Various Artists - At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight / Various Artists (CD)

Time was when the Louisiana Hayride show at the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana was the place for country music fans to be on a Saturday night. Just sixty cents for adults (thirty for kids) bought the finest night's entertainment anytime, anywhere. This set is a front-row seat as Hank Williams takes to the stage, first as a relative newcomer and later as a troubled superstar. Elvis Presley brings rockabilly to the airwaves before anyone knew what he or his music was about. A parade of home-grown and out-of-town country hitmakers tussle with one another for encores, and encourage unknown newcomers who would wow the audience with their songs and performances most nights. These long-buried musical performances are brought to life in chronological order interspersed with some of the announcements, intros, ads, comedy routines and mistakes that went to make up a live show in those days. Not least, we can hear Elvis Presley's epoch-changing music as it was originally heard-as part of a country variety show. At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight - Eighteen CDs chronicle the weekly Hayride. Two bonus CDs sample some of the post-1960 shows together with commercial recordings made in the KWKH radio studios, promotional discs and transcribed shows from KWKH's early days. These 20 CDs comprise over 25 hours of music captured on-stage in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s at KWKH's legendary Louisiana Hayride radio show. At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight - Staged live in Shreveport, the Hayride featured national country music stars, soon-to-be legends, regional break-outs, and talented newcomers.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. W.K. (Old Man) Henderson - Hello World
2. John McGhee with Frank Welling - Hello World, Doggone
3. Blind Andy (Jenkins) - Hello World Song (Don't You Go 'Way)
4. Jimmie Davis (Probably) - Hello World Doggone
5. Johnnie ; Jack - Raining on the Mountain
6. Kitty Wells - the Singing Waterfall
7. Johnnie ; Jack - Little Cabin Home on the Hill
8. Kitty Wells - Love or Hate
9. Kitty Wells, Johnnie Wright and Hank Williams - Dear Brother
10. Curley Williams ; Hank Williams - Time Has Proven I Was Wrong
11. Curley Williams ; Hank Williams - No Not Now
12. Hank Williams - My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
13. Tex Grimsley ; the Texas Playboys - Walking the Dog
14. Shot Jackson (Webb Pierce(- I Need You Like a Hole in the Head
15. Webb Pierce - I've Loved You Forever It Seems
16. Buddy Attaway - Freight Train Blues
17. Tillman Franks (Webb Pierce: Vocal) - California Blues
18. Tillman Franks (Webb Pierce: Vocal) - Hayride Boogie
19. Webb Pierce - I Got Religion Saturday Night
20. Tillman Franks (Faron Young: Vocal) - Hi Tone Poppa
21. Mac Wiseman - Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
22. Claude King - She Knows Why
23. Shot Jackson - If the Truth Was Known
24. Slim Whitman - Indian Love Call
25. Jim Reeves - Mexican Joe
26. Mitchell Torok - Caribbean
27. Carolyn Bradshaw - a Man on the Loose
28. The Browns - Looking Back to See
29. Jimmy and Johnny - If You Don't Somebody Else Will
30. Slim Whitman - Rose Marie

Disc: 2

1. Hank Williams - Mind Your Own Business
2. Johnnie ; Jack and Paul Warren - Listen to the Mockingbird
3. Hank Williams - I'm a Long Gone Daddy
4. The Bailes Brothers - He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
5. Zeke Clements - Milk Cow Blues
6. Curley Williams - Georgia Steel Guitar
7. Harmie Smith - I'll Step Aside
8. Red Sovine - Signed, Sealed, Delivered
9. Cousin Emmy - I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again
10. Johnny ; Jack - (As Nimrod ; His Duck): Comedy Routine
11. Paul Warren - Jolly Blacksmith
12. Cousin Emmy - Shortnin' Bread
13. Cousin Emmy's Kinfolks String Band - Mountain Dew
14. Curley Williams' Georgia Peach Pickers - One Sided Affair
15. Curley Williams' Georgia Peach Pickers - China Boy
16. Beat the Band - Game for Audience Members - Beat the Band
17. Brother Homer (Bailes Brothers) - Sweeter Than the Flowers
18. The Bailes Brothers - You Go to Your Church and I'll Go to Mine
19. Station Identification - Station Identification
20. Slim Whitman - Whipporwill Yodel
21. Oklahoma Wranglers - Somebody's Been Beating My Time
22. Oklahoma Wranglers - Wrangler Boogie
23. T Texas Tyler - Irma
24. Webb Pierce - Wondering
25. Lucky Bob Davis - Water Baby Blues
26. Faron Young - the Good Lord Must Have Sent You

Disc: 3

1. Eddy Arnold - I'm Throwing Rice
2. Eddy Arnold - Cattle Call
3. Horace Logan - Hayride Ad Sales Pitch (Horace Logan)
4. Intro Theme - Intro Theme
5. Jimmy Lee - Jimmy's Boogie
6. Goldie Hill - Why Talk to My Heart
7. Tommy Trent - No Muss, No Fuss, No Bother
8. Jerry Green - I Hate to Lose You Darlin'
9. Hank Williams - Jambalaya
10. Out Theme and Announcements - Out Theme and Announcements
11. The Maddox Brothers ; Rose - the Land Just Over the Stars
12. Red Sovine - That's Me Without You (; Jax Beer Ad and Logan Talk)
13. Tommy Hill - I Ain't Sittin' Where I Was
14. Jimmy Lee - Blowin' and Goin'
15. Hillbilly Barton - No Interest
16. Goldie Hill - Don't Send No More Roses
17. Bill Carlisle - Too Old to Cut the Mustard
18. Ginny Wright - How to Get Married
19. Elvis Presley - That's All Right (; Lucky Strike Talk and Intro)
20. Elvis Presley - Blue Moon of Kentucky
21. Dobber Johnson - Black Mountain Rag
22. Tibby Edwards - Much Too Young to Die
23. Jimmy Newman - Cry Cry Darlin'
24. Elvis Presley - Hearts of Stone
25. Elvis Presley - I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine
26. Elvis Presley - Little Mama
27. Elvis Presley - Shake Rattle and Roll
28. Jimmy Lee ; Wayne Walker - Lips That Kiss So Sweetly
29. The Browns - Draggin' Main Street

