We can't be darlings anymore

[Tina MBee]

I heard this song but didn't hear who it was by. I'd like to find a recording of it so I could play along with it-once I figure out the chords of course!I'm sure someone knows the song and an artist that recorded it.

[jim simpson]

It's a Bill Monroe tune. You can find it on Bluegrass Album Vol. 1 CD
by the Bluegrass Album Band.
I'm not sure what collection it would be on by Monroe as it was originally released on a 45.

[Geno]

Written by Lester Flatt & Curly Seckler. Flatt & Scruggs recorded it on 11-21-50 with Lester, Earl, Curly on mando, Benny Sims on fiddle, and Jody Rainwater on bass. It was on the first "The Bluegrass Album" by Tony Rice, Doyle Lawson , etc. Grisman sang the lead to Del McCoury's tenor and twin mandolins by Grisman and Ronnie McCoury on "Life of Sorrow".

[Walter Newton]

Go to www.allmusic.com and do a search by song, you'll find about a dozen albums/collections featuring the song....or better still search for the song title at the iTunes store, you'll find several versions you can preview for free (and buy for 99 cents each).

[metalmandolin]

There is a super cut of that tune on the Johnson Mtn. Boys "Live at the Birchmere" album. Enjoy!

[Tina MBee]

thanks ya'll - as we say here in Virginny I've not used iTunes but they have several cuts. Keep on pickin' and a Merry Christmas to all!

[swampstomper]

The original with Seckler and Flatt is perhaps the finest example of Curly's distinctive tenor singing and simple-but-effective mandolin playing. This was F&S before Mon forced them to replace mando with dobro as the price for joining the Opry. Agree it's a great song. The BG album band version with Lawson and T Rice taking the two parts is a "reasonable" (!!) cover...