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BAILES BROTHERS: Oh So Many Years 1945-1947 (CD)

1-CD with 20-page booklet, 36 tracks. Playing time approx. 80 mns.

The classic country brother sound and some of the greatest songs in traditional music! This is the first legitimate CD of the Bailes Brothers' work, despite the fact that they were one of the most popular acts on the Grand Ole Opry and the Louisiana Hayride in the mid-to-late 1940s. Roy Acuff spotted them in Charleston, West Virginia and brought them to the Opry and to Columbia Records. Their complete Columbia recordings (1945-1947), reissued here for the first time, include Searching For A Soldier's Grave, I Want To Be Loved But Only By You (later revived by Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper),
Whiskey Is The Devil In Liquid Form, Oh So Many Years (revived by the Everly Brothers), and the Bailes Brothers great enduring classic, Dust On The Bible. The brothers' tragic story is told in Eddie Stubbs' exclusive essay with haunting first-person accounts from all the brothers and those who worked with them. Fans of old-time music, classic hillbilly and bluegrass really need this one!

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Bailes Brothers, The - Oh So Many Years 1945-1947 (CD) CD 1
01 The Drunkard's Grave The Bailes Brothers
02 Searching For A Soldier's Grave The Bailes Brothers
03 As Long As I Live The Bailes Brothers
04 Dust On The Bible The Bailes Brothers
05 There's Tears In My Eyes All The Time The Bailes Brothers
06 Fare Thee Well The Bailes Brothers
07 I've Got My One Way Ticket To The Sky The Bailes Brothers
08 I Want To Be Loved (But Only By You) The Bailes Brothers
09 Down Where The River Bends The Bailes Brothers
10 I Guess I'll Go On Dreaming The Bailes Brothers
11 Whiskey Is The Devil (In Liquid Form) The Bailes Brothers
12 Broken Marriage Vows The Bailes Brothers
13 Building On The Sands The Bailes Brothers
14 We're Living In The Last Days Now The Bailes Brothers
15 You'll Always Be The Only One The Bailes Brothers
16 Oh So Many Years The Bailes Brothers
17 If You Have Retreated From God The Bailes Brothers
18 Ashamed To Own The Blessed Savior The Bailes Brothers
19 Do You Expect A Reward From God The Bailes Brothers
20 Read Roman Ten And Nine The Bailes Brothers
21 Come To The Savior The Bailes Brothers
22 Remember Me The Bailes Brothers
23 Has The Devil Got A Mortgage On You The Bailes Brothers
24 My Heart Echoes The Bailes Brothers
25 You Can't Go Half Way The Bailes Brothers
26 Pretty Flowers The Bailes Brothers
27 Sinner Kneel Down And Pray The Bailes Brothers
28 Will The Angels Have A Sweetheart The Bailes Brothers
Members: Kyle Bailes, vocals, bass born 7 5 1915 - Johnny Bailes, singing, guitar- born 24 6... more
"BAILES BROTHERS"

Members: Kyle Bailes, vocals, bass born 7 5 1915 - Johnny Bailes, singing, guitar- born 24 6 1918 - Walter Bailes, singing, guitar- born 17 1, 1920,  - Homer Bailes, vocals, fiddle - born 8 5 1922

Record label: Columbia, King, Old Homestead, the Loyal Bailes Brothers were from 1939 to 1949 one of the most popular country groups.

Roy Acuff had brought in 1942 to the Grand Ole Opry, in 1948 they changed over to the Louisiana Hayride show in Shreveport, 1949 broke the group apart.

Walter Bailes worked before, during and after his membership in the group as a soloist with many recordings

 

The Bailes Brothers

When the discussion of acts from West Virginia that went on to attain Grand Ole Opry membership comes up, the names that most often come to mind are Little Jimmy Dickens, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, and most recently Brad Paisley. Though often overlooked, the Bailes Brothers, from the Charleston area, were indeed Opry members and in fact were among the show's biggest stars during their two-year tenure on Nashville's WSM.

The four Bailes brothers, Kyle (born May 7, 1915), Johnnie (June 24, 1918), Walter (January 17, 1920), and Homer (May 8, 1922), came from very humble beginnings and were raised in an area known as Dogtown, later called North Charleston before being incorporated into Charleston. Homer recalled, "We moved around a lot and lived wherever the rent was the cheapest." Their father, Homer Abraham Bailes, was a carpenter, teacher, and a Baptist preacher, who died in 1925, and the boys were raised by their mother, Nannie Ellen. Affectionately referred to by those who knew her as Mom Bailes, she did domestic work to help support the family. Years later she would be immortalized in a biographical song Give Mother My Crown, written by Walter in 1946, and popularized by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs.

The brothers began playing and singing at a young age and Kyle, Johnnie, and Walter started professionally with Uncle Jim Groves (no relation) in 1937 on WCHS in Charleston. Johnnie and Walter would go on to lead separate groups working at numerous stations before teaming up in 1940 at WJLS in Beckley, West Virginia. Also in the group at the time were two individuals who would later go on achieve great fame in country music, Molly O'Day then known as Dixie Lee, and Little Jimmy Dickens. Johnnie and Walter came to WSAZ in Huntington, West Virginia in 1942. It was here that they began to hit their stride. Former Opry star Fiddlin' Arthur Smith joined their group, adding to their popularity. The songs, many of which were original, were performed on radio and in person at appearances within the station's coverage area. They sang with heartfelt conviction in a full-volume, open-throat fashion that audiences up to that time weren't used to hearing.

In 1943, the Bailes Brothers met the man who would change their career. Johnnie remembers, "Roy Acuff came to Huntington. His booking agent, Oscar Davis, came in and hired us to work the show (at the Armory) with Roy when he came to town. Of course they got a lot of publicity that way. When Roy came to town, he was on our program and then we went down and helped him do the show. Some time during the night, I don't know just when, Roy told me that he thought we were Grand Ole Opry material, which pleased me to no end. We talked on, and he asked if we would be interested in coming down for an audition. Of course we told him we were, and we came down at his suggestion." Walter continued the story: "Roy took us in one of the dressing rooms over at the Ryman and had Judge George D. Hay come in there and told him he wanted him to hear us. So, George listened to us, like only he could, you know. After we finished, he said, 'That's fine boys. Now I want you to leave me your name and address,' and Roy said, 'No, Judge. This is not one of them cases. I want Harry Stone,' who was manager at the time, 'to hear these boys Monday morning at 9 o'clock.' So Monday morning, Roy and the Judge, and Harry, were in Harry's office, and we were in Studio A at WSM piping it in to them, and they gave us the job. We were doing quite well when Acuff found us because we were kind of what you'd call the wheel in a little area instead of a little spoke in the big wheel. We were doing real well. But before that, we've seen times we had to do without, and (were) too proud to tell anybody."

The Bailes Brothers obviously had a passion for what they did. Johnnie recalled, "Back then we sung because we loved country music! Of course, we wanted to make money, too, but I think you should love it. I think you should love it enough that you'd do it for nothing!"

They made the move to Nashville along with two band members, fiddler Del Heck and bass player Evelyn Thomas, most often referred to as Little Evy, or Evy Lou. Evy had earlier appeared with her sister as Dot & Evy, a vocal duet on WSAZ. Johnnie and Walter hadn't been in town more than a couple of weeks when they ran into Ernest Ferguson, a wonderful mandolin player they'd met in Charleston when he was working with Johnnie Wright & the Tennessee Hillbillies. Ernest recalls his employment starting with the Bailes Brothers in September 1944. He kicked off the first song the group played on their Opry debut, Dust On The Bible. Ferguson's very melodic playing, utilizing harmony played in tandem with the melody notes, became the instrumental trademark of the early Bailes Brothers sound, and found favor with fellow mandolin player Ira Louvin of the Louvin Brothers. "Ira," said younger brother, Charlie, "liked that guy's playing a lot."

Opry membership wasn't attained immediately. The Bailes actually started with WSM doing daily fifteen-minute early morning shows. Walter recalled that they were the first act on WSM to do the Martha White Flour show, made famous years later by Flatt & Scruggs. This allowed them to plug their show dates. Their popularity grew fast. They signed with Acuff-Rose Publications, and Acuff and his partner, Fred Rose, were instrumental in obtaining an audition with Columbia Records' A&R manager Art Satherley at Rose's Nashville home. Rose, of course, was there, and so was Acuff. Ernest Ferguson remembers, "We went in the living room and did maybe a half-dozen numbers. He listened, and he signed them up right there."

Very few recordings were made in Nashville back then, so the Bailes Brothers drove north for their first session, held at Chicago's Wrigley Building on February 17, 1945. However, fifty-one weeks would pass before their first record was released. Their recordings will be discussed later in the text.

Calling themselves 'The Bailes Brothers and the West Virginia Home Folks,' the brothers published their first song folio in the Spring of 1945 and plugged it on their early morning radio shows. They also bought a fifteen-minute time slot on Saturday evenings just prior to the Opry to plug their songbooks as well. The price was just 50 cents, and the group sold a phenomenal 175,000 songbooks via WSM in six months! They hold the record for selling the most product in the shortest time. The songbooks could also be purchased at the Bailes Brothers' personal appearances, which were mostly in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, and Mississippi at school auditoriums and sometimes at theaters and court houses. Proceeds were usually split 60/40 or 70/30 with the brothers getting the larger portion. Johnnie and Walter were packing them in everywhere they played, but they couldn't go too far afield because they had to drive back to WSM for their early morning programs at various times between 5 and 6am. Many times this would involve an all-night drive, arriving in Nashville just barely in time to make the broadcast. It was a grueling pace, often working five and six nights per week. There were occasions where they'd take a week off from the early morning shows to work in Virginia, West Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, but they always came back to Nashville to work the Opry on Saturday nights.

Even though they didn't have the quantity of commercial recordings that some others at the Opry had at the time, the Bailes Brothers along with Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, and Bill Monroe, were among the show's hottest acts. Their impact, first in Huntington and later during their Opry years, on all ages of fans, and the devotion of those fans is truly impressive. Mary Proffit of Gallipolis, Ohio was about ten years old when she first heard the Bailes Brothers on WSAZ, and began listening to them every day. She saw them in person seven times during their Huntington tenure and sixty years later, can still recall the clothes they wore on stage and the songs they featured. Paul Durham heard the Bailes Brothers regularly on WSM and on the Opry during their Nashville days. Paul was between ten and twelve at the time and has vivid recollections of the act's soul-stirring gospel songs coming over the radio as well as how well dressed the act was when they came to sing at his grade school near Hendersonville, Tennessee

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Bailes Brothers, The - Oh So Many Years 1945-1947 (CD) CD 1
01 The Drunkard's Grave
02 Searching For A Soldier's Grave
03 As Long As I Live
04 Dust On The Bible
05 There's Tears In My Eyes All The Time
06 Fare Thee Well
07 I've Got My One Way Ticket To The Sky
08 I Want To Be Loved (But Only By You)
09 Down Where The River Bends
10 I Guess I'll Go On Dreaming
11 Whiskey Is The Devil (In Liquid Form)
12 Broken Marriage Vows
13 Building On The Sands
14 We're Living In The Last Days Now
15 You'll Always Be The Only One
16 Oh So Many Years
17 If You Have Retreated From God
18 Ashamed To Own The Blessed Savior
19 Do You Expect A Reward From God
20 Read Roman Ten And Nine
21 Come To The Savior
22 Remember Me
23 Has The Devil Got A Mortgage On You
24 My Heart Echoes
25 You Can't Go Half Way
26 Pretty Flowers
27 Sinner Kneel Down And Pray
28 Will The Angels Have A Sweetheart