The Bob Wills Band and the Spade Cooley band competed. and Spade won. But it was just a local group that did it in Hollywood. Needless to say, Bob Wills is THE king of western swing, and my hero.

Spade Cooley (King Of Western Swing) & His Band.

Spade Cooley And His Band. Square Dances (Album). It's Dark Outside, Minuet In Swing ‎(Shellac, 10"). Spade Cooley (King Of Western Swing) And His Band. Red Hot Polka, Who Dug This Hole I'm In ‎(Shellac, 10").

Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the genre's decline.

Performer: Spade Cooley (King of Western Swing) and his Band Writer: Cindy Walker. Digitized from a shellac record, at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record. They are . mil truncated eliptical, . mil truncated conical, . mil truncated conical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with Turnover: 40., Rolloff: -1.

You Better Do It Now. King Of Western Swing, Vol. 4. Remember. 5. Spade Cooley 11//2013. 1 A Pair of Broken Hearts Spade Cooley 2:54. 21 Minuet in Swing Spade Cooley 2:29. 22 Three Fiddle Rag Spade Cooley 2:37. 23 Snow