Homer & Jethro Kings Of Comedy Country: The Collection 1949-62 CD

Homer and Jethro were a country duo, real names Henry Haynes and Kenneth Burns, with their musical roots in hillbilly and bluegrass, who worked together on radio in the 1930s and reunited after service in WWII to perform again on radio, developing an act which featured exaggerated hillbilly comedic routines. After signing to RCA in 1949, their producer suggested developing their style by recording parodies of well-known pop and country hits, and they immediately struck a chord with their re-working of composer Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside". Over the next dozen years or so they remained consistently popular on radio and TV with this approach, and focused much of their recorded output in this direction. This great-value 58-track 2-CD set brings together selected A & B sides of their releases on RCA from this era, mostly comprising their trademark parody and comic performances. It features all their country and pop chart entries on RCA from these years, including the Top 10 hits "Baby It's Cold Outside" and "How Much Is That Hound Dog In The Window", and the Top 20 hits "Hernando's Hideaway" and "The Battle Of Kookamunga". They represented a highly individual and idiosyncratic strand of country music, cornering the market as just about the only practitioners of this particular art, and this collection offers a showcase not only for their unusual material but also for their finely-honed skills as instrumentalists and harmony vocalists.

1. : 2. Baby It's Cold Outside 3. Tennessee Border Number Two 4. I've Got Tears in My Ears (From Lyin' on My Back in My Bed While I Cry Over You) 5. She Made Toothpicks Out of the Timber of My Heart 6. I Said My Nightshirt (And Put on My Pray'rs) 7. (Put Another Nickel in) Music! Music! Music! 8. You Tell Her I Stutter 9. Does the Spearmint Lose It's Flavor 10. Disc Jockey's Nightmare 11. I'm Movin' on No. 2 12. Sound Off #2 (The Duckworth Chant) 13. Too Young 14. Too Old to Cut the Mustard 15. Cold Cold Heart #2 16. Slow Poke #2 17. When It's Toothpickin' Time in False Teeth Valley 18. L'il Ole Kiss of Fire 19. Billboard Song 20. Child Psychology 21. You Belong to Me #2 22. Jam-Bowl-Liar (Jambalaya) 23. Settin' the Woods on Fire #2 24. Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyeballs 25. (How Much Is) That Hound Dog in the Window 26. I'm Walking Behind You-All 27. Your Clobbered Heart 28. I Saw Mommy Smoochin' Santa Claus 29. You-Ewe-U 30. Oh My Pappy! 31. Swappin' Partners 32. Hernando's Hideaway 33. Hey There 34. Santa Baby 35. Nutty Lady of Shady Lane 36. Mister Sandman 37. Let Me Go Blubber 38. Ballad of Davy Crew-Cut 39. Yaller Rose of Texas, You All 40. Love and Marriage 41. Hart Brake Motel 42. Houn' Dawg 43. I'm My Own Grandpaw 44. Mama from the Train or (Throw Mama Down the Stairs Her Hat of Blue) 45. At the Flop 46. My Special Angel 47. I Guess Things Happen That Way 48. Lullaby of Bird Dog 49. Don't Sing Along (On Top of Old Smokey) 50. Middle Aged Teenager 51. The Battle of Kookamonga 52. Waterloo 53. El Paso (Numero Dos) 54. Sink the Bismarck 55. He'll Have to Go 56. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini 57. Please Help Me, I'm Falling 58. Are You Lonesome Tonight 59. She Thinks I Don't Care