off topic, help please

[mandolin tony]

was at the record store today & I bought a old Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys record, on the Jalyn record label. on the back cover there is 3 autographs, Ralph Stanley looks real, # 2 & 3 are Jack Cooke ? & Curly Ray Clince ?. who are they & were do they fall in time wise as Clinch Mountain boys.

[MikeZito]

Yes - Jack Cooke was a singer and bassist, and Curly was a fiddle player. That would have been the early 1970's, I believe.

Nice find! Enjoy.

[mandolin tony]

thanks Mike, it was a great deal at $3.99.

[rcc56]

When I saw Ralph and the boys around 1980, Jack Cooke and Curly Ray Cline were with him, along with Junior Blankenship and [I think] Charlie Sizemore. Ralph, Jack, and Curly Ray were quite a bunch of characters.

[Bill Findley]

Where’s that record store?

[Ivan Kelsall]

Here's Ralph & the Boys - ''Curly Ray Cline'' on the extreme left & ''Jack Cooke'' extreme right,
Ivan

PS - Lots of photos. on the 'net,but very few good ones showing Curly Ray & Jack Cooke.

[mandolin tony]

good morning Bill, the record store is high fidelity records & they are in Amityville Long Island. if you are looking for anything here is there phone # 631-264-0527. Mark is a real nice guy.

[MikeZito]

thanks Mike, it was a great deal at $3.99.

I have stumbled across a few of those low-priced signed albums over the years:
- Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys
- Doc Williams and the Border Riders
- The Pike Brothers Band (Jimmy Gaudreau's first record)
- Curly Ray Cline (no album in the jacket)
. . . and even Bing Crosby; (it was in the 50-cent bin at a local antique store. I brought the album to the store owners attention, which he later sold on eBay for $20.00 . . . he gave me a stack of free albums after that to say 'thank you'.)

They are certainly fun to find.

Enjoy!