The King of Western Swing

The King of Western Swing

The King of Western Swing

ASIN: B00004U013

Track Listings
 
1. New San Antonio Rose
2. Steel Guitar Rag
3. Corrine, Corrina
4. Big Beaver
5. Take Me Back to Tulsa
6. Miss Molly
7. My Confession
8. Home in San Antone
9. We Might as Well Forget It
10. Texas Playboy Rag
11. New Spanish Two-Step
12. I'm Feelin' Bad
13. Roly Poly
14. Stay a Little Longer
15. Deep Water
16. Bubbles in My Beer
17. Blues for Dixie
18. Keeper of My Heart
19. Boot Heel Drag

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The King of Western Swing: 25 Hits (1935-1945)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Great Gift
  • Just One Great Time!
  • Ten years in the evolution of western swing . . .
  • Columbia hang your head in Shame
  • Best one-volume CD available
 The King of Western Swing: 25 Hits (1935-1945)
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000063CZ
Release Date: 1998-04-21

Tracks:

  1. New San Antonio Rose
  2. Osage Stomp
  3. Never No More Hard Times - Blues
  4. Steel Guitar Rag
  5. Sugar Blues
  6. Fan It
  7. Right Or Wrong
  8. Whoa Baby
  9. That's What I Like About The South
  10. Lone Star Rag
  11. Corrine, Corrina
  12. Bob Wills Special
  13. Time Changes Everything
  14. Big Beaver
  15. Take Me Back To Tulsa
  16. Dusty Skies
  17. We Might As Well Forget It
  18. Home In San Antone
  19. You're From Texas
  20. Goodbye, Liza Jane
  21. Texas Playboy Rag
  22. Roly Poly
  23. Stay A Little Longer
  24. New Spanish Two-Step
  25. I'm Feelin' Bad

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great Gift.......2007-01-09

I bought this as a gift for my parents and they love it.

5 out of 5 stars Just One Great Time!.......2006-02-27

I don't know much about the history of this group, but musicians I really enjoy think the world of them, so I thought it would be fun to give a listen.

Imagine you are someone struggling to eke out a living in the midst of the Great Depression. So you got a couple of bucks and try for a little diversion in a dusty roadhouse in the southern middle of the country. To your surprise and delight you are entertained by a largish group of really good musicians playing an unfamiliar mix of big band, country and blues.

Some of the earliest amplified music and nice pedal steel guitar work can be heard in this collection. A sign of the times of the music can be glimpsed in lyrics like: "Ain't got no blues, got chickens out in my yard..."

I like that this collection is in mono, and that the sound quality doesn't come close to current standards. It's damn fine music, presented as it was at the time. Take a chance.

5 out of 5 stars Ten years in the evolution of western swing . . ........2005-01-03

Western swing fans who know its full-fledged big-band sound of the 1940s will enjoy tracing its emergence from country jazz and blues and its migration from Texas to California in this terrific collection of early recordings by Bob Wills. The CD kicks off with the band's biggest western swing hit, "New San Antonio Rose" and then jumps back to their first recording, "Osage Stomp" (a rough and ready tune that's part barn dance and part Dixieland). The following six songs, all recorded in 1936, branch out from this into delta blues and rags, all with a country flavor, Wills' characteristic encouragements to the band and trademark "Ah-haaa."

The swing-band sound predominates starting with the 1938 recordings ("Whoa Baby," track 8) at a time when the band grew to 18 members. There follow some great standards, "Corrine, Corrina" (1940), "Take Me Back to Tulsa" (1941), "You're From Texas" (1942), and "Stay a Little Longer" (1945). Among the songs are vocals by young Tommy Duncan (born 1911) and younger Leon McAuliffe (born 1917), whose clear, mellow voices ring bright and sweetly smooth. Many songs are also graced by the sound of McAuliffe's wonderful steel guitar.

A short booklet with this CD recounts the career of Bob Wills and his band. For each of the 25 tracks, the notes identify the location and date of recording (tracks 1-15 in Texas; tracks 16-25 in Hollywood). With 70 minutes of music, this CD is a great value.

5 out of 5 stars Columbia hang your head in Shame.......2003-12-12

Columbia and its leasees have been reissuing recordings Bob Wills did with them in various aggregations since the mid 1970s when they let loose the original Bob Wills Anthology. Since then they have been putting out various combinations of the stuff from their years (1936-1946)in a way that if you went with them and bought this record or one of its peers, you would end up having three or four copies of some of the key recordings just to have all the best stuff. Yet, the music is worth it.

