Jim Bottorff's Banjo Page
THE BANJO STYLE COLLAGE
Featuring Examples of Banjo Playing Styles
 
Return to Songs & Home Page         List of LP Albums used in the Collage
Shakey's Pizza Parlor Days                          Go to bottom of this page

Click on pictures, words and dots below to hear sound clips (mp3)
 
 
Video #1 (click here)                         Video #2 (click here)                             Video #3 (click here)
         "Banjo Style Collage"                   "More Banjo Style Collage"              "Banjo Style Collage Trillogy"
 

 
LP ALBUMS STARTING FROM TOP CLOCKWISE:
Click on album titles below to see the record album covers 
Click on song names to go to the music pages with chords and lyrics
 
BLUEGRASS BANJO PICKIN' - THE MOUNTAINEERS
"John Henry"
"Cripple Creek"
 
THE ORIGINAL SOUND FLATT & SCRUGGS
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
"My Cabin In Caroline"
 
FOLK BANJO STYLES - TOM PALEY BANJO
"Eighth Of January" aka "Battle of New Orleans"
"John Henry"
 
EDDIE PEABODY MR. BANJO'S BACK IN TOWN
"For Me And My Gal"
"Bells of St. Mary's"
"When You Wore A Tulip"
 
MORE WACKY DOODLIN'S DOOWACKADOODLERS
"Doo Wacka Doo"
"Five Foot Two"
"Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight"
 
THE MICKEY FINN THEME AND OTHER FAVORITES - THE RAGTIMERS
"Mame"
"My Gal Sal"
"When The Saints Go Marching In"
 
BLUEGRASS BANJO WITH STRINGS - BILL McELHINEY ORCH. & BOB JOHNSON
"Feelin' Bad" (Lonesome Road Blues)
"Wildwood Flower"
"Londonderry Air" (Danny Boy)
 
BLUEGRASS BANJOS ON FIRE - HOMER AND THE BARNSTORMERS
"Camptown Races"
"Cumberland Gap"
"Old Dan Tucker"
 
MICKEY FINN'S AMERICA'S NO.1 SPEAKEASY - DON VAN PALTHA BANJO
"Beer Barrel Polka"
"Liebestraum"
"Side By Side"
 
THE BANJO STYLE OF PERRY BECHTEL
"Bells of St. Mary's"
"Ain't We Got Fun"
"Kentucky Babe"
"Shortnin' Bread"
 

SHAKEY'S PIZZA PARLOR DAYS
The Beginning of a Banjo Odyssey
 
                                              
       Jim at Shakey's with plectrum banjo       Shakey's Songbook (pdf)        Jim at Shakey's with 5-string banjo
 
 
Sing-A-Long Slide Show
 
                  
 
Click on above the images to enlarge
Click below for the matching music pages
 
"Bill Bailey"      "When You And I Were Young Maggie"      "Hot Time In The Old Town"
                                                                                                    
 
 
Shakey's "Mustache Guy" Banjo Story
My experence with a Shakey's customer (pdf click here)
                                       

The Banjo Style Collage
        
                           
(click images to enlarge)
 
The above Banjo Style Collage was made in 1967 from some of my favorite LP record album covers.
I was playing seven nights a week at Shakey's Pizza Parlor in Knoxville, Tennessee (7355 Kingston Pike).
 
 
Clicking on different points in the Banjo Style Collage will play songs from the LP albums.
Wow! What an assortment of different ways to play the banjo.
 

Shakey's Movies
Following are some YouTube videos that may be of interest, click on images:
 
                                              
  1970's Commercial                          Recalling the Sakey's Days                            Memory Lane
 

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