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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T UV W XYZ Various
BILLY WALKER CD-1: Headin' For Heartaches - I'm Gonna Take My Heart Away From You - You're Gonna Pay With A Broken Heart - You Didn't Try And Didn't Care - Too Many Times - Dirt 'Neath Your Feet - I Guess I'll Have To Die - Anything Your Heart Desires - The Last Kiss Is The Sweetest - Alcohol Love - I Ain't Got No Roses - Beautiful Brown Eyes - Don't Tell A Soul I Love You - She's Got Honky Tonk Blood (In Her Veins) - What Would You Do - Always Think Of You - Ting-A-Ling - Fifteen Hugs Past Midnight (Twenty Kisses) - Millie Darling - Anything Your Heart Desires - What Makes Me Love You (Like I Do) - One Heart's Beatin', One Heart's Cheatin' - If I Should Live That Long - Stolen Love - Who Took My Ring From Your Finger
TRAVIS WAMMACK Night Train - Fire Fly - It's Karate Time - Scratchy - Flip, Flop Bop - Your Love - Louie Louie - Tech Nically Speaking - Hallelujah, I Love Her So - Thunder Road - I Ain't Lyin' - Upset - Super Soul Beat - Distortion, Part 2 - There's A Ufo Up There - Umm, How Sweet It Is - Hideaway - Find Another Man - Fannie Mae - You Are My Sunshine - Memphis, Tennessee
THE WEAVERS With its 1950 recording of Goodnight Irene, the Weavers brought folk music to the ‘American Hit Parade’. The public immediately responded to the song’s catchy melody and Gordon Jenkins’ lush arrangement. But the quartet’s dynamic, passionate vocals was what really made the record stand apart from everything else in pop music. No one could escape the song or its popular flip side, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena. Juke boxes and radio stations kept both songs in constant rotation, and record sales snowballed into the millions. During the next eighteen months the Weavers dominated the charts with such folk anthems as So Long (It’s Been Good To Know You), The Roving Kind, On Top Of Old Smokey and Kisses Sweeter Than Wine. Suddenly, the creamy 1940s harmonies of the Pied Pipers, Six Hits and a Miss, the Merry Macs and the Modernaires seemed dated. Pop music would be different in the 1950s, and the Weavers were among the first artists to signal this new era. No one was more surprised by this rush of success than the Weavers themselves: Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman and Pete Seeger. Emerging from the embers of the postwar People’s Songs movement, the group polished its sound and repertoire at New York hootenannies, union halls and political rallies. An extended booking at the Village Vanguard in early 1950 led to a friendship with arranger Gordon Jenkins, who convinced skeptical Decca Records executives to sign the quartet. But the Weavers’ fortunes ultimately fell as quickly as they rose. Under the guise of patriotism, rightwing zealots gleefully exposed its leftist political affiliations. Through fear and intimidation, organizations like the American Legion pressured promoters, bookers and media executives to boycott the group. Airplay disappeared and jobs dwindled, yet Seeger, Hays, Gilbert and Hellerman persevered until they disbanded in 1953. However, the public’s affection for the group never waned. A barely advertised Christmas Eve 1955 reunion at Carnegie Hall was an immediate sellout, and those who attended viewed their participation as a statement against rightwing hysteria. A half-century after the release of Goodnight Irene, the Weavers remain one of the most beloved acts in American popular music. The group’s saga has spurred dissertations and documentaries from historians and filmmakers. But ironically, those early records that helped shape the contemporary folk music revival have remained largely uncataloged and virtually impossible to find. This 5-CD Bear Family collection surveys the first five years of the Weavers’ recording career, starting with the Charter and Hootenanny sessions from 1949, along with 16 previously unreleased audition acetates and WNYC airchecks. The complete Decca recordings and Snader soundtracks are included; the Deccas digitally transferred from the original session reels. The