Of course you can go upscale and get the Bear Family Box and other compilations.

This CD has some great stuff that isn't on the anthology and some of the other collections as well as stuff that isn't. Most of the good stuff on this record is from the pre-WWII band.

During the war the Playboys went through a lot of changes. Tommy Duncan joined the navy the day after war started. Wills himself was drafted. Wills showed up for the Army with his chauffer, his Cadillac limousine, and fretted about being woken up before 9 a.m. or doing anything that would roughen his fiddle playing hands! Wills was allowed to quit the army--something almost no one else was allowed to do during WWII--after he agreed to raise a lot of money for War bonds. Leon McAuliffe who had learned to fly working for Wills who had his own plane to fly the Playboys around in, became a flight instructor for the military. Etc. Etc.

During the War itself Wills fronted the largest and according to those who heard it--it was never recorded due to the various recordinjg bands and vinyl shortages during the war--most beautiful big band aggregation he ever had. However, the band tended to shift to a group dominated by fiddles, and a trio with steel guitar, guitars, and tiny moore and later Johnny Gimble's electric mandolin with only one horn.

This is the band you hear on the Tiffany transcriptioons which were all made in 1946 and 1947.

I would also not dismiss the MGM years that followed the Columbia contract from the late 1940s into the mid 1950s. MGM has come out with a complete collection of Wills in those years, entitled The Boot Hill Drag, which has some of the hottest swingingest music ever made. And the stuff Wills recorded in the very late 1950s and early 1960s for Liberty with the return of Tommy Duncan and Joe Holley were as good as anything recorded in the 1930s or 1940s though it had a cleaner, jazzier, sound and even featured Vicki Carr singing backup on some numbers. If you like fiddle choirs, you will like some of the Liberty Tunes where Wills rounded out his own fiddle sections with a violist out of the Lawrence Welch Orchestra!

To be sure, if you don't have any Bob Wills Music this is as good as any set to start with. The music is good enough for you to chase after it. This is Wills from 36 to 46 basically. Then you just get all the rest. The man kept making music until 1973. You really need it all!

5 out of 5 stars Best one-volume CD available.......2002-01-26

Leave it to the British to offer the best one-stop shopping for Bob Wills fans. Unless you have the money to buy all 9+ CDs in the Tiffany Transcriptions...this is it.
King of Western Swing
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Very Pleased!
 King of Western Swing
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Manufacturer: Jsp Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000O591AQ
Release Date: 2007-05-15

Tracks:

  1. Sunbonnet Sue
  2. Nancy Jane
  3. Osage Stomp
  4. Get With It
  5. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  6. Spanish Two Step
  7. Maiden's Prayer
  8. Wang Wang Blues
  9. St. Louis Blues
  10. Good Old Oklahoma
  11. Blue River
  12. Mexicali Rose
  13. I Ain't Got Nobody
  14. Never No More Blues
  15. Who Walks In When I Walk Out
  16. Old Fashioned Love
  17. Oklahoma Rag
  18. Black And Blue Rag
  19. Sittin' On Top Of The World
  20. Four Or Five Times
  21. I Can't Be Satisfied
  22. Smith's Reel
  23. Harmony
  24. She's Killing Me
  25. Weary Of The Same Old Stuff

Tracks:

  1. No Matter How Seh Done It
  2. Bluin' The Blues
  3. Steel Guitar Rag
  4. Get Along Home Cindy
  5. Trouble In Mind
  6. What's The Matter With The Mill
  7. Sugar Blues
  8. Basin Street Blues
  9. Red Hot Gal Of Mine
  10. Too Busy
  11. Back Home Again In Indiana
  12. Fan It
  13. Mean Mama Blues
  14. Bring It On Down To My House
  15. Right Or Wrong
  16. Swing Blues #1
  17. Swing Blues #2
  18. White Heat
  19. Dedicated To You
  20. Playboy Stomp
  21. Steel Guitar Stomp
  22. Rosetta
  23. Bleeding Hearted Blues
  24. Tie Me To Your Apron Strings Again
  25. Never No More Hard Times Blues

Tracks:

  1. Sunbonnet Sue
  2. The New St. Louis Blues
  3. I'm A Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas
  4. Oozlin' Daddy Blues
  5. Black Rider
  6. Everybody Does It In Hawaii
  7. Alexander's Ragtime Band
  8. Blue Prelude
  9. Sophisticated Hula
  10. Pray For The Lights To Go Out
  11. Gambling Polka Dot Blues
  12. Keep Knocking (But You Can't Come In)
  13. Loveless Love
  14. Oh Lady Be Good
  15. Way Down Upon The Swanee River
  16. Oh You Beautiful Doll
  17. Moonlight And Roses (Bring Mem'ries Of You)
  18. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
  19. Tulsa Stomp
  20. Empty Bed Blues
  21. Little Red Head
  22. San Antonio Rose
  23. Little Girl, Go Ask Your Mama
  24. Carolina In The Morning
  25. The Convict And The Rose

Tracks:

  1. Silver Bells
  2. Dreamy Eyes Waltz
  3. Beaumont Rag
  4. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
  5. If I Could Bring Back My Buddy
  6. Whoa Babe
  7. Ida Red
  8. Yearning (Just For You)
  9. I Wonder If You Feel The Way I Do
  10. Prosperity Special
  11. Drunkard's Blues
  12. You're Okay
  13. Liza Pull Down The Shades
  14. That's What I Like 'Bout The South
  15. My Window Faces The South
  16. The Waltz You Saved For Me
  17. Don't Let The Deal Go Down
  18. You Don't Love Me (But I'll Always Care)
  19. No Wonder
  20. Lone Star Rag
  21. There's Going To Be A Party (For The Old Folks)
  22. I Don't Lov'a Nobody
  23. That Brownskin Gal
  24. Corrine Corrina
  25. Let Me Call You Sweetheart (I'm In Love With You)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Very Pleased!.......2007-07-05

I bought this as a gift for my husband. He absolutely loves it! The sound quality is excellent! He is very pleased!
Pee Wee King's Biggest Hits/Country Barn Dance
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Julius Kuczynski?
 Pee Wee King's Biggest Hits/Country Barn Dance
Pee Wee King
Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00029RSXG
Release Date: 2004-06-22

Tracks:

  1. Changing Partners - Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart
  2. I Can't Tell a Waltz From a Tango - Pee Wee King,
  3. Last Night on the Back Porch (I Loved Her Best of All) - Shorty Boyd, Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart,
  4. Silver and Gold - Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart
  5. Till I Waltz Again With You - Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart
  6. San Antonio Rose - Pee Wee King,
  7. Over the Waves - Pee Wee King
  8. Backward, Turn Backward - Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart
  9. Waltz of the Alamo - Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys
  10. Mighty Pretty Waltz - Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart
  11. My Adobe Hacienda - Pee Wee King,
  12. One Rose (That's Left in My Heart) - Pee Wee King, Gene Stewart
  13. Steel Guitar Rag - Pee Wee King
  14. Bonaparte's Retreat - Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart
  15. Slow Poke - Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys
  16. Blue Suede Shoes - Pee Wee King
  17. Tennessee Waltz - Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart
  18. Varsoviana - Pee Wee King
  19. Rag Mop - Pee Wee King

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Julius Kuczynski?.......2004-12-29

I don't think most fans knew Pee Wee King's real name but an apparent Polish background may have given him his talent with polka tunes that became popular in the country swing era. Pee Wee King, along with fellow composer/ group's lead singer Redd Stewart gave country music some special songs in his heyday. "Tennessee Waltz" was recorded by no less than 15 well-known recording artists and pretty much became the signature song for Patti Page. That song and others such as "Bonaparte's Retreat" and "Slowpoke" became standards in the pop music as well as the country music field. One of the most romantic "Changing Partners" was also one of the best, about feeling alone in a crowd and waiting for that special dance partner to return from across the floor, my favorite. King's contemporaries included Bob Wills and Spade Cooley. The man lived to a ripe old age but may not be as well remembered as Hank Williams, Sr., for example, because of his brand of country music. But that music is well worth a listen; his (and Redd's) best are in this compilation.
Just Between the Two of Us
Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
  • Just Between the Two of Us by Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens.
  • good effort
 Just Between the Two of Us
Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004XR5A
Release Date: 2000-08-29

Tracks:

  1. Just Between the Two of Us
  2. House Without Love Is Not a Home
  3. Slowly But Surely
  4. Our Hearts Are Holding Hands
  5. I Wanta Live Again
  6. Forever and Ever
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  8. I'll Take a Chance on Loving You
  9. Stranger in My Arms
  10. Too Used to Being with You
  11. Too Much for Me, Too Much for You
  12. Wait a Little Longer, Please Jesus

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Just Between the Two of Us by Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens........2007-03-18

You can not find any better singers doing the fine job of singing together than Merle Haggard and the late great Bonnie Owens. I truly enjoy listening to this cd by them both and I think others will too.

