-Titulo Original : 1947 - 1954: The Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Our series of Gospel collections continues with this stunning release. 43 tracks on 2CDs recorded between 1945 and 1950 by the Legendary Blind Boys Of Mississippi. This is the most comprehensive overview of the group ever released. The lead vocals are performed by the incomparable Archie Brownlee, whose vocal prowess was an inspiration to scores of R&B and Soul singers who grew up listening to him. These titles were recorded for Americas premier Gospel labels Peacock Records, and some of the earlier tracks were recorded for the Coleman label owned by The Coleman Brothers, who also have a release on Acrobat this month. This series has been greeted with great acclaim by both Radio and Press around the world, and we are confident that this package will be no exception. It comes with comprehensive liner notes from expert, Opal Louis Nations and many rare and unseen illustrations...

-Titulo Original : Complete Releases 1951-58-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Guitar Slim, who originally recorded under his given name of Eddie Jones, was born in 1926 and raised in the heartland of the blues in the Mississippi Delta, where he was a singer and dancer in his teens. He started playing in New Orleans after war service, becoming known for his wild stage act, and using distorted guitar sounds a decade before rock guitarists like Jimi Hendrix. This 30-track CD comprises all his A & B sides during the 1950s, recording for the Imperial, J-B, Specialty and Atco labels until his premature death in 1959. It includes his landmark million-selling R&B No. 1 hit from 1954 The Things That I Used to Do, which was subsequently listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Its a comprehensive overview of his career, and showcases his distinctive and innovative style, which influenced the likes of Buddy Guy, Albert Collins and Frank Zappa, as well as Hendrix himself, who recorded a version of The Things That I Used to Do - it was also later covered by Stevie Ray Vaugha...

-Titulo Original : Singles Collection 1942-57-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Ella Mae Morse was one of the first white female singers to successfully and credibly bridge the gap between pop and R&B during the 1940s and is often regarded as a key figure in the early development of rock n roll during that era. She started out as a big bad singer with Jimmy Dorseys orchestra in 1939 when she was just 14 years old, and in 1942 joined Freddie Slacks band, which had just signed to the fledgling Capitol label. Her first recording with Slack was Cow-Cow Boogie which was a Top 10 hit and Capitols first million-seller. She signed a solo deal with Capitol and over the next decade had a string of pop and R&B hits including Top 10 successes with Mister Five By Five, Shoo Shoo Baby, No Love, No Nothin, Milkman Keep Those Bottles Quiet, The Patty Cake Man and The Blacksmith Blues, all of which are included here. This great-value 54-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from the forty or so singles which she released before she gave up recording in 1957, working with noted producer/arrangers like Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Dave Cavanaugh and Les Baxter, so represents a substantial proportion of her recorded output. It provides an entertaining showcase for a versatile artist whose style encompassed elements of jazz, big band, R&B, gospel, boogie-woogie, blues and country, which enabling to appeal across the pop spectrum...

-Titulo Original : Ultimate Collection 1929-57-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: C...

-Titulo Original : Collection 1937-52-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: C...

-Titulo Original : Complete Trumpet Ace & Checker Singles 1951-62-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Blues singer and harmonica player Sonny Boy Williamson II performed originally during the 1930s and 40s as Aleck or Alex Miller, Rice Miller and Little Boy Blue before adopting the name of earlier blues artist Sonny Boy Williamson, born around the same time but who died in 1948 - during the 1940s they were both using the name. For the same of avoiding confusion, its easier to refer to the artist who is the subject of this collection using the Sonny Boy Williamson II nomenclature. Like many blues performers, he came from Mississippi, but built his reputation on radio in West Memphis, Arkansas, in the late 40s, during which time he married Howlin Wolfs sister and taught him to play harmonica. Between 1951 and 1955 he released twenty-five titles on the Trumpet and Ace labels, and when Trumpet went bankrupt in 1955, and was acquired by Chess, he continued recording for the Chess subsidiary Checker label through into the 60s, becoming one of the US bluesmen who toured Europe during the 60s blues boom and influenced many future rock performers. This great value 51-track 2-CD set comprises all his recordings released during this period on Trumpet, Ace and Checker, and includes the classic Eyesight To The Blind along with along with the Elmore James version of Dust My Broom, and the R&B hits Dont Start Me Talkin and Keep It to Yourself. It encapsulates his recordings during a key period of his career, and is an excellent showcase for his distinctive style as a blues singer, songwriter and harmonica player...