Disc: 4

1. Jim Reeves - Red Eyed and Rowdy
2. Elvis Presley - Tweedlee Dee (; Talk and Outro)
3. Jimmy Newman - Blue Darling
4. Jeanette Hicks - Just Like in the Movies
5. Betty Amos - Yes Ma'am, Ma
6. Elvis Presley - I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone
7. Bill Peters - Ida Red
8. Billy Walker ; Jeanette Hicks - Which One of Us Is to Blame
9. Johnny Horton - Gone with the Wind This Morning
10. Hoot ; Curley - You Get What You Pay for
11. Jeanette Hicks and Hoot ; Merley: Lucky Strike Ad
12. Jeanette Hicks - Ain't That a Shame
13. Elvis Presley - Baby Let's Play House
14. Elvis Presley - Maybellene
15. Floyd Cramer ; Jimmy Day - Floyd and Jimmy Boogie
16. Jim Reeves - Yonder Comes a Sucker
17. David Houston - Squaws Along the Yukon
18. Billy Walker - I Can't Keep the Girls Away
19. Johnny Cash - Hey Porter
20. Johnny Cash - Luther Played the Boogie
21. Werly Fairburn - Stay Close to Me (; Theme and Logan 'Genial' Talk)
22. Betty Amos - Ivory Tower
23. Johnny Horton - Honky Tonk Man (; Talk About State Fair)
24. Hoot ; Curley and Jack Ford - Standing at the Station
25. Gary Bryant - Loose Talk
26. Jeanette Hicks - Slippin' and Slidin'
27. Talk and Outro - Talk and Outro
28. Dobber Johnson - Bill Cheatham (; Talk About Fiddle Tunes)
29. Jimmy Newman - I Want to Tell All the World

Disc: 5

1. Sonny Trammell - San Antonio Rose
2. Betty Amos - I Want to Be Loved (; Talk About Louisiana Hayride)
3. Johnny Cash - So Doggone Lonesome
4. George Jones - You Gotta Be My Baby (; Theme and Frank Page)
5. Jeanette Hicks - My Blue Heaven
6. Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
7. Slim Whitman - Dear Mary
8. Hoot ; Curley and Jack Ford - Old Time Religion
9. Jimmy Newman - Come Back to Me
10. Benny Barnes - the Waltz of the Angels
11. Benny Barnes - the Next Voice You Hear
12. George Jones - Why Baby Why
13. Rose Maddox - Tall Men
14. Werly Fairburn - It's Heaven (; Theme and Talk About Ark
15. Betty Amos - As Long As I'm Moving
16. Hoot ; Curley and Jack Ford - Mansion in the Sky
17. Johnny Horton - One Woman Man
18. Jeanette Hicks ; Jack Ford - Beautiful Brown Eyes
19. Buddy Attaway - Y'all Come
20. Jeanette Hicks - Searching
21. David Houston - Hasta Luego
22. Martha Lynn - I'm Goin' Huntin' Tonight
23. Jimmy Newman - Seasons of My Heart (; Intro About 9th Year)
24. Jeanette Hicks - Bo Weevil
25. Buzz Busby - Muleskinner Blues
26. Benny Barnes - Poor Man's Riches

Disc: 6

1. Werly Fairburn - Everybody's Rocking
2. Outro and Theme - Outro and Theme
3. Jack Ford - Since I Met You Baby (; Intro Logan)
4. Betty Amos - I Dreamed
5. The Geezinslaw Brothers - Billboard Song
6. The Geezinslaw Brothers - Singin' the Blues
7. Jeanette Hicks ; James O'Gwynn - Yearning
8. Rusty ; Lita Carson - I'm Tired
9. Werly Fairburn - My Heart's on Fire
10. Werly Fairburn - Speak to Me Baby
11. Bob Gallion - We'll Never Say Goodbye, Just So Long
12. Bob Gallion - Hey Mr. Bartender
13. Tibby Edwards - Walking and Crying with the Blues
14. Johnny Mathis - Live and Let Live
15. King Sterling - What Will Your Answer Be'
16. Jack Ford - You're Still Mine
17. Jack Ford - Not Sure of You
18. James O'Gwynn - Playing Dominoes and Shooting Dice
19. Werly Fairburn - I Guess I'm Crazy
20. Jimmy ; Johnny - Sweet Love on My Mind
21. Johnny Horton - I'm Coming Home
22. Johnny Horton - Not Like I Did Before
23. Bob Gallion - You Gotta Have a Heartbreak (; Outro)
24. The Jordanaires - Working on a Building
25. Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
26. Elvis Presley - I Was the One

Disc: 7

1. Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel
2. Elvis Presley - When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
3. Elvis Presley - Long Tall Sally
4. Horace Logan Announcements (And Elvis Has Left the Ibulding)
5. The Geezinslaw Brothers - Orange Blossom Special
6. Buffalo Yount - Bile 'Em Cabbage Down (; Intro)
7. Jimmy ;