• Keep On The Sunny Side (1935) / Carter Family / Can The Circle Be Unbroken / Columbia
• Great Speckled Bird (1936) / Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans / Golden Age, Vol. 1 / Columbia
• I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1935) / Carter Family / Can The Circle Be Unbroken / Columbia
• I'm Walking The Floor Over You (1941) / Ernest Tubb / Best Of Ernest Tubb / MCA
• New San Antonio Rose (1940) / Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys / Golden Age, Vol. 1 / Columbia
• Ev'ry Day Will Be Sunday By And By / Blackwood Brothers / Smooth & Classy / Memory Lane Gospel
• When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels (1946) / Molly O' Day & The Cumberland Mt. Folks / Golden Age, Vol. 1 / Columbia
• Rainbow At Midnight (1946) / Ernest Tubb / Best Of Ernest Tubb / MCA
• You Are My Sunshine (1941) / Gene Autry / Golden Age, Vol. 1 / Columbia
• Unwanted Sign On Your Heart / Hank Snow / Essential Hank Snow / RCA
• Wondering / Webb Pierce / Best Of Webb Pierce / MCA
• (When You Feel Like You're In Love) Don't Just Stand There / Carl Smith / Essential Carl Smith / Columbia
• Cold, Cold Heart / Hank Williams / 24 Of Hank Williams Greatest Hits / Mercury
• Lady's Man / Hank Snow / Essential Hank Snow / RCA
• Down Home Theme / Following The Sun / She Taught Me To Yodel / Down Homers / Best Of The Down Homers, Vol. 1
• Out Where The West Winds Blow / Down Homers / Best Of The Down Homers, Vol. 1 /
• Who's Gonna Kiss You When I'm Gone / Down Homers / Best Of The Down Homers, Vol. 1 /
• Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes / Ray Price / I'll Be There : The Legend Begins / Country Stars
• Go Back You Fool / Faron Young / Complete Capitol Hits Of Faron Young / Collectors' Choice
• Slow Poke (1952) / Hawkshaw Hawkins / Hawkshaw Hawkins, Volume 1 / King
• I'll Go On Alone (1952) / Marty Robbins / The Story Of My Life : The Best Of Marty Robbins / Legacy
• Then I'll Stop Loving You (1954) / Jim Reeves / Four Walls - The Legend Begins / BMG
• I Take The Chance (1956) / The Browns / Essential Jim Ed Brown & The Browns / RCA
• Three Ways Of Knowing (1952) / Johnnie & Jack / For Old Times Sake / Bear Family
• It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (1952) / Kitty Wells / Best Of Kitty Wells / MCA
• The Saturday Morning Radio Show / Lester "Roadhog" Moran & The Cadillac Cowboys / Country Music Then & Now / Mercury
• Weary Lonesome Blues / Louvin Brothers / A Tribute To The Delmore Brothers / Gusto
• Freight Train / Louvin Brothers / A Tribute To The Delmore Brothers / Gusto
• Over In The Gloryland / Brown's Ferry Four / 16 Greatest Hits / Starday
• The Arm Of God / Brown's Ferry Four / 16 Greatest Hits / Starday
• Shame On You / Spade Cooley / Golden Age, Vol. 1 / Columbia
• The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago / Johnny Cash et al / Johnny Cash At San Quentin / Columbia Legacy
• Cajun Fiddle / Don Rich & The Buckaroos / Country Pickin' / Sundazed
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Hawkshaw Hawkins / Hawkshaw Hawkins, Volume 1 / King

• Because It's Christmas Time / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed
• Country Christmas / Loretta Lynn / Best Of Loretta Lynn / MCA Nashville
• Corn, Water And Wood / Riders In The Sky / Christmas The Cowboy Way / Rounder
• Tomorrow Is Christmas Day / Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Merry Christmas From Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Capitol
• O Come All Ye Faithful / Louvin Brothers / Christmas With The Louvin Brothers / Gusto
• I Never Spend A Christmas That I Don't Think Of You / Statler Brothers / Christmas Card / Mercury
• The First Noel / Louvin Brothers / Christmas With The Louvin Brothers / Gusto
• Christmas Country Style / Statler Brothers / Christmas Present / Mercury
• Blue Christmas / Ernest Tubb / Billboard Greatest Country Christmas Hits / Rhino
• The Reindeer Boogie / Hank Snow / Proper Introduction To Hank Snow / Proper
• Intro To Christmas Show / Jim Reeves / Christmas Star / VoiceMasters
• Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer / Jim Reeves / Christmas Star / VoiceMasters
• Blue Christmas / Jim Reeves / Christmas Star / VoiceMasters
• A Christmas Star / Jim Reeves / Christmas Star / VoiceMasters
• Away In A Manger / Jim Reeves / Christmas Star / VoiceMasters
• Sleigh Ride / Jim Reeves / Christmas Star / VoiceMasters
• Christmas At The Triple X Ranch / Riders In The Sky / Must Be Santa! / Rounder
• Merry Christmas From Harmony Ranch / Riders In The Sky / Merry Christmas From Harmony Ranch / Columbia
• Christmas Carols By The Old Corral / Tex Ritter / Billboard Greatest Country Christmas Hits / Rhino
• Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer / Gene Autry / Time-Life Treasury Of Christmas / Time Life
• Here Comes Santa Claus / Riders In The Sky / Merry Christmas From Harmony Ranch / Columbia
• Jolly Old St. Nicholas / Tom T. Hall / Country Christmas With The Stars Of Branson / Regency
• To Heck With Ole Santa Claus / Loretta Lynn / Best Of Loretta Lynn / MCA Nashville
• Up On The Housetop / Gene Autry / The Christmas Cowboy / LaserLight
• Here Comes Santa Claus Again / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed
• An Old Christmas Card / Jim Reeves / Twelve Songs Of Christmas / RCA
• Jingle Bells / Ray Price / Christmas Country Style / Columbia
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / Marty Robbins / Christmas With Marty Robbins / Sony
• Christmas In My HomeTown / Charley Pride / Christmas In My HomeTown / RCA
• Frosty The Snowman / Loretta Lynn / Best Of Loretta Lynn / MCA Nashville
• One Of Everything You Got / Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Capitol
• The King Of Love / Johnny Cash / Johnny Cash Family Christmas / Sony
• That Christmasy Feeling / Tommy Cash & Johnny Cash / Johnny Cash Family Christmas / Sony
• The Angels Cried / Alan Jackson with Alison Krauss / Honky Tonk Christmas / Arista
• The Christmas Yodel / Riders In The Sky / Christmas The Cowboy Way / Rounder
• Will Santy Come To ShantyTown / Eddy Arnold / Billboard Greatest Country Christmas Hits / Rhino
• Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed
• Christmas To Me / Statler Brothers / Christmas Card / Mercury

• Last Month of the Year (1991) / The Fairfield Four / Standing in the Safety Zone / Warner
• Breaking Up Christmas (1967) / The Camp Creek Boys / Blue RidgeMountainHoliday / County
• The Last Month of the Year (1959) / Vera Hall Ward / Where Will You Be on Christmas Day? / Dust-to-Digital
• Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn (1929) / CottonTopMountain Sanctified Singers / Where Will You Be on Christmas Day? / Dust-to-Digital
• Christmas is A-Coming (1940s) / Leadbelly / Where Will You Be on Christmas Day? / Dust-to-Digital
• The Wrong Way to Celebrate Christmas (1928) / Rev. Edward W. Clayborn / Where Will You Be on Christmas Day? / Dust-to-Digital
• The Christmas Guest (2003) / Andy Griffith / The Christmas Guest / Sparrow Records
• Away In A Manger/Golden Slumber (2006) / Andy Griffith / The Christmas Guest / Sparrow Records
• At the Christmas Ball (1925) / Bessie Smith / Where Will You Be on Christmas Day? / Dust-to-Digital
• Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over (1927) / Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers / Where Will You Be on Christmas Day? / Dust-to-Digital
• Jingle Bells (1951) / Maddox Brothers & Rose / Where Will You Be on Christmas Day? / Dust-to-Digital
• Nuttin' For Christmas (c. 1960) / Spike Jones / It's A Spike Jones Christmas / Rhino
• Corn, Water, and Wood (1991) / Michael Martin Murphey / Cowboy Christmas / Warner
• The Christmas Yodel (1999) / Riders in the Sky / Christmas the Cowboy Way / Rounder
• Merry Texas Christmas You All (1991) / Michael Martin Murphey / Cowboy Christmas / Warner
• An Old Fashioned Christmas Polka (1999) / Riders in the Sky / Christmas the Cowboy Way / Rounder

• Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Introduction (1994)
• High, Low and Wide / The Golden Gate Quartet / Swing Down, Chariot / Columbia
  

Ever-loving Light Segment:  The DeZurik Sisters

• Birmingham Jail (1939) / The DeZurik Sisters / Vocalion 4781A (78 RPM)
• I Left Her Standing There (1939) / The DeZurik Sisters / Vocalion 4616A (78 RPM)
• The Arizona Yodeler (1939) / The DeZurik Sisters / American Yodeling 1911-1946 / Trikont
• The Checker Time Radio Hour / The DeZurik Sisters
  

• East Virginia (1927) / Buell Kazee / American Folk Music / Folkways
• Minglewood Blues (1928) / Cannon's Jug Stompers / American Folk Music / Folkways
• Mountaineers Courtship (1927) / Ernest & Hattie Stoneman / American Folk Music / Folkways
• Expressman Blues (1930) / Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell / American Folk Music / Folkways
• Bulldog Down in Sunny Tennessee (1925) / Dock Walsh / Charlie Poole & The Roots of Country Music / Legacy
• Married Life Blues (1940) / Byron Parker & His Mountaineers / Charlie Poole & The Roots of Country Music / Legacy
• Goodbye Sweet Liza Jane (1930) / Charlie Poole / Charlie Poole & The Roots of Country Music / Legacy
• Cotton Eyed Joe / The Mountain Ramblers / Songs of the South / Atlantis
• Train 111 / The Mainer Band / Songs of the South / Atlantis
• Hambone / Bessie Jones / Songs of the South / Atlantis
• The Arkansas Traveler / Hobart Smith / Songs of the South / Atlantis
• Motherless Children / Felix Dukes & Mississippi Red McDowell / Songs of the South / Atlantis

Mayberry Corner:

• Whatever Happened to Mayberry / VW Boys / The VW Boys Radio Show / Fat Dog
• The Fishin' Hole (Theme from the Andy Griffith Show) / Earle Hagen / The Andy Griffith Show / Capitol

Trivia Question:  What did Aunt Bee make that tasted like Kerosene?   

Answer:  Pickles   

• Darlin' Boys / The Dillards / The Best of the Darlin' Boys / Vanguard
• Cindy / Andy Griffith / Sings Favorite Old-Time Songs / CEMA
• Tomhicken Picker / Joe Leggo / Always Country / Self

Jim:  Recipe of the Day from The Darlin' Family -- Blackened Pig

• A Picture on the Wall (1927) / The Georgia Yellow Hammers / OldMountain Stringband Songs & Tunes / Sanctuary Records
• I'm Sad and Blue (1930) / The Perry County Music Makers / Old Mountain Stringband Songs & Tunes / Sanctuary Records
• Just Because (1933) / The Lone Star Cowboys / O Brothers! / Living Era
• Roll Along, Prairie Moon (1935) / The Girls of the Golden West / O Brothers! / Living Era
• Broken Heart (1939) / The Carlisle Brothers / O Brothers! / Living Era
• Yodelin' Tex / Tex Roy / Yodeling Songs / RCD
• Just One More Yodel / Slim Clark / Yodeling Songs / RCD
• The Yodeling Ranger / Jimmie Rodgers / Yodeling Songs / RCD
• Will There Be Any Yodelers in Heaven / Girls of the Golden West / Yodeling Songs / RCD
• Ida Sweet as Apple Cider (1936) / Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies / Daddy of Western Swing / Proper
• Hoot Owl Boogie / Sheb Wooley / Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys / Proper
• Keep on the Firing Line (1947) / Brown's Ferry Four / Goodbye, Babylon / Dust-to-Digital
• Standing Outside (1951) / Wade Mainer / Goodbye, Babylon / Dust-to-Digital
• Amazing Grace (1947) / Mahalia Jackson / Goodbye, Babylon / Dust-to-Digital
• Put Me on the Trail to Carolina (2006) / David Peterson / WHUS Studio Recording

Ride Up in the Chariot / Golden Gate Quartet / Golden Years  (1949-1952) / FD  Music                                 

Ever-Loving Light Segment:  Ernest V. “Pop” Stoneman                                

Sinking Of The Titanic (1926) / Ernest V. Stoneman and the Dixie Mountaineers / Volume III / Old Homestead

The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee (1926) / Ernest V. Stoneman / With Family and Friends - Vol. II / Old Homestead

The Old Hickory Cane (1927) / Ernest V. Stoneman / Round The Heard of Old Galax - Volume 1 / County

Sunny Tennessee (1965) / The Stoneman Family / Big Ball In Monterey - Live / World-Pacific

Fire On The Mountain (1965) / The Stoneman Family / Big Ball In Monterey - Live / World-Pacific

 
Cowboy's Home Sweet Home / Jimmie Davis / When I Was a Cowboy  vol. 2 / Yazoo

My Carolina Home (1938) / Fred Kirby / The Original Atomic Power / Cattle

My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans / Grandpa Jones / An American Original / CMH

Lamplighting Time in the Valley / David Davis & Scott Brannon / Plum Pitiful  vol. 2 / Wango

Joel, have you heard of these bands???