-Titulo Original : Pee Wee Crayton - Collection: 1947-62-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Pee Wee Crayton was a blues guitarist, singer and songwriter who was one of the leading figures of the West Coast blues school during the post-war decades. He was one of several blues artists who made the move from Texas to California in the Depression, and inevitably he became an associate of the pioneer of the West Coast style T-Bone Walker, but although Crayton was undoubtedly influenced by him, he developed a highly distinctive sound, playing in an aggressive style which encompassed some daring technical innovations, as well as having a somewhat contrasting smooth vocal style. Over the years, he recorded for a number of labels, scoring his biggest successes in his early years with the Modern label, as he reached the R&B Top 5 with Blues After Hours, Texas Hop and I Love You So. Other notable recordings were done later with the Imperial and Vee-Jay labels, as he sought to re-establish his chart presence in a changing market for blues as rock n roll invaded the R&B charts. This great value 55-track 2-CD set primarily comprises A and B sides recorded during this period for the 4 Star, Gru-V Tone, Modern, Aladdin, RIH, Hollywood, Imperial, Post, Vee-Jay, Fox, Jamie, Guyden and Smash labels plus selected from his 1960 LP on the Modern subsidiary Crown. As such its a solid representation of his output across his primary recording career, and an entertaining introduction to the work of an artist who has not had the recognition he deserves...

-Titulo Original : King Of Boogie Woogie-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Albert Ammons is rightly feted as the King of Boogie Woogie. Americas Boogie Woogie craze of the late 30s and early 40s was originally in the hands of a few Black pianists before the big bands got a hold of the style and developed it into the biggest music craze the world had then seen. Here are 36 of Albert Ammons greatest recordings on a fantastic double CD set, recorded between 1939 and 1949 mostly in Chicago. On many of these tracks Albert is accompanied by his son Gene Ammons generally acknowledged as one of the greatest tenor saxophonists in Jazz history...

-Titulo Original : Collection 1927-34-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The Memphis Jug Band are generally primarily associated with the blues, but in truth they were a more broad-based musical agglomeration, whose music was designed to be danceable, humorous and out-and out entertaining. Their line-up varied across the years, but the essential jug band sound and instrumentation of guitar, jug, kazoo, harmonica, and occasional banjo, mandolin, washboard and woodblocks, remained at the core of their sound, which has provided a template for skiffle groups and modern jug bands ever since, with many of their songs also still being performed by such bands. This great-value 72-track 3-CD set comprises most of their recordings for Victor and Okeh during this era, including recordings as The Memphis Sheikhs and The Carolina Peanut Boys. It features some of those jug band classics which have passed into later bands repertoires, including Hes In The Jailhouse Now, Move That Thing, On The Road Again, and Bottle It Up And Go. Its a comprehensive overview of their career, and a highly entertaining showcase for their rough-edged but finely-honed skill as entertainers...

-Titulo Original : Queen Of Hits: The Macys Recordings Story-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The second release in our ongoing series of legendary Independent record labels of the 1940s and 1950s features the Texas based Macys label. Formed in 1948 the label enjoyed two huge hits on its first release with Lester Williams Wintertime Blues and Clarence Garlows Bon Ton Roula. This success enabled them to expand rapidly and record many great Texas based artists in both the Blues and Hillbilly fields including Harry Choates, Smokey Hogg and the great shouter Hubert Robison. Expansion was so fast that the label had ceased operation by 1951. Many first time on CD tracks make up this 26 cut overview of the label with historical data provided by Dave Penny and many rare illustrations...

