Amazon.com: Pee Wee King's Country Hoedown: Pee Wee King: Music

Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. 'This Is Pee Wee King...'
2. I Love The Way You Roll Them Eyes At Me
3. The Reason I'm In Love With You
4. Ramblin' Blues
5. I'm Goin' Back To The Middle Of The Middle West
6. One Way Street
7. I'll Never Love No One But You
8. You Tried To Ruin My Name
9. Get Together Polka
10. Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus
See all 28 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Fool's Gold
2. Silver And Gold
3. Sweetest Little Girl
4. Darling Don't Cry
5. Flower Of Texas
6. I Wanna Say Hello
7. Let Me Hold You When You're Blue
8. Where Oh Where Has My Little Love Gone
9. I Need A Lot Of Lovin'
10. Where Were You Last Night
See all 26 tracks on this disc

Amazon.com
Western swing in its heyday was never as popular east of the Mississippi, where acts played theaters, as in the Southwest, where dance halls reigned supreme. Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys were the exception to that rule. The group was founded before World War II, and King, the diminutive accordionist who cowrote "Tennessee Waltz" with Cowboys fiddler-vocalist Redd Stewart, hit his peak after the war with constant tours, TV work, and hit singles like "Slowpoke." The consummate show band, the Cowboys had a creamy, meticulously rehearsed sound (excepting Bobby Koefer's sly, articulate steel guitar) that contrasted with Bob Wills's raw spontaneity and Spade Cooley's sophisticated intensity. Nonetheless, their wilder RCA recordings could give Wills or Cooley a run for their money. Precious little of that wildness surfaces on this highly subdued collection of 1952 material recorded exclusively for radio broadcast. Spirited departures like "Ramblin' Blues" notwithstanding, the majority of the performances are an incessant string of bland, Lawrence Welk-style bounces and ballads sung by Stewart, who cowrote many of the tunes with King. --Rich Kienzle

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