Radio Broadcasts 1945 [Live]

Spade Cooley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 5, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Country Routes
• ASIN: B0000060IZ
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #463,599 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #56 in Music > Indie Music > Country > Western Swing

Track Listings

1. Steel Guitar Rag/Draggin' the Bow

2. Forgive Me One More Time

3. Whispering

4. Along the Navajo Trail

5. Please Forgive Me

6. You Can't Break My Heart

7. Devil's Dream

8. The Blonde Fiddle Blues

9. Dill Pickle Rag

10. You Was Right, Baby

11. Crazy 'Cause I Love You

12. Steel Guitar Rag (Theme)

13. Mad About Him Blues

14. Night Train to Memphis

15. Pins and Needles (In My Heart)

16. Spanish Two Step

17. You Don't Care

18. There's a New Moon over My Shoulder/Shame on You

19. Fort Worth Jail

20. Bury Me Beneath the Willow

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic western swing... live!, July 8, 2002

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Radio Broadcasts 1945 (Audio CD)

Peppy old radio transcriptions from Fall, 1945. Cooley was one of the key figures in West Coast western swing; here is his band in top form, with vocalists that include Tex Willams, Johnny Bond, Smokey Williams and the Andrews Sisters-y "Sunshine Trio". Pedal steel star Joaquin Murphey anchors the band along with three fiddles and the ever-present chugga-chugga-chugin' accordion that was the signature sound of California country. Good stuff which forcefully contradicts Cooley's reputation as a cheeseball Lawrence Welk of country. Other than a couple of awkward fade-ins, the sound quality on this one is pretty good.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good old fashioned country music. A pleasure to listen to., March 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Radio Broadcasts 1945 (Audio CD)

Being a distant relative of Spade Cooley, naturally I was pleased to find information about him on the internet. I never knew him but heard a lot about him, good and the not so good. I hope others will enjoy listening to his music and for the new comers to his music, learn to appreciate it. With all the noise associated with the new music today, Spade Cooley is a refreshing change. I hope people who knew him and his music and new comers will continue to listen to him and his band for years to come.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The cheesy "Lawrance Welk" of western swing..., February 19, 2004

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Fifi Juarez (South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Radio Broadcasts 1945 (Audio CD)

I think it might be the UN-Swinging sound of the accordian, that adds commerialism and corniness to these otherwise ok sessions. Of course it is the annoying ever-present accordian that gives these western swing sessiosn that cornball Lawrence welk sound. You are much better off buying his competitors cd's, which are much less commercial and more swinging. There is also a lack of any horn sections, or hot solos and the pedal guitarists playing isn't too inspiring and rather stiff at times. Overall these are decent sessions, if there had been less accordian playing, I would have given this three stars, but this is strictly commerical music, and lacks the idea of WESTERN SWING, mixing hillbilly music with jazz. however cooley mixed Hillbilly music(not with jazz) with cornball music, rather then swing(or jazz), though some of the songs swing, but not too much.