-Titulo Original : Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The booting and honking orchestra of trumpeter Joe Morris was one of the most popular and successful R&B touring groups of the late 40s. These recordings made between 1947 and 1951 are presented in order of release beginning with the bop orientated platters featuring the sublime tenor sax of Johnny Griffin to the later R&B discs featuring the vocals of Laurie Tate, Billy Mitchell and Joe Morris himself. The title track was a No. 1 R&B hit for four weeks in 1951...

-Titulo Original : As Blue As They Want To Be-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: This original album first released in 1991 on Lionel Hamptons Whos Who In Jazz label proved to be the final recordings of Richard Groove Holmes. One of the greatest Hammond organ players, Holmes is up there with Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Brother Jack McDuff and several other players who define the genre. The Blues great Jimmy Witherspoon, had recorded on numerous occasions with Holmes and on this occasion is joined by Folk legend Odetta on the track Lonesome Road Blues The session features versions of several blues standards composed by Percy Mayfield as well as new versions of Holmes biggest hits Misty and Onsaya Joy...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - THE CHART YEARS SELECTED SINGLES 1949-62 - TORME,MEL-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Singer, musician, composer and actor Mel Torme was one of the influential hit-making vocalists who emerged in the post-war years, although Torme, as a fine jazz performer and successful songwriter, transcended the description of crooner often applied to his contemporaries. Making his debut when still in his teens, he had been recording since the latter years of WWII (see Mel Torme - The Early Years 1944-47 Acrobat ACTRCD9086), and had written the classic hit The Christmas Song, before signing to Capitol in 1949. This great-value 52-track 2-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides of his releases on the Capitol, Coral, Bethlehem, Verve and Atlantic labels during these years, including duets with Peggy Lee and Margaret Whiting - the creative orientation of some of those labels underlines the jazz dimension of his output. It features all his chart entries from this era, including the US No.1 Careless Hands and the Top 10 hits Again, The Four Winds And The Seven Seas and Bewitched and the UK Top 20 hits Mountain Greenery and Comin Home Baby. It includes recordings with some of the most noted arranger/conductors of the day, including Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Neal Hefti, Frank De Vol, Pete Rugolo, Marty Paich, Sonny Burke and others. Its a fine showcase for one of the eras classiest and most versatile performers...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - SINGLES & ALBUMS COLLECTION 1946-58 - McRae, Carmen-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Carmen McRae was one of the finest and most highly-regarded jazz and sophisticated pop singers of the post-war era, renowned for her highly individual interpretation of the standards of the Great American Songbook. Born in Harlem of Jamaican parentage in 1920, she performed in New Yorkx27s jazz clubs in the 1940s and made her first record until 1946. This great-value 97-track 4-CD set comprising her first release on Musicraft with Mercer Ellington, plus Ax26B sides of her singles on the Stardust and Decca labels through to 1958, including her releases with Sammy Davis Jr., and which include the titles from her A Foggy Day album for Stardust, plus all the titles from her albums Carmen McRae on Bethlehem, and Torchy, By Special Request, Blue Moon and Afterglow on Decca. It includes her chart entries from this era Next Time It Happens and Skyliner. On these recordings, she is accompanied by orchestras arranged and conducted by Jack Pleis, Tadd Dameron, Vic Shoen and Ralph Burns, and star-studded jazz groups led by Mat Mathews and Tony Scott. Itx27s a substantial and thoroughly absorbing overview of the first key decade and more of her career when she established herself as a highly distinctive and supremely talented vocal stylist across the jazz and pop spectrum...