Playlist - 7/24/2016

Hi Folks.

When Joe Bussard was recording his show for today (his 42nd!), he unknowingly got a hold of what he thought was a 60 minute tape that was actually a 73 minute tape, so we got more Joe than usual on this show.

During the time prior to Joe's portion of the show, I was able to play some examples of "manufactured" country music of the 1920s from Vernon Dalhart (Marion Try Slaughter), a trained singer who would grab popular songs of the day and record for every label around.  It would not be unusual to find a song recorded by Vernon Dalhart on six different labels.  My assessment is that while his music was listenable, especially to listeners of the period, it falls far short of the real thing produced by the likes of (for example) The Skillet Lickers, Ernest V. Stoneman, or the Georgia Yellow Hammers. The latter two appeared elsewhere on the show.

Fisher Hendley, Hugh Cross, and Jimmie Driftwood all made musical appearances on the show, and we focused on some classic country music from the year 1960.

Joe Bussard's 73-minute edition of his Country Classics included Homer Briarhopper (from my neck of the woods in NC); Frank Hutchinson; Dock Boggs, and many more, plus a great batch of early bluegrass from 45 and 78 RPM records from the 1940s through 1950s.

Be sure and listen every Sunday to the great music programming on WHUS including our own Red Rooster Party.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Source / Label / Year

• Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet / Ol' Man Mose / Golden Gate Quartet Vol. 3 (1939) / Document / 1939
• Vernon Dalhart / The Sinking Of The Titanic / Ballads and Railroad Songs / Old Homestead / 1925
• Vernon Dalhart / The Lightning Express / Ballads and Railroad Songs / Old Homestead / 1925
• Vernon Dalhart / We Sat Beneath The Maple On The Hill / Ballads and Railroad Songs / Old Homestead / 1926
• Georgia Yellow Hammers / Going To Ride That Midnight Train / Fourth Of July At A Country Fair / Document / 1927
• Fisher Hendley & His Aristocratic Pigs / Work In 1930 / Fisher Hendley & His Aristocratic Pigs / B.A.C.M / 1933
• Hugh Cross & Riley Puckett / Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old Kentucky Home / Old Time Music from the Smoky Mountains / B.A.C.M / 1928
• Delmore Brothers / Brown's Ferry Blues / Inducted Into The Hall Of Fame 2001 / King / 
• Jimmie Driftwood / Soldier's Joy / Americana / Bear Family / 1958
• Loretta Lynn / I'm A Honky Tonk Girl / Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music - 1960 / Bear Family / 1960
• George Jones / The Window Up Above / Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music - 1960 / Bear Family / 1960
• Roger Miller / You Don't Want My Love / Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music - 1960 / Bear Family / 1960
• Charlie Ryan & The Timberline Riders / Hot Rod Lincoln / Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music - 1960 / Bear Family / 1960

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• The Stripling Brothers / The Lost Child / 78 RPM single / Melotone / 1928
• Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers / Tell Her to Come Back Home / 78 RPM single / Vocalion / 1927
• Dock Boggs / Down South Blues / 78 RPM single / Brunswick / 1927
• Frank Hutchinson / Worried Blues / 78 RPM single / Okeh / 1926
• Homer Briarhopper / Mr. McKinley / 78 RPM single / Decca / 1938
• Ernest V. Stoneman Trio (Kahle Brewer, Bolen Frost, Ernest Stoneman) / Round Town Gals / 78 RPM single / Gennett / 1927
• Jimmie Rodgers / The One Rose (That's Left In My Heart) / 78 RPM single / Bluebird / 1937
• Fiddlin' John Carson / The Old Hen Cackled And The Rooster's Going To Crow / 78 RPM single / Okeh / 1923
• Roy Acuff / Night Train To Memphis / 78 RPM single / Okeh / 1942
• Blue Sky Boys / Speak To Me Little Darling / 78 RPM single / Victor / 1946
• Billy Thomas / Black Mountain Rag / 78 RPM single / Kentucky / 1952
• Lottie Kimbrough / Going Away Blues / 78 RPM single / Gennett / 1928
• Mac Odell / Red Ball Rocket Train / 78 RPM single / Mercury / 1949
• Don Reno & Red Smiley / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / 45 RPM single / Dot / 1957
• Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers / Roll On Buddy / 45 RPM Single / Gateway / 1963
• Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / I'll Never Make You Cry / 78 RPM single / Bluebird / 1952
• Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys / Gosh, I Miss You All The Time / 45 RPM single / Columbia / 1961
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Backstep Cindy / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy / 2015
• Bowes Brothers / Stop Knockin' At My Door / 78 RPM Single / Mutual / 1951
• Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers / Bluegrass Breakdown / 45 RPM Single / Gateway / 1963
• Mac Wiseman / Little White Church / 78 RPM single / Dot / 1951
• Cooke Duet / This Little Light Of Mine / 45 RPM single / Self-released / 1960s
• Shannon Grayson / Just Let Me Travel Alone / 78 RPM single / King / 1950
• Uncle Dave Macon / When The Train Comes Along / 78 RPM single / Champion / 1934