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Various - Country & Western Hit Parade: 1954 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music

1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks; playing time: 74:03 minutes.

'Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1954'
Country & Western Hit Parade 1954

Something was happening. In 1953, Bill Haley had cracked the pop charts with Crazy Man, Crazy. A mix of western swing, pop, and R&B, Haley's music heralded changes that would soon obliterate much of the music heard here. Down in Texas, white kids were playing R&B and calling it Cat Music. In April 1954, Atlantic Records wised up to the phrase and started Cat Records. The first hit on Cat, the Chords' Sh-Boom, was covered by western swing stars Leon McAuliffe and Bobby Williamson. So there was a two-way trade between black and white music. As if to underscore the point, Elvis Presley made his first record during the week that the Chords' record entered the charts. One month later, Bill Haley's cover of Big Joe Turner's Shake, Rattle And Roll became a pop smash. For now, very little of this was reflected in the country charts. Elvis cracked a few local country charts, and Haley, despite his roots in east coast country music, was confined to the pop charts.

Blind as they might have been to changes on the near horizon, the grandees who controlled country music were happy with what was happening. Country music was slicking itself up and sales were booming. Writing in 'Billboard' in May 1954, RCA's head of country A&R, Steve Sholes, mentioned that the musicians he dealt with before the Second World War were essentially "only fair amateurs" compared with the class of '54. And country music was attracting professional songsmiths who would have looked down their noses at country music ten years earlier.

Then he presciently added, "If the next ten years bring about developments in the country & western field as constructive and vital as in the last ten, I believe 1964 will find the country & western and pop fields so closely allied, it will be impossible to tell the difference without a score card." Sholes, of course, would sign Elvis Presley at the end of 1955, and would personally hasten some of those changes. In April 1954, he assembled an innovative package show, the RCA Country Caravan, with a good cross-section of his roster (the notable absence being Eddy Arnold). Starting in Asheville, North Carolina it headed south and west, emphasizing that the regionality of country music was fast disappearing. A source of regret for purists perhaps, but a good omen for Sholes.

And then, in December 1954, Fred Rose died. Perhaps more than anyone else, Rose had been the architect of the Nashville music business. He'd settled there when there were no record companies, music publishers, or recording studios, and he'd co-founded the first music publisher. Early in '54, he'd launched an indie label, Hickory Records. Along the way, he'd written hundreds of country songs and helped to polish hundreds more. Not least among his achievements was producing and mentoring country music's troubled king, Hank Williams.

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Interpret: Various - Country & Western Hit Parade
Album titlle: 1954 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
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EAN: 4000127169594
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Various - Country & Western Hit Parade - 1954 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music CD 1
01	This Ole House	Hamblen, Stuart
02	Rose Marie	Whitman, Slim
03	Bimbo	Reeves, Jim
04	Oh Baby Mine (I Get So Lonely)	Johnnie & Jack
05	I Really Don't Want To Know	Arnold, Eddy
06	Release Me	Price, Ray
07	Idaho Red	Ray, Wade
08	Slowly	Pierce, Webb
09	Looking Back To See	Browns, The
10	Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)	Dickens, Little Jimmy
11	I Wouldn't Change You If I Could	Butler, Carl
12	You Better Not Do That	Collins, Tommy
13	One By One	Foley, Red & Kitty Wells
14	I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)	Price, Ray
15	I Closed My Heart's Door	Acuff, Roy
16	If You Ain't Lovin (You Ain't Livin')	Young, Faron
17	I Don't Hurt Anymore	Snow, Hank
18	Good Deal, Lucille	Terry, Al
19	Sparkling Brown Eyes	Pierce, Webb & The Wilburn Bro
20	Cry, Cry Darling	Newman, Jimmy
21	Too Hot To Handle	Burns, Sonny
22	If You Don't Somebody Else Will	Mathis, Jimmy Lee & Johnny
23	Blue Guitar	Wooley, Sheb
24	Two Glasses Joe	Tubb, Ernest
25	Truck Drivin' Man	Fell, Terry
26	Take It Away, Lucky	Noack, Eddie
27	Loose Talk	Smith, Carl
28	That's All Right	Presley, Elvis - Scotty & Bill

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From: Richard On: 12 Sep 2021

From: Thomas S. On: 18 Jul 2018

Klasse Sampler mit guter alter Countrymusik!

Ich habe bereits mehr CD´s aus dieser Reihe, und alles sind liebevoll zusammengestellt. Ein Stück Musikgeschichte des Country und Hillbilly in guter Qualität und schönem Booklet.
Für Liebhaber eine absolute Kaufempfehlung.

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