"PEE WEE KING'S COUNTRY HOEDOWN"

In our fast living times names like Pee Wee King & Redd Stewart might not sound too familiar to younger folks, but they were real big in the 1940's and 1950's. It is always good to hear the old material again, songs like "Slowpoke", "Oh Monah" and "Silver and Gold". Pee Wee King's music was always a blend of Western Swing, Hillbilly, Polka with a little touch of Jazz and upcoming Rockabilly, the band's players were top notch. Sound quality of these transcriptions is very good, interesting liner notes are included. Another chance to listen to the early sounds of Country Music that influenced the modern day music. The transcriptions were recorded around 1952, the heighdays of Hillbilly Music. (Amazon)

With few options available to those who want a digital anthology of Pee Wee King's classic RCA recordings, listeners who would like to sample King's innovative and supremely entertaining music can spring for this affordably priced two-CD collection of radio transcriptions recorded circa 1952. Certainly owners of the box set would want to augment their collection with these previously unreleased performances, which include versions of hits such as "Slow Poke" and "Silver and Gold" as well as an incredible variety of novelties, love songs, and Western numbers that incorporate elements of swing, jazz, honky tonk, pop, and polka while seldom neatly fitting into any one of those categories. Redd Stewart is the featured vocalist on these 51 cuts, and liner notes were provided by noted country music historian Bill C. Malone. (Greg Adams, Allmusic)

trax CD 1:
01. Vocal: This Is Pee Wee King 02. I Love The Way You Roll Them Eyes At Me 03. Reason I'm In Love With You 04. Ramblin' Blues 05. I'm Going Back To The Middle Of The Middle 06. One Way Street 07. I'll Never Love No One Buy You 08. You Tried To Ruin My Name 09. Get Together Polka 10. Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus 11. There's A Moon In The Sky 12. Slowpoke 13. Empty Vows 14. Oh Monah 15. Blow Out All The Candles 16. Between You & The Birds And The Bees & Cupid 17. Western Limited 18. Brother Drop Dead Boogie 19. Doghouse Blues 20. Cowboy Special 21. Steel Guitar Waltz 22. 'Tain't What You Want 23. Hog Wiild Too 24. I Don't Know Why I Should Love You 25. Postage Due. 26. Subdued Mood 27. If And When 28. Vocal : "..That Half-Way Point"
trax CD 2:
01. Fool's Gold 02. Silver and Gold 03. Sweetest Little Girl 04. Darling Don't Cry 05. Flower of Texas 06. I Wanna Say Hello 07. Let Me Hold You when You're Blue 08. Where Oh Where Has My Little Love Gone 09. I Need a Lot of Lovin' 10. Where Were You Last Night 11. I'm Just a Gad-About 12. Song of the Early Settlers 13. Take These Shackles from My Heart 14. The Calendar Song 15. Don't Apologize to Me 16. Charleston Alley 17. Opportunity 18. Rich in Love 19. I Can't Feel Those Kisses in Your Letters 20. Mohegas 21. Tadpole 22. Your Kisses Aren't Kisses Anymore 23. Tennessee Tango 24. Darling, Stop Playing with My Heart 25. Tears, Tears, Tears 26. There's That Man with the Stopwatch...
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