Dortha Wright - Just A Closer Walk With Thee (Ranch Party - 1957)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Town Hall Party, aka Ranch Party, was an American country music radio and television show broadcast over KXLA-AM, Pasadena, California, KFI-AM, Los Angeles, California, and KTTV-TV. The first radio broadcast was in the autumn of 1951.
Promoter William B. Wagnon, Jr., had been booking such acts as Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys in ballrooms between Bakersfield and Sacramento for several years when he decided to extend his operations to Los Angeles. Bert "Foreman" Phillips had been promoting country and Western barn dance programs at the old Town Hall building, situated at 400 South Long Beach Boulevard in Compton, near Long Beach. Wagnon acquired Phillips' lease and commenced promoting a combined dance-and-show, featuring any and all country & western recording artists working in the area and available on Saturday nights. An estimated 3,000 patrons could be accommodated in the Town Hall Ballroom. Wagnon instructed the performers to play only music which could be danced to, and to keep individual songs short and plentiful, in order to satisfy everyone's tastes.
As the show expanded, new talent joined the cast - with Lefty Frizzell, Skeets McDonald, Dortha Wright, and The Collins Kids being among the most popular.
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Dortha was my best friend for over 60 years, I really miss her she passed away Oct.29 2023.
i went to the ranch party video to hear patsy...off of a yee haw video.
as algo would go,
clicked in the middle of the vid bar at the bottom as i wasn't impressed from an earlier song, just turned me off.
and then i hear this very intro and waited.
out strolls a sweet dove.
she is a small angel. when she closes her eyes she is sending her love straight to Jesus.
you can feel her palpable belief and dedication.
i got goosebumps.
i typed this in to try and find anything more from this sweet child.
i am happy for a clarified and sanctified version.
thank you
The best version ever Lasse
I backed Dortha on guitar when she auditioned for Gene Autry in an office at KNX after Gene's broadcast. Dortha was about 10 yrs old. Gene said he liked her singing but she should do more songs that would fit her age.(she was singing 'torch songs')
Dale Norris more people these days should be like her
torch ?
What a talented singer Dortha Wright was. Did she continue with her singing career at Ranch Party or other musical venues?
2:36
thy best
the blessed
1:34 1:37 1 I am weak but Thou art strong;
Jesus, keep me from all wrong;
I'll be satisfied as long
As I walk, let me walk close to Thee.
Refrain:
Just a closer walk with Thee,
Grant it, Jesus, is my plea,
Daily walking close 1:43 to Thee,
Let it be, dear Lord, let it be. 2:01 3:15
2 Thro' this world of toil and snares,
If I falter, Lord, who cares?
Who with me my burden shares?
None but Thee, dear Lord, none but Thee. [Refrain]
3 When my feeble life is o'er,
Time for me will be no more;
Guide me gently, safely o'er
To Thy kingdom shore, to Thy shore. [Refrain]
Baptist
When life's sunset in the west
Lord may I have done my best 2:16
May I find sweet peace and rest 2:31
In that home happy home of thy best 2:36
Anyone know whatever happened to her. Very difficult to find much about her online. Did she go on to be big?
There was a comment said he is her nephew
I am weak but Thou art strong
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