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AT THE LOUISIANA HAYRIDE TONIGHT<\/em> SPOTLIGHTS THE LEGENDARY RADIO SHOW IN A HISTORIC 20-CD BOXSET DUE OCTOBER 20th<\/strong><\/a>
\n ON BEAR FAMILY RECORDS <\/strong>
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Various – Bear Family Records
At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight (20-CD)<\/p><\/div>
\nFeaturing more than 25 hours of music, this unprecedented collection comes packed with rare performances from stars like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, June Carter, Kitty Wells, George Jones, and Webb Pierce, As Well As A Previously Unknown Hank Williams Recording<\/strong>
\nUnreleased Recording Of Hank Williams Performing  ‚ I\u2019m A Long Gone Daddy‘ On New Bear Family Records Box Set -At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight (CD-2\/track3)<\/b>
\nDATELINE, TK \u2014 For more than two decades, the Louisiana Hayride<\/em> radio show was a Saturday night staple for music lovers. Broadcast by Shreveport, Louisiana\u2019s KWKH-AM from 1948-1960, Hayride<\/em> stood as the chief rival to the now better-known Grand Ole Opry<\/em>. While the Opry favored established Nashville stars, Hayride<\/em> offered headliners and newcomers alike an opportunity to perform. It was this policy that led Hayride<\/em> to say \u201cyes\u201d to a young singer from Tupelo, Mississippi after the Opry<\/em> said \u201cno.\u201d That singer, Elvis Presley, debuted on the show in October 1954 and later made his first TV appearance on the television version in March 1955.
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AT THE LOUISIANA HAYRIDE TONIGHT<\/p><\/div>
\nPresley\u2019s 15 songs here (which include \u201cThat\u2019s All Right,\u201d \u201cBaby Let\u2019s Play House,\u201d \u201cHeartbreak Hotel,\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Be Cruel\u201d) are just a fraction of the more than 500 tunes stocking At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight<\/em><\/strong>. Bear Family Records\u2019 20-CD box set holds a treasury of long-buried live Hayride<\/em> performances \u2014 many of which have never been heard since the day they were broadcasted \u2014 with perhaps the rarest of these rarities being the previously unknown recording of \u201cI\u2019m a Long Gone Daddy\u201d by Hank Williams.
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\nThe compilation, which has been constructed in chronological order, opens with several versions of Louisiana<\/em> Hayride<\/em>\u2019s theme song, \u201cHello World.\u201d Throughout the 20 discs, songs are interspersed with show announcements, intros, ads, comedy routines and even mistakes, giving listeners a real sense of what it was like to hear the show on the radio, or to have plunked down your 60\u00a2 (or 30\u00a2 for children) for a ticket to watch it live in Shreveport\u2019s Municipal Auditorium. One of these stage announcements, in fact, is the old-time emcee Horace Logan making the now-famous proclamation that \u201cElvis has left the building.\u201d<\/p>\n

At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight<\/b><\/h3>\n

Eighteen of the set\u2019s CDs cover the classic weekly Louisiana Hayride<\/em> broadcasts that took place from April 3, 1948 until August 27, 1960. The other two CDs collect material from some post-1960 shows, along with commercial recordings made in the KWKH radio studios, promotional discs, and transcribed shows from KWKH\u2019s early days. Among the studio-recorded commercial tracks are hits by Slim Whitman, the Browns, Mitchell Torok, Jim Reeves, Mac Wiseman, and Carolyn Bradshaw. Additionally, there are 11 \u201cas live\u201d studio-recorded transcriptions that feature selections from Kitty Wells, Johnnie and Jack, Hank Williams, and Curley Williams.
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\nLouisiana Hayride<\/em> was known as \u201cThe Cradle of Stars,\u201d and At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight<\/em>\u2019s lengthy track-list provides plenty of reasons for that. The CDs\u2019 167 acts reveal a who\u2019s who of Nashville royalty (George Jones, Johnny Cash, Kitty Wells, June Carter, Roy Acuff, Webb Pierce, Faron Young, Ernest Tubb, Roger Miller, and Jim Reeves) along with regional heroes such as Cajun stars Doug and Rusty Kershaw, and California country stalwarts Rose Maddox and Wynn Stewart. The set serves as a reminder too that Hayride<\/em> was about more than just country music. Presley obviously brought rock \u2019n\u2019 roll to the show, but there was also rockabilly from Warren Smith, Werly Fairburn, and Bob Luman, bluegrass from the Louvin Brothers and Dobber Johnson, and yodeling from Slim Whitman.<\/p>\n

At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight Band<\/b><\/h3>\n

At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight<\/em> also spotlights the impressive group of regulars that included Jimmy Martin, Merle Kilgore, Charlie Walker, Red Sovine, and Johnny Horton. The house band similarly was home to many highly-regarded sidemen, like Hall of Fame pianist Floyd Cramer, slide guitar masters Jimmy Day and Shot Jackson, guitar legend James Burton, and future Presley drummer DJ Fontana.
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\nBesides presenting a wealth of little-heard recordings with stars singing their hits, the set also shows them playing cover tunes (Presley does \u201cMaybellene\u201d and \u201cLong Tall Sally\u201d), performing in a character (Ferlin Husky shows up in his comical persona Simon Crum), and doing commercials (Johnny Cash plugs Southern Maid Donuts as the \u201cbest in the world\u201d). This extraordinary release also provides the chance to enjoy the \u201canother\u201d Johnny Mathis \u2014 Johnny \u201cCountry\u201d Mathis \u2014 as well as to discover such lesser-known acts, such as Marlene Allen, Doug Bragg, Dean Evans, Fay Darling, and Joe Janka.
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\nAt the Louisiana Hayride Tonight<\/em> is the latest in the Bear Family Records\u2019 highly acclaimed series of releases exploring roots music. This collection, which comes in an LP-sized package complete with a 224-page hardcover book, not only takes a comprehensive look at Louisiana Hayride<\/em> but also offers an exhilarating portrait of the American music scene during the late \u201940s into the early \u201960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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