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| Pete got married in 1952 and was released from the service in early. When he came out of the service in 1954, Pete and his wife took about a thirty-day honeymoon. After the honeymoon, Pete went back to D.C. then and looked up Curley Irvin to find a banjo or mandolin player to play with. He told Pete there was a boy named Buzz Busby that played pretty good mandolin, and was looking for someone to play with. Pete called Buzz up and they began performing together. | |
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About this same time, Pete began working with Ben Adelman to get a record contract. Ben worked with Pete two days a week for about four hours a day, working on songs and helping Pete improve his diction. One of the first songs that they worked on was a pop song which Ben had written titled I Can See an Angel Walking. Pete worked for about three months at changing the pop tune into a hillbilly tune, and the final cut of the song was recorded in the summer of 1954. |
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Scotty Stoneman was undoubtedly one of the best fiddle players Pete had ever heard at that time and he worked with Pete on some of his shows. Scotty agreed to do the session on I Can See an Angel Walking with Pete and played on most all of the records that Pete recorded from then on. To this day, Pete still considers Scotty Stoneman to be the best bluegrass fiddle player that he ever worked with. |
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| I Can See an Angel Walking was released in late summer of 1954 and was picked by Billboard Magazine as a five-star pick hit. It began to climb the charts and Wade Holmes, who played lead guitar on the session, stopped Pete on the street one day and informed him that it was high up on the charts and climbing. I Can See an Angel Walking went to No. 1 in Virginia and Maryland districts and several other states before Pete really knew what was happening. | |
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