ZEB'S MOUNTAIN BOOGIE-Owen Bradley and the Tennesseans (Bullet-1946)

From 1946, here are Owen Bradley and The Tennesseans with "Zeb's Mountain Boogie," with the song's composer Zeb Turner on guitar solo.

Patsy Montana - I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart - (ORIGINAL) - (1935).

For all you Patsy Montana fans out there, here's Patsy along with the Prairie Ramblers with her original version of her self-penned "I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart."



Recorded in Chicago on August 16, 1935. 



Issued on Vocalion, Conqueror,  and Melotone Records (all of them ARC labels).



Enjoy!

Prairie Ramblers - That Old Home Town Of Mine (Is Still Alive) (1935 hot...

Here's music by the Prairie Ramblers, "That Old Home Town Of Mine (Is Still Alive).



Personnel:



Tex Atchinson, fiddle/vocal



Chick Hurt, mandolin



Salty Holmes, guitar



Jack Taylor, string bass



No Patsy Montana.  Sorry.



Recorded on March 28, 1935 in New York City and released on Melotone Records, one of the ARC labels.

Milton Brown, Darktown Strutters Ball. Chicago 1935

From Decca Records in 1935, here's music by Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies, that old chestnut "Darktown Strutters' Ball."



Recorded on January 28, 1935 at Chicago.

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Steel Guitar Rag (1936)

Here's music by Bob Wills and his Playboys.  "Steel Guitar Rag" features the song's composer Leon McAuliffe on steel guitar.



Recorded in Chicago on September 29, 1936 and released on Vocalion Records, an American Record Corporation label.

I have decided to rename this blog (The Spice of the Program) and redirect its' focus from Educational Pictures' short subjects of the 1930s to Western Swing (as well as Hillbilly Boogie) from the 1930s to the 1950s (and sometimes later).

This Is A Pre-Code Terrytoon? With Farmer Al?!?!

From Terrytoons in 1932, we bring you just about the most pre-Code oriented cartoon from that studio.   It's entitled "Farmer Al Falfa's Ape Girl." With music by Philip A. Scheib, this cartoon, complete with original main titles, was produced and directed in New York City by Frank Moser and Paul Terry.

Originally released through Educational Film Exchanges.

Time For An Old Terrytoon

From Terrytoons in 1935, we present "Football." Made at New Rochelle, New York on behalf of Educational Pictures, the cartoon, with original main titles, was produced and directed by Paul Terry and Frank Moser, with music by Philip A. Scheib.



Released theatrically by Twentieth Century-Fox.