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BOB KING
Songs That Tell A Story
BCD 15718-AH 

You And My Old Guitar - The Little Shirt My Mother Made For Me - Patanio, The Pride Of The Plains - Mommy Please Stay Home With Me - I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail - The French Song (& MARIE KING) - On The Banks Of The Old Ponchartrain - When The Works All Done This Fall - An Old Log Cabin For Sale - Driftwood On The River - Strawberry Roan - Rockin' Alone In An Old Rockin' Chair - I've Been Down That Road Before - The Ballad Of The Chapeau Boys - Mary Ann Regrets - Memories Of You (& MARIE KING) (solo) - Rescue From The Moose River Gold Mine - When It's Lamplighting Time In The Valley - The Cat Came Back - The Ballad Of Jed Clampett - Bluest Man In Town - Cowboy - Jimmy Brown The Newsboy - Little Tom - Train Of Memories - French Canadian Girl - Road Paved With Heartaches - It Breaks A Mother's Heart - Once More - Coconut Joe

BOB KING
Bob King & The Country Kings
BCD 15719-AH

Laurel Lee - Give My Love To Rose - Hey Honey - Waltz Of Two Broken Hearts - Going Back To An Old Love Affair - Why Don't You Leave Me - My Petite Marie - If The Things They Say Are True - Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw - She Went Without Saying Goodbye - Pray For Me Mother Of Mine - Let's Make A Fair Trade - Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained - Lonely City Park - That's What's On My Mind - The All Canadian Boy - My Home By The Fraser - My Son Calls Another Man Daddy - Rose Of Ol' Pawnee - I Dreamed About Mom Last Night - No Parking Here - Just Call On Me - Boy With A Future - I've Been Dreaming (& MARIE) - Between Our Hearts (& MARIE) - It's Goodbye And So Long To You (& MARIE)

PEE WEE KING
Blue Suede Shoes - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
BCD 16190-AH

It's no surprise history defines Pee Wee King and the Golden West Cowboys by their hits: the immortal Tennessee Waltz, written in 1947 by King and singer-fiddler Redd Stewart, Slow Poke and Bonaparte's Retreat. But that's not the whole story. As one of America's great country show bands, their scope encompassed ballads, polkas, pop, country and novelties - along with driving uptempo blues, rocking country and boogies. That flexibility pleased country fans and audiences who wouldn't go within 25 miles of a country stage show. It gave them TV stardom in Louisville, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Chicago in the 1950s and a short-lived 1955 ABC network program.

Bear Family's Pee Wee entry in its 'Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight' series offers 30 blazing samples of Pee Wee and the Cowboys at their hottest:
- 1947's furious Ten Gallon Boogie
 Their takes on the 1950 Johnnie Lee Wills hit Rag Mop, Birmingham Bounce and the Dragnet TV theme
- Two swinging samples from their phenomenal 1955 'Swing West!' sessions and their 1956 cover of Blue Suede Shoes.
- 1956 tunes by the band's new designated rock singer: Dick Glasser.
- Stewart and Pee Wee handle most vocals. Other tunes showcase the instrumental talent: pianist Forry Engle, lead guitarist Terry Tichy and ex-Texas Playboy Bob Koefer's phenomenal steel guitar.
- An essay by Rich Kienzle.

Blue Suede Shoes - Dragnet - Oh Monah - Steel Guitar Rag - Rag Mop - Forty Nine Women - Woodchopper's Ball - I Don't Mind - Bull Fiddle Boogie - Catty Town - Chew Tobacco Rag - Congratulations Joe - Ricochet - Blame It All On Nashville - Plantation Boogie - Ten Gallon Boogie - Rootie Tootie - Unbreakable Heart - Tweedle Dee - Mop Rag Boogie - Ballroom Baby - Birmingham Bounce - Hoot Scoot - Oh Mis' rable Love - Railroad Boogie - You Can't Hardly Get Them No More - The Ghost And Honest Joe - Half A Dozen Boogie - Why Don't Y'all Go Home? - Flying Home

BUDDY KNOX & JIMMY BOWEN with THE RHYTHM ORCHIDS
Rock
BCD 16872-AR

Following their national emergence in 1957, the achievements of two small town Texas boys would shake the music world for decades to come. Still remembered for the enduring classic Party Doll, Buddy Knox was the first rockabilly singer-songwriter to score a number one pop hit, and enjoyed more follow up successes than many of his peers (Hula Love, I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself and several others). Jimmy Bowen, whose Roulette waxing of I'm Stickin' With You was a solid Top 20 hit, later produced major smash hits by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tillis, Reba McEntire, and George Strait. In the process, he revolutionized the Nashville sound. Knox and Bowen began their careers in the Rhythm Orchids, a freewheeling quintet that rose from college fraternity parties to national prominence virtually overnight. "Those were the pioneer days of rock," Knox said in an interview, "most of us won't trade those days for anything." The complete story is here. Every hit and every rockin' single from every significant label affiliation.

Party Doll - Maybelline - Mary Lou - I'm Stickin' With You (Jimmy Bowen) - Cause I'm In Love With You - Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep - Devil Woman - My Baby's Gone (Jimmy Bowen) - Rockabilly Walk (instrumental) - Rockhouse - Rock Around The Clock - Warm Up To Me Baby (Jimmy Bowen) - Hula Love - Whenever I'm Lonely - Swingin' Daddy - Money Honey (Jimmy Bowen) - C'mon Baby - That's Why I Cry - Somebody Touched Me - Can She Kiss (Jimmy Bowen) - I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself - All For You - Long Lonely Nights - Stick With Me (Jimmy Bowen) - Storm Clouds - The Girl With The Golden Hair - Lovey Dovey - I Got You - Ling Ting Tong - She' s Gone - Good Lovin'