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COLLECTION 1954-62 - WILBURN BROTHERS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The Wilburn Brothers were a popular and successful country duo whose chart career spanned fifteen years, during which they had more than fifteen hits in the Billboard country charts. Hailing from Arkansas they had a high profile as child performers, appearing as The Wilburn Children on The Grand Ole Opry when they were about ten years old. They were regulars on The Louisiana Hayride before being drafted to serve in the Korean War, after which they returned to music and toured with Faron Young and Webb Pierce until signing to Decca in 1954. This great-value 59-track 2-CD set comprises most of their A & B sides for Decca during this era, plus selected titles from their albums Teddy And Doyle, Side By Side, Livin In Gods Country, The Big Heartbreak, Sing & City Limits. It features their fifteen Top 30 country chart entries from these years, including the Top 10 hits Go Away With Me, Im So In Love With You, A Womans Intuition, Somebodys Back In Town, Which One Is To Blame, Troubles Back In Town. It also features their Top 10hit with Webb Pierce, Sparkling Brown Eyes, and their two Top 10 hits with Ernest Tubb, Mister Love and Hey Mr. Bluebird. Its a substantial and entertaining overview of the first era of their career, and an excellent showcase for their distinctive talent as their style evolved as country music changed with the impact of rock n roll...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COLLECTION 1949-62 - Anthony, Ray-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Ray Anthony is a trumpeter, bandleader, composer and film star who led one of the most respected and successful big bands of the 1950s. Starting his career as a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the early 1940s, he launched his own band after serving in the US Navy in WWII, and had his first hit with A Dreamers Holiday in 1949, racking up a string of over 25 chart entries through into the 1960s. This great-value 82-Track 3-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from his one hundred or so singles on the Capitol label during this era, and features 26 US Billboard and Cash Box chart entries plus his UK hits, including the No. 2 successes At Last and Dragnet, and his other Top 10 hits Sentimental Me, Count Every Star, Can Anyone Explain, Harbor Lights, Nevertheless, As Time Goes By, and Peter Gunn. It includes hit performances by his featured vocalists Dick Noel, Ronnie Deauville, The Skyliners, Tommy Mercer, Gloria Craig, Marcie Miller and Jo Ann Greer, as well as many notable jazz-flavoured instrumentals which provide a fine vehicle for Ray Anthonys substantial talent as a trumpeter. Its an entertaining showcase for one of the best and most innovative contemporary big bands of these years...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - AMERICAS IRISH TENOR THE SINGLES COLLECTION 1946-54 - Dennis Day-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: The substantial population of Irish immigrants to the USA and their descendants have made a significant contribution to the cultural landscape of their adopted homeland across the decades, maintaining their allegiance to the distinctive music and traditions of Ireland. Dennis Day was born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty in 1916 to Irish immigrant parents, and although he changed his name to become a singer, he traded off his Irish origins throughout his career, which encompassed being a long-time fixture on the Jack Benny Show on radio, as well being a recording artist, making use of his old-school traditional tenor voice, which was well suited to the middle-of-the-road pop music of the post-war decade. This 49-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from his releases on RCA-Victor from his debut on record in 1946 through to the mid-50s, by which time he had had his final chart entry, and his music was being overtaken by the changes in the pop landscape. It features all his career chart entries, including the Top 10 hits Mamselle and Christmas In Killarney, plus the Top 20 hits Dear Hearts And Gentle People, Goodnight Irene, Mister And Mrs. Mississippi and Never. Inevitably it includes many songs on which he underlines his Irish roots as well as the current pop and novelty songs of the day, all of them providing a fine showcase for his highly distinctive tenor voice...