Laurel & Hardy with The Avalon Boys – The Trail of The Lonesome Pine (1973)

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Additional information about this, Laurel and Hardy vinyl art.

Laurel and Hardy – The Artist

Laurel and Hardy were a comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. The team was composed of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). They became well known during the late 1920s through the mid-1940s for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous bully Hardy. Not renown for songs they did sing a few numbers that featured in their full-length films. The duo’s signature tune is known variously as “The Cuckoo Song”, “Ku-Ku”, or “The Dance of the Cuckoos”. It was played over the opening credits of their films and has become as emblematic of the duo as their bowler hats.

The Trail of The Lonesome Pine – The Song

The Trail of The Lonesome Pine  is a popular song published in 1913, with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and music by Harry Carroll. Inspired by John Fox, Jr.’s 1908 novel of the same title, the song expresses the singer’s love for his “girl” June, who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The song was featured in Laurel and Hardy’s 1937 film Way Out West. It was performed by The Avalon Boys and featured a section sung in deep bass by Chill Wills, lip-synced by Stan Laurel in the film, with the last line in falsetto (sung by Rosina Lawrence) after Ollie hit Stan on the head with a mallet.

The Bowler Hats – The Shape

Modelled into the silhouette of Laurel and Hardys’ famous bowler hats.

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