  Stir It Now / Jackson Jug Jumpers / Fonotone Records / Dust-to Digital
  Hopalong Peter / MashMountain Boys / Fonotone Records / Dust-to Digital
  Susie / Georgia Jokers / Fonotone Records / Dust-to Digital
  I'm Rollin' On / Carolina Pine Knots / Fonotone Records / Dust-to Digital

Take an Old Cold Tater (and Wait) / Little Jimmy Dickens / Columbia Country Classics / Columbia

A-Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed / Little Jimmy Dickens / Columbia Country Classics / Columbia

What Is Home Without Love (1936) / Monroe Brothers / Blue Moon of Kentucky  1936-1949) / Bear Family

We introduced "Mayberry Corner" here...

Whatever Happened To Mayberry (1998) / The VW Boys / The VW Boys Radio Show / Fat Dog

Ramshackle Shack / Wade Mainer & the Sons of the Mountaineers / Appalachian Heart / Fuel

Daddy Sang Bass (1968) / Johnny Cash (w/ The Statler Brothers) / The Essential Johnny Cash  1955-1983 / Columbia

Family Reunion (1976) / The Oak Ridge Boys / The Best of / Columbia

Headin' For Texas & Home / Roy Rogers / Yodelin' Crazy / Delta Music

Take Me Back to Old Montana / Slim Clark / Yodelin' Crazy / Delta Music

Back to My Wyoming Home / Gerald & Dixon / When I Was a Cowboy  vol. 2 / Yazoo

Bright Sunny South (1963) / Dock Boggs / Back Roads to ColdMountain / Smithsonian

Mama Don't Allow No Low Down Hangin' Around / Robinette & Moore / Old-Time Music From Southwest Virginia / County

Going Back to My Little Western Home / Dusty Rankin / A Cowboy's Life is Good Enough For Me / Jasmine

I'll Ride Back to LonesomeValley / Hank Snow (The Singing Ranger) / A Cowboy's Life is Good Enough For Me / Jasmine

Going Back to Old Virginia (1993) / Crowe & McLaughlin / 25 Years of Rounder Records / Rounder

There's No Place Like Home (1934) / Asa Martin / Mountain Music Collection / CMH

   Marti intended to play "My Clinch Mountain Home," but this worked just as well.  It's a true story about a cyclone that hit the town of Ryecove, VA, in A.P. Carter's back yard...

Rye Cove (1929) / The Carter Family / My Clinch Mountain Home / Rounder

Home Sweet Home (ca. 1968) / J. E. Mainer & His Mountaineers / 25 Mountain Music Classics / Rural Rhythm

Is The Range Still the Same Back Home / Red River Dave / A Cowboy's Life is Good Enough For Me / Jasmine

Henry Clay Work from Middletown, Connecticut, had two great hits in 1876 when sheet music was king.  The next two are "modern" versions of both...

Grandfather's Clock (1991) / Doc Watson / My Dear Old Southern Home / Sugar Hill

I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen (1950) / The Sons of the Pioneers / Cattle Call / Rounder

My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight (2003) / John Prine / Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs of Steven Foster / American Roots

Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) (2003) / David Ball / Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs of Steven Foster / American Roots

500 Miles Away From Home (1964) / Bobby Bare / Hard to Find Hits / BMG

Never See My Home Again (1964) / The Dillards / There is a Time (1963-70) / Vanguard

Family Reunion, Amen (2006) / The Joe Isaacs Family / The Joe Isaacs Family Reunion / Blue Circle

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Introduction (1994)
Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer (1943) / The Four Vagabonds
There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere (1942) / Elton Britt           

Interview with Captain Melissa Olendorf, US Air Force in Iraq   

Captain Olendorf grew up in Windsor, Connecticut  

Down Where The River Bends (1993) / Ralph Stanley w/Dwight Yoakam
I'm Coming Back But I Don't Know When (1980) / Ralph Stanley w/Jimmy Martin
Not A Word From Home (1942) / Roy Acuff

J.E. Mainer, Jr (a.k.a. "Curly" Mainer) told Jim that he wrote the following song while being transported by train from North Carolina to California on his way to serve in Korea...

The Lonely Train (1949) / Mainer's Mountaineers           

Interview with Command Sergeant Major Burs, USMC in Iraq   

Sergeant Major Burs grew up in Westport, Connecticut  

The Forgotten Soldier Boy (1936) / The Monroe Brothers (about the Bonus Army?)
A Distant Land To Roam (1929) / The Carter Family

Other resources:

The Medal of Honor official site

The Medal of Honor

Connecticut Medal of Honor Recipients  and a different way of presenting here

He's A Veteran

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)
Moses Smote the Water (1941) / The Golden Gate Quartet
Stars And Stripes on Iwo Jima (1945) / Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys
She Gave Her Heart to a Soldier Boy / Roy Rogers
Private Buckaroo (1942) / Sons of the Pioneers
Cowboy's Home Sweet Home / Jimmie Davis
Get Along Little Dogies / The Cartwright Brothers
I'm a Wandering Bronco Rider / Rowdy Wright
The Fugitive's Lament / The Delmore Brothers
Long Side the Santa Fe Trail / Jules Allen
The Dixie Cowboy / Taylor's Kentucky Boys
Back to My Wyoming Home / Gerald & Dixon
Buffalo Gals Medley / Crockett Family
I'm a Do Right Cowboy (1935) / Tex Ritter
Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddles (1935) / Tex Ritter
Sing Me A Song of the Saddle (1940) / Gene Autry
Blueberry Hill (1940) / Gene Autry
One More Ride (1936) / Sons of the Pioneers
Song of the Bandit (1937) / Sons of the Pioneers
Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1959) / The Sons of the Pioneers
Blue Prairie (1959) / The Sons of the Pioneers
My saddle Pals and I (1945) / Roy Rogers & Sons of the Pioneers
Sweet Georgia Brown (1945) / Hugh & Karl Farr
Lady Round A Lady and the Gent Solo (1946) / Roy Rogers
Silver Stars, Purple Sage, Eyes of Blue (1946) / Roy Rogers
Trail Drive (1999) / Sons of the San Joaquin
Wyoming Wind (1996) / Bar-J Wranglers
South of the Border (1996) / Riders in the Sky
Ridin' Down the Canyon (1996) / Riders in the Sky
An Old Cowboy's Dream (1992) / Don Edwards
The Cowboy Song (1992) / Don Edwards
Song of Wyoming (2000) / Chris LeDoux
Cowboy Blues / Gene Autry
The Wayward Wind / Tex Ritter with Harry Geller Orchestra
Home On The Range / Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Sons of Pioneers
Ole Faithful / Roy Rogers & Sons of the Pioneers
Along the Navajo Trail / Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Sons of Pioneers
Happy Trails (1991) / Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Dusty Rogers

The greatest yodeler alive, and possibly the greatest yodeler ever, lives in Athol, Massachusetts.  His name is Kenny Roberts, and he just turned 80 on 14 October 2006.  The Red Rooster Party has been very fortunate to have connected with Kenny, and he graciously spent nearly an hour on our sports-shortened show to discuss his amazing career in music and early television.  We owe a great debt of gratitude to Archie Kneeland for providing much information, and Frank Jenkins who started the ball rolling earlier in the year by bringing us a copy of the 1946 Vogue 78 picture disc of "Out Where The West Winds Blow" by Kenny Roberts and the Down Homers.  Following Aunt Hattie's introduction, we began the show with that song.

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)

Kenny Roberts' first recording...

Out Where The West Winds Blow (1946) / Kenny Roberts and the Down Homers

Kenny said he sold over a million of this next song which was also his biggest hit.  It reached #9 on the pop charts and #4 on the country charts...

I Never See Maggie Alone (1949) / Kenny Roberts

This next song is probably the most amazing demonstration of yodeling you will ever hear...

She Taught Me To Yodel (1953) / Kenny Roberts

Kenny's wife, Bettyanne, is a fine songwriter and singer.  She wrote and performed the following song about an adopted child...

Pretty (1988) / Bettyanne Roberts

The following song was nearly as popular as "Maggie."  Kenny performed it regularly on his children's television shows...

Choc'late Ice Cream Cone (1950) / Kenny Roberts

Kenny still performs and records occasionally, and still retains his wonderful voice.  The following song is one of his later country recordings...

Those Pretty Eyes (1988) / Kenny Roberts

Douglas Green (a.k.a. Ranger Doug), the great musician and music historian, wrote the notes to the 1995 Bear Family retrospective of Kenny Roberts' career in music.  Doug also wrote about Kenny Roberts in his book "Singing In The Saddle - The History Of The Singing Cowboy" (CMF Vanderbilt).  As a leading proponent of yodeling today, Doug credits Kenny Roberts with his inspiration.  We closed the show with Ranger Doug demonstrating what he learned from his Kenny Roberts records...

That's How the Yodel Was Born (1983) / Riders In The Sky

This show was centered around the fabulous box set, “Goodbye, Babylon” [2003 Dust to Digital] that documents American liturgical, sacred, or gospel music from the first half of the 20^th century.  We also had guest DJ Jake Miller from Watkinson School in the studio to pay tribute to Chuck Berry on Chuck’s 80^th birthday.  Jake paid us the greatest compliment possible when he said The Red Rooster Party was like an "audio museum."

Station ID & Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)
Golden Gate Gospel Train (1937) / Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet

Rounder Records, an important label to bluegrass and roots music, celebrated their 36^th anniversary 20 October 2006, so we helped them celebrate by playing the first song from the very first rounder release by George Pegram…

Mississippi Sawyer (1970) / George Pegram [Rounder]

The following song is the oldest yet played on The Red Rooster Party…

Down On The Old Campground (1902) / Dinwiddie Colored Quartet
Are You Washed In The Blood Of The Lamb (1927) / Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters
Present Joys (1928) / Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
Satisfied (1936) / J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
As The Life Of A Flower (1953) / Chuck Wagon Gang
Thou Carest Lord, For Me (1930) / Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers
Lift Him Up That's All (1927) / Washington Phillips
There's A Light Up In Galilee (1928) / Ernest Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers
Crying Holy Unto the Lord (1936) / The Blue Chips [Bill Monroe recorded this in 1940 with The Blue Grass Boys…]
I'll Never Go Back (1952) / The Louvin Brothers
God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From The Tares (1937) / Mahalia Jackson
Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit (1927) / Luther Magby
I Belong To The Band - Hallelujah (1935) / Rev. Gary Davis
River of Jordan (1928) / The Carter Family
Dry Bones (1928) / Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Creep Along, Moses (1926) / The Taskian Four
That Home Above (1949) / Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys
I Want Two Wings To Veil My Face (1929) / Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers
Bathe In That Beautiful Pool (1929) / Dock Walsh
I'll Have A New Body (1949) / Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys
Standing In The Need Of Prayer (1947) / The Stanley Brothers

Jake Miller introduced the following two Chuck Berry songs, noting that “Sweet Little Sixteen” also became “Surfing USA” by the Beach Boys with different lyrics…

Johnny B. Goode (1958) / Chuck Berry [MCA]
Sweet Little Sixteen (1958) / Chuck Berry [MCA]

Another preemption for UCONN soccer reduced the show to 52 minutes, but we managed to slip in a tribute to the recently-departed Freddy Fender, and the Stanley Brothers on the 60th anniversary (10/16) of Ralph's entry into professional music, and the 40th anniversary of Carter's last performance...

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)
I Looked Down the Road and Wondered (1939) / The Golden Gate Quartet
Your Cheatin' Heart (before 1976) / Freddy Fender (recording date unk. - released 1976)
I'm Gonna Cross The River of Jordan (1927) / Jaybird Coleman (good period harmonica)
Weeping Pilgrim (1927) / Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
Walking In The Sunlight (1927) / Uncle Dave Macon
Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea (1944) (prev. unissued) / Leadbelly
Sally Zu-Zazz (1946) / Big Joe Turner with Albert Ammons & His Rhythm Kings
Lonesome, Broke, and Weary (1938) / Asa Martin & His Kentucky Hillbillies
The Battle of Kookamonga (1959) / Homer & Jethro (we are still laughing!...)
The Ballad of Jed Clampett (1962) / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (a request)

Yodeling set -- dedicated to listener Rita who had a birthday last week!

The Arizona Yodeler (1939) / The DeZurik Sisters (a.k.a. The Cackle Sisters!)
Yodeling Radio Joe (1934) / Rambling Red Foley
The Devil's Great-Grandson (1937) / Roy Rogers & The Sons of the Pioneers

Ralph Stanley's oldest studio recording:

Mother No Longer Awaits Me At Home (1947) / The Stanley Brothers

From WCYB Bristol radio transcriptions...

Intro (1949) / The Stanley Brothers
Let Me Be Your Friend (1949) / The Stanley Brothers

Waves On The Sea (2006) / Ralph Stanley

Jim was helping Amy Orlomoski emcee Big Sunday Bluegrass in East Hartford this Sunday, so even with a one-hour preemption for UCONN soccer, Marti kept the flame lit on the Red Rooster Party with a great set of more number songs carried over from last week...

