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re: Classic Country Jukebox
Posted on 5/15/25 at 10:36 pm to Kafka
Posted on 5/15/25 at 10:36 pm to Kafka
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Drive-in movies were big business during the 1950s and 60s. The films were usually dirt cheap. In the 1950s it was juvenile delinquent films, cheap rock and roll pictures, and flying saucer themed movies. By the 1960s it was Roger Corman at AIP, the Beach Party films, and the biker movies. One of the most prominent genres among them is seldom mentioned and rarely studied - the many country and western B-films, marketed to the drive-in circuit in the days before the invention of the music video. They essentially served the same purpose, promoting country music stars within a threadbare storyline, with lapses into comic relief from the likes of Minnie Pearl, Huntz Hall, Jesse White, and Henny Youngman, depending on the film.
Among the titles were Country Music Holiday (1958), Country Music Jubilee (1960), Country Music Carnival (1964), Tennessee Jamboree (1964), Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar (1965), 40 Acre Feud (1965), Country Music on Broadway (1965), Music City USA (1966), That Tennessee Beat (1966), Country Boy (1966), Nashville Rebel (1966), Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966), The Gold Guitar (1966), Renfro Valley Barn Dance (1966), Cottonpickin’ Chickenpickers (1967), Hell on Wheels (1967), Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967), Pee Wee King’s Country Western Hoedown (1967), The Road to Nashville (1967), and From Nashville with Music (1969).
Click to watch Music City USA (1966) - one of the rarest of the bunch.
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Posted on 5/17/25 at 10:04 pm to Kafka
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I won't bother linking the very disappointing "Lie Detector". Only the year after the great "Y'all Come" and he's already going pop. But isn't that, as Congreve said, the way of the world?
Never knew "Hillbilly Heaven" was around this early ('55), Tex Ritter's hit was in '61
Posted on 5/19/25 at 7:05 pm to Kafka
1962 remake of a Roy Orbison song from his Sun rockabilly period
You can hear Bobby's sound slowly evolving
You can hear Bobby's sound slowly evolving
Posted on 5/20/25 at 4:13 pm to Kafka
For anyone interested there is a radio station in Athens Georgia, WNGC, who has a classic country Saturday night show that has been going one for about 60 years. It used to be done from Atlanta but it is the same company. They claim, or once claimed, to have the most extensive country music library in existence anywhere in the world. Thats probably not true but they do take any and all requests and in the 45 or so years that I have listened to it semi regularly I have never heard them tell anyone they did not have some obscure recording. It is impressive. Its mostly music from the "fourth generation" (70s and 80s) but it can go back to the 20s and may include hits from 8-10 years ago. It is a fantastic mix and the perfect accompaniment for a Saturday evening around a fire with an adult beverage and a cigar....I have streamed it as far away as Okinawa and listened to it regularly in Germany and the Carribean. It is well worth the effort to stream....it is commercial so there is that but the trade off is the phone calls from listeners, mostly from North Georgia but many from around the world, calling in their requests and telling the host what they are doing....its a very fun show to listen to. Its available streaming, just google WNGC 106.1 around 6 PM EST on a Saturday evening...if you like classic country music you will like it.....
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The Collins Kids (w/their Dad?) outside the TV studio where they shot Town Hall Party, Compton CA's one contribution to music
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