Cooley,Spade Spade Cooley Collection 1945-52 CD

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 it's 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", "I've Taken All I'm Gonna Take From You", "Detour", "You Can't 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.

1. Shame on You 2. Pair of Broken Hearts 3. Forgive Me One More Time 4. I've Taken All I'm Gonna Take from You 5. Detour 6. You Can't Break My Heart 7. Crazy 'Cause I Love You 8. Three Way Boogie 9. Heartaches, Sadness and Tears 10. Oklahoma Stomp 11. You Better Do It Now 12. It's Dark Outside 13. Minuet in Swing 14. Bogg's Boogie 15. You Never Miss the Water (Till the Well Runs Dry) 16. Spadella 17. Troubled Over You 18. Cow Bell Polka 19. All Aboard for Oklahoma 20. Spanish Fandango 21. I Guess I've Been Dreaming Again 22. Steel Guitar Rag 23. Whistle Bait 24. Hide Your Face 25. Yodeling Polka 26. Topeka Polka 27. Big Chief Boogie 28. Fickle Woman 29. Texas Steel Guitar 30. You'll Rue the Day 31. Swinging the Devil's Dream 32. Four Fiddle Polka 33. Call Me Darling, Do 34. Texas Playboy Rag 35. Flop-Eared Mule 36. Wake Up, Susan 37. Ida Red 38. You Can't Take Texas Out of Me 39. The Last Roundup 40. Wagon Wheels 41. Lucky Leather Breeches 42. Honky Tonkin' 43. Hillbilly Fever 44. Mountain Boys Have Fun with Mountain Girls 45. 9/10THS of Tennessee River 46. Chew Tobacco Rag 47. Tuesday Two-Step 48. Three Fiddle Rag 49. Hitsitty Hotsitty 50. Down Yonder 51. Horse Hair Boogie 52. The Cowboy Waltz 53. Carmen's Boogie 54. One Sweet Letter from You