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)
Every Time That I Feel the Spirit (1939) / The Golden Gate Quartet
Thirty-Eight And Plus (1930) / Walter Taylor
Eighth of January (1942) / Nathan Frazier & Frank Patterson
If You Can't Get Five Take Two (1936) / Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
Eight Thirty Blues (1946) / The Maddox Brothers & Rose
From 40-65 (1951) / The Masters Family
Six White Horses (1940) / Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys
Give Me Back My Five Dollars (1961) / Dave "Stringbean" Akeman
One Track Mind (1960) / Bill Harrell
One More River to Cross (1935) / Uncle Dave Macon
Sixteen Tons (1956) / Homer & Jethro
Give Me Forty Acres (1964) / The Willis Brothers
Twenty Miles From Shore (1961) / Hawkshaw Hawkins
Fifteen Miles From Dallas (1952) / Jimmie Davis
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (1951) / Stick McGee & His Buddies
Only One Step More (ca. 1981) / Hee Haw Gospel Quartet
Seven Year Blues (1949) / The Louvin Brothers
One More River to Cross (1934) / The Sons of the Pioneers
Blue Yodel No. 5 (1929) / Gene Autry
A Four-Legged Friend (1952) / Roy Rogers
Ballad of Forty Dollars (1969) / Tom T. Hall

There are many songs with numbers in the title.  We only scratched the surface with this show, so look out for more shows featuring number songs in the future -- perhaps as soon as next Sunday.  Archie Kneeland even called with a huge list that we hadn't even thought of...

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)
Born Ten Thousand Years Ago (1937) / Golden Gate Quartet

Ever Loving Light:  Spike Jones & His City Slickers

Marti had a ball playing Spike Jones "pieces."  His expertly performed parodies of hits and fads did much to bring those targets down to earth...

Der Fuehrer's Face (1942) / Spike Jones & His City Slickers
The Sheik of Araby (1942) / Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Chloe (1943) / Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Wild Bill Hiccup (1948) / Spike Jones & His City Slickers

One Dime Blues (1920s) / Blind Lemon Jefferson
Broke Down Engine No. 2 (1933) / Blind Willie McTell
How Long No. 2 (1959) / Scrapper Blackwell
Spring Of '65 (1960) / J.D. Cornett
Eight Thirty Blues (1940s) / The Armstrong Twins
Seven And A Half (1935) / J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
Standin' On the Corner, Blue Yodel No. 9 (1930) / Jimmie Rodgers
You Two-timed Me One Time Too Often (1945) / Tex Ritter
One More River to Cross (1981) / Wilson Douglas
Six More Miles (to the Graveyard) (1948) / Hank Williams
Just One Way To The Pearly Gates (1934) / Uncle Dave Macon
Lonesome 7-7203 (1963) / Hawkshaw Hawkins
500 Miles Away From Home (1962) / Bobby Bare
One Way Ticket (1950) / Kenny Roberts [We will interview Kenny 10/29!]
Four or Five Times (1947) / Luke Wills
20/20 Vision (1965) / Jimmy Martin
Wreck Of The Old '97 (1966) / Mac Wiseman
You're The One (1977) / The Oak Ridge Boys
Nine Pound Hammer (1947) / Merle Travis
Sixteen Tons (1955) / Tennessee Ernie Ford
Four Five or Six Times (1934) / Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
Sweet Sixteen (1930) / Charlie Poole
Eighth of January (1928) / The Arkansas Barefoot Boys
Five Feet High & Rising (1959) / Johnny Cash
One Piece At A Time (1976) / Johnny Cash
Wreck of the 1256 (1947) / Curly Fox
Two Little Boys (1987) / The Country Gentlemen
1913 Massacre (1997) / Ramblin' Jack Elliott [A request from Jack...]
I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night (1959) / Faron Young
I'm A One Woman Man (1956) / Johnny Horton
You Are The One (1956) / Carl Smith
900 Miles (late 1960s) / Red Smiley & The Bluegrass Cut-ups
Train 45 (late 1960s) / Log Cabin Boys

This turned out to be one of the "oldest" shows we have done.  We didn't plan it that way -- but that's the way it turned out...

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)
Jezebel (1941) / Golden Gate Quartet

Ever-Loving Light Segment:  Charlie Poole

North Carolina banjoist Charlie Poole is now being considered by some to be the Granddaddy of Country Music after recent critical examinations of his career, certainly helped along by last year’s excellent boxed set from Columbia, “You Ain’t Talkin’ To Me – Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music.”  The following songs came from that set…

Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues (1925) / Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers
If I Lose, I Don't Care (1927) / Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers
Good-Bye Sweet Liza Jane (1930) / Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers

Bill Mason (1929) / Charlie Poole [...a good way to follow Charlie Poole]
Charles Guiteau (1927) / Kelly Harrell [Guiteau assasinated President Garfield]
Little Bessie (1929) / The Alabama Barnstormers
Johnny Grey (1938) / Uncle Dave Macon [the fiddle-banjo duo closing this song is goosebumpy!]
Wild Bill Jones (1938) / Wade Mainer & The Sons of the Mountaineers
Sweet Jennie Lee (1935) / Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies [Daddy of Western Swing]
Frankie Dean (1930) / Tom Darby & Jim Tarlton
George Collins (1927) / Roy Harvey & the North Carolina Ramblers
Tom Dooley (1929) / G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter
Frankie & Johnny (1929) / Jimmie Rodgers
Darling Cora (1927) / B.F. Shelton
Henry Lee (1932) / Dick Justice
Willie Moore (1927) / Burnett & Rutherford
Ommie Wise (1927) / G.B. Grayson
My Name Is John Johanna (1927) / Kelly Harrell [some whistling for our pal Ray in New London…]
Bandit Cole Younger (1930) / Edward L. Crain
John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man (1930) / The Carter Family
Stackalee (1927) / Frank Hutchison
Poor Ellen Smith (1960) / Hobart Smith [Bill Monroe called him the best old-time banjo player…]

The next two songs were from the earliest recordings of Doc Watson – thanks to Ralph Rinzler]

Sally Ann (1962) / Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley
Handsome Molly (1961) / Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton

Diamond Joe / Ramblin’ Jack Elliot [for our friend Jack…]
Bill the Barfly (1935) / Tex Ritter [wonderful and funny!]
Jesse James / Harry McClintock [from the writer of “Big Rock Candy Mountain”]
Betsy (1947) / Roy Rogers
The Ballad of Davy Crockett (1955) / Bill Hayes
Pretty Mary (1947) / Gene Autry
Louis Collins (1928) / Mississippi John Hurt
Sam Wilson (1960s) / Hylo Brown & The Bluegrass Cut-Ups [to the tune of “Poor Ellen Smith”]
The Rebel - Johnny Yuma (1959) / Johnny Cash
Rita Mae (2006) / Dale Ann Bradley […written by Connie Leigh and on Dale Ann’s newest CD… This song won the Chris Austin songwriting contest at Merlefest 2006 in the bluegrass category]

We were preempted again for UCONN soccer beginning the second hour, but we had a great time making the first hour worth your visit.

