Back to the bayou once more, but this time with less the rocking rhythms of the mid-to-late century and more with tradition. We pick on the sound of cajun music, celebrating a simple dance style born of early century French/Canadian, African Creole from the Caribbean, and American Country: the two-step. It’s music is full of accordion, fiddle, washboard, bass fiddle, triangle, and percussion of all kinds…giving it a consistently energetic and lively signature. And the dance which is our focus is a simple but expressive one similar to the western two-step…just without the fancy turns and spins. Our performances include some classics from the early century including Amede Ardoin and Jimmy Newman as well as contemporaries and mid-century legends like Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys, Al Berard, Michael Doucet, and Louisiana energy from the swamps to Lake Pontchartrain. Tune in!
We’re going to count down the top ten of the year 1954…in pop, country, and R&B. Nothing special about that year, just a random pick; but it was the year that Marilyn Monroe married Joltin’ Joe D. It was the year the Army-McCarthy hearings convened. The words “under God” were added to the Pledge of Allegiance. It was also a year of firsts: That’s Alright, Mama, Elvis’ first big hit, was released on Sun Records, the first Burger King opened, and the first transistor radio was developed and announced by high-tech’s Texas Instruments. The DOW Jones average closed at an all-time high of (a whopping) 382.74. Tune in for the countdown. 65 years in the rear-view on Sonoma County Community Radio.
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Artist
Title
Album
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2
Frank Sinatra
Young At Heart
The Complete Capitol Singles Collection [Disc 1]
3
The Midnighters
Annie Had a Baby
Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 2
4
Archie Bleyer
Hernando's Hideaway
Your Hit Parade – 1954
5
Johnnie & Jack
(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely
Golden Age of Country Volume 4: Honky-Tonk Man [Disc 2]
6
The Midnighters
Sexy Ways
Doo Wop Box, Vol. 3: 101 More Vocal Group Gems from the Golden Age of Rock-N-Roll Disc 1
7
Doris Day
Secret Love
The Best Of Doris Day
8
Jim Reeves
Bimbo
Classic Country Hits 'Your Cheatin Heart' Disc 1
9
Guitar Slim
The Things That I Used To Do
Living The Blues: Blues Masters
10
The Four Aces
Three Coins In The Fountain
A Proper Introduction To The Four Aces – Heart And Soul
11
Webb Pierce
Even Tho
All Hits! [Disc 1]
12
Faye Adams
Hurts Me to My Heart
Keeper of My Heart
13
Four Knights
I Get So Lonely (When I Dream About You)
Your Hit Parade – 1954
14
Hank Snow
It Don't Hurt Anymore
The Essential Hank Snow
15
Roy Hamilton
You'll Never Walk Alone
Anthology 1
16
Eddie Fisher
Oh! My Papa
Your Hit Parade #1 Hits Of The '50s
17
Eddy Arnold
I Don't Really Want to Know (Remake)
The Essential Eddy Arnold
18
The Chords
Sh-Boom
Doo Wop Box Disc 1
19
Jo Stafford
Make Love To Me
Your Hit Parade – 1954
20
Webb Pierce
More And More
All Hits! [Disc 1]
21
Ruth Brown
Oh What A Dream
Miss Rhythm Greatest Hits And More Disc 2
22
The Crew Cuts
Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream)
Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 2)
23
Kitty Wells
One By One (w/Red Foley)
Singles
24
Big Joe Turner
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Big Joe Rocks
25
Rosemary Clooney
Hey There
Magic Moments – The Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 1)
26
Webb Pierce
Slowly
All Hits! [Disc 1]
27
Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
Work With Me Annie
The Roots Of Frank Zappa
28
Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra/Perry Como
Wanted
The Very Best of Perry Como
29
Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
Wake Up Irene
Vintage Collections
30
The Drifters With Clyde McPhatter
Honey Love (Single/LP Version)
Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
31
Kitty Kallen
Little Things Mean A Lot
Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 3)
32
Stuart Hamblen
This Ole House
Classic Country
33
Rosemary Clooney
This Ole House
16 Most Requested Songs (K)
34
The Crows
Gee
Doo Wop Box Disc 1
35
Bill Haley & His Comets
Dim, Dim The Lights (I Want Some Atmosphere) (Single Version)
Friday morning fresh from the archives. We’ve got the classics today with a free form mix of vintage sounds from siblings The Mills Brothers and The Boswell Sisters as well as some folk, jubilee, soul, and rhythm from Sugar Pie De Santo, Andy Griffith, The New Christy Minstrels, and The Manhattan Transfer. If that’s not enough, we’ll share some Killer, Albert Ammons, and Creedence. You cannot go wrong on a Thursday evening…. particularly when we get cooking with a track from Maria Muldaur, Marcia Ball, and Angela Strehli in tribute to Sister Rosetta. Join Dave Stroud on Sonoma County Community Radio…88.1 FM, streaming at kwtf.net/live.
