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Various - Country & Western Hit Parade: 1963 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music

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In country music history, 1963 goes down as the year of losses. At 2:00pm on Tuesday March 5, a Piper Comanche light airplane left Kansas City for Nashville. There were three passengers and a pilot on board. They touched down in Dyersburg, Tennessee around 5:00pm, refueled, and took off again at 6:07. The weather was bad, but the pilot wanted to get home, and so did everyone else on board. Bad weather had already delayed them by one day, so they decided to take their chances. One hour out of Dyersburg, a rainstorm and encroaching darkness disoriented the pilot and he crashed the plane into dense woods near Camden, Tennessee, less than one hundred miles from Nashville. Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and the pilot, Randy Hughes, were those killed. Hughes, once a musician himself, was Cowboy Copas's son-in-law and Patsy Cline's manager and lover. Hawkshaw Hawkins had given up a seat on a commercial flight so that his Grand Ole Opry co-star, Billy Walker, could be with his ailing father. They had all been in Kansas City to perform at a benefit show for the family of a disc-jockey who had died five weeks earlier in a car wreck.

On March 7, there was a memorial service held in Hendersonville for Patsy Cline, whose remains were to be returned to her home in Virginia. Driving to the service, Jack Anglin of Johnnie & Jack was killed in a one car wreck. And then, on March 29, Texas Ruby, half of the duo Curly Fox and Texas Ruby, was killed in a trailer fire while Fox was performing on the Opry. That same week, it was reported that George Jones' tour bus fell into a ravine near Grants Pass, Oregon, injuring five people on board.

And then, on August 27, came the news that Jim Denny had died. A bear-like man with a rakish toupée, Denny had worked his way up the Grand Ole Opry hierarchy from the mail room to the head of the Artist Service Bureau, from the latter position he effectively ran the show. In 1953, he'd started Cedarwood Music and by 1956 the Opry began to see a conflict-of-interest between Denny's work for the show and his outside activities. Denny left the Opry to concentrate on Cedarwood and his new enterprise, the Jim Denny Artist Bureau. By the time of his death, Cedarwood was one of the big three Nashville music publishers and the Denny agency was one of country music's preeminent bookers. For all his gruffness, Denny nurtured his songwriters and clients. Stonewall Jackson remembered Denny advising him to stay clear of get-rich-quick schemes, and invest in property. "First big check I got, I bought a nice house where my son lives now," says Stonewall. "With the money from 'Waterloo,' I bought the thirty acres of land where I live now. Put a house on it. You gotta listen to the advice."

There were positive developments in 1963, too. In July, Faron Young started a country music fanzine, 'Music City News.' He hired a young British journalist, Dixie Deen (who later married Tom T. Hall), and Deen wrote some of the first long-form journalism about country artists. And then, in September, 'The Jimmy Dean Show' began a three-year run on ABC-TV's prime time schedule, bringing country music closer to the mainstream than ever before.

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Various - Country & Western Hit Parade - 1963 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music CD 1
01Detroit CityBare, Bobby
02I Gotta Get Drunk (And I Shore Do Dread It)Carson , Joe
03BustedCash, Johnny
04Leavin' On Your MindCline, Patsy
05Lonesome 7-7203Hawkins, Hawkshaw
06We Must Have Been Out Of Our MindsJones, George & Montgomery, Me
07Talk Back Trembling LipsAshworth, Ernest
08StillAnderson , Bill
09B.J. The D.J.Jackson, Stonewall
10The Yellow BandanaYoung, Faron
11Walk Me To The DoorPrice, Ray
12Act NaturallyOwens, Buck
13Thanks A LotTubb, Ernest
14Six Days On The Road (Original)Dudley , Dave
15Don't Call Me From A Honky TonkMosby, Johnny & Jonie
16Not What I Had In MindJones, George
17Mountain Of LoveHouston , David
18Before I'm Over YouLynn , Loretta
19AbileneHamilton IV, George
20Ninety Miles An Hour (Down A Dead End Street)Snow, Hank
21Begging To YouRobbins, Marty
22Five Hundred Miles Away From HomeBare, Bobby
238x10Anderson , Bill
24Call Me Mr. BrownMcDonald, Skeets
25The End Of The WorldDavis , Skeeter
26Ring Of FireCash, Johnny
27Sweet Dreams (Of You)Cline, Patsy
28Let's Invite Them OverJones, George & Montgomery, Me
29Love's Gonna Live HereOwens, Buck
30Night LifePrice, Ray
31T For TexasJones, Grandpa
32I Wanna Go HomeGrammer, Billy
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Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music

Country & Western Hit Parade

“Collecting an anarchic mix of sex and sentimentality, earnest paeans to family and fanciful tales of drinking and cheating, DIM LIGHTS… affords a fascinating glimpse into black-and-white ‘50s polemics… Established stars, inspired wannabes proffer an intoxicating brew of dancefloor honky tonk, hillbilly boogie, bluegrass, western swing, incipient rockabilly, goofball novelty, and sentimental country-pop.” (UNCUT magazine)

 

The reviews are in and everyone from Australia to Los Angeles to London is raving about Bear Family’s definitive year-by-year country series. Starting in 1945, DIM LIGHTS, THICK SMOKE, AND HILLBILLY MUSIC (COUNTRY & WESTERN HIT PARADE)tells the real story of country music record-by-record. The hits are here, but so are groundbreaking records that went nowhere at the time. This is the true and uncensored history of country music. Everything you need to hear, year-by-year. Stars like Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Eddy Arnold, Ray Price, and Hank Snow are here, but so are beerhall legends like Eddie Noack and Sonny Burns, and roots music mavens like Charlie Feathers and the Stanley Brothers, as well as overlooked giants like Carl Belew and Floyd Tillman. You’ll also hear the incredible original versions of songs like Duelin’ Banjos, Release Me, Lonely Street,and many more!  Every CD is full to the brim with great music, and they’re all individually packaged in hardcover 72-page books by Colin Escott that tell the story of every song as well as the broader music history of the time. Fabulous photos, original record labels, and period advertisements round out the packages.

Bear Family began its journey into year-by-year anthologies with its groundbreaking and award-winning BLOWIN’ THE FUSE/SWEET SOUL MUSICseries that tells the story of R&B from 1945-1970. Look for the series to continue into the Funk era. And look for a year-by-year Rock ‘n’ Roll anthology coming soon.

# After the volumes covering 1945-1955 were released, the word was out. This series is definitive, fabulously packaged, and faultlessly remastered! Everything you'd expect from Bear Family…and more!

# Jack Clement, who produced Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Don Williams, and many others, said, "This is the best country series of all time. No doubt. No question."Robert Hilburn in the 'Los Angeles Times'said, "An invaluable album project…enables fans to step back in time and listen to the radio just like Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, and Bob Dylan did."

# Now the story continues from 1956 until 1960. Every CD is generously full. Every booklet is extensive and chocked full of rare photos and illustrations, as well as complete stories behind the songs!

# In addition to the hits, the series contains rarities that went on to influence country music…and all music…in the years ahead, like Wanda Jackson's original version of Silver Threads And Golden Needles,Carl Belew's original Lonely Street,and Chet Atkins' influential Walk, Don't Run.

# This series is designed to introduce new listeners to the very best that country music has to offer… while keeping longtime fans entertained. Every volume is a fabulous time capsule.

 

Here's the story

For many years, we'd received requests to do a truly definitive country series, but it wasn't until the success of our year-by-year R&B/Soul series, 'Blowin' The Fuse' (now 'Sweet Soul Music' and soon to be continued into the Funk era) that we decided we needed to do something comparable for country music. The first volumes of 'Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music' took us from 1945-1955, and now the story continues into the era of the Nashville Sound.

The series has been compiled with today's fans in mind. Sure, the big hits are there, but so are the classic performances that weren't necessarily 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. The booklets alone are 72 pages! Definitive? You bet!

Superlatives are often overused, but we feel that this series is part of our mission to bring this incredible music to new fans ... as well as entertaining older fans. We pick up the story in 1956....just as country music was coming to terms with the upset of rock 'n' roll!

And, keeping in the spirit of the releases, some of the artists' listings are as they originally appeared - like Jim Edward and Maxine Brown and Bonnie, Wayne Raney - Raney Family (Wayne, Wanda and Zyndall) and Marty Robbins with Ray Conniff -  while the cd in each set is stored in a reproduction of a 45 rpm record label bag appropriate to that year.

Country music author and historian Colin Escott is responsible for these remarkable releases, an obvious labour of love that has taken considerable research effort, offering a valuable insight into the development of country music over the years. Many of country music's foremost entertainers are included alongside others who may have only earned a place in the footnotes of country music history, but all present a variety of voices and differing musical styles that have virtually disappeared, over half a century later, in contemporary country music's conveyor belt output. The songs were also different back then: sometimes relating to current events, they also regularly centred upon themes like boozin', honky-tonking and slippin' around, now generally considered non-pc in these over sensitive times.

Country & Western Hitparade - CD-Album-Series by Bear Family

Read more at: https://www.bear-family.com/bear-family/country-series/country-und-western-hitparade/
Copyright © Bear Family Records

 

 

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20 Dec 2020

Another good year to Country Music.

After 40's and 50's hillbilly and country music hits year by year, This series are the best way to welcome Nashville and Bakersfiels sounds with the same quality and cool product.

13 Mar 2014

Die fünf CDs bringen die wichtigsten Lieder der Countrymusik der Jahre 1961-1965.
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Tracklist
Various - Country & Western Hit Parade - 1963 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music CD 1
01 Detroit City
02 I Gotta Get Drunk (And I Shore Do Dread It)
03 Busted
04 Leavin' On Your Mind
05 Lonesome 7-7203
06 We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds
07 Talk Back Trembling Lips
08 Still
09 B.J. The D.J.
10 The Yellow Bandana
11 Walk Me To The Door
12 Act Naturally
13 Thanks A Lot
14 Six Days On The Road (Original)
15 Don't Call Me From A Honky Tonk
16 Not What I Had In Mind
17 Mountain Of Love
18 Before I'm Over You
19 Abilene
20 Ninety Miles An Hour (Down A Dead End Street)
21 Begging To You
22 Five Hundred Miles Away From Home
23 8x10
24 Call Me Mr. Brown
25 The End Of The World
26 Ring Of Fire
27 Sweet Dreams (Of You)
28 Let's Invite Them Over
29 Love's Gonna Live Here
30 Night Life
31 T For Texas
32 I Wanna Go Home