If you're lookin' for a rockabilly DVD - here it is!
1. It Takes A Worried Man To Sing A Worried Song - The Ranch Party Cast
2. Matchbox - Carl Perkins
3. Long Gone Daddy - Bobby Helms
4. Train Of Love - Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two
5. Flying Fingers - Joe Maphis & Larry Collins
6. In The Jailhouse Now - Skeets McDonald
7. Hoy Hoy - Collins Kids
8. You Got To Be My Baby - George Jones
9. Mexican Joe - Jim Reeves
10. Wildwood Flower - Merle Travis, Joe Maphis & Larry Collins
11. Let's Have A Party - Collins Kids
12. Cool Love - Wanda Jackson
13. Next In Line - Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two
14. Town Hall Boogie - Joe Maphis
15. Razzle Dazzle - Collins Kids
16. Trouble In Mind - Skeets McDonald
17. Oklahoma Hills - Johnny Bond
18. Wabash Cannonball - Mac Wiseman
19. Dirty Dishes - Jeannie Mack
20. Rock A Way Rock - Collins Kids & Tex Ritter
21. Under The Double Eagle - Joe Maphis & Larry Collins
22. Your True Love - Carl Perkins
23. There You Go - Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two
24. John Henry - Merle Travis
25. Hot Rod - Collins Kids
26. Hey Joe - Johnny Bond
27. New Panhandle Rag - Les Anderson
28. Bluebirds Over The Rockies - Fiddlin' Kate
29. Dixie Cannonball - Tex 'Jenks' Carmen
30. Shake, Rattle And Roll - Collins Kids
31. I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two
32. Tennessee Fiddle Swing - Joe Maphis
33. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
34. Just Because - Collins Kids
35. I've Loved And Lost Again - Patsy Cline
36. Honey Bunch - Marilyn Tuttle
37. Just For You - Lorrie Collins
38. Give My Love To Rose - Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two
39. A Fallen Star - Jimmy C Newman
40. My Lips Are Sealed - Jim Reeves
41. They're Still In Love - Collins Kids
42. Ida Red - Ranch Party Cast
Ranch Party
U.S. TV show. Four TV episodes featuring a fantastic mix of rockabilly, hillbilly and country music late 1950s style! Terrific lightning speed guitar duels between Larry Collins and Joe Maphis! Very cool 1950s rockabilly on TV! The presenter of this show was Tex Ritter, and it ran for four years. The regular announcer was Jay Stewart, who also worked on the 'Town Hall Party' shows. Excellent sound and picture quality here.
"One of the popular American Country & Western shows of the 1950s was Town Hall Party, a barn dance program put off every Saturday night in Compton, California. The West Coast's answer to the Louisiana Hayride and the Grand Ole Opry, it was broadcast first on radio and then went to TV in the Los Angeles area. The cast of Town Hall Party came to include Tex Ritter as MC, Joe Maphis and Rose Lee Maphis, Johnny Bond, Merle Travis, and Larry & Lorrie Collins ('The Collins Kids'). The program featured guest spots by many country and rock & roll artists of the day: Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent, to name a few. Bluegrass fans may be interested to know that the White brothers, Clarence and Roland, got their start as teenagers (billed as 'The Country Boys') on Town Hall Party.
The show was such a success that Screen Gems packaged 39 half-hour segments on film for TV distribution as Western Ranch Party, hosted by Tex Ritter. The series was picked up by CJON-TV in St. John's, Newfoundland and became a must-see for fans of country music at 6 o'clock every Wednesday evening on Channel 6. This was in the days before CBC-TV when CJON was the only channel and was on the air for only half the day - from early afternoon until The Late Show finished sometime after midnight."
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What this tells me is that there's LOADS more of this stuff out there!