3 out of 5 stars good effort.......2003-09-02

Former wife Bonnie Owens and Merle Haggard originally made an album called "That Makes Two of Us." They were advised to remake the album a couple of years later and the advice turned out to be good for they scored this time with much more success. The two of the albums differ with three songs each.
The combination of Bonnie's unique squeaky voice and Merle's rugged voice make an interesting match. Liz Anderson, best known as Lynn Anderson's mom, wrote many of the songs on this album. It would be great if a cd came out reflecting Bonnie's solo career and Liz's but unfortunately that isn't likely to happen soon.
Even after the marriage, Bonnie continued to tour with the Strangers. She even was the bridesmaid for Merle's next wife Leona Williams.
Today I Started Loving You Again
Average customer rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
  • Misleading
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 Today I Started Loving You Again
Merle Haggard
Manufacturer: King
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00009UVXC
Release Date: 2003-06-17

Tracks:

  1. Today I Started Loving You Again
  2. Branded Man
  3. If We Make It Through December
  4. I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
  5. Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde
  6. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
  7. Always Wanting You
  8. It's Been A Great Afternoon
  9. Honey Hungry
  10. You And Your Precious Love

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Misleading.......2007-06-09

The last two songs on this album are not even Merle! The songs are sung by someone named Mike Lunsford. Plus the Merle songs are ones you can easily find on their original collections. Steer clear of this one. The only reason I gave it 2 stars was because most of the songs were by Merle....he deserves that anyway!

1 out of 5 stars All Remakes.......2005-08-13

A few years ago, Merle Haggard sat down and remade almost all of his biggest hits in a mamoth recording session. Now all of these songs are spreading around to every cheap record company who repackages them.

Be careful, everything here is remakes.
Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • a unique classic
  • Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight!
  • ***This Is Pure Rockabilly Heaven***
 Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
Sid King & The Five Strings
Manufacturer: Bear Family
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000282XG
Release Date: 1991-11-11

Tracks:

  1. I Like It
  2. Crazy Little Heart
  3. Put Something In The Pot Boy
  4. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
  5. But I Don't Care
  6. Mama, I Want You
  7. Purr, Kitty, Purr
  8. Sag, Drag And Fall
  9. Blue Suede Shoes
  10. Let 'Er Roll
  11. Booger Red
  12. Ooby Dooby
  13. When My Baby Left Me
  14. Good Rockin' Baby
  15. Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
  16. It's True, I'm Blue
  17. I've Got The Blues
  18. Warmed Over Kisses, Left Over Love
  19. What Have Ya Got To Lose
  20. Twenty One
  21. I Cried
  22. Oh What You Do To Me
  23. Hello There Rockin' Chair
  24. Once Upon A Time
  25. Who Put The Turtle In Myrtle's Girldle
  26. If Tears Could Cry
  27. How Easy Was It Dear
  28. When My Baby Left Me
  29. Good Rockin' Baby

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars a unique classic.......2006-04-20

these guys managed to combine rhythm and blues, county and rock'n'roll in a way that created their own sound. "Put something in the pot boy" is one of my favorites, but really there a lot of of great songs on this collection. Plus, like most of the Bear Family releases there is a real cool booklet with lots of great photos and information.

5 out of 5 stars Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight!.......2004-06-15

This is one of the greatest rockabilly bands from the fifties! Five piece band, that were mixing westeren swing with jive blues, rhythm 'n' blues and rockabilly! Very unique! This collection contains all 29 songs the group recorded between 1953 and 1959. "Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight", "Sag, Drag and Fall" are already in rockabilly hall of fame but other songs are excellent too.

5 out of 5 stars ***This Is Pure Rockabilly Heaven***.......2004-03-09

Sid King & The Five Strings are in reality a red hot early rockabilly/hillbilly boogie trio. King and his band sing and play everything from R&B, jump blues, country and hillbilly boogie, but it's essentially all realy rockabilly. Thier version of Blue Suade Shoes is exellent and also there version of Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee. This is joyous rockabilly swing that will get you gitterbuggin' and jivin' on the dance floor. This is some really fon boppin' wild music and is essential for any rockabilyl fan, this music was recorded between mid to late 50's, and the sound quality is exellent!
Western Swing Get Together
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Western Swing Get Together
    Pee Wee King
    Manufacturer: Jasmine Music
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00005MHST
    Release Date: 2001-08-14

    Tracks:

    1. Doghouse Blues
    2. You Tried To Ruin My Name
    3. Get Together Polka
    4. Western Limited
    5. Tain't What You Want
    6. Oh Monah
    7. Between You And The Birds And The Bees And Cupid
    8. Flower Of Texas
    9. Brother Drop Dead Boogie
    10. Song Of The Early Settlers
    11. I'm Just A Gad-about
    12. Mohegas
    13. Darling, Stop Playing With My Heart
    14. Tennessee Tango
    15. Tears, Tears, Tears
    16. Rich In Love
    17. Hog WIld Too
    18. I Need A Lot Of Lovin'
    19. Opportunity
    20. Cowboy Special
    21. I'm Goin' Back To The Middle Of The Middle West
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    Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Essence of Rock and Roll
    		 Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
    Sid King & the Five Strings
    Manufacturer: Bear Family
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000001AXI
    Release Date: 1994-06-27

    Tracks:

    1. I Like It
    2. Crazy Little Heart
    3. Put Something In The Pot Boy
    4. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
    5. But I Don't Care
    6. Mama, I Want You
    7. Purr, Kitty, Purr
    8. Sag, Drag And Fall
    9. Blue Suede Shoes
    10. Let 'Er Roll
    11. Booger Red
    12. Ooby Dooby
    13. When My Baby Left Me
    14. Good Rockin' Baby
    15. Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
    16. It's True, I'm Blue
    17. I've Got The Blues
    18. Warmed Over Kisses, Left Over Love
    19. What Have Ya Got To Lose
    20. Twenty One
    21. I Cried
    22. Oh What You Do To Me
    23. Hello There Rockin' Chair
    24. Once Upon A Time
    25. Who Put The Turtle In Myrtle's Girldle
    26. If Tears Could Cry
    27. How Easy Was It Dear
    28. When My Baby Left Me
    29. Good Rockin' Baby

    Product Description

    1. I Like It
    2. Crazy Little Heart
    3. Put Something In The Pot Boy
    4. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
    5. But I Don't Care
    6. Mama, I Want You
    7. Purr, Kitty, Purr
    8. Sag, Drag, And Fall
    9. Blue Suede Shoes
    10. Let 'Er Roll
    11. Booger Red
    12. Ooby Dooby
    13. When My Baby Left Me
    14. Good Rockin' Baby
    15. Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
    16. It's True, I'm Blue
    17. I've Got The Blues
    18. Warmed Over Kisses, Left Over Love
    19. What Have Ya Got To Lose
    20. Twenty One
    21. I Cried
    22. Oh What You Do To Me
    23. Hello There Rockin' Chair
    24. Once Upon A Time
    25. Who Put The Turtle In Myrtle's Girdle
    26. If Tears Could Cry
    27. How Easy Was It Dear
    28. When My Baby Left Me
    29. Good Rockin' Baby

    Format: CD

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Essence of Rock and Roll.......2006-08-03

    Sid King and The Five Strings are one of the many amazing acts to come out of Texas in the 1950s (others being Long John Hunter, Johnny Carroll, David Ray, Bob Luman, etc). I'm not going to call him a model rockabilly because rockabilly is a specialist or "ghetto-monger's" term, like "punk" etc. These guys generate rock and roll in its rough, passionate purity. Like Johnny Burnette. This disc is essential - and, like everything put out by Bear Family (one of the many European companies who bought up American music and sold it back to us), high quality.
    King of the Honky Tonks
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • WONDERFUL ALBUM
    • This has got to Stop - Not . . .
    		 King of the Honky Tonks
    Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
    Manufacturer: Akarma Italy
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    Western SwingWestern Swing | Country | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
    Country RockCountry Rock | Rock | Styles | Music
    Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
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    ASIN: B0001XALQ4
    Release Date: 2004-04-26

    Tracks:

    1. Big Rock
    2. After the Lights Go Out
    3. Lose It Tonight
    4. Real Gone
    5. Green Light
    6. Good Morning Judge
    7. Working Man's Blues
    8. New Radio
    9. They Kicked Me Out of the Band
    10. River City's Jumpin'
    11. Buddy's Cafe
    12. Last Ring of Fire
    13. Crash Pad Blues
    14. Keys to My Cadillac
    15. King of the Honky Tonks
    16. Mansion on the Hill
    17. Death Ray Boogie

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars WONDERFUL ALBUM.......2005-12-08

    Billy C. Farlow, and Commander Cody join up to put together a really great album, a couple nice do-overs of some 80s tracks (buddys cafe, lose it tonight) the whole album is just wonderful...Billy C. Sounds quite a bit different than he did in the 70s...but still very good. Crashpad Blues and Death Ray Boogie are two great tracks that fit Mr. Frayne very well. BUY THIS ALBUM it rocks.

    5 out of 5 stars This has got to Stop - Not . . ........2005-03-24

    If I've gotta pick one album to take to the desert island this is it people - of course I feel like I was kicked out of the Band and I was born in a crash pad uh I think it was back in '66! It should have been me writing these freekin' A songs!
    Pee Wee King's Country Hoedown
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Country Sounds of the Past
    		 Pee Wee King's Country Hoedown
    Pee Wee King
    Manufacturer: Bloodshot Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    CowboyCowboy | Country | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
    Old-Time CountryOld-Time Country | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music
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    ASIN: B00002EPL1
    Release Date: 1999-11-30

    Tracks:

    1. 'This Is Pee Wee King...'
    2. I Love The Way You Roll Them Eyes At Me
    3. The Reason I'm In Love With You
    4. Ramblin' Blues
    5. I'm Goin' Back To The Middle Of The Middle West
    6. One Way Street
    7. I'll Never Love No One But You
    8. You Tried To Ruin My Name
    9. Get Together Polka
    10. Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus
    11. There's A Moon In The Sky
    12. Slowpoke
    13. Empty Vows
    14. Oh Monah
    15. Blow Out All The Candles
    16. Between You & The Birds & The Bees & Cupid
    17. Western Limited
    18. Brother Drop Dead Boogie
    19. Doghouse Blues
    20. Cowboy Special
    21. Steel Guitar Waltz
    22. 'Tain't What You Want
    23. Hog Wild Too
    24. I Don't Know Why I Should Love You
    25. Postage Due
    26. Subdued Mood
    27. If And When
    28. 'We've Just About Reached The Half-Way Point...'

    Tracks:

    1. Fool's Gold
    2. Silver And Gold
    3. Sweetest Little Girl
    4. Darling Don't Cry
    5. Flower Of Texas
    6. I Wanna Say Hello
    7. Let Me Hold You When You're Blue
    8. Where Oh Where Has My Little Love Gone
    9. I Need A Lot Of Lovin'
    10. Where Were You Last Night
    11. I'm Just A Gad-About
    12. Song Of The Early Settlers
    13. Take These Shakles From My Heart
    14. The Calendar Song
    15. Don't Apologize To Me
    16. Charleston Alley
    17. Opportunity
    18. Rich In Love
    19. I Can't Feel Those Kisses In Your Letters
    20. Mohegas
    21. Tadpole
    22. Your Kisses Aren't Kisses Anymore
    23. Tennessee Tango
    24. Darling, Stop Playing With My Heart
    25. Tears, Tears, Tears
    26. 'There's That Man With The Stopwatch...'

    Amazon.com

    Western swing in its heyday was never as popular east of the Mississippi, where acts played theaters, as in the Southwest, where dance halls reigned supreme. Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys were the exception to that rule. The group was founded before World War II, and King, the diminutive accordionist who cowrote "Tennessee Waltz" with Cowboys fiddler-vocalist Redd Stewart, hit his peak after the war with constant tours, TV work, and hit singles like "Slowpoke." The consummate show band, the Cowboys had a creamy, meticulously rehearsed sound (excepting Bobby Koefer's sly, articulate steel guitar) that contrasted with Bob Wills's raw spontaneity and Spade Cooley's sophisticated intensity. Nonetheless, their wilder RCA recordings could give Wills or Cooley a run for their money. Precious little of that wildness surfaces on this highly subdued collection of 1952 material recorded exclusively for radio broadcast. Spirited departures like "Ramblin' Blues" notwithstanding, the majority of the performances are an incessant string of bland, Lawrence Welk-style bounces and ballads sung by Stewart, who cowrote many of the tunes with King. --Rich Kienzle

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Country Sounds of the Past.......2003-06-23

    In our fast living times names like Pee Wee King & Redd Stewart might not sound too familiar to younger folks, but they were real big in the 1940's and 1950's. It is always good to hear the old material again, songs like "Slowpoke", "Oh Monah" and "Silver and Gold". Pee Wee King's music was always a blend of Western Swing, Hillbilly, Polka with a little touch of Jazz and upcoming Rockabilly, the band's players were top notch. Sound quality of these transcriptions is very good, interesting liner notes are included. Another chance to listen to the early sounds of Country Music that influenced the modern day music. The transcriptions were recorded around 1952, the heighdays of Hillbilly Music.

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