Dim Lights, Thick Smoke & Hillbilly Music: Country & Western Hit Parade 1947 [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 9, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B001H7G324
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #246,878 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. TEX WILLIAMS - Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)

2. EDDY ARNOLD - It's A Sin

3. BOB WILLS - Sugar Moon

4. SONS OF THE PIONEERS - Cigarettes, Whusky, And Wild, Wild Women

5. BILLY HUGHES - Cocaine Blues

6. MADDOX BROTHERS & ROSE - Milk Cow Blues

7. MOON MULLICAN - Foggy River

8. ERNEST TUBB - I'll Step Aside

9. ROY ACUFF - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain

10. DELMORE BROTHERS - Freight Train Boogie

11. MERLE TRAVIS - So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed

12. COWBOY COPAS - Signed, Sealed And Delivered

13. EDDY ARNOLD - I'll Hold You In My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My Arms)

14. HANK WILLIAMS - Move It On Over

15. RED FOLEY - Never Trust A Woman

16. CLYDE MOODY - Shenandoah Waltz

17. JACK GUTHRIE - Oakie Boogie

18. MOON MULLICAN - New Pretty Blonde (New Jole Blon)

19. BILL CARLISLE - Rockin' Chair Money

20. THE CUMBERLAND MOUNTAIN FOLKS; vocal by MOLLY O'DAY - The Tramp On The Street

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Editorial Reviews

For many years, we've been getting requests to do a truly definitive country series, but it wasn't until the success of our R&B/Soul series, Blowin' The Fuse (now Sweet Soul Music) that we decided we needed to do something comparable for country music. Now the first six volumes are complete, taking us from 1945-1950. The country series has been compiled with today's fans in mind. Yes, the big hits are there, but so are the classic performances that weren't necessarily big hits at the time, but became influential in the years ahead. Every volume has incredibly detailed behind-the-scenes stories, fabulously rare photos, and an ongoing history of country music set against the backdrop of the broader American music business. Definitive? You bet!

1947 kicks off with Tex Williams' #1 pop and country smash Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette, and includes more classics by Eddy Arnold, Roy Acuff (the original Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain), Ernest Tubb, Bob Wills, Moon Mullican, Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Charlie Monroe, and the Delmores, as well as Billy Hughes' fabulously rare Cocaine Blues and one of Chet Atkins' first solo hits.