Various - Country & Western Hit Parade 1946 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
Various - Country & Western Hit Parade: 1946 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
The year that the floodgates opened, rock 'n' roll was on everyone's mind and there were more million sellers than ever before. As Elvis Presley had been signed to RCA's country division by Steve Shoals, the other record companies brought pressure upon their Country A&,R men to find the "next Elvis". Shoals, while respecting the older country audience, stated that "it was the kids who bought records" though Wesley Rose, at Acuff-Rose Music, sensed that all was not well as 78% of country djs felt that rock 'n' roll had no place on country radio ,but nevertheless played it in order to increase listenership. ,
The selection on this cd, though, keeps the sounds pretty solidly country, although newcomer Johnny Cash, with the Tennessee Two, was establishing himself with a "crossover" sound on Sun Records, while compatriot Carl Perkins was one of the music's premier rockabillies, Marty Robbins enjoyed pop and country sales (though his Singing The Blues came second-best to Guy Mitchell in the pop charts), Silver Threads And Golden Needles showed Wanda Jackson's strength as a country singer prior to emerging as rock 'n' roll's first lady. Other artists like Faron Young, Hank Thompson, Ray Price, Johnny Horton, Webb Pierce and Jim Reeves were among the "new breed" while Eddy Arnold was well into his second decade of hits. And the Louvin Brothers, Osborne Brothers, Don Reno and Red Smiley, among others, kept strictly to traditional roots. ,
According to the 'New York Herald Tribune' on May 26, 1946, the state of the record business "is so fabulous the industry is barely able to keep pace with it. Records tumble from the presses in ever increasing millions, and the public seems eager to buy them, good bad or indifferent. Production and sales are running twice what they were in 1942, and producers are looking forward to 1947 and '48 to double this year's expected output of 300 million discs." Today's record executives, presiding over a business that declines almost hourly, would be insanely jealous of a world in which the future was exponentially brighter.
In 1946, Columbia and RCA Victor still led the pack (competitors since the early 1900s, they became part of the same corporate monolith in 2004). RCA didn't break out record sales from its overall financial picture, so it was hard to gauge exactly how the record division was doing, but it was generally reckoned to be the industry leader with 120 million records sold. Columbia sold 65 million records. In 1945, its net income was just $196,000, but by 1946, that figure had jumped to $1.88 million. Columbia also made a huge contribution to the bottom line of its parent, CBS Broadcasting (4.6% of CBS's profits in 1945, 32.4% in 1946). Decca was doing well, too, netting slightly more than Columbia ($1.9 million) on gross sales of $30.6 million compared with $15.5 million in 1945.
The industry's success story, though, was Capitol Records. The label was feeling so bullish that it raised a $3 million stock issue to buy a plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to increase capacity. "Board Chairman [Buddy] De Sylva, 51, President [Johnny] Mercer, 37, and Vice President [Glenn] Wallichs, 36, announced that Capitol had grossed $13,082,797 in 1946 (double the 1945 gross) and had netted $842,961, almost four times as much as the previous year," reported the 'New York Herald Tribune.' "They said it sold 42 million records, one-sixth of all those sold in the U.S." Capitol's success was a beacon of hope to the proliferating independent labels because it had been in business just four years.