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)
Travelin' Shoes (1938) / Golden Gate Quartet

Our Ever Loving Light segment today, 17 September, was a tribute to Hank Williams on what would have been his 83rd birthday had he not left us New Years Day, 1953.Thanks to Archie Kneeland for making sure we remembered…

I'm Not Coming Home Anymore (1942) / Hank Williams (A wonderful scratchy unreleased initial recording from Hank!)
I'm A Long Gone Daddy (1948) / Hank Williams
Mind Your Own Business (1949) / Hank Williams
Long Gone Lonesome Blues (1950) / Hank Williams
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) (1952) / Hank Williams
Your Cheating Heart (1953) / Hank Williams

We are fortunate to have discovered Kenny Roberts, the World’s Greatest Yodeler, alive and well and living in Athol, Massachusetts.  We will have him on the show as soon as we can arrange a time…

The Arizona Yodeler (1957) / Kenny Roberts
Boogie Woogie Yodel Song (1950) / Kenny Roberts
Choc'late Ice Cream Cone (1950) / Kenny Roberts
She Taught Me How to Yodel (1953) / Kenny Roberts

The following songs are from a set called Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys, and that about says it all.  They were recorded in Southern California over a half-century ago…

Hound Dog (1953) / Betsy Gay (Recorded about a week before Big Mama Thornton’s version hit the top of the R&B charts…)
I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again (1949) / Maddox Brothers & Rose (…with pedal steel player Bud Isaacs!)
Silver Stars Purple Sage Eyes of Blue (1947) / Cliffie Stone
Whoa Sailor (1949) / Hank Thompson (This was the re-recording on the Capitol label of Hank’s first hit song.)

To give the sports guys some time to set up for the soccer game, we went out with some 1941 border radio transcriptions from The Carter Family.

Broken Hearted Lover (1941) / The Carter Family
Darling Daisies (1941) / The Carter Family
Little Joe (1941) / The Carter Family
My Heavenly Home Is Bright And Fair (1941) / The Carter Family
The Last Letter (1941) / The Carter Family
Leaning On The Everlasting Arms (1941) / The Carter Family
My Old Pal Of Yesterday (1941) / The Carter Family

Then the sports guys ended the party…

We were preempted again for UCONN soccer beginning the second hour, but we had a great time making the first hour worth your visit.

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)
Pure Religion / The Golden Gate Quartet

Besides our usual opening song from the Golden Gate Quartet, by popular request we played a set of Southern Gospel recordings from the 1940s into the 1960s.  These songs are a lesson in powerful harmony singing…

I'll Meet You By the River / Stamps-Baxter Quartet
I Shall Not Be Moved / The Statesmen Quartet
He Touched Me / The Blackwood Brothers
You'll Never Walk Alone / The Oak Ridge Boys Quartet
The Old CountryChurch / The Oak Ridge Boys Quartet

Now for a set of good ole hillbilly music…

She's Too Good For Me (1930) / Rex Cole's Mountaineers
Atlanta Bound (1931) / Gene Autry
The West Ain't What It Used to Be (1939) / Carson Robison & His Pioneers
Blues Don't Mean a Thing (1949) / T. TexasTyler
Talking Boogie (1948) / Tex Williams & His Western Caravan

The following songs were our “She Done Me Wrong” set.  They were only slightly tongue-in-cheek!  I told Marti the Red Foley song “Never Trust A Woman” had the best advice of any song we’ve ever played on Red Rooster Party.

This is Marti.  Jim’s just kidding…

This is Jim.  No I’m not  ;-)

You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often / Tex Ritter (#1 on the charts this week in 1945!)
I'm Sorry We Met / Jimmie Rodgers
Never Trust a Woman / Red Foley
I'm Gonna Be Boss / Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Men With Broken Hearts / Hank Williams (Luke The Drifter) – [Thanks to Mac Palmer! ]

The following set of songs was from 1941 radio transcriptions of Charlie Monroe & the Kentucky Partners.  Most folks today have forgotten (or never knew) just how great Bill’s brother was, but this set of songs helped us remember.  By the way, Charlie’s younger brother Bill was born 9/13/1911 which would have made him 95 this coming Wednesday.

Under the Old Hickory Tree
Don't Let My Ramblin' Bother Your Mind
Sourwood Mountain
I Walk Alone
Little Liza Jane
I've Made a Covenant With My Lord
Down In Caroline

Then the sports guys ended the party…

We were preempted again for a UCONN soccer double-header for all but the last 13 minutes of the show, but we managed to slip a few work songs in before transitioning into the Bluegrass Cafe...

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)
Daniel Saw The Stone (1941) / Golden Gate Quartet
Spike Driver Blues (1928) / Mississippi John Hurt
Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy (1936) / Monroe Brothers
Hard Working Man (1965) / Jimmie Skinner   [Thanks to Archie Kneeland for this one!]

We were preempted after the first 28 minutes because UCONN had to broadcast a very important womens soccer game.  We focused a bit on Roy Acuff, but didn't carry a theme for the remaining minutes...

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Introduction
Cheer the Weary Traveler / Golden Gate Quartet
Night Train to Memphis / Roy Acuff
Freight Train Blues / Roy Acuff
Wabash Cannonball / Roy Acuff
Bomb Bash Boogie / Jack Rowe & the Wichita Mountain Boys
Automobile Baby / Jimmie Osborne
Bye Bye Black Smoke Choo Choo / Dick Unteed
Bringing In the Georgia Mail / Mac Wiseman
Ghost Train / Earl Taylor & Jim McCall w/ the Stoney Mountain Boys

 
Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Introduction
Timber (1939) / The Golden Gate Quartet

Ever-loving Light Segment: Milton Brown – The Daddy of Western Swing    

     St. Louis Blues (1935) / Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
     Taking Off (1935) / Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
     Who's Sorry Now (1935) / Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies

The following was the first recording of Orange Blossom Special by the writer, and was the first released version.  Tommy Magness recorded it a year earlier, but it was not released at that time.  Reportedly, fiddler Chubby Wise co-wrote the song with Ervin Rouse the morning after they had witnessed the first run of the Orange Blossom Special through Jacksonville, but Chubby gave Ervin the rights thinking there could be no money to be made with a fiddle song…

Orange Blossom Special (1939) / Rouse Brothers
Watermelon Smilin' on the Vine (1925) / Uncle Dave Macon
Settin' the Woods On Fire (1952) / Hank Williams
Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet (1949) / The Stanley Brothers
Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow (1927) / Carter Family [First Carter Family recording]
Bouquet of Roses (1947) / Eddy Arnold
Berry Pickin' Time (ca. 1960s) / Roy Ross & the Blue Ridge Mountaineers
Blackberry Boogie (1952) / Tennessee Ernie Ford
Mexicali Rose (1988) / Kenny Roberts [Kenny called me after the show… what a treat!]
Lily of the West (2004) / Ronstadt, Ramirez & Santa Cruz River Band

When I announced the following song on the air I mentioned that the Statlers got it from The Loving Spoonful.  Amy was in the studio at the time, and being a Statler fan and historian, corrected me by noting it was actually the other way around – the Statlers wrote and performed it first!  This was their first hit song…

Flowers on the Wall (1965) / The Statler Brothers
Wild Rose of the Mountain (1999) / The Kruger Brothers
You Are My Flower (1938) / The Carter Family
The Fields Have Turned Brown (1950) / The Stanley Brothers
Lemon Tree (1961) / The Kingston Trio
Little Blossom (1976) / Mac Wiseman
Tall Pines (1999) / Laurie Lewis
Black Eyed Daisy (1988 or 1989) / Joe & Odell Thompson
Blackberry Blossom (2003) / Greg Morton [a fantastic Tucson-based guitar picker]

13 August 2006
Amy Plays Classic Country

Amy took the helm of RRP while Jim & Marti were on vacation, and delighted listeners with some good ole classic country!

The Homestead On The Farm / Carter Family
Blue Yodel (T For Texas) / Jimmie Rodgers
My Clinch Mountain Home / Carter Family
When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Jimmie Rodgers
Wreck On The Highway / Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys
There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Elton Britt
It Makes No Difference Now / Gene Autry
You Must Be Born Again / Brown's Ferry Four
Shame On You / Spade Cooley
Rhumba Boogie / Hank Snow
Two Glasses Joe / Ernest Tubb
Lovesick Blues / Hank Williams
There Stands The Glass / Webb Pierce
I'll Be There / Ray Price
I Overlooked An Orchid / Carl Smith
When I Stop Dreaming / Louvin Brothers
Poison Love / Johnnie & Jack
Here Today And Gone Tomorrow / The Browns
Stuck Up Blues / Louvin Brothers
You Tried To Ruin My Name / Johnnie & Jack
I Heard The Bluebirds Sing / The Browns
Down The Trail Of Achin' Hearts / Hank Snow & Anita Carter
One By One / Kitty Wells & Red Sovine
Why Baby Why / Webb Pierce with Red Sovine
Love Is No Excuse / Jim Reeves & Dottie West
Sweet Thang / Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn
Billy Christian / Statler Brothers
I'm Layin' It On The Line / Don Rich
Oklahoma Hills / Tommy Collins
Buckaroo / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos
I'm A Lonesome Fugitive / Merle Haggard
Gonna Roll Out The Red Carpet / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos
The Running Gun / Marty Robbins
Country Girl / Faron Young
DetroitCity / Bobby Bare
Daddy Sang Bass / Johnny Cash

We played an unusual progression of roots music this Sunday using many rarely-heard but well-performed cuts from under-remembered artists.  We also may have set a record for the longest time span between the oldest and newest songs played on the same show.  The oldest were some 1911 cylinder recordings of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, and the newest was the world radio premier of a cut from Dale Ann Bradley’s newest CD that literally arrived by FedEx the previous morning prior to Dale Ann’s first performance at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in East Hartford.  (Jim played more of this CD on Bluegrass Café following Red Rooster Party).  Dale Ann had closed the festival just prior to Red Rooster Party’s air time, so we had to race to the studio to get there in time.  Jim had been the stage captain and Thursday emcee at Podunk.  If you weren’t there, you really missed a stellar line-up.  Make plans to be there next year!

 
Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Introduction
Job / Golden Gate Quartet
a. Shout All Over God's Heaven   b. Little David (1911) / Fisk University Jubilee Quartette/Singers
Roll Jordon Roll (1911) / Fisk University Jubilee Quartette/Singers
Hurry Down Sunshine, and See What Tomorrow Brings (1927 unissued) / Sister Morgan
Boxcar Blues (1928 unissued) / Leroy Carr
Old Timbrook Blues (1930) / John Byrd & Washboard Walter
Deal Rag (1930) / Walter Taylor (Washboard Walter)
Yodeling Radio Joe (1934) / Ramblin' Red Foley

Special "Ever-Loving Light" Segment:  Changes in the 1930s Propelling Country Music       

I'm a Wandering Bronco Rider (1920s) / Rowdy Wright
Waiting for a Train / Jimmie Rodgers
Brown's Ferry Blues (1947) / Delmore Brothers
Corrina, Corrina / Clarence Ashley
In My Dear Old Southern Home (1936) / Monroe Brothers
Just Because / Lone Star Cowboys (Bob & Joe Attlesey)
The Nashville Blues / The Delmore Brothers
The Silver Meteor / Buchanon Brothers
The Meanest Man in Town / Maddox Brothers & Rose
Get Your Kicks (from the Country Hicks) (1951) / Johnny Hicks & His Country Hicks
Give Me a Red Hot Mama and an Ice Cold Beer (1953) / Smiley Maxedon
Salty Boogie (1954) / Little Jimmy Dickens
The Sissy Song (ca. 1951-3) / Neal Burris
Dirty Dishes (ca. 1951-53) / Cliffie Stone and His Hometown Jamboree Gang
Honky Tonk Blues (ca. 1951-53) / Eddie Marshall & the Trail Dusters
I've Lived A Lot in My Time, (vocal by Jimmie Johnson) / Jack Rhodees & His Lone Star Buddies
One Wheel Draggin' / Lloyd Weaver
She Buys, and Buys, and Buys / Billy Ray
Knock Out the Lights (and Call the Law) / Jack Hart and His Hired Hands
Jump Jack Jump / Blackie Crawford with the Western Cherokees
Buckshot / Eddie Hill
We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds (1963) / Melba Montgomery & George Jones
Lose Your Mind / Wayne Hancock
I'll Never Get Out of this World Alive (1952) / Hank Williams
One By One (1954) / Kitty Wells & Red Foley
When The Mist Comes Again (2006) / Dale Ann Bradley

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)
Pick a Bale of Cotton (1939) / The Golden Gate Quartet

The following song was requested by Ray, a working man, via e-mail...

