A few years ago my father’s 1935 Regal guitar was in sad need of repair. It was of good lineage, in the 1930 the Chicago-based company was one of the largest makers of guitars, banjos and mandolins in the U.S.

Dad, Robert G. Carlson, played it in a high school jazz band (The Diavolos), and much later taught me my first chords on that acoustic 6-string. I played it in my high school folk duo, Cash-&-Carry (and yes, I was probably the one who put that big scratch on the front “half a century ago” *).

I inherited the Regal when Dad passed away, and took some lessons on it but eventually moved on to the ukulele. At one point I decided to fix the Regal up, and started by taking off all the hardware so I could polish up the wood. Well, you know how that goes — several years went by before I got back to that project, by which time I’d forgotten which pieces went where.

Dellview Music to the rescue! Nick and Andrew put it back together and now it sounds better than ever. Hey, hey, Dellview, you guys are really cool!

Hey, Dellview, You’re Really Cool

[C] Hey, hey, [E7] Dellview, [A7] you two guys are really cool
[D7] Big thanks to Nick and Andrew,
[G7] my old guitar sounds just like brand new
[C] Playin’ ragtime, [E7] jazz rhymes, even [A7] trombone bass lines
[Em] You’ve got guitars and ukes for [B7] ladies and gents, you [Em] have my
[G7] compliments
So [C] play on, [C7] San Antonians [F] rave on, [G#] musicians can
[C] count [F] on [D7] the [G7] Dellview [C] crew…yeah!