Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

The real hotband of TinsleTown Get this CD:

If you have been disappointed by other Spade Cooley Recordings, you may have snagged some of his later recordings. Cooley wasn't much of a musician himself and was always tending toward the middle of the road. After WWII he got into firing all of his musicians and replacing them, moving the band successively closer to easy listening music. By the late 1950s Cooley was considered in the same bag as Lawrence Welch.

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Good dance music:

I originally bought the CD because of the song "South". The beat to the song just knocked me outta my socks. I heard the rest of the tunes and it just rocked. This is Spade Cooley when he played at the Santa Monica ballroom for all those years. And it is just something when that kinda playin' atmosphere is recorded. Good CD. The two songs "Topeka Polka" and "I Found A New Baby" rule.

A superb example of California Western Swing:

This album is an excellent collection of radio transcripts from 1944 and early 1945 that are previously unreleased. Spade Cooley's band played a superb brand of Western Swing(California style). The instrumentals are performed with verve and gusto. The Vocals, by Tex Williams, are smooth and exude an earnest sincerity. Bloodshot Records should be commended for releasing this CD.

Tracks:

1. One, Two
2. Steel Guitar Rag
3. South
4. Topeka Polka
5. Down Home Rag
6. Honey Song
7. Oklahoma Stome
8. One Sweet Letter From You
9. Yodeling Polka
10. Forgive Me One More Time
11. Silver Bell
12. I've Written So Many Tunes
13. Swinging The Devil's Dream
14. The Trouble With Me
15. Cowbell Polka
16. Better Do It Now

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