Playlist - 12/13/2015

Hi Folks.

We've received requests for more classic country -- that is, the country music performed from post-WW2 through the 1960s -- so we used this show to showcase a little from that period.  Of course the last half-hour was Joe Bussard's 10th Country Classics program for Red Rooster Party.  You can hear Joe's segment here.

We hope you enjoyed the show.  If you would like to provide feedback or requests, use the following contact information:

Mailing address:  WHUS Red Rooster Party c/o Jim Beaver, 2110 Hillside Road, Storrs CT 06269   [note, there is about a two week lag on responses at this address]

E-mail Joe Bussard:   joesvintage78@aol.com
E-mail Jim Beaver:  jbeaverjr@gmail.com

Check us out every Sunday 2-4pm ET.

Jim Beaver  

Artist / Song / Disk / Label / Notes

• The Golden Gate Quartet / I Heard Zion Moan / Golden Gate Quartet Vol. 2 (1938-1939) / Document / 1938
• Johnny Cash / Hey Porter / Walking The Line: The Legendary Sun Recordings / Union Square / 
• Arthur Smith / Don't Look For Trouble / The Golden Age of Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith / Cattle / 1948
• Red Simpson / Roll Truck Roll / Hello, I'm A Truck / Gusto / 
• Eddy Arnold / There's Been A Change In Me / RCA Country Legends: Eddy Arnold / Buddha / 1951
• Roy Acuff / Charming Betsy / Night Train To Memphis / Roots of Country / 
• Dick Curless / King of the Blues / Traveling Through / Rounder / 1995
• Jimmy Dean / What This Old World Needs / Find 'em Fool 'em Leave 'em Alone / B.A.C.M / 1958
• Hank Snow / Southern Cannonball / RCA Country Legends: Hank Snow / Buddha / 1953
• Buck Owens / Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy / Christmas With Buck Owens / Curb-Capitol / 
• Connie Smith / Ain't You Even Gonna Cry / Long Line of Heartaches / Sugar Hill Records / 2011
• Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers / Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over / Complete Recorded Works In Chronological order Volume 5, 1927-1929 / Document / 1927
• Jenks Tex Carman / I'm A Poor Lonesome Fellow / Hillbilly Hula / Bear Family / 1953
• George Jones and Tammy Wynette / A Pair Of Old Sneakers / The Best of George Jones & Tammy Wynette / MCA / 
• Bobbie Gentry / Ode to Billie Joe / Queens Of Country / Time Life / 1967
• Johnny Horton / I'm a One Woman Man / The Essential Johnny Horton / Columbia / 1956
• Bob Gallion / Hey, Mr. Bartender / Out of a Honky Tonk / Bear Family / 1956
• Patti Powell / All The World Is Lonely Now / One Step Away / Self-released / 
• Howard Vokes / It's Alright Now / Tears At The Grand Ole Opry / Self-released / 
• Ernest Tubb / Blue Christmas / The Definitive Collection / MCA / 1949
• Marty Robbins / A Hundred and Sixty Acres / Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs / Columbia / 1959
• The Louvin Brothers / Mary of the Wild Moor / Complete Recorded Works 1952-62 / Playtime / 1957
• George Jones / The Race Is On / Timeless Hits Live / Opry Music / 
• Kitty Wells / Making Believe / Timeless Hits Live / Opry Music / 
• Faron Young / Your Old Used to Be / Somebody Done Me Wrong Songs / Time Life / 1960
• Kenny Roberts / Ding Dong Bells (Are Ringing Again) / Somebody Done Me Wrong / Bear Family / 1952
• Ray Price / Jealous Lies / The Essential Ray Price / Columbia / 1950
• Kenny Roberts / Christmas Cannon Ball / 78 RPM Single / Coral / 1955
• Lefty Frizzell / Saginaw, Michigan / Great Story Songs / Time Life / 1964

Joe Bussard's Country Classics #10  (click here to listen)

• The Stripling Brothers / The Lost Child / 78 RPM Single / Melotone / 1928
• Carter Brothers & Son / Jenny On the Railroad / 78 RPM Single / Vocalion / 1928
• Binkley Brothers Dixie Clodhoppers / All Go Hungry Hash House / 78 RPM Single / Victor / 1928
• Bascom Lamar Lunsford / Italy / 78 RPM Single / Brunswick / 1928
• Charlie Poole and The North Carolina Ramblers / Shootin' Creek / 78 RPM Single / Columbia / 1928
• Lulu Belle & Scotty / Tildy Johnson / 78 RPM Single / ARC / 1936
• The Monroe Brothers / Have a Feast Here Tonight / 78 RPM Single / Bluebird / 1938
• Uncle Dave Macon & McGee Brothers / When the Train Comes Along / 78 RPM Single / Gennett / 1934

Playlist - 12/6/2015 - Joe Bussard #9

Hi Folks.

We hardly knew what to do with a full show for the second week in a row, but we didn't puzzle for long.  

We played a cross-section of early country and some cowboy and western music before Joe Bussard presented his 9th show for Red Rooster Party.

Joseph Spence  1910-1984

Notable items on the playlist include two live performances of The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover from Hillbilly Ranch in Boston -- one from a rare recording released only in Japan in 1960, and another from 1967.  Also, a 45 rpm single of a Christmas song recorded in 1974 by Charlie Moore, and a 1972 live recording of another Christmas classic from Joseph Spence -- an amazing Bahamian folk singer.

Carroll Best

We also heard one of the earliest recordings of pioneering melodic banjo picker Carroll Best, and J.E. Mainer's 1963 remake of his song "Run Mountain" recorded in my hometown by Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz.

Marti hasn't been with us for a while, but in her tradition we presented a set of cowboy music from the likes of Yodelin' Slim Clark, Cliff Carlisle, Skip Gorman, Ray Whitley, Jules Verne Allen, Elton Britt, and Fred Kirby.

"New Old" music from Bear Minimum (Dave "Tex" Orlomoski and Dave Shaw) and The South Carolina Broadcasters topped the program.

Joe Bussard's 9th show for RRP showcased some excellent early gems.  You can hear his segment again at this link.

Join us next week for more great real music the early 20th century.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Disc / Label / Year

• The Golden Gate Quartet / My Lord Is Writing / Complete Recorded Works Volume 2 1938-1939 / Document / 1938
• Joseph Spence / Santa Claus is Comin to Town / Living On the Hallelujah Side / New Rounder / 1972
• The Lilly Brothers / Ramshackle Shack In Caroline / The Lilly Brothers At Hillbilly Ranch / Globe / 1960
• The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Hide Ye In The Blood / Live At Hillbilly Ranch / Hay Holler / 1967
• Asa Martin & James Roberts / Darling Nellie Gray / The Year Of Jubilo / Dust-to-Digital / 1931
• Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters / Richmond Cotillion / The Year Of Jubilo / Dust-to-Digital / 1927
• Dr. Elmo Shropshire / Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer [instrumental] / Dr. Elmo Bluegrass Christmas / Time Life / 2010 [request]
• Early Upchurch / It's Alright / 45 RPM Single / ARC / 1960s
• The Stripling Brothers / Lost John / Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 1, 1928-1934 / Document / 1929
• Charlie Moore / My Christmas Dream / 45 RPM Single / Old Homestead / 1975
• Doc & Chickie Williams / Crepe on the Little Cabin Door / One Heart One Life / Wheeling / unk
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Tell Me Truly Little Darling / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy / 2015
• Carroll Best and the White Oak String Band / Home Sweet Home / Old-Time Bluegrass from the Great Smoky Mountains (1956 & 1959) / Great Smoky Mountains Association / 1956
• J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers / Run Mountain / Run Mountain / Arhoolie / 1963
• Carson Brothers & Sprinkle / The Old Miller's Will / Times Ain't Like They Used To Be - Early American Rural Music / Yazoo / 1929
• Cliff Carlisle / The Cowboy Song / Classic Country Sides 1930-1931 / JSP / 1931
• Yodelin' Slim Clark / I Should Have Known / Self-titled / Old Homestead / 1953
• Skip Gorman / A Cowboy's Wild Song to His Herd / A Cowboy's Wild Song to His Herd / Rounder / 1999
• Ray Whitley / Wah Hoo / Back In The Saddle Again / B.A.C.M / 1936
• Jules Allen / The Cowboy's Lament / Complete Recordings / B.A.C.M / 1929
• Elton Britt / I Hung My Head and Cried / Country's Music's Yodelling Cowboy Crooner / Jasmine Records / 1942
• Roan Mountain Hilltoppers / Old Time Sally Ann / Down Home / Self-released / 1980
• Fred Kirby / Where The Longhorn Cattle Roam / The Original "Atomic Power" / Cattle / 1936
• Fred Kirby / Home (Answer To "Home On The Range") / The Original "Atomic Power" / Cattle / 1937
• The Blue Sky Boys / The Lightning Express / The Blue Sky Boys / JSP / 1939
• The Chuck Wagon Gang / Echoes from the Burning Bush / Gospel Classics By The Chuck Wagon Gang / GMHoF / c.1950s
• Bear Minimum / You'll Meet Him In the Clouds / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road / 2015

Joe Bussard's Country Classics #9 

• Stripling Brothers / The Lost Child / 78 RPM Single / Melotone / 1928
• Dilly & His Dill Pickles (John Dilleshaw) / Lye Soap / 78 RPM Single / Vocalion / 1927
• Blind Alfred Reed / The Wreck Of The Virginian / 78 RPM Single / Victor / 1927
• Marion Underwood / Coal Creek March / 78 RPM Single / Gennett / 1927
• The Blue Sky Boys / Let's Not Sleep Again / 78 RPM Single / Victor / 1947
• The Coon Creek Girls / Banjo Pickin' Girl / 78 RPM Single / Vocalion / 1938
• Carolina Tar Heels / Back To Mexico / 78 RPM Single / Victor / 1930
• The Carter Family / Where Shall I Be / 78 RPM Single / Victor / 1930

Playlist - 11/29/2015 - Joe Bussard's 8th Show

Hi Folks.

