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One event towered over 1953, and it happened between midnight and dawn on January 1. Somewhere in West Virginia Hank Williams died in the back seat of his Cadillac. As often happens, there was an immediate uptick in demand for his records, and MGM cut back its mid-January release schedule from twelve to six records to meet the orders. Its plant in Bloomfield, New Jersey worked around the clock cranking out Hank. Acuff-Rose's two Hank Williams song folios usually sold around 700 copies a month, but both sold 5500 copies in the three weeks after his death. Dee-jays block-programmed his music in segments as long as two hours. The tribute records flooded out (we have a selection of them on 'Songwriter To Legend', BCD 16286) and, more than fifty-five years later, the tributes still appear. Arguably, no one ever had a greater impact on country music.

In sales terms, Hank Williams wasn't the best-selling country artist of his day. Eddy Arnold and Red Foley way outsold him, but younger artists were drawn to the enigma of Hank Williams in a way that they were never drawn to Arnold or Foley. That said, two of 1953's breakthrough artists, Jim Reeves and Marty Robbins, owed far more to Arnold than Williams. For Hank Williams, death was the best career move he ever made. In terms of forging a legend, no one would ever do better. Within a few years, most of his contemporaries had to figure out how to come to terms with rock 'n' roll and then the Nashville Sound. Hank was painfully ill-equipped to deal with either, and death spared him the indignity of trying. Ironically, three artists who came to the fore after his death, Hank Locklin, Jim Reeves and Webb Pierce, were older than him. His rise and fall had been that meteoric.

Many of the big country hits of 1953 were up-tempo novelties. In fact, RCA's top-selling disc in all categories for a couple of weeks was Homer & Jethro's How Much Is That Hound Dog In The Window, but we've omitted it together with Eddy Arnold's biggest hit of the year, the crassly self-referential Eddy's Song (the lyrics were his song titles strung together). We've also omitted Goldie Hill's answer song to Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes and Hank Thompson's nursery-rhyme-like Rub A Dub Dub, both of which topped the charts. In their place, we have grittier, if poorer selling, songs like Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Loud, Loud Music and Let Me Go, Devil.

The next volume in this series, covering 1954, will mark the debut of Elvis Presley, and while Elvis was strikingly original, there was already something stirring in country music. In 1953, Curtis Gordon released Rompin' And Stompin' (available on a Bear Family CD devoted to Gordon's work), Red Foley covered Faye Adams' R&B hit Shake A Hand (available on 'Sugarfoot Rag' in Bear Family's 'Gonna Shake This Shack' series), and both Lucky Joe Almond and Little Jimmy Dickens covered Piano Red's Rockin' With Red (the latter also available on Bear Family). In that vein, we've included Merrill Moore's Red Light and Tommy Duncan's cover version of Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog.

In the broader industry, 1953 marked the fifth anniversary of the introduction of the LP, and that year the dollar sales of LPs to home consumers outstripped the dollar sales of singles and EPs (ten-inch LPs still outsold twelve-inch LPs, but by 1955 the sales would be roughly 50/50). Of course, jukebox operators only bought singles and the ops still accounted for a large slice of the business, but the trend toward long-playing records was gathering steam. Acknowledging that, Columbia Records started its Epic subsidiary primarily as an LP label. Country music, though, was still a singles-driven market, and these are some of the best country singles of 1953.

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Album titlle: 1953 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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Various - Country & Western Hit Parade - 1953 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music CD 1
01	The Death Of Hank Williams	Cardwell, Jack
02	Goin' Steady	Young, Faron
03	Your Cheatin' Heart	Williams, Hank
04	South In New Orleans	Johnnie & Jack
05	It's Been So Long	Pierce, Webb
06	Let Me Go, Devil	Bond, Johnny
07	Playin' Dominoes And Shootin' Dice	Cook, Red - Jimmy Richards and
08	(Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I	Snow, Hank - The Singing Range
09	No Help Wanted	Carlisles, The
10	I'll Go On Alone	Robbins, Marty
11	You All Come	Duff, Arlie
12	I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know	Davis Sisters, The
13	California Blues (Blue Yodel #4)	Frizzell , Lefty
14	Big Mamou	Davis, Link with Bennie Leader
15	Hound Dog	Duncan, Tommy
16	Run 'em Off	Wheeler, Onie
17	Crying In The Chapel	Glenn, Darrell
18	Mexican Joe	Reeves, Jim & the Circle O Ran
19	Let Me Be The One	Locklin, Hank - The Rocky Moun
20	Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music	Maphis, Joe & Rose Lee
21	Looking At The Moon And Wishing On A Star	Grayzell, Rudy
22	There Stands The Glass	Pierce, Webb
23	Hey Joe!	Smith, Carl
24	Red Light	Moore, Merrill
25	Country Gentleman	Atkins, Chet
26	Take These Chains from My Heart	Williams, Hank
27	Caribbean	Torok, Mitchell
28	A Dear John Letter	Shepard , Jean

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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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