Mama Don't Allow (1963) / J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers

  "Ever-Loving Light" segment:  Pioneering Cowboy Singer Carl T. Sprague
  When the Work's All Done This Fall (1925) / Carl T. Sprague
  The Club Meeting (1925) / Carl T. Sprague
  The Cowboy's Dream (1926) / Carl T. Sprague

Cowboy Logic (1990) / Michael Murphey
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1980) / Willie Nelson
The Cowboy Song (1996) / Dry Branch Fire Squad
Thirty Years of Farming (2002) / James King
Devil Take the Farmer (1989) / Dry Branch Fire Squad
The Honest Farmer (1989) / Dry Branch Fire Squad
On the Short Rows (2005) / Kickin' Grass
George Gudger's Overalls (1986) / Doc Watson
The Farmer is the Man Who Feeds Them All (1923) / Fiddlin' John Carson
Old Calloused Hands (1987) / Hazel Dickens
Old And In The Way (1987) / Hazel Dickens
Cotton Mill Blues (1936) / Daddy John Love
Aragon Mill (1987) / Dry Branch Fire Squad
The Cotton Mill Song (2005) / MistyValley Boys

We recently discovered a North Carolina songwriter, "Sharp" Canupp, who had many of the same textile town experiences we had, and wrote songs about them.  We were able to interview Sharp on the show...

Cotton Mill Town (2005) / Gerald "Sharp" Canupp
On-air interview with Gerald "Sharp" Canupp
The Old Mill House (2005) / Gerald "Sharp" Canupp

Dark as a Dungeon (1979) / Merle Travis
The Miner's Wife (1963) / Merle Travis
Blue Diamond Mines (1993) / JohnsonMountain Boys
True and Trembling Brakeman (1931) / Lullaby Larkers (Cliff Carlisle & Wilbur Ball)
Death of John Henry (1926) / Uncle Dave Macon

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)
Way Down in Egypt Land (1939) / The Golden Gate Quartet

A new feature of the Red Rooster Party is "Ever-Loving Light*" which focuses on a pioneering roots musician.  Our first featured artist is J. E. Mainer (1898-1971).  We began with J. E. Mainer Jr. (b. 1925) describing his father's career as he was witness.  Jim conducted the interview at J. E. Jr's home...

J.E. Mainer Jr. Interview (10 April 2006)

Maple On The Hill was one of the biggest selling records of its kind in the 1930s.  Take Me In the Lifeboat was the flip side.

Maple On The Hill (1935) / J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers
Take Me In The Lifeboat (1935) / J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers
Run Mountain (1949) / J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers

Cumberland Gap (1928) / The Skillet Lickers
Johnson City Blues (1928) / Clarence Green
The Old Fashioned Cottage (ca. late 1920s) / Alfred & Oliver Reed
Down on the Banks of the Ohio (1936) / The Blue Sky Boys
That Little Old Country Church House / The Masters Family
Hold the Woodpile Down (1927) / Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers
My Clinch Mountain Home  (1929) / The Carter Family
In the Cumberland Mountains (1931) / Carson Robison, Frank Luther & Phil Crow
The Little Old Sod Shanty on My Claim (1933) / Marc Williams
Meet Me by the Icehouse, Lizzie (1935) / The Original Hoosier Hotshots
On Tanner's Farm (1934) / Gid Tanner and Riley Puckett
Montana Plains (1933) / Patsy Montana w/ The Prairie Ramblers
My Carolina Home (1938) / Fred Kirby
Swannanoa Tunnel (1949) / Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Dark Holler Blues (1929) / Clarence Ashley
East Virginia Blues (1931) / Clarence Ashley & Gwen Foster
Sourwood Mountain (ca. 1960s) / Mac Wiseman
The Old Chisholm Trail (ca. 1960s) / Golden State Cowboys
My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans (1979) /Grandpa Jones
Around the Corner Behind the Berry Tree (1957) / Bob Newman
Tennessee Border (ca. 1949) / Jimmy Work
Blue Yodel (T For Texas) (1927) / Jimmie Rodgers
When the Moon Comes Over Sun Valley (1941) / Sons of the Pioneers
Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie  (ca. 1930s) / Carson Robison
Lone Star Trail  (1930) / Ken Maynard
A Mansion on the Hill  (1948) / Hank Williams
I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven (1961) / Tex Ritter
El Paso (1959) / Marty Robbins
Wolverton Mountain (1962) / Claude King

Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Intro (1994)
God's Gonna Cut 'Em Down (1946) / Golden Gate Quartet
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (1927-29) / Dock Boggs
The Gin House Blues (1926) / Bessie Smith
Drunkard's Special (1929) / Coley Jones
If the River Was Whiskey (1930) / Charlie Poole with The North Carolina Ramblers
The Alcoholic Blues (instr) (1927-28) / De Ford Bailey
Prohibition - Yes or No, parts 1 & 2 (1930) / Gid Tanner & the Skillet-Lickers
Pass Around the Bottle and We'll All Take a Drink (1926) / Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers
Prohibition Blues (1930) / Clayton McMichen
The Old Home Brew (1937) / The Dixon Brothers

J.E. used to say that he got his first fiddle when a drunken fiddle player on the street stepped in front of a train and was killed.  J.E. returned to the scene the next day, recovered the fiddle, and had it repaired.  The fiddler had been playing “Drunkard's Hiccoughs” at the time of his demise.

Drunkard's Hiccups (1939) / J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers
Take A Drink on Me (1927) / Charlie Poole [Poole drank himself to death in 1931]
Drunken Hearted Man (1937) / Robert Johnson
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (1949) / Stick McGee and His Buddies
Cigareets, Whuskey, and Wild Wild Women (1947) / Sons of the Pioneers
Drinking All My Troubles Away (ca. 1950) / Paul Howard & His Cotton Pickers
Beer Bottle Mama (1950) / Andy Reynolds & His 101 Ranch Boys
Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine (1972) / Tom T. Hall [a request from Jett]

A person could get quite an education from studying North Carolina jurist Bascom Lamar Lunsford.  He was a prodigious writer and collector of mountain ballads, and in his later years a great talent scout of sorts.  Lunsford discovered George Pegram, the first recording artist on the Rounder label.  “Old Mountain Dew” was a Lunsford original that achieved great fame with versions by Grandpa Jones and The Stanley Brothers.

Dedication (1949) / Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Old Mountain Dew (1949) / Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Drinking of the Wine (1949) / Bascom Lamar Lunsford
The Poor Drunkard's Dream (ca. 1937) / Wade Mainer & the Sons of the Mountaineers
Bay Rum Blues (1931) / Clarence Ashley & Gwen Foster
Moonshine Man Blues (1941) / Peter Cleighton with Blind John Davis
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