Marti is back! After being away from radio for most of the last year, my spouse rejoined the Red Rooster Party for today's show. It was touch and go because you know she hates snow, and we woke up to some heavy white wet snow on everything, but she persevered and made it. Unfortunately I have no air check (recording) of the event because of a power outage related to the snow. That's the way it goes.
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| Marti and her brother at Tweetsie Railroad with Fred Kirby |
One of the most unusual records on the show today was a 45 RPM single from Fred Kirby, a well-known singing cowboy and television host of kids programs on WBTV in Charlotte in the 1960s and 1970s. Fred's career began in Charlotte in the 1930s with the WBT Briarhoppers, and after WW2 he was known primarily for his hit single "Atomic Power" - the first song written and released about the atomic bombs used on Japan and the implications of such power for civilization. In the 1960s, Fred was a featured attraction at another attraction -- Tweetsie Railroad -- in Blowing Rock NC. Fred's job was to greet folks, especially kids, and perform on the train cars (Tweetsie was and is a real steam locomotive with a track that runs around the mountain.) Fred's job was to chase hostile Indians from the train cars while underway. The 45 we played was about Tweetsie.The playlist is below. Joe Bussard's 26th show for WHUS Red Rooster Party can be heard again at the link next to his part of the playlist.
Be sure to tune in next Sunday morning for another edition of RRP with Jim & Marti!
Jim Beaver
Artist / Song / Source / Label / Year
- The Golden Gate Quartet / There's A Man Going 'Round Taking Names / Complete Recorded Works Volume 6 1949-1952 / Document / 1950
- The Carter Family / Little Log Cabin by the Sea / In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain / Bear Family / 1927
- The Bailes Brothers / Got My One Way Ticket / Walter & Homer / Old Homestead / 2008
- Grayson & Whitter / I Saw a Man at the Close of Day / The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter / County / 1929
- H. M. Barnes & His Blue Ridge Ramblers / Golden Slippers / Old Time Tunes & Songs Vol. 2 1924-1952 / B.A.C.M / 1929
- Red Squirrel Chasers / Shady Grove, My Darling / Shakin' Down the Acorns / Vigortone Records / 2015
- Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers / Lorena / The Year of Jubilo / Dust-to-Digital / 1930
- The Dixon Brothers / Weave Room Blues / Dixon Brothers Vol. 1 (1936) / Document Records / 1936
- Hank Williams / I Ain't Got Nothin' But Time / Rockin' Chair Money / Bear Family / 1952
- Hank Snow / I'm Moving On / RCA Country Legends / Buddha / 1950
- The York Brothers / Traveling Man (take 6) / Long Time Gone / Ace / c1949
- Howard Vokes / Don’t Make Me Go to Bed and I’ll Be Good / Songs Of Tragedy And Disaster: Complete Starday Anthology / Starday Records / 1963
- Molly O'Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks / Travelling The Highway Home / Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks / Bear Family / 1952
- Eddy Arnold / Tennessee Stud / RCA Country Legends: Eddy Arnold / Buddha / 1959
- Fred Kirby / Pretty Little Tweetsie / 45 RPM single / Dixie / c1960s
- Arthur Miles / Lonesome Cowboy pt 1 / When I Was A Cowboy Vol. 1 / Yazoo / 1928
- Arthur Miles / Lonesome Cowboy pt 2 / When I Was A Cowboy Vol. 2 / Yazoo / 1928
- Fred Kirby / Indian Fightin' Man / 45 RPM single / Dixie / c1960s
- Rose Maddox & The Maddox Brothers / Cowboy Bugle Boy / When The Sun Goes Down / B.A.C.M / 1950
- Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis / Prayer of Salvation / Classic Bluegrass Gospel / B.A.C.M / 1960
- The Stripling Brothers / The Lost Child / 78 RPM Single / Melotone / 1928 (opening theme)
- Aiken County String Band / Harrisburg Itch / 78 RPM single / Okeh / 1927
- North Carolina Cooper Boys / Daniel In The Den Of Lions / 78 RPM single / Okeh / 1927
- Bruce Hutton / Payday / Roll Back The Carpet / Marimac Recordings / 1995
- Carolina Peanut Boys / Got A Letter From My Darlin' / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1930
- Doc Williams / Broken Memories / 78 RPM single / Pioneer / 1947
- The Carter Family / When The Springtime Comes Again / 78 RPM Single / Victor / 1930
- Carlisle Brothers / Will You Meet Me Just Inside / 78 RPM single / Banner / 1934
- The Cooke Duet / Heaven Means To Me / Heaven Means To Me / Self-Produced / 1967
- Byron Parker & his Mountaineers / Carroll County Blues / 78 RPM single / Bluebird / 1940 (closing theme)
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