Bandleader and fiddle player Spade Cooley, the self-styled "King Of Western Swing", was a notoriously colourful character who worked in western movies with Roy Rogers before leading one of the biggest country orchestras of it's kind, attracting massive audiences to his shows in Los Angeles. He became popular on radio television and racked up a string of hits in the mid-'40s until popular tastes changed and his career declined in the early '50s. This great-value 54-track 2-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from his releases on the Okeh, Columbia, RCA and Decca labels during this period, representing about half of his entire recorded output in this time. It includes his most famous recording, the No. 1 country hit "Shame On You" along with his other Top 10 country hits "A Pair of Broken Hearts", "I've Taken All I'm Gonna Take From You", "Detour", "You Can't Break My Heart" and "Crazy 'Cause I Love You", many of them featuring his long-time star vocalist Tex Williams and including one notable recording with Dinah Shore. Along with Bob Wills, Spade Cooley was among the best-known and most popular exponents of Western Swing, and this highly entertaining anthology will underline exactly why.
15 You Never Miss the Water (Till the Well Runs Dry)
16 Spadella
17 Troubled Over You
18 Cow Bell Polka
19 All Aboard for Oklahoma
20 Spanish Fandango
21 I Guess I've Been Dreaming Again
22 Steel Guitar Rag
23 Whistle Bait
24 Hide Your Face
25 Yodeling Polka
26 Topeka Polka
- Disc 2 -
1 Big Chief Boogie
2 Fickle Woman
3 Texas Steel Guitar
4 You'll Rue the Day
5 Swinging the Devil's Dream
6 Four Fiddle Polka
7 Call Me Darling, Do
8 Texas Playboy Rag
9 Flop-Eared Mule
10 Wake Up, Susan
11 Ida Red
12 You Can't Take Texas Out of Me
13 The Last Roundup
14 Wagon Wheels
15 Lucky Leather Breeches
16 Honky Tonkin'
17 Hillbilly Fever
18 Mountain Boys Have Fun with Mountain Girls
19 9/10THS of Tennessee River
20 Chew Tobacco Rag
21 Tuesday Two-Step
22 Three Fiddle Rag
23 Hitsitty Hotsitty
24 Down Yonder
25 Horse Hair Boogie
26 The Cowboy Waltz
27 Carmen's Boogie
28 One Sweet Letter from You
Bandleader and fiddle player Spade Cooley, the self-styled "King Of Western Swing", was a notoriously colourful character who worked in western movies with Roy Rogers before leading one of the biggest country orchestras of it's kind, attracting massive audiences to his shows in Los Angeles. He became popular on radio television and racked up a string of hits in the mid-'40s until popular tastes changed and his career declined in the early '50s. This great-value 54-track 2-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from his releases on the Okeh, Columbia, RCA and Decca labels during this period, representing about half of his entire recorded output in this time. It includes his most famous recording, the No. 1 country hit "Shame On You" along with his other Top 10 country hits "A Pair of Broken Hearts", "I've Taken All I'm Gonna Take From You", "Detour", "You Can't Break My Heart" and "Crazy 'Cause I Love You", many of them featuring his long-time star vocalist Tex Williams and including one notable recording with Dinah Shore. Along with Bob Wills, Spade Cooley was among the best-known and most popular exponents of Western Swing, and this highly entertaining anthology will underline exactly why.
