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OOoooh yeaahhhh, Here is one of Western Swing's lovable naughties, Betty Lou singing with Hartman's Heart Breakers. If these songs don't heat up your jellyroll nothing will. What a shame they only recorded 10 songs. These here are from Rambler LP 104. Another great Rambler LP that needs to be re-released on CD, but until then here they are. Enjoy.....
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Howdy pal, there´s allready a CD released on the Zirconvert label. It contains all 10 Heartbreakers Songs + all Smokey Wood songs. So both Rambler LPs on 1 CD.
Hey Hal, how you been? The Zirconvert CD has only 8 of the 10 Heartbreaker songs.
Hi, I DID love the Betty Lou's singing, you know, in our country (Chile) there's no tradition in Western Swing music, so it is quite a novelty for us here hearing this musical style. I really thank you for all these wonderful songs, ALL GROUPS are excellent.
A CURIOUS DETAIL. In the song No Huggin 'no Kissin', at time 0:40 you can hear clearly a knock, some musician dropping an instrument onto the ground accidentally? Perhaps Betty's singing was so good that the recording engineer(s) overpassed that "knocking effect".
Have a Nice Day.
Yes, it does sound like a dropped guitar. hehe. Back then especialy in the 1930s the recording engineers didn't take "hillbilly music" seriously and would normaly only allow one take, one live recording only. The music was recorded with a mobile recording studio and recorded on wax discs. It took too much time and money to retrim the wax discs to record over again, plus that Texas heat wasn't friendly with wax so the engineers wanted to get out in a hurry.
I wonder how many of us are around today because these records were made?
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