Various Artists: Rhythm & Western 3 Lovesick Blues (Various Artists) - COMPACT DISCS

Various Artists: Rhythm & Western 3 Lovesick Blues (Various Artists) - COMPACT DISCS

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Rhythm & Western 3 Lovesick Blues (Various Artists)

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Various Artists

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Koko-Mojo

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COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

4260072729551

Genre:

Pop

Release Date:

2022-07-01

Number of Discs:

1

Volume 3 opens with Lucky Millinder's version of the 1951 C&W classic Chew Tobacco Rag followed by velvet-voiced Jimmy Ricks (of the Ravens) doing Do You Promise a song he recorded in 1957. The Queen Dinah Washington gives a fantastic interpretation of Cold Cold Heart (Hank Williams) and Andre Williams belts out the Jimmie Davis stand You Are My Sunshine. Tunes like As You Can See by the Chips, The Big Rain by the G-Clefs, and Let's Forget About The Past are de facto Western songs marketed as R&B only because they were recorded by African-American artists. Same thing for Dog Gone by Donna Hightower. I also included famous C&W songs such as Tumblin' Tumbleweeds by King Curtis, Funny How Time Slips Away by Jimmy Elledge, another C&W classic penned by Willie Nelson and recorded by countless artists. The Marvelettes are giving Love Letters a cool new treatment, Ballad Of A Boy And Girl from 1962 by Rudy Ray Moore and Jeanie Marie Anderson it's a cleaned-up version of a fun novelty C&W song the duo will re-record again a few years later. A dirty version of the song was included in Moore's X-rated comedy album Eat Out More Often one of the first records that featured the character of Dolemite. Composer Buck Ram (who also managed the Platters, Benny Joy, and many other artists) always claimed that Only You was originally written as a country song before he gave it to the Platters, who had a planetary hit with it on Mercury records. The version on this collection is an earlier incarnation of the song (without the famous triplets arrangement etcetera) the group recorded for Federal. It's closer to the C&W version Carl Perkins recorded on his debut album for Sun than the Mercury cut that topped the charts all over the world. I always try to show that Black Gospel is actually where most White Country music comes from and A City by The Pilgrim Jubilee Singers is one of the zillion songs that sound just like Country & Western.

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