Sunday, November 22, 2015

Playlist - 11/22/2015

Johnnie Wright and Jack Anglin
Hi Folks.

This was a one-hour show because of a sports preemption.  Joe Bussard's 7th show for WHUS Red Rooster Party aired on this show during the last half-hour.

Prior to Joe, we played some great 1950s country with Johnny Horton, Johnnie and Jack, and The Louvin Brothers.  Jimmy Murphy did a song from his later 1978 album.  We played four songs recorded on the questionable quality Paramount label including an early 1929 version of Been On The Job Too Long by Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles which was later covered in bluegrass very successfully by The Johnson Mountain Boys.
Wilmer Watts

For his 7th show on WHUS, Joe Bussard broke once again from his regular early country format to present an all-bluegrass show.  He hit on some relatively rare bluegrass recordings from the 1950s and ventured just a little beyond that with tracks from The Country Gentlemen and The Seldom Scene.  Outstanding tracks included Benny and Vallie Cain's first recording, a Jack Youngblood fiddle tune, and a very obscure gospel number from The Blue Ridge Buddies.  If you missed it, or want to hear it again, it is here for a while.
Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock

Tune in next Sunday for another great afternoon of early country classics from both me and Joe Bussard.

Jim Beaver







Artist / Song / Album / Label / Year

  • The Golden Gate Quartet / Do Unto Others / Complete Recorded Works Volume 5 1945-1949 / Document / 1947
  • Johnnie & Jack and the Tennessee Mountain Boys / Eastern Gate / Johnnie & Jack and the Tennessee Mountain Boys / B.A.C.M / 1952
  • Johnny Horton / Out in New Mexico / The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 / Columbia-Legacy / 1958
  • Jimmy Murphy / Big Mama Blues / Electricity / Sugar Hill / 1978
  • Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock / Tom Cat Blues / Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock Vol. 2 / B.A.C.M / 1938
  • The Louvin Brothers / I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby / 20 Greatest Hits / King / 1956
  • Red Brush Rowdies / Hatfield McCoy Feud / Paramount Old Time Recordings / JSP / 1928
  • Emry Arthur / The Married Man / Paramount Old Time Recordings / JSP / 1931
  • Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles / Been on the Job Too Long / Paramount Old Time Recordings / JSP / 1929
  • Arthur Tanner / Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane / Parmount Old Time Recordings / JSP / 1925
Joe Bussard's Country Classics on WHUS Red Rooster Party #7 
  • Stripling Brothers (opening theme) / The Lost Child / 78 RPM Single / Melotone / 1928
  • Jack Youngblood / Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star / 78 RPM Single / Columbia / 1954
  • The Stanley Brothers / Molly and Tenbrooks / 78 RPM Single / Rich-R-Tone / 1947
  • Buzz Busby and the Bayou Boys / Don't Come Running Back To Me / 45 RPM Single / Starday / 1959
  • Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Eating Out Of Your Hand / 45 RPM Single / Starday / 1959
  • Benny & Vallie Cain / Roving Gambler / 78 RPM Single / Adelphi / 1950
  • The Country Gentlemen / Copper Kettle / 45 RPM Single / Rebel / 1963
  • The Seldom Scene / Last Train To Poor Valley / Act Two / Rebel / 1973
  • The Osborne Brothers / Ruby, Are You Mad At Your Man / 78 RPM Single / MGM / 1956
  • The Blue Ridge Buddies / When Jesus Calls His Children / single / unk / unk
  • The Country Gentlemen / Sunrise / 45 RPM Single / Rebel / 1963 

Playlist - 11/15/2015

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Playlist - 11/8/2015

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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Playlist - 11/1/2015 - Joe Bussard's 4th Show

Hi Folks.

We were delighted to have a full two hour show on this Sunday, augmented by some extra time before the start because the previous DJ departed early.


It was also the occasion of Joe Bussard's 4th Country Classics program for Red Rooster Party and WHUS.  You can hear the archived show here.

The bulk of the show after Joe was programmed by the absent Marti who gave us field recordings on the Bluebird label from 1937 to 1940.  By field recordings, we mean recordings made in temporary recording studios, usually set up in hotels or warehouses in Charlotte NC, Atlanta GA, Rock Hill SC, Chicago IL, and several other locations.  Some of the greatest old country and hillbilly music was made in those locations.