What a delightful day for the Red Rooster Party.  We had no preemptions, and as a result were able to bring an hour and a half of our own music before Joe Bussard took over with his 8th half-hour show for us.

Link to Joe's show is here.

Jim Beaver

Artist / Song / Album / Label / Year

• The Golden Gate Quartet / This World Is In A Bad Condition / Complete Recorded Works Volume 2 1938-1939 / Document / 1939
• The South Carolina Broadcasters / Lost John / Tell Me Truly / John Boy & Billy / 2015
• Sara & Maybelle Carter / The Hand That Rocked the Cradle / Sara & Maybelle Carter / Bear Family / 1966
• The Blue Sky Boys / I've Found A Friend / The Blue Sky Boys / JSP / 1938
• Red Mountain Trio / Dixie / The Year Of Jubilo / Dust-to-Digital / 1928
• Buell Kazee / The Dying Soldier / Times Ain't Like They Used To Be  / Yazoo / 1928
• Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers / Granny's Old Arm Chair / Classic Old-Time String Band Music / B.A.C.M / 1931
• Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock / In The Big Rock Candy Mountain / The Great American Bum / B.A.C.M / 1928
• Ephraim Woodie & The Henpecked Husbands / Last Gold Dollar / Music From The lost Provinces / Old Hat / 1929
• The Robson Quartet / Bend Way Down Low / Cozy Label Vol. 2: Classic Country Music / B.A.C.M / c.1950
• Jack Reedy & His Walker Mountain String Band / Ground Hog / Music From The Lost Provinces / Old Hat / 1928
• J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers / Hop Along Peter / Run Mountain / Arhoolie / 1963
• Bear Minimum / Will You Wait for Me / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road / 2015
• BR Boys / Babies In The Mill / Good Things / Self-Produced / 1998
• Marvin Montgomery / Raggin' The Banjo / Another Taste Of King / B.A.C.M / 1947
• Claude Stewart & The Tennessee Ramblers / New River Train / Cozy Label Vol. 2: Classic Country Music / B.A.C.M / c.1950
• Bonnie Baldwin / I'll Just Yodel & Forget About You / Cozy Label Vol. 2: Classic Country Music / B.A.C.M / c.1950
• Shorty Long / No Wars In Heaven / Another Taste Of King / B.A.C.M / 1950
• The Phipps Family / In the Sweet Bye and Bye / The Phipps Family Sings In The Sweet Bye And Bye / Pine Mountain / c.1967
• Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper / Tramp On The Street / Walking My Lord Up Calvary's Hill / Gusto / 1947
• The Bailes Brothers / Something Got Hold of Me / The Bailes Brothers Sing Their Hearts Out For You / Cattle / 1946
• The Cooke Duet / I'm Gonna Wake Up In Glory Someday / The Best Of The Cooke Duet / CRFRC / c.1965
• Brother Claude Ely / There's a Higher Power / Satan Get Back / King / 1954
• Kenny Roberts / That Old Time Religion / Hymns / Palomino / 1994
• Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers / A Little Talk with Jesus / Kentucky Gospel (1927-1928) / Document Records / 1928
• Hank Williams / Wealth Won't Save Your Soul / Country Gospel 1929-1946 / Frémeaux & associés / 1946
• Kitty Wells / Matthew 24 / Dust On the Bible / Gusto Records / 1958
• Molly O'Day / The Drunken Driver / Country Gospel 1929-1946 / Frémeaux & associés / 1946
• The Delmore Brothers / Heavenly Light Is Shining On Me / Country Gospel 1929-1946 / Frémeaux & associés / 1937

Joe Bussard's Country Classics #8

• Stripling Brothers / Lost Child / 78 RPM Single / Melotone / 1928
• Uncle Dave Macon / Carve That Possum / 78 RPM Single / Vocalion / 1927
• Roy Acuff and his Crazy Tennesseans / That's My Baby / 78 RPM Single / Conqueror / 1936
• The McCormick Brothers / Red Hen Boogie / 78 RPM Single / Hickory / 1954
• Don Reno & Red Smiley / Richmond Ruckus / 78 RPM Single / King / 1957
• The Blue Sky Boys / I Take My Savior By The Hand / 78 RPM Single / Bluebird / 1947
• The Monroe Brothers / My Savior's Train / 78 RPM Single / Bluebird / 1936

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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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