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Artist
Title
Album
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2
John Prine
That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round
Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 1
3
Jerry Lee Lewis
Just a Little Bit
Southern Roots
4
The Four Blazes
Mary Jo
Mary Jo
5
Fats Domino
Lady Madonna
Fats Is Back
6
Big Joe Turner
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Big Joe Rocks
7
The Isley Brothers
Shout, Pts. 1-2
Red, White & Rock Disc 1
8
The Isley Brothers
Twist And Shout
Grandson Of Frat Rock! Vol. 3
9
Maria Muldaur, Marcia Ball, Angela Strehli & Tracy Nelson
Shout, Sister, Shout!
Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe
10
Louis Armstrong
Going To Shout All Over God's Heaven
Louis And The Good Book
11
Andy Griffith
Careless Love
Shouts The Blues And Old Timey Songs
12
Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra
Georgia On My Mind
Paper Moon
13
The New Christy Minstrels
Wagoner's Song (Land of the Sacramento)
Ramblin'
14
Rudy Vallee
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
Vagabond Lover
15
The Boswell Sisters
Got The South In My Soul
The Boswell Sisters Collection
16
The Mills Brothers
Swing Is The Thing
Mills Brothers – Goldent Greats
17
Kermit Ruffins
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
We Partyin' Traditional Style
18
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Lodi
Green River
19
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Dino's Song
The Best Of Quicksilver Messenger Service
20
The Manhattan Transfer
Tuxedo Junction
Anthology – Down In Birdland (Disc 2)
21
Videos
Trickle Trickle
Doo Wop Box Disc 3
22
Chuck Willis
Sugar Sugar
I Remember Chuck Willis / The King Of The Stroll
23
Chuck Willis
Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes
I Remember Chuck Willis / The King Of The Stroll
24
Sugar Pie DeSanto
A Little Taste of Soul
A Little Bit of Soul (1957-1962)
25
Big Daddy Wilson
I Got Plenty
Deep in My Soul
26
Benny Spellman
Fortune Teller
The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 6]
27
King Floyd
Groove Me
In Yo' Face!: The History Of Funk, Vol. 1
28
Eric Clapton
I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) [feat. Don White]
The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale
29
Benny Goodman Trio
Oh, Lady Be Good
After You've Gone:The Original Benny Goodman Trio And Quartet
For the birds, about the birds, and don’t you know that we’ll be wingin’ it on Deeper Roots….literally and figuratively. Our theme this week celebrates these descendants of prehistoric times and we’ll celebrate with flights of music and lyrics by all of the best including stories of robins, blackbirds, bluebirds, mockingbirds, and whipporwills. Tune in for music from LIttle Jimmy Dickens, Buffalo Springfield, Bill Monroe, and The Handsome Family on a Sonoma County Community radio morning that promises the brightest and warmest of the year so far. What better way to enjoy a Friday morning.
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2
Al Jolson
When the Red Red Robin (Birds)
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
3
Steve Goodman
Red Red Robin
Live at the Earl of Old Town
4
Cyril Grantham With Geraldo & His Orchestra
Robins And Roses
Penny Serenade – Rare Recordings From The 1930s
5
Jimmy Martin
Little Robin
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3]
Founded in 1957 by brother and sister Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton as Satellite Records, Stax Records would become a powerhouse soul and R&B label in the sixties. Their ‘open door’ policy of welcoming artists to prove themselves in the studio produced an unparalleled cadre of talent. Although it looked as if the label went down with its biggest talent, Otis Redding, in 1967 when Atlantic Records had Stax forfeit all of its studio recordings through its power of majority stakeholder, under the guiding hand of Al Bell, the catalogue was rebuilt and a whole new generation of performers would surface in the 1970s. We’ll share the stories and the music from the Stax label this Friday on Deeper Roots on Sonoma County’s powerhouse low power station, KOWS.
