W.Lee O'daniel With The Light Crust Doughboys 1933-38 (CD)

(2005/ORIGIN JAZZ LIBRARY) 29 titres avec livret de 28 pages. Bien W. Lee O'Daniel (1890-1969) n'a jamais chanté ou joué un Instrumen Il était l'un des chiffres les plus importants dans Early Western Swing. En 1930, le vendeur de farine Erstwhile a été le premier porte-parole de la Radio de The Light Crust Doughboys. Donnant un autre groupe, The Hillbilly garçons, O'Daniel Successfulla couru pour le gouverneur du Texas avec une combinaison de discours, la poésie et cordes Hot Band Music. Ce CD Faits saillants enregistrements effectués par ces deux groupes entre 1933 et 1938.

W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys

W. Lee O'Daniel: leader; Leon Huff: vocal/guitar; Curly Perrin: guitar; Pat O'Daniel: tenor banjo; Wallace Griffin: string bass; Carroll Hubbard: fiddle; Mike O'Daniel: fiddle

The Rodgers influence, insofar as western swing groups was concerned, generally came from a handful of singers. The main ambassadors in these groups were Tommy Duncan and Leon Huff. Huff (1912-1952) joined the Light Crust Doughboys in Fort Worth in 1933, hired by W. Lee O'Daniel to replace Milton Brown when Brown quit to form his band, the Musical Brownies. Huff brought a love for Jimmie Rodgers songs to the Doughboys; he would perform and record several of these during his time with O'Daniel, both with the Doughboys and later with O'Daniel's second group, the Hillbilly Boys, the band that campaigned with O'Daniel in his gubernatorial run in 1938. Huff recorded his sprightly version of Yodeling Ranger with this group in June 1937. The song had been written by Raymond Hall in 1931 on the occasion of Rodgers' honorary induction into the Texas Rangers. Rodgers didn't record the song until his last session, in New York in May 1933, when he was more dead than alive.