Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1700

Our gospel tune today is People Get Ready by the Kruger Brothers.  A wonderful song with some great banjo and guitar.  Its on their Best Of CD.  Hope you enjoy all seven minutes of it. 

https://youtu.be/2xGfPpXNCfM

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1699

We'll close out Tex Week with Tex Fletcher & His Lonely Cowboys performing Yodel Lady.  The tune was recorded on October 8, 1937 and is available on his British Archives of Country Music CD The Lonely Cowboy.

https://youtu.be/jKo1EXdDmSE

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1698

Since the previous songs this week were with Tex Williams and T. Texas Tyler, let's just make it a Tex Week with Tex Ritter and his 1945 recording of Bad Brahma Bull. 

https://youtu.be/S6MbTlLR0OE

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1697

Why slow things down when we have T. Texas Tyler swingin' away with Much More Than The Rest.  The tune is on most of his collections including the Collector records Boppin' Hillbilly series. 

https://youtu.be/CJAXXB15kig

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1636

We always start the week swingin', so here's Spade Cooley & Tex Williams - Crazy 'Cause I Love You.  The tune reached #4 on the 1947 charts and is available on the CD Spadella!

https://youtu.be/g-tBQn9cvhc

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1695

Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice entered the Rounder studios to recreate the great "brother" sound from country and bluegrass.  The excellent result was the 1980 album Skaggs & Rice, from which we have chosen Mansions For Me. 

https://youtu.be/CFRMj_n9WEQ

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1694

Time for some Country Roots.  Here's the Mobile Strugglers with one of my favorite tunes - Memphis Blues.  The tune is on the CD Violin, Sing The Blues For Me:  African-American Fiddlers, 1926-1949. 

https://youtu.be/jt6BEhW72LQ

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1693

It's a Swingin' Tuesday and we have a good one.  It meets the tastes of renowned western cartoonist A-10 Etcheverry, as it is one of those "blue" recordings, full of sexual innuendo.  I like it because we get to hear an unissued recording with some great breaks by fiddler Jimmy Thomason and pianist Moon Mullican. The tune, Fruit Wagon Gal, was recorded in Hollywood on March 3, 1942 and you'll find it on the CD You Oughta See My Fanny Dance:  Previously Unissued Western Swing, 1935-1942.

https://youtu.be/rmYeH35PZhY

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1692

Our gospel tune today is Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper's 1959 recording of a song written by Don Gibson, There's A Big Wheel. 

https://youtu.be/mxB-KO1UbdU

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1691

Today we present a side of Red Foley you may not have heard:  a cowboy singer.  This is Montana Moon which was recorded in Chicago on March 4, 1941. 

https://youtu.be/wcNfPk8e6Bw

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1690

Here's a bluegrass classic, performed by the Stanley Brothers (Carter & Ralph):  Rank Stranger.   The tune was recorded in Cincinnati on July 11, 1960. 

https://youtu.be/uhLCVNELGEk

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1689

Our selection today is Leon Merritt - Wishin' I Was Kissin' You.  The tune is on the CD Coral Hillbilly Vol. One.  The Westerner http://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

https://youtu.be/iVIK8wGFm8k

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1688

Its Swingin' Monday and we have I Can't See Texas From Here by Jason Allen.  The tune is on his Something I Dreamed CD. 

https://youtu.be/FRZFx9RAIDg

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1687

 A little bluegrass today with Bill Clifton & The Dixie Mountain Boys performing Are You Alone.  The tune is on his CD The Early Years 1957-1958. 

https://youtu.be/BmW867PjhsU

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1686

We like country here at Ranch Radio and you don't get much more country than Jimmy Work - When She Said You All.  The tune is on the CD Dot Hillbilly Vol. 1.

https://youtu.be/EuTp__10OHM

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1685

Here's an early tune by Don Gibson: Walkin' In The Moonlight.  The tune was recorded in Nashville in 1951 for the Columbia label. 

https://youtu.be/WKktzBT3U7Y

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1684

Here's a nice western swing number by Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard & Ray Price from their 2007 CD Last Of The Breed.  The tune is Please Don't Leave Me Any More Darlin'. 

https://youtu.be/A7OEHv_MX1s

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1683

The classic bluegrass ensemble and sound was born when Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs became members of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys and I don't believe the harmony vocals of Monroe & Flatt have ever been duplicated.  A good example is one of the last tunes they recorded together - Toy Heart (Chicago, September 16, 1946). 

https://youtu.be/cwO-nEbLUgM

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1682

Today we have a country classic, Jim Reeves' recording of Bimbo.  The tune was recorded in Shreveport for the Abbott label in October of 1953. 

https://youtu.be/hN0JMJCpcRQ

Ranch Radio Song Of The Day #1681

Today's selection is Big Mable Murphy by Dallas Frazier.  I vividly remember the first time I heard this song.  My cousin Rand and I were listening to KHEY when we pulled in to a set of pens in the East Pasture.  The song was about half over and I didn't want to get out of the pickup.  I went for over two weeks without knowing what happened to Scarface!!  The tune is on Frazier's 1971 album My Baby Packed Up My Mind And Left Me. 

https://youtu.be/nczTFTfnjzI