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COMPLETE RELEASES 1957-62 - JACKSON,STONEWALL-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Country singer and guitarist Stonewall Jackson has enjoyed a career spanning six decades since making a huge impact in 1958 with his No. 1 country single Waterloo, and was still performing at the Grand Ole Opry as he turned 80. Hailing from South Carolina, Stonewall Jackson was his real name, inspired by the Confederate General Thomas Stonewall Jackson. During a chart career which lasted into the 1970s Jackson racked up over 40 hits, often, especially during his early career, crossing over into the pop charts. This 44-track 2-CD comprises the A and B sides of all his singles for the Columbia label from his recording debut in 1957 through to the end of 1962, along with the tracks from his first two albums The Dynamic Stonewall Jackson and The Sadness In A Song, highlighting the work of many of the finest country songwriters of the times. It naturally features all of the fourteen pop, country and UK hits which he had during this era, most notably the No. 1 country and Top 5 pop hit Waterloo, as well as other Top 10 successes like Life To Go, Why Im Walkin, A Wound Time Cant Erase and Leona. It represents a thorough trawl across the key formative years of his career, and is an entertaining showcase for his distinctive talents...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - LEO REISMAN HITS COLLECTION 1921-40 - REISMAN,LEO & HIS ORCHESTRA-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Leo Reisman was a violinist and bandleader whose orchestra initially came to popularity in the 1920s as a society orchestra performing at New Yorks Central Park Casino, becoming one of the first orchestras who racked up a long string of hits in what was called the sweet style of orchestral and dance band music which appealed to the broad spectrum of middle America during the inter-war years and through the 40s into the early 50s in what is sometimes called the golden age of popular music. Performing at prestigious hotels and on radio, he helped popularise some of the hit songs from movies and Broadway shows of the time, occasionally featuring the stars from those shows or the composers of the songs performing vocals on his records, including Fred Astaire, Harold Arlen, Arthur Schwartz and Clifton Webb, as well as other rising stars like Lee Wiley, along with many other vocalists like Lew Conrad, Frank Luther, Frances Maddux, Dick Robertson, Sally Singer and Lou Levin. This great-value 72-track 3-CD set consists entirely of recordings which before 1940 were credited with a Top 20 chart position in Joel Whitburns Pop Memories or Elston Brooks The Weekly Top Ten Tunes For The Last Fifty Years books, or the Your Hit Parade chart, or appeared in one of the Billboard charts thereafter. It features most of his eighty or so career hits, including the No. 1s The Wedding of the Painted Doll, Ill See You Again, Paradise, Night And Day, Stormy Weather, The Continental, Cheek To Cheek. Its a substantial, enjoyable and nostalgic journey through an era in the USA when pop music was an antidote to some difficult social, economic and political upheavals...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - 1000TH BILLBOARD CHART 7TH SEPTEMBER 1959 (VARIOUS ARTISTS) - VARIOUS ARTISTS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: FOUR CD BOX SET. As adjuncts to our highly popular “America’s Greatest Hits” series of collections for each calendar year in the 50s and early ‘60s, we have already produced collections based on landmark moments in the Billboard charts - “The First Top 100 Nov. 1955” (ACQCD7062), “The First Hot 100 Aug. 1958” (ACQCD7083), “The First Hot 100 of the 60s” (ACQCD7097), “The Heartbreak Hotel Top 100” (ACQCD7122)and “The Day The Music Died - Feb 3rd 1959 Hot 100” (ACQCD7134), “The Telstar Hot 100 December 22nd 1962” (ACQCD7144) and “The Twist” Hot 100 Jan. 25th 1962” each comprising the records in the Top 100 for the date in question. This collection celebrates another notable chart event in January 1959, when Billboard its 1000th chart since the launch of the record sales chart in July 1940, which morphed over the years from Best Sellers in Stores Top 10 into the Top 100 and the Hot 100. This collection comprises just about all the records in the Billboard Hot 100 of that week (one record is unavailable for copyright reasons) and it provides a fascinating and evocative snapshot of the music scene at what was a dynamic and transitional time as the post-rock ‘n’ roll era headed towards another cataclysmic musical decade. It’s a window onto a vibrant and exciting musical environment, and includes a number of unfamiliar names and recordings of which even pop enthusiasts may not be too aware, and which will be welcome additions to their collections. It contains a 12,000 word booklet featuring background notes on every record as well as full discographical and chart information...