rare 10" ‘We Wish You A Merry Christmas’ LP has been expanded with two previously unreleased carols. The last Disc contains the Weavers’ uncredited appearances on two documentaries, a children’s record and soundtrack recordings; Fred Hellerman’s and Ronnie Gilbert’s solo records; Gordon Jenkins’ 1955 attempt to recreate the Weavers’ sound with Hays, Hellerman and Sally Kaminsky; and a 1950 radio interview with Charles Buddy Rogers. Disc 5 is a DVD containing the Weavers’ Snader telescriptions, newly transferred from original 16mm prints. CD 1: Wasn’t That A Time - Dig My Grave - Freight Train Blues - Love Song Blues - The Hammer Song - No Irish Need Apply - The Hammer Song - Banks Of Marble - When The Saints Go Marching In - Rock Island Line - Lonesome Traveler - I Don’t Want To Get Adjusted - Wasn’t That A Time - The Johnson Boys - Goodnight Irene - Lousy Dime - Every Night When The Sun Goes Down - Talking Blues - East Virginia Blues - Love Song Blues - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena - Quinte Regimento - Wimoweh - Oscar Brand Shows: Poor Howard’s Dead And Gone - Dig My Grave - Love Song Blues - Washington Square Blues - Freight Train Blues - Old Riley - The Johnson Boys - Lousy Dime
LEW WILLIAMS For decades, Lew Williams remained one of rockabilly’s most intriguing mysteries. His small body of work is well-known: most of his Imperial recordings from 1955-56 have been reissued at regular intervals, covered, even plagiarized. Fans and journalists alike acknowledge that there was something unique about Lew Williams. Sides like Cat Talk, Centipede, Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop, and Something I Said have long been considered classics. Almost nothing was known of him. What became of him after 1957 remained a tantalizing blank....until now. “Many of us were doing Cat Music prior to anyone hearing of Elvis”, Lew told annotator Kevin Coffey. “We didn’t want to be country or hillbilly singers. We didn’t want country instruments. The fiddle went first, then the steel guitar. To us, country wasn’t cool.” Reissues, like Bill Millar’s ‘Imperial Rockabillies’ and the Tom Ingram-compiled ‘Cat Talk’ brought Lew’s music to the attention of a new generation of rockabilly and roots music fans. Sides like Centipede, Something I Said, Cat Talk and Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop are revered and treasured by fans worldwide - and the first rockabilly fanzine in the UK was aptly called ‘Cat Talk’. There were covers - and one notorious adaptation: the Stray Cats’ Fishnet Stockings borrowed heavily from Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop. Ray Condo and the Ricochets have waxed Something I Said twice, the Blacktop Rockets have cut Centipede; Restless has cut Something I Said and Centipede. Lew remained oblivious to it all, but he now has Bear Family’s reissue in his hand and is aware of his ‘cult’ status, and his importance as a transitional figure from honky-tonk to Cat Music, and, ultimately, rockabilly and rock ‘n’ roll. Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop - Cat Talk (original demo) - I Saw You Crying In The Show (MB 11959) - Centipede - My New Pink Suedes - I’ll Play Your Game - All Through The Night - Something I Said - Gone Ape Man - Rock ‘n’ Roll School - Cat Talk - Abracadabra - Teenagers Talkin’ On The Telephone - Don’t Mention My Name - The Girl I Saw On Bandstand - I Saw You Crying In The Show (MB 11809) - Between Classes - I’m The Manager Of The Flying Purple People Eater - Ba-Ba-Baby - Teenage Tears - I Like The Way - You’re Not My Baby This Year - Don’t Mention My Name - Something I Said - Please Don’t Tell A Lie About Me - Just For Tonight - I’ve Been Doin’ Some Slippin’ Too - What’re We Gonna Do? - I Cried Over You For The Last Time Last Night
BOBBY WILLIAMSON Bobby Williamson is typical of regional stars of the Golden Age of Country Music, a singer who enjoyed admirable success within a couple of hundred miles of his home base but who never broke out to national stardom. A star of two of the biggest country music shows in the Southwest, the Big D Jamboree and the Saturday Night Shindig, Williamson is probably best remembered for his covers of the hits Bummin’ Around and particularly the 1954 rock 'n' roll hit Sh-Boom, but they are hardly his only shining moments. The consistent string of singles he cut during 1952-1954 proved that he had the voice and the delivery to make it big. He had the looks and personality, too. He nevertheless left an engaging legacy in his brief recording career and this collection gives long overdue reconsideration to one of Texas' brightest stars of the 1950s. Bear Family has collected all 22 of Bobby Williamsons' sides, including two unissued tracks, which will hopefully go some way to restoring his fading memory. In addition to Bummin’ Around and Sh-Boom, there are a slew of fine ballads like There’s No Escape and I Remember, and some infectious uptempo novelties, from Williamson’s own Just Skip It and A Little Bit Of This to the singular ephemera of Love March. Also heard are some of the best country musicians of the era, from Williamson's Dallas cohorts like Leon Rhodes, Jimmy Kelley and Paul Buskirk, to Nashville sessions stalwarts like Chet Atkins, Jerry Byrd and Homer & Jethro. Let Me Know - The House Of Broken Dreams - Another Story Told - Can't Help Wonderin' (Can't Help Cryin') - A Little Bit Of This (A Little Bit Of That) - There's No Escape - My Gal Comes From Heaven - Where Were You Last Night - I Remember - Recipe For Love - When I'm A Hundred Years Old - Just Skip It - I Need Everything - Bummin' Around - There's Nothing As Great (As Being In Love With You) - Chances Are - Yo Yo Heart - Steady Diet - Sh-Boom (Life Yould Be A Dream) - Love March - Lovin' Around - I'll Only Dance With You
The Longhorn Recordings Sooner Or Later - Buffalo Twist - All Night Long - You Can't Break A Heart - If He's Movin' In - Let's Get It Over And Done With - Faded Love - Wills Junction - San Antonio Rose - Betty's Waltz - You'll Never Walk Out Of My Heart - Big Taters In The Sandy Land - Mayflower Waltz - Billy In The Low Ground - Beaumont Rag - Faded Love - Dian Waltz - Done Gone - Put Your Little Foot - Bob's First Fiddle Tune - Bob's Schottische - Gone Indian - No Disappointments In Heaven
SHEB WOOLEY Rawhide - Mirage - The Goodnight-Loving Trail - The Shifting Whispering Sands - Indian Maiden - The Story Of Billy Bardell - Enchantment Of The Prairie - The Lonely Man - The Wayward Wind - Bars Across The Windows - Cattle Call - Searching - Rawhide - How The West Was Won - Gotta Pull Up Stakes (And Move On West) - High Lonesome - Wagonmaster´s Diary/Buffalo Stampede - Rosie´s The Queen Of California - Building A Railroad - Plowin´ In New Ground - Papa´s Old Fiddle - Silver Target - I Belong - Big Land
SHEB WOOLEY “You have a hell of a lot more fun if you’re versatile”, reflects Sheb Wooley, and, if this is so, the multi-talented Wooley must have had much more than his fair share of good times during his fifty-year career. - A singer and songwriter whose stylistic explorations have run the gamut from hillbilly and western swing to straight pop, rock ‘n’ roll and novelty. Wooley has also had a successful career as an actor and comedian. No matter what the genre, there is no denying Wooley’s far-reaching talent. He is probably best known for his novelty recordings, his 1958 #1 pop smash The Purple People Eater and the 1962 country hit That’s My Pa, which was followed by a run of hits recorded under the name of his alter-ego Ben Colder that began with Don’t Go Near The Eskimos. These companion CDs, ‘The Purple People Eater’ (BCD 16149) and ‘Wild And Wooley, Big Unruly Me’ (BCD 16150), jointly explore Wooley’s middle period, the middle ‘50s through the 1960s, concentrating on - novelty, pop and rock ‘n’ roll recordings and including The Purple People Eater and Are You Satisfied (BCD 16149) and lesser known, but no less interesting sides such as Recipe For Love - (BCD 16150), as well as several previously unissued recordings. The Purple People Eater- Walkin’ Guitar- Wild And Wooley, Big Unruly Me (2)- Josie (Brown)- The Birth Of Rock ‘N’ Roll- Honey I’m Lonesome- A King Or A Clown- You Can Do It- Purple People Eater #2 (& BEN COLDER)- Hyoom- I Found Me An Angel- Pygmy Love- Mirage- Do I Remember- Running With The Night Crowd- The Taste Of Ashes- Let The Big Wind Blow- Santa Claus Meets The Purple People Eater- Crazy Butterfly- Skin Tight,Pin Stripped,Purple Pedal Pushers- The Who Who Wallidinks- Star Of Love- Never Loo Down- Reach For The Moon- Sixteen Violins- Monkey Jive- The Chase- Luke The Spook- I Can’t Believe You’re Mine- Google Eye- Are You Satisfied
SHEB WOOLEY Recipe For Love- I’m Too Young- Magic Town- Till The End Of The World- Meet Mr. Lonely- Sweet Chile- Will I Ever- Where- Cherry Sweet- So Close To Heaven- More- Carless Hands- Big Ole, Good Ole Girl- One Of Them Roarin’ Songs- Buba Hoo Baba Dee- Little Bitty Bilbo Abernathy Nathan Allen...- Free Again- The Little Girl’s Gone- My Only Treasure- Plenty Of Love- Mississippi Twist- Deep Goes M’Love- I Won’t Come Back- Hootenanny Hoot- Don’t Talk To Strangers- Wild And Wooley, Big Unruley Me (1)- That Girl Next Door- It’s Almost Time
SHEB WOOLEY Sheb Wooley has done it all: singer, songwriter, comedian and actor. In a career that spans over a half century he has scored major hits as performer and songwriter, like Purple People Eater and That’s My Pa, and acted in such important films as ‘High Noon’ and ‘Giant’. This set contains most of his Country recordings. 4 CDs with over 110 tracks, including many sides never before issued and many never reissued on LP or CD, trace the singer-songwriter-actor-comedian’s multi-faceted career from his first sides for Bullet in 1945, followed by his short but important stop at Dallas’ Bluebonnet label, to his long stint at MGM that began in 1948 and continued into the 1970s. From Wooley’s earliest western swing-influenced recordings to his more mainstream country sessions of the fifties and, finally, his deftly produced Nashville sessions of the sixties and early seventies, two things remained constant: Wooley’s own determined adaptability and versatility and the top-notch work of the sessionmen who backed him, men like Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant on the West Coast and Zeb Turner, Grady Martin and Harold Bradley in Nashville, not to mention Wooley’s own Calumet Indians in Texas. Included here are hits like Wooley’s first, Peepin’ Through The Keyhole, and subsequent charters like That’s My Pa, Blue Guitar, Tie A Tiger Down, and many others. CD 1:I Can’t Live Without You - Oklahoma Honky Tonk Girl - Lazy Mazy - Wooley’s Polka - Peepin’ Through The Keyhole (Watching Jole Blon) - Time Won’t Heal An Achin’ Heart - Too Long With The Wrong Woman - Your Papa Ain’t Steppin’ Anymore - Cherokee Waltz - Texas Rose - Spanish Darling - Freight Train Cinders In My Eyes - A Heart Bound In Chains - Indian Maiden - Romance - Jole Quadroon - Rover Scoot Over - The Sun Is Going Down Upon My Heart - That Mean Feeling - You’re The Cats Meow - (Now You’re) Changing Your Name - Wha’ Hoppen To Me, Baby - Mule Boogie - Over The Barrel - Country Kisses - Hoot Owl Boogie - Aircastles - Boogie Woogie Waltz (instrumental)
BEN COLDER & OTHERS Rex Allen: Don't Go Near The Indians Ben Colder: Don't Go Near The Eskimos Johnny Cash: Ballad Of A Teenage Queen Ben Colder: Ballad Of A Mean Old Queen Burl Ives: A Little Bitty Tear Ben Colder: A Little Bitty Steer Bobby Bare: Detroit City Ben Colder: Detroit City #2 Eddy Arnold: Make The World Go Away Ben Colder: Make The World Go Away #2 David Houston: Almost Persuaded Ben Colder: Almost Persuaded #2 Johnny Preston: Running Bear Ben Colder: Running Bare Charlie Rich: Behind Closed Doors Ben Colder: Behind Cloe's Door Porter Wagoner: Green Green Grass Of Home Ben Colder: Green Green Grass Of Home #2 Jeannie C. Riley: Harper Valley P.T.A. Ben Colder: Harper Valley P.T.A. (Later That Same Day) Jimmy Dean: Big Bad John Ben Colder: Big Sweet John Ernest Tubb: Walking The Floor Over You Ben Colder: Walking The Floor Over You #2 Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues Ben Colder: Folsom Prison Blues #1 1/2 Tex Ritter: I Dreamed I Was There In Hillbilly Heaven Ben Colder: Country Music Hall Of Fame
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