clarinet voice emmett, yes, that's what this sweet singer, vaudeville king, was ....

but please remember emmett, sweet emmett, never used expensive jazzy swing musicians like the dorsey bros in his vaudeville days .... so what did emmett, greatest blackface ever recorded, sweetest georgia black minstrel ever, what did he REALLY sound like? guess we'll never know ....

what we do know, however, is that youg hank williams saw emmett performing lovesick blues in a vaudeville tent, somewhere in the far west (or far south) and that he modeled his version, yodel included, on emmett millers's ever so famous howl ...so how DID old emmett sound like? probably more like young "tb" hank williams than his own jazzy versions on vinyl (or cd) ... .... ...

patsy cline's own magnificent live version on tv (1959), even more sensual and wilder than hank williams'