re: Classic Country Jukebox

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Kitty Wells on tour

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The blond guy third from right is KW's son, who played the radio man on McHale's Navy.



He is the last survivor of the MN cast

Coonass Country

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Tibby Edwards was a member of the KWKH Louisiana Hayride in the mid-1950s. He recorded at one time on the Mercury Record label. In 1955, he was still in his teens and already had his recording contract and working the Hayride

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1963 - very late for rockabilly.

But this is the bomb.

In 1967 CW still had a touch of rockabilly honky tonk in his soul.

Soon it would all be MOR crooning.

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Conway Twitty “Working Girl” Live on TV 1967

‘So you don’t think Conway Twitty was a badass?  Check out this clip from early in Conway’s country career, around 1967, from the PW show.  This band cooks!  John Hughey’s super funky pedal steel licks, the tight as hell rhythm section (check out the drummer’s wild stick moves in the solo!), and Conway in his prime–super confident, singing great, cool greasy hair (pre-perm wave), black suit, black telecaster.  BAD arse!  I’m not sure if PW interrupts Conway because the song is too long or because they freaked out on the song about a “working girl.” (back in those days, that meant a prostitute, which is a pretty heavy thing to be singing about on a family show like PW’s)…. R.I.P. Conway!’
–KoolKlipsFromDeke

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Since we don't have a "There was a Country cover of THAT???" thread, this will have to here: