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A shot in the dark
A shot in the dark: making records in Nashville, 1945-1955
Martin Hawkins,
Publisher: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press & Country Music Foundation Press, 2006.
ISBN: 0826515320   DDC: 781.640976855   LCC: ML3790   Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)

Notes:

Accompanying CD: Twenty shots in the dark: Nashville's jukebox
1945-1955. Nashville, TN: Country Music Foundation, p2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-252) and indexes.

Includes discography: p. 253-300.

Walking down Broad Street -- The beginning: Bullet Records --
Standing in the safety zone: gospel on Bullet -- Nashville jumps:
Bullet and the blues -- The musical miracle: Bullet goes pop -- Music
for the world: Bullet's Nashville competition -- Bullet reloaded:
1949-1952 -- Bulleit Enterprises, Inc. -- Tennessee jamboree --
Republic: the eagle flies -- Boogie woogie jockeys -- Dot Records:
raising the standard -- The record center of the South: Nashboro and
Excello -- Broke waiting for a break: the small labels -- Publishing
folk tunes Fred Rose and Hickory Records -- Music City USA -- The end
of the beginning.

Accompanying CD: Twenty shots in the dark: Nashville's jukebox
1945-1955. Nashville, TN: Country Music Foundation, p2006.

Contents of compact disc: Zeb's Mountain Boogie / Brad Brady and his
Tennesseans -- Nashville Jumps / Cecil Grant -- Jealous Hearted Me /
Minnie Pearl with Pee Wee King and the Golden West Cowboys -- Headin'
for the Pearly Gates / John Daniel Quartet -- Near You / Francis
Craig and his Orchestra (vocal by Bob Lamm) -- Standing in the Safety
Zone / Fairfield four -- Lost Highway / Leon Payne -- Tom Tom the
Piper's son / Don Q and his orchestra (vocal by Jimmy Brown) -- Save
that Confederate Money Boys / Dottie Dillard with the Owen Bradley
Orchestra -- After we are Through / Big Jeff and the Radiio Playboys
-- Rag Mop / Johnnie Lee Wills and his Boys -- Boogie Woogie Jockey /
Jimmy Sweeney -- Music City USA / Dick Stratton and the Nite Owls --
I'm a Bible Lovin' Man / Wally Fowler and his Oak Ridge Quartet --
Down Yonder / Del Wood -- Birthday Cake / Randy Hughes -- Price You
Pay for Love / Christine Kittrell -- That's What She Wrote / Allen
Flatt with string band -- Little More Faith and Grace / Lucille
Barbee -- Too Much / Bernard Hardison.

Related External Links:

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Classification:

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Dewey Class: 781.640976855 -- General principles & musical forms
LCC Number: ML3790

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: ix, 318 p. : ill., map ; 24 x 29 cm.+ 1 sound disc.
Edition Info: (cloth : alk. paper)

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