Barry "Mr. Good Taste" Mazor says:
> >Jon Weisberger wrote:
> >t the Collector's Choice Tillman CD that has a couple dozen of
> >> Floyd's Columbia records, is now
> >> available through regular retail channels. Oh, baby.
>
>
> So these would be all those key late-40s cuts missing from the
> Hall of Fame
> comp--and not just those 3 cuts I've had on the Columbia "Honky Tonk
> Heroies" comp? Oh Baby indeed.
That's correct; 2 dozen cuts made between 1946 and 1952.
> In a related area, I've also just been catching up with--and really
> admiring and liking--the smooth honky tonk of Jimmy Wakely. Got a
> hard-to-locate comp while in Austin called "Million Sellers" on
> the obscure
> but apparently legit "Country Legends/KRB" label...
> But the larger and recent Capitol Vintage comp seems to have disappeared
> as suddenly and quietly as it appeared, so I have to keep checking for
> that.
> Any other recommendations there?
Simitar, a label about which I know nothing more than what it says on their
website (http://www.simitar.com), has a nice 12-cut selection that's very
badly annotated (the sum total of recording info is that the cuts "were made
in the 1940s"). It might be transcription stuff from when he was on Autry's
radio show, or from his movies made for Monogram. Nothing really famous on
it, unless you count what I guess must be the original version of "Too
Late," which folks might know from the Louvin Brothers' version (Wakely
wrote it), but it's good stuff; Wakely was awfully consistent.
That's bad news about the Capitol Vintage comp.
Jon Weisberger, Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger
