Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys - The Pee Wee King Collection 1946-58 (CD)

Pee Wee King was a singer, bandleader, accordionist and fiddle player who was a highly successful country artist of the post-war era, specialising in western swing and dance music with his band The Golden West Cowboys. He was famously associated with the hit song "The Tennessee Waltz" which he wrote with his featured singer Redd Stewart, and which was recorded by many other artists. He was of Polish descent, and specialised in polkas and waltzes, introducing them into his country repertoire, and became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1937, introducing on-stage dancers and flashy stagewear. He did not make his first records until 1946, but soon racked up a string of hits. This excellent-value 83-track 3-CD set comprises selected A & B sides of his releases on the Bullet and RCA-Victor label during this era, and features at least one side of a significant proportion of his 100 or so releases from these years, which represented the primary heyday of his recording career. It features all his ten career chart entries, including the pop & country No. 1 "Slow Poke", and the Top 10 country hits "Tennessee Waltz", "Tennessee Polka", "Bonaparte's Retreat", "Silver And Gold", "Busybody", "Bimbo" and "Changing Partners". The recordings range across the spectrum of country music from pure western swing through country-pop ballads and novelty material to polkas, waltzes and old-time country dances, along with the familiar staples of lifestyle-related cowboy music. It's a thoroughly entertaining showcase for one of the genre's highly influential performers

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Tennessee Central Number 9
2. Steel Guitar Rag
3. Texas Toni Lee
4. Kentucky Waltz
5. I Hear You Knockin'
6. Ten Gallon Boogie
7. Don't Feel Sorry for Me
8. Tennessee Waltz
9. Rootie Tootie
10. Gotta Climb Those Golden Stairs
11. Juke Box Blues
12. Everytime I Feel the Spirit
13. Forty-Nine Women
14. Quit Honkin' That Horn
15. New York to New Orleans
16. Bull Fiddle Boogie
17. The Ghost and Honest Joe
18. Bonaparte's Retreat
19. The Waltz of Regret
20. I Lost My Love (The Color Song)
21. Tennessee Tears
22. Alabama Moon
23. Get Together Polka
24. Tennessee Polka
25. The Nashville Waltz
26. You Call Everybody Darlin'

Disc: 2

1. Black Eyed Susie (Divide the Ring)
2. Fire on the Mountain (Dip and Dive)
3. Devil's Dream
4. Rag Mop
5. Blame It All on Nashville
6. Birmingham Bounce
7. What, Where and When
8. Cincinnati Dancing Pig
9. We're Gonna Go Fishin'
10. Mop Rag Boogie
11. River Road Two Step
12. Helegged, Hilegged
13. No One But You
14. The Strange Little Girl
15. Slow Poke
16. Two Roads
17. Silver and Gold
18. Ragtime Annie Lee
19. Busybody
20. I Don't Mind
21. Two Faced Clock
22. Spanish Two-Step
23. My Adobe Hacienda
24. Steel Guitar Rag
25. San Antonio Rose
26. The One Rose
27. The Crazy Waltz
28. Railroad Boogie

Disc: 3

1. Screwball
2. Last Night on the Back Porch
3. Your Kisses Aren't Kisses Any More
4. Ricochet
5. Changing Partners
6. Bimbo
7. Deck of Cards
8. Huggin' My Pillow (And Dreaming of You)
9. Backward, Turn Backward
10. Indian Giver
11. Keep Your Eye on My Darling
12. I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango
13. Tweedle Dee
14. You Can't Hardly Get Them No More
15. Woodchopper's Ball
16. Melody of Love
17. Plantation Boogie
18. Beauty Is As Beauty Does
19. Seven Come Eleven
20. Peek a Boo Waltz
21. Blue Suede Shoes
22. Hoot Scoot
23. Absolutely Positively
24. I'll Be Walking Alone in the Crowd
25. A Catchy Tune
26. Congratulations, Joe
27. Unbreakable Heart
28. You Were Only Fooling (While I Was Falling in Love)
29. So Tired