Article properties: Various - Country & Western Hit Parade: 1946 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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Interpret: Various - Country & Western Hit Parade
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Album titlle: 1946 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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Genre Country
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Label Bear Family Records
- Preiscode AR
- Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
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Artikelart CD
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EAN: 4000127169518
- weight in Kg 0.2
| Various - Country & Western Hit Parade - 1946 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Atomic Power | Buchanan Brothers, The | ||
| 02 | Rainbow At Midnight | Tubb, Ernest | ||
| 03 | ThatÆs How Much I Love You | Arnold, Eddy | ||
| 04 | Filipino Baby | Copas, Cowboy | ||
| 05 | Wine, Women, and Song | Dexter, Al And His Troopers | ||
| 06 | New Spanish Two Step | Wills, Bob | ||
| 07 | Someday | Britt, Elton | ||
| 08 | No Vacancy | Travis, Merle | ||
| 09 | No One Will Ever Know | Acuff, Roy | ||
| 10 | Zeb's Mountain Boogie | Brady, Brad & His Tennesseans | ||
| 11 | I Wish I Had Never Met Sunshine | Autry, Gene | ||
| 12 | Tragic Romance | Copas, Cowboy | ||
| 13 | Hillbilly Boogie | Delmore Brothers | ||
| 14 | As Long As I Live | Bailes Brothers, The | ||
| 15 | Rocky Road Blues | Monroe, Bill | ||
| 16 | Eight More Miles to Louisville | Jones, Grandpa | ||
| 17 | Dark as a Dungeon | Travis, Merle | ||
| 18 | Salty Dog Blues | Morris Brothers, The | ||
| 19 | Jole Blon (Pretty Blond) | Choates, Harry | ||
| 20 | Ruby | Cousin Emmy and her Kinfolks | ||
| 21 | Kentucky Waltz | Monroe, Bill | ||
| 22 | Midnite Special | Delmore Brothers | ||
| 23 | Some Other World | Tillman, Floyd | ||
| 24 | Steel Guitar Stomp | Penny, Hank | ||
| 25 | Black Jack David | Tyler, T. Texas | ||
| 26 | You Will Have To Pay | Ritter, Tex | ||
| 27 | Stay A Little Longer | Wills, Bob | ||
| 28 | Three-Way Boogie | Cooley, Spade | ||
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
Country & Western Hit Parade
Diese Serie ist das Nonplus ultra, großartig aufgemacht und mit perfektem Mastering
Jack Clement, der Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Don Williams und viele andere produziert hat, sagte: "Dies ist fraglos die beste Country-Serie der Musikgeschichte, kein Zweifel!" Und Robert Hilburn schrieb in der 'Los Angeles Times': "Dieses unschätzbar wertvolle Album-Projekt... ermöglicht es den Fans so zuzuhö ren, wie es schon Elvis Presley, Ray Charles und Bob Dylan taten."
Die Hits sind ergänzt um Raritäten, die die Country Music – und die Musik generell – in den Folgejahren be- einflußt haben: zum Beispiel Wanda Jacksons Originalversion von Silver Threads And Golden Needles, Carl Belews Original von Lonely Street und Chet Atkins' wegweisendes Walk, Don't Run.
Diese Serie ist konzipiert, um neue Hörer für das Beste zu gewinnen, das die Country Music je anzubieten hatte, aber auch um alte Fans bestens zu unterhalten. Jede einzelne CD steht für eine wunderbare Zeitreise.
Neben den Hits präsentiert die Serie viele Raritäten, die die Country Music – und die Musik generell – in der Folgezeit beeinflußt haben.
Wie alles begann:
Seit vielen Jahren erhielten wir immer wieder Anfragen nach einer definitiven Country-Serie. Und nachdem unsere chronologisch sortierten R&B-/Soul-Reihen 'Blowin' The Fuse' und zuletzt 'Sweet Soul Music' (denen sich demnächst ein Projekt zur Funk Music anschließen wird) zu Riesenerfolgen wurden, haben wir entschieden: Das machen wir in vergleichbarer Form auch für die Country Music! Die ersten Folgen von 'Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music' befaßten sich mit den Jah- ren 1945 bis 1955 – jetzt setzen wir die Reise fort und bewegen uns dabei Richtung Nashville Sound.
Die Serie wurde auf Fans von heute zugeschnitten. Natürlich enthält sie die großen Hits; aber ebenso gibt es klassische Aufnah- men, die es damals nicht nach ganz oben geschafft haben und dennoch später einflußreich wurden. Jede CD glänzt mit bei- spielhaft detaillierten Erläuterungen aus erster Hand sowie mit sensationell seltenen Fotos. Und es wird aufgezeigt, wie sich die Country Music kontinuierlich weiterentwickelte, während es in anderen Bereichen des amerikanischen Musikgeschäftes deutli- che Verwerfungen gab. Jedes einzelne Booklet ist unglaubliche 72 Seiten stark! Also alles wie gewünscht: die definitive Serie!
Superlative werden zwar manchmal überstrapaziert – aber wir sind sicher: Die Serie ist Teil unserer Idee, diese Musik auch nach- gewachsenen Fans näherzubringen – und zugleich die Kenner gut zu unterhalten. Los geht es im Jahr 1956 – als die Country Music sich mit dem Rock'n'Roll arrangieren musste, der für Aufruhr sorgte....
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