Western Cowboy Ballads & Songs 1925-1939

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Fremeaux & Assoc. Fr
• ASIN: B00000AYJH
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #479,668 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. The Old Chisholm Trail - Mac McClintock

2. Streets of Laredo - John G. Prude

3. The Cowboy's Lament - Jules Verne Allen

4. The Gal I Left Behind Me - Jules Verne Allen

5. Bandit Cole Younger - Edward L. Crain

6. Bill Was a Texas Lad - J.D. Farley

7. Following the Cow Trail - Carl T. Sprague

8. Little Joe the Wrangler - Jules Verne Allen

9. Jack O'Diamonds (Rye Whiskey) - Jules Verne Allen

10. Sioux Indians - Marc Williams

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Disc: 2

1. Home on the Range - Ken Maynard

2. The Lone Star Trail - Ken Maynard

3. Back in the Saddle Again - Gene Autry

4. Way Out West in Texas - Gene Autry

5. Panhandle Pete - Gene Autry

6. Minnie the Moocher at the Morgue - Smiley Burnette

7. Sam Hall - Tex Ritter

8. The Oregon Trail - Tex Ritter

9. The Hills of Old Wyoming - Tex Ritter

10. I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) - Patsy Montana

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Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating overview of the cowboy genre, March 21, 2003

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Brenna E. Lorenz "heptune" (State College, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Cowboy Ballads & Songs 1925-1939 (Audio CD)

This set comes with excellent liner notes that provide a discussion of the history of cowboy music. The first CD is "genuine" cowboy music, those songs that arose from the actual cowboy tradition. There weren't many of these, about 100 in all. Some of these are sung by folk singers, others by commercial cowboys, but all are based on the folk originals. The second CD is Hollywood cowboy music, generated for the movies or for the general cowboy craze of the early 20th C. Of these, perhaps the most remarkable is Smiley Burnette's "Minnie the Moocher at the Morgue," an outgrowth of the Minnie the Moocher series of songs initiated by Cab Calloway. Unlike the other cowboy ballad based on Minnie the Moocher (Minnie My Mountain Moocher), this song elaborates on and develops Minnie's story in a way that is true to the original, except that it gives Minnie a new boyfriend (Willie the Weeper instead of Smokey Joe). Not only the bizarre lyrics, but also the remarkable gutteral scat singing make this a song worth hearing. Also on this second set, we are treated to some truly amazing yodeling by Roy Rogers, and even an interesting version of Home on the Range, with a different tune from the usual. I consider this set to be a very valuable addition to my collection of pre-WWII American music.