The Browns Rockin' Rollin' Browns (Vinyl)

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Interpret: The Browns
Album titlle: Rockin' Rollin' Browns (Vinyl)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
Vinyl record size LP
EAN: 2500010000086
weight in Kg 0.21

Browns, The - Rockin' Rollin' Browns (Vinyl) LP 1
01	The Three Bells (Les Trois Cloches)	The Browns
02	Teen-Ex	The Browns
03	Blue Bells Ring	The Browns
04	This Time I Would Know	The Browns
05	Heaven Fell Last Night	The Browns
06	Beyond A Shadow	The Browns
07	Margo (The Ninth Of May)	The Browns
08	You're So Much A Part Of Me	The Browns
09	Bye Bye, Love	The Browns
10	Only One Way To Love You	The Browns
11	Buttons And Bows	The Browns
12	Brighten The Corner Where You Are	The Browns
13	The Trot	The Browns
14	Dream On (She'll Break Your Heart)	The Browns
15	Oh, No!	The Browns
16	Tobacco Road	The Browns

The Browns During the October 1967 Disc Jockey Convention, a tearful Bonnie Brown stunned the... more

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The Browns

During the October 1967 Disc Jockey Convention, a tearful Bonnie Brown stunned the Grand Ole Opry audience by announcing the retirement of the Browns, formally ending the twelve-year professional partnership of Maxine, Jim Ed and Bonnie Brown. For those in the know, the news was hardly unexpected. Over the previous two years RCA Victor had successfully launched Jim Ed Brown as a soloist; his career-making hit 'Pop A Top' had just completed a 20-week run on Billboard's country charts, peaking at #3. In truth, Bonnie was already semi-retired, having stayed with her physician husband and children in Dardanelle, Arkansas, while Jim Ed and Maxine moved to Nashville.

The Browns had long been at odds with RCA Victor over its commercial direction. Years earlier the trio had built an international following with groundbreaking crossover singles 'The Three Bells', 'Scarlet Ribbons' and 'The Old Lamplighter'. Steve Sholes wanted them to cater to mainstream pop audiences with a polished nightclub act, but at heart the Browns longed to sing for rural audiences. Producer Chet Atkins knew them for what they really were, a close-harmony country trio, probably the best that ever was. His vision put him in conflict with Sholes and RCA's New York office, and the compromises alienated country deejays who found them too 'pop' and urban programmers who found them too country.

Bonnie's announcement actually marked the third time the Browns had decided to quit. The first was in 1955, when the trio was locked into an exploitative contract with Fabor Robison. The second came four years later, when all three wondered whether the small rewards justified the years on the road; Maxine was pregnant, their mother Birdie had suffered a stroke, and their father needed help at his sawmill. Then 'The Three Bells' changed everything. In October 1967, nobody wanted the Browns to part. Few harmony groups in American music were as beloved as Jim Ed, Maxine and Bonnie Brown from Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

The Browns' story began on August 11, 1930, when Floyd Brown married Birdie Lee Tuberville. Music ran through the family: Floyd's brothers played fiddle and guitar at local dances. The newlyweds moved to Louisiana, where their first child, Ella Maxine, was born on April 27, 1931, before the family returned to Sparkman, Arkansas. Over the next seven years Birdie bore Jim Edward (April 1, 1934), Raymond (December 29, 1936) and Bonnie Gean (July 31, 1938). On Saturday nights the family gathered round the radio for the Grand Ole Opry. A budding trio with young Raymond was cut short when he was killed in a truck accident on Labor Day, 1943. This Bear Family collection commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of 'The Three Bells'.

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