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2
Ruby Johnson
I'll Run Your Hurt Away
The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (5 of 9)
3
Veda Brown
Short Stopping
Stax 50th Anniversary Collection [Disc 3]
4
Mable John
Your Good Thing (Is About To End)
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1]
5
Judy Clay & William Bell
Private Number
Stax 50th [[Disc 1]]
6
Jean Knight
Mr. Big Stuff
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 2]
7
Mel & Tim
Starting All Over Again
Stax 50th [[Disc 1]]
8
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
Tramp
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1]
9
Otis Redding
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
It’s fun to cover the songwriters whether they be pop, country, blues, or in the wheelhouse of Broadway or Tin Pan Alley. This week, we drop by the sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and catchy sounds from the Great White Way. From Broadway to Hollywood, the music of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II left a cultural watermark on the psyche of middle America in the heart of the 20th Century. From The Sound of Music to Oklahoma!; from Carousel to The King and I and South Pacific, the songs that were featured in these musicals were totems to their time and place. And catchy, too. Tune in for a romp through some of the most popular performances written by two giants of screen and stage musicals.
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Title
Album
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2
Shirley Jones, James Whitmore, Gordon MacRae
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
3
Oscar Hammerstein II
Act I: The Sound Of Music
The Sound Of Music: Original Broadway Cast
4
Mary Martin
My Favorite Things
Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
5
Blossom Dearie
Surrey With The Fringe On Top
Four Classic Albums Plus (Blossom Dearie / Plays For Dancing / Give Him The Ooh-La-La / Once Upon A Summertime) (Digitally Remastered)
6
Gertrude Lawrence
Getting To Know You
Ultimate Broadway [Disc 1]
7
Ella Fitzgerald
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
That's Amore [Prism]
8
Frank Sinatra
It Might As Well Be Spring
Sinatra & Strings
9
Ray Charles & Betty Carter
People Will Say We're In Love
Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated To You
10
Jo Stafford
The Gentleman is a Dope
Yes Indeed! – [Disc 3] Haunted Heart
11
Bobby Darin
Hello, Young Lovers
Wild Cool & Swingin
12
Mary Martin
A Wonderful Guy
The Best of Broadway: The Late '40s
13
Willie Nelson
Some Enchanted Evening
What A Wonderful World
14
Elvis Presley
You'll Never Walk Alone
He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Disc 1
Free form this morning, live from the studios in downtown Santa Rosa. Deeper Roots shares a rare mix of sounds including jug band sounds from Jim Kweskin, a new track from Maria Muldaur, The Ink Spots, Gal Holiday, and Pee Wee Crayton…oh what a mix. Dave hosts a unique blend of sounds each Friday morning and he’ll be setting aside a playlist or two that scratches the surface of the Burnette clan including Johnny, Dorsey, Billy and Rocky including a wrap up of some tracks from the great Bay Area-based Solid Smoke reissue from the early 80s of the Rock n’ Roll Trio. Tune in for some Hash House Hattie and One Eyed Jacks, this Friday evening at 9
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Artist
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Album
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2
The Staple Singers
If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 2]
3
Jay & The Americans
Cara Mia
Come A Little Bit Closer – The Best of Jay and The Americans
4
Marvin & Johnny
Cherry Pie
Art Laboe's Memories Of El Monte/The Roots Of L.A.'s Rock And Roll
5
Chuck Willis
It's Too Late
The King of the Stroll
6
The Ink Spots
You're Breaking My Heart
The Dawn Of Doo-Wop Vol. 1
7
Johnny Burnette
Moody River
The Ballads Of
8
Johnny & Dorsey Burnette
One Eyed Jacks
Life is Like a Card Game (US Gambling Songs 1920s 1950s)
9
Dorsey Burnette
Hey Little One
American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960
10
Rocky Burnette
Tired Of Toein' The Line
Sounds Of The Eighties: 1980
11
Billy Burnette
Crazy Like Me
Crazy Like Me
12
Jim Kweskin
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me
Vanguard Visionaries
13
Ames Brothers The
The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane
Your Hit Parade – 1955
14
Maria Muldaur
Scat Skunk
Don't You Feel My Leg (The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker)
15
Cliff Edwards & His Hot Combination
Good Little Bad Little You
Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: The New York Sessions 1926-35
16
Rudy Vallie & His Connecticut Yankees
You Oughta Be In Pictures
The Voice That Had Them Fainting 1928-1937
17
John Hartford
Late Last Night When My Willie Came Home
Morning Bugle
18
Roy Rogers
You Can't Break My Heart
1942-1947 (Warped 4561)
19
Tommy Duncan
Please Come Back Home
Texas Moon
20
Dick Reinhart
Hash House Hattie
You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942
21
Living Sisters
Make Love To Me
Run For Cover – EP
22
Bobby Bare
Come On Home (And Sing Blues To Daddy)
The Best Of Bobby Bare
23
Gal Holiday and the Hony Tonk Revue
Come Home
Lost & Found
24
Paul Simon
Mother And Child Reunion
Greatest Hits: Shining Like A National Guitar
25
Sonia Ross
Breaking My Heart
Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels
26
Marvin Gaye
Baby Don't You Do It
Anthology [Disc 1]
27
The Band
Don't Do It (Baby Don't You Do It)
To Kingdom Come [Disc 2]
28
Pee Wee Crayton
Don't Break My Heart
Pee Wee's Blues – The Complete Aladdin And Imperial Recordings
Long before we were graced with the voices of SAM, Siri, or Alexa, and before we could carry our smart devices around like a wallet or clutch…there were the women and men who served us from behind the receiver: the telephone operator. Maybe they didn’t have the answer to everything but they could connect us to about anyone anywhere in the world. But it usually cost more than we were willing to admit. This week’s Deeper Roots show takes on the theme of the telephone operator, the long distance connector, and the person with a soul…and usually a quick hangup if there were not enough coins to drop in the pay phone. It was the penalty for human interaction I guess. We’ll let Jorma, Johnny Otis, Wanda Jackson, and Eddie Floyd take us on a trip back to rotary dials and party lines in this week’s episode, live from the Santa Rosa studios at KOWS.
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Album
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2
Mary Wells
Operator
Looking Back 1961-1964
3
Dusty Owens
Hello Operator
Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2
4
Rusty McDonald
Call Operator 210
Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2
5
Hank Snow
I Just Telephoned Upstairs
The Chronogical Classics 1951-1952 (Warped 5244)
6
Bonnie Guitar
Hello, Hello, Please Answer The Phone
Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2
7
Wanda Jackson
Between The Window And The Phone
Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2
8
The Blue Sky Boys
The Royal Telephone
Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2
9
Johnny Burnette
Operator
The Train Kept a-Rollin' Memphis to Hollywood – CD 9
10
Howard Crockett
Please Answer The Phone
Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2
11
Jorma Kaukonen
Operator
River Of Time
12
The Band
Long Distance Operator
A Musical History [Disc 2]
13
The Golden Gate Quartet
I Just Telephone Upstairs
Vol. 6 (1949-1952)
14
The Jordaniares
I Telephoned Upstairs
The Jordaniares Gospel
15
Selah Jubilee Singers
Royal Telephone
Complete Recorded Works – Vol. 1 (1939-1941)
16
Sister Wynona Carr
Operator, Operator
Dragnet For Jesus
17
Spirit Of Memphis Quartet
The Atomic Telephone
The Best Of King Gospel
18
Sister Wynona Carr
Don't Miss That Train
Dragnet For Jesus
19
Johnny Otis
Call Operator 210
Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2
20
Tony & Tyrone
Please Operator
After Hours 3 – More Northern Soul Masters
21
Gladys Knight & The Pips
Operator
Soul Grooves
22
The Marvelettes
Beechwood 4-5789
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of The Marvelettes
Well, it might be a bit of a stretch, and it might have been a bit of a fad, but it also flavored the beverage. Mambo. A lively mix born of a Latin dance of Cuban descent in the 30s and introduced by Perez Prado to an American audience in the 40s. It found it’s way into the popular music culture from big band to jazz and R&B. This week’s show samples some of the performances that were totally infected by its rhythm. We’ll hear from Mickey Baker, Wynonie Harris, and Tiny Grimes on the R&B side as well as the bandleaders who brassed it up including Perez Prado, Desi Arnaz, and Xavier Cugat.
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2
Wynonie Harris
All She Wants to do is Mambo
Lovin' Machine
3
Perez Prado
Mambo #5
Cocktail Hour : Mambo Jambo
4
The Andrews Sisters
The Mambo Man
Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4]
5
Tito Puente
Cuban Pete
Mambo Kings
6
Tiny Grimes
Showboat Mambo
Rumba Gone Mambo
7
Xavier Cugat
Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)
The Original Mambo King [Disc 2]
8
Desi Arnaz
Holiday In Havana
The Best of Desi Arnaz: The Mambo King
9
Desi Arnaz;Amanda Lane
Cuban Pete
The Best of Desi Arnaz: The Mambo King
10
J.J. Jones
After Hours Mambo
Rumba Gone Mambo
11
Mickey Baker
Guitar Mambo
Rumba Gone Mambo
12
Ruth Brown
Mambo Baby
Miss Rhythm Greatest Hits And More Disc 2
13
Joe Liggins & His Orchestra
They Were Doing the Mambo
Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2
This week’s show has us revisiting the Old Chisholm Trail and prairie passages that resemble all things that follow those romantic icons whose life on the range was less than what their songs usually embellish. In the western sunsets where John Lomax first went out in search of the ‘cowboy song’, we’ll explore more enlightened performances from the silver screen to the deep folk traditions that have become so laminated with romance that it’s hard to see the images beneath. This week’s show will take us from Carl T. Sprague, the original cowboy crooner, to Johnny Horton, Fess Parker, Rex Allen, and Roy Rogers. The music is sometimes sappy (Rick Nelson’s My Rifle, My Pony, and Me), sometimes light (Roy Rogers’ My Chickashay Girl), and other times full of storytelling and history. So many performances to light up the evening sky…just before dusk…just before that ceiling of stars appears in the night sky. Join us for our first live show from our new KOWS studios in downtown Santa Rosa.
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2
Rex Allen
The Covered Wagon
Riding All Day
3
Jimmie Rodgers
Prairie Lullaby
Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5]
4
Carl T. Sprague
O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
5
The Carter Family
Cowboy Jack
On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 2
6
Rhubarb Red
Little Green Valley (Radio)
Cowboy Crooners Sing Songs Of The West Cd 1
7
The Riders Of The Purple Sage
Cool Water (Radio)
Cowboy Crooners Sing Songs Of The West Cd 1
8
Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers
The Strawberry Roan
Saturday Night Rag 1934-1936 Vol. 1
9
Hank Snow
I Traded My Saddle for a Rifle
1942-1943 (Warped 4206)
10
Rex Allen
Dreaming of the Western Plains
Riding All Day
11
Roy Rogers
My Chickashay Girl
1942-1947 (Warped 4561)
12
Roy Rogers
Don't Fence Me In
My Rifle, My Pony And Me
13
Sons of the Pioneers
Moonlight On the Prairie
Songs of the Prairie – CD1
14
Sons of the Pioneers
Cool Water
Cool Water & 17 Western Favorites
15
Charlie Haden
Oh Shenandoah
Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
16
Al Caiola & His Orchestra
Bonanza
TV Land presents Favorite TV Theme Songs
17
Various
The Virginian
Television's Greatest Hits Vol.II – 65 More TV Themes 50s and 60s
18
Johnny Western
The Ballad Of Paladin
Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana
19
Johnny Cash
The Rebel Johnny Yuma
My Rifle, My Pony And Me
20
Lee Marvin
Wand'rin Star
Rare Songs Played on Radio, Vol. 1
21
Dean Martin
Rio Bravo
My Rifle, My Pony And Me
22
Rick Nelson
My Rifle My Pony And Me (w/ Dean Martin)
Legacy [Disc 1]
23
Marty Robbins
Ballad Of The Alamo
My Rifle, My Pony And Me
24
Frankie Laine
Rawhide
The Cowboy Album
25
Johnny Horton
Sleepy-Eyed John
Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (2 of 2)
26
Patsy Montana
My Dear Old Arizona Home
The Best Of Patsy Montana
27
Roy Rogers
Rock Me to Sleep in My Saddle
1942-1947 (Warped 4561)
28
Fess Parker
The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
The Cowboy Album
29
Vaughn Monroe
(Ghost) Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
The Cowboy Album
30
Johnny Cash
The Sons Of Katie Elder
My Rifle, My Pony And Me
31
Gene Autry
Red River Valley
The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946
32
Johnny Bond
Twilight On The Trail
Country Hits Vol. 6
33
The Sons Of The Pioneers
O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
Sons Of The Pioneers
34
The Cinema Sound Orchestra
High Noon
Western Film Themes
35
Willie Nelson
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys [Album Version]
Willie Nelson's Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be)