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - ILLINOIS JACQUET - COLLECTION 1942-56 - JACQUET,ILLINOIS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Illinois Jacquet was a tenor saxophonist of the Texas school who bridged the gap between swing, R&B and post-war jazz with a powerful and emotional style which was equally at home in the full orchestras of the likes of Lionel Hampton and Count Basie as it was in the quintets and sextets that he led during his recording heyday of the late 40s and early 50s. He came to the fore in 1942, when, aged just 20, he recorded an inspired solo in Lionel Hamptons Flying Home, which became a landmark of the genre, endlessly copied by other players over the years. He was one of the core musicians in Norman Granzs Jazz At The Philharmonic concerts, underlining the respect he enjoyed with his peers and his ability to improvise, which is amply evident from the selections in this anthology. This excellent-value 44-track collection does not set out to be in any way definitive - it simply comprises selections from studio sessions, and one or two live performances, design to include some of the recordings which have been highlighted by commentators over the years as representing among the best examples of his unique style and skill. It inevitably includes performances alongside some of the jazz luminaries who were his peers - too numerous to list here - featuring him as both sideman and leader, and it is an entertaining introduction to an innovative sax stylist...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - SINGLES COLLECTION 1945-52 - JOHNNY MOOREs THREE BLAZERS-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Johnny Moores Three Blazers were one of the most distinctive and stylish R&B groups of the post-war era, specialising in a smooth jazz-flavoured style of music similar to the approach pioneered by Nat King Coles King Cole Trio during the early and mid-1940s. Led by guitarist Johnny Moore, and featuring various vocalists, the most successful and illustrious being Charles Brown, they enjoyed a succession of R&B hits in the decade which spanned the latter years of the 40s and the first half of the 1950s. They were unusual in that Moore refused to sign an exclusive recording contract, so they recorded for a variety of labels, with their output for different imprints sometimes being released in parallel. This great-value 74-track 3-CD set comprises selected A and B sides for the Atlas, Philo, Aladdin, Modern, Exclusive, RCA and Hollywood labels during this era, presented broadly in chronological order of their recording. It features all their sixteen career hits, including their No. 1 with Floyd Dixon Telephone Blues and their Top 5 classics Driftin Blues, So Long, Sunny Road, Changeable Woman, Merry Christmas Baby, New Orleans Blues, and More Than You Know as well as ten other Top 10 hits. As well as their many recordings with Charles Brown before he embarked on a successful solo career, featured vocalists include Ivory Joe Hunter, Floyd Dixon, Billy Valentine, Lee Barnes, Mari Jones and Frankie Ervin. Its a very classy and entertaining cross-section of their work across their various different line-up...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - COLLECTION 1947-62 - Eckstine, Billy-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: Starting out as a trumpeter as well as vocalist, Billy Eckstine led one of the most innovative big bands during the early 1940s, with many future bebop stars passing through his ranks as he had a number of R&B hits on the National label before he disbanded his orchestra and became a solo singer - this earlier era is covered in our existing Acrobat release Billy Eckstine - Jukebox Hits (ACMCD4019). As a solo performer, he became a popular, sophisticated and highly-regarded crooner, racking up a string of hits during the late 40s and through into the rock n roll era. This great-value 74-track 3-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from his releases on the MGM, RCA and Mercury labels during these years, and features all his twenty and more hits on those labels his US pop and R&B chart entries in this era, and his UK hits, including the Top 10 successes Bewildered, Fools Rush In, Temptation, Sitting By The Window, My Foolish Heart, I Wanna Be Loved, If, I Apologize, Kiss Of Fire, No One But You and Gigi and his duet hit with Sarah Vaughan Passing Strangers. Its a substantial overview of a core 15-year period of his career, including at least one side of a significant proportion of his releases, and providing an entertaining showcase for his versatility as a performer and for his distinctive and unmistakeable vocal styling...

-Titulo Original : Audio CD - SPADE COOLEY COLLECTION 1945-52 - SPADE COOLEY-Fabricante : Acrobat-Descripcion Original: 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 its 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, Ive Taken All Im Gonna Take From You, Detour, You Cant 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...