After spending the summer on Saturday afternoons, Red Rooster Party has returned to Sundays at our legacy time slot of 2-4 pm just prior to Bluegrass Cafe. We hope you found us. We didn't have much opportunity to give you a heads up because we thought we were sports-preempted, but it turns out we were not. That gave Jim just a half-hour to get to the station and Marti, who was off somewhere else, didn't even know we were on the air. She figured it out and made it to the studio after the first half-hour.Speaking of Marti, she is becoming the Eastern Connecticut Possum Lady after raising seven tiny baby possums ("opossum" is just plum cumbersome) to semi-adulthood. She will be releasing six of them in a couple of weeks and will keep the runt of the litter through winter and release in the spring.
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| Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) |
The show had all of five minutes preparation, but it came out pretty good if we say so ourselves. We brought a cross-section of older music that included early country and string band performers, and the Marti's Bunkhouse feature focused on Wilf Carter, otherwise known as "Montana Slim." Another interesting feature was a set of songs from Bill Haley before he was the rock-and-roll pioneer. We played a special set of music from The Andy Griffith Show along with Andy's first hit recording, "What It Was, Was Football" to recognize that time of year.
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| Bill Haley c.1946 |
We hope you enjoyed what you heard today, and hope you will tune in for our next show which will be a one-hour show starting at 2pm because of a sports preemption.
Jim & Marti
Artist / Song / Disk / Label / Year
- Golden Gate Quartet / God's Gonna Cut 'Em Down / Complete Recorded Works Vol. 5 / Document / 1946
- Roy Acuff / Wreck On The Highway / Night Train To Memphis / Roots of Country / 1942
- Johnnie & Jack / Called From Potter's Field / Johnnie & Jack and The Tennessee Mountain Boys / B.A.C.M / 1952
- Grandpa Jones / Bread and Gravy / You're Never Too Old For Love / B.A.C.M / 1953
- Sweet Violet Boys / Jim's Windy Mule / Jim's Windy Mule / B.A.C.M / 1935
- Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies / Brownie's Stomp / Milton Brown and The Musical Brownies / Texas Rose Records / 1934
- Jimmie Rodgers / Dear Old Sunny South By the Sea / First Sessions / Rounder / 1928
- Let Your Shack Burn Down / Fisher Hendley & his Aristocratic Pigs / Fisher Hendley & his Aristocratic Pigs / B.A.C.M / 1925
- Lowe Stokes & Mike Whitten / Take Me Back To Georgia / Volume 1 1927-1930 / Document / 1929
- Wilf Carter / The Cowboy's Airplane Ride / Selected Sides 1935-1938 / JSP / 1938
- Wilf Carter / My Little Yoho Lady / Selected Sides 1935-1938 / JSP / 1937
- Wilf Carter / Down The Yodelling Trail At Twilight / Selected Sides 1935-1938 / JSP / 1938
- Bill Haley and the Four Aces of Western Swing / Too Many Parties, Too Many Pals / 1947-1951 / JSP / 1948
- Bill Haley and the Four Aces of Western Swing / The Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along / 1947-1951 / JSP / 1949
- Bill Haley and the Saddlemen / My Sweet Little Girl From Nevada / 1947-1951 / JSP / 1950
- The Delmore Brothers / Blues Stay Away From Me / Inducted Into The Hall Of Fame 2001 / King / 1949
- Uncle Dave Macon / Over The Mountain / Travelin' Down The Road / County / 1935
- Vernon Dalhart / The Pony Express / On The Lighter Side / Old Homestead / 1930
- Briscoe Darling (Denver Pyle + Dillards) / Low and Lonely / Musical Memories of Mayberry / Private / 1964
- Jim Lindsey (Herb Ellis) / Midnight Special / Musical Memories of Mayberry / Private / 1961
- Andy Griffith / What It Was, Was Football (Parts I & II) / The Wit And Wisdom of Andy Griffith / EMI-Capitol / 1955
- The Ebony Hillbillies / Sugar In The Gourd / Sabrina's Holiday / EH Music / 2004
- Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen / Sugar In The Gourd / Complete Recorded Works Volume 4 1929-1930 / Document / 1930
- Earl Johnson / Earl Johnson's Arkansaw Traveler / Earl Johnson Vol. 2 1927 - 1931 / Document Records / 1927
- A. A. Gray & Seven Foot Dilly (John Dilleshaw) / Streak O' Lean - Streak O' Fat / Complete Recorded Works 1929-1930 / Document / 1930
- Sara & Maybelle Carter / There's a Mother Always Waiting / Sara & Maybelle Carter / Bear Family / 1966
- Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters / Be Kind To A Man When He's Down / Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters & Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers (1927-1929) / Document Records / 1927
- Blind Joe Mangum - Fred Shriber / Bacon and Cabbage / Nashville - 1928 / Document / 1928
- Jimmie Driftwood / Arkansas Traveler / Americana / Bear Family / 1958
- Bud Isaacs / By The Waters Of Minnetonka / Bud's Bounce / Bear Family / 1954
