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Live, from the Arkansas Senate

Why the Arkansas Senate needs to be televised:

The famed country music trio from Arkansas, The Browns, will perform their crossover hit, "The Three Bells," on the floor of the Arkansas State Senate Chamber on Tuesday, March 27th, at 1:30 p.m., in recognition of Senate Concurrent Resolution 10, Encouraging the Country Music Hall of Fame to Add The Browns to Its Membership.

The famed vocal trio of Jim Ed Brown and sisters Maxine and Bonnie won international acclaim in the 1950s and '60s for hits such as "Looking Back to See," "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow," and "I Heard the Bluebirds Sing." Their biggest success came in 1959 with "The Three Bells," a chart-topping crossover hit that landed the group on Dick Clark's American Bandstand and The Ed Sullivan Show.

Posted by Max Brantley on March 23, 2007 02:50 PM | Permalink

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i never saw them together but a very long time ago i saw willie nelson, before his long hair days, he was just starting to become the willie we know now,and he had bonnie come up on stage and sing a couple of songs with him. she was very good. this was when it was a big deal to go concerts in barton colliseum. horrible place to hear music but i heard a lot of good musicians there including elvis.

Posted by: zonker | March 23, 2007 04:44 PM

Here's a little youtube taste of The Browns.

I'd Just Be Fool Enough (To Fall)

I'm all goosebumpy now.

Posted by: hugh mann | March 23, 2007 06:04 PM

Wish I could be there, The 3 Bells has been a favorite since childhood. I'd add that memory to the one of Governor Jimmie Davis singing You Are My Sunshine to Orval Faubus on the back of a flatbed truck back in 1964 behind Peevey's gas station, where Burger King now stands on Rogers Avenue.

Posted by: Deathbyinches | March 24, 2007 12:48 PM

Is it just me, or did the brother really sing the last word as "fall", while both of the sisters sang it as "care"?

I listened to it twice--first time through was broken up--and I heard it the same both times.

Posted by: widj | March 24, 2007 04:48 PM

The sister on the left definitely sang, "care" when Jim Ed sang, "fall". Couldn't tell about sis #2.

Posted by: hugh mann | March 25, 2007 04:48 AM

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