We hope you heard something you liked.  


Tune in next Sunday for a very special Joe Bussard's Country Classics when he will give us an education on early jazz prior to 1933 -- what Joe calls "real jazz."


See you then.


Jim Beaver



Artist / Song / Album / Label / Year

  • Bradley Kincaid / Pretty Little Pink / A Man And His Guitar / JSP / 1930
  • Bradley Kincaid / Cindy / A Man And His Guitar / JSP / 1930
  • Stringbean / Here, Rattler, Here / Hee Haw Corn Shucker / Starday  / 1961
  • Stringbean / Stringbean And His Banjo / Hee Haw Corn Shucker / Starday / 1960
  • Golden Gate Quartet / Way Down In Egypt Land / Golden Gate Quartet Vol. 3 / Document / 1939

Joe Bussard's Country Classics #4 
  • Stripling Brothers / The Lost Child / 78 RPM Single / Melotone / 1928
  • Dad Massey and His Family / Durang's Hornpipe / 78 RPM Single / Conquerer / 1936
  • Charlie Bowman / Moonshiner And His Money / 78 RPM Single / Columbia / 1929
  • Uncle Dave Macon / Over The Road I'm Bound To Go / 78 RPM Single / Brunswick / 1928
  • Charlie Monroe and His Kentucky Pardners / The Wild Black Engine / 78 RPM Single / RCA / 1951
  • Two Poor Boys / Old Hen Cackle / 78 RPM Single / Perfect / 1931
  • Buddy Starcher / I Planted A Rose In The Garden Of Prayer / 78 RPM Single / Columbia / 1949
  • unidentified bluegrass tune 
  • Johnnie Barfield / Long Tongue Women / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1940
  • McClendon Brothers (with Georgia Dell) / Heaven Bound Blues / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1936
  • Dewey & Gassie Bassett / Back Water Blues / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1938
  • Roy Shaffer / Coupon Song / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1939
  • Roy Shaffer / Disappointed In Love (I Wish I Had Never Met Sunshine) / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1939
  • Four Pickled Peppers / When I Was A Baby / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1939
  • Tennessee Ramblers / Don't Put a Tax On the Beautiful Girls / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1939
  • Pine Ridge Boys / You Are My Sunshine / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1939
  • Happy Valley Boys / Homecoming Time In Happy Valley / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1940
  • Pete Pyle / It's So Hard To Be Just A Pal To You / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1940
  • J. H. Howell's Carolina Hillbillies / Lonesome Life Of Worry / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1938
  • Walter Hurdt / Fiddle And Guitar Running Wild / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1938
  • George Wade & The Caro-Ginians / He Turned Around And Went The Other Way / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1938
  • Smith's Carolina Crackerjacks / Your Soul Never Dies / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1938
  • Hinson, Pitts & Coley / Whoa, Mule, Whoa / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1938
  • Julian Johnson & Leon Hyatt / T.B. Killed My Daddy / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1938
  • Grady and Hazel Cole / What A Change One Day Can Make / Classic Field Recordings / JSP / 1940
  • J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers / Kiss Me Cindy / Classic Sides 1937-1938 / JSP / 1937
  • The Callahan Brothers / She's Killing Me / The Callahan Brothers / Old Homestead / 1934
  • Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers / Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / Music From The Lost Provinces / Old Hat / 1927
  • Ray Whitley / Ramshackled Shack On The Hill / Back In The Saddle Again / B.A.C.M / 1935
  • Eddie Noack / Psycho / Psycho - The K-Ark and Allstar Recordings, 1962-1969 /  Bear Family / 1968
  • Patti Powell / One Teardrop and One Step Away / One Step Away / Self-released / 2009
  • Molly O'Day / Too Late To Worry / Radio Favorites / Old Homestead / c.1947
  • Spencer Branch / Ash County Outlaws / Ashe County Outlaws / Self-released / 2015
  • The Carter Family / Redemption Song / The Acme Sessions 1952 / 56 / JSP / 1956
  • The South Carolina Broadcasters / Silence or Tears / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy / 2015