Recording Artists
Slim Jim was not a prolific recording artist. In the early 1950s the FM Recording Company released a few of his songs. Later on he had a couple of singles on the Soma label. One of his most popular efforts was The Drifting, Whistling Snow, an inspired take-off on the 1955 country western hit The Shifting, Whispering Sands.
After Iverson’s death in 1958 Soma Records released an album, which collected his studio work and some unreleased material with his brother Clarence. The tracks included comic dialect songs, the plaintive ballad Jeg Er En Fattig Liten Dreng (I Am A Poor Little Farmhand), Nikolina — in both Norwegian and English — and the gospel hymn A Beautiful Life. The LP “Slim Jim sings Nikolina and other favorites” was available in Midwestern record stores until the late 1970s.
In 1980 Howard Pine, who had worked on Slim Jim’s radio show, released the first of four albums taken from the artist’s broadcast performances. As recently as 2006 he released the CD "Rocking Chair Radio" with twelve more tracks by the singer. These live recordings from the early 1950s were remastered from acetate discs made by Slim Jim’s sound engineer. In 1980 Clarence Iverson came out of retirement and recorded an album, produced by Pine, called "The Vagabond Kid sings Great Grand Dad".
Read more about this topic: Ernest And Clarence Iverson
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