1:38
  8. 8 Someone's Last Day 2:20
  9. 9 I've Got A Home 2:13
  10. 10 Were You There alt version 2:12
  11. 11 Long Ago 2:04
  12. 12 Everybody Will Be Happy (Over There) 1:54

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