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...difficult role for inexperienced Presley and everytime he tries to act, he muffs the part. And, as often happens in big-name productions, the stars are overshadowed by a minor characer who plays his part to perfection. In Love Me Tender the spotlight is captured by an unknown named Jethro, who plays the part of the village idiot...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Love Me Tender and The Desperadoes Are in Town | 11/27/1956 | See Source »

Hart Brake Motel (Homer and Jethro; RCA Victor). The funnymen from the hills take off from Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel in a red-hot tin lizzie. "My room it was so small,'' one of them croaks, that "evertime I tried to smile my teeth would touch the wall." No more vulgar than the prototype...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...Capitol and Dot-rushed their own versions on the market. Victor has brought out two novelty versions of the tune; Eartha Kitt sings it sexy ("I'm gettin' nothin' for Christmas 'cause I didn't want to be bad"), and Country Clowns Homer and Jethro take the part of the child's hardened parents ("Nuttin's too good fer our Johnny, and that's what he's gonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

Hillbilly-humor lovers have already bought more than 110,000 recordings of the month-old Ballad of Davy Crew-cut (Homer & Jethro; RCA Victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King Davy & Friends | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...JETHRO HATCH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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