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Early Country Radio (Greatest Hits, Box Set)
- Artist: Carter Family
- Label: JSP RECORDS
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4 Disc(s)
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1.
Keep on the Sunny Side/When Our Lord Shall Come Again 2:37
The Carter Family
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22.
What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul 1:51
The Carter Family
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23.
Keep on the Sunny Side/Announcer/Alabama Girls 1:01
The Carter Family
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28.
Your Mother Still Prays for You Jack 1:42
The Carter Family
Play Your Mother Still Prays for You Jack
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33.
May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister/The Dying Soldier/My ... 11:38
The Carter Family
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My Heavenly Home Is Bright and Fair 1:29
The Carter Family
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57.
Opening Theme and Introduction: I Got a Gail Waitin' for Me/We'll Meet 20:54
Monroe, Charlies & The Kentucky Pardners
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58.
Opening Theme and Introduction: Watermelon on the Vine/Daisy Mae/Happy 19:25
Monroe, Charlies & The Kentucky Pardners
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59.
Introduction and Dr. Pepper Commercial/Fisher's Hornpipe/Don't ... 13:47
Roy Hall & his Blue Ridge Entertainers
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60.
Arkansas Traveller/Blue Railroad Train/Shortenin' Bread 4:30
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
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My Old Pay of Yesterday/Indian River Hoedown/Letter Edged in Black 6:02
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
Play My Old Pay of Yesterday/Indian River Hoedown/Letter Edged in Black
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62.
Under the Old Hickory Tree 1:56
Charlie Monroe & the Kentucky Pardners
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63.
Don't Let My Ramblin' Bother Your Mind 2:02
Charlie Monroe & the Kentucky Pardners
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67.
I've Made a Covenant With My Lord 2:22
Charlie Monroe & the Kentucky Pardners
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73.
Walk That Long Lonesome Road 2:09
Charlie Monroe & the Kentucky Pardners
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74.
That's the Love I Have for You 2:31
Charlie Monroe & the Kentucky Pardners
Play That's the Love I Have for You -
76.
You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone 2:15
Charlie Monroe & the Kentucky Pardners
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77.
It's a Grand and Glorious Feeling 1:56
Charlie Monroe & the Kentucky Pardners
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78.
Left All Alone/I Want a Good Woman/Nobody's Darling/Blue Yodel No. 10 17:46
Cowboy Slim Rinehart
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March of Dimes Introduction/Moanin' the Blues/Help Me ... 13:02
Hank Williams & the Drifting Cowboys
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Description
In a way, this four-disc set of early radio transcriptions functions both as a mini-history of American radio in the '30s, '40s, and early '50s, as well as a crash course in the rise of country music from its Appalachian folk roots through what was then known as hillbilly music to the advent of honky tonk and what could be clearly termed "modern country." Radio in the '30s and '40s was king, dominating American parlors and living rooms the way television would at the close of the 20th century, and for programming flexibility, transcriptions of popular performers playing live were cut to metal discs (later discs were glass-based), then slipped on the air as if the artist was broadcasting live in real time. Thanks to this practice, and the fact that many of these transcription recordings have survived, it is possible to re-create the feel of old-timey radio on collections like this one. The first two discs of Early Country Radio feature the Carter Family in recordings done in the mid-'30s, while disc three includes transcriptions by Charlie Monroe the Kentucky Pardners, Roy Hall His Blue Ridge Entertainers, and J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers from around the same time period. The final disc leaps into the '40s with sets from Charlie Monroe the Kentucky Partners (who apparently lost the "d" and gained a "t" by this time), the little-known Cowboy Slim Rinehart, and a transcription done by Hank Williams the Drifting Cowboys for a 1951 March of Dimes show. As the '50s opened, television quickly replaced radio as the dominant entertainment medium in American homes, although the eventual installation of radios in cars kept that audio format alive, and the rise of modern country and rock roll is tangibly linked with the ability to drive one's car and have music be just a click away. Steve Leggett, All Music Guide
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Description
In a way, this four-disc set of early radio transcriptions functions both as a mini-history of American radio in the '30s, '40s, and early '50s, as well as a crash course in the rise of country music from its Appalachian folk roots through what was then known as hillbilly music to the advent of honky tonk and what could be clearly termed "modern country." Radio in the '30s and '40s was king, dominating American parlors and living rooms the way television would at the close of the 20th century, and for programming flexibility, transcriptions of popular performers playing live were cut to metal discs (later discs were glass-based), then slipped on the air as if the artist was broadcasting live in real time. Thanks to this practice, and the fact that many of these transcription recordings have survived, it is possible to re-create the feel of old-timey radio on collections like this one. The first two discs of Early Country Radio feature the Carter Family in recordings done in the mid-'30s, while disc three includes transcriptions by Charlie Monroe the Kentucky Pardners, Roy Hall His Blue Ridge Entertainers, and J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers from around the same time period. The final disc leaps into the '40s with sets from Charlie Monroe the Kentucky Partners (who apparently lost the "d" and gained a "t" by this time), the little-known Cowboy Slim Rinehart, and a transcription done by Hank Williams the Drifting Cowboys for a 1951 March of Dimes show. As the '50s opened, television quickly replaced radio as the dominant entertainment medium in American homes, although the eventual installation of radios in cars kept that audio format alive, and the rise of modern country and rock roll is tangibly linked with the ability to drive one's car and have music be just a click away. Steve Leggett, All Music Guide
Features
- Genre: Country
- Category: Appalachian Folk, Close Harmony, Old-Timey, Traditional Country
- Release Date: October 25, 2005
- Label: JSP RECORDS
- Artist: Carter Family
- Additional Artists: Cowboy Slim Rinehart (Vocals), Gladys "Bobbie Jean" Flatt (Vocals), Lester Flatt (Vocals), Jeanette Carter (Vocals), Hank Williams (Vocals), Sara Carter (Vocals), A.P. Carter (Vocals), Mother Maybelle Carter (Vocals), Audrey Williams (Vocals), Charlie Monroe (Vocals)
- Format: CD
Additional Information
- DPCI: 244-03-4592
- ASIN: B002KU87HQ
- Catalog #: 11423595
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 5.77 inches length x 5.24 inches width x 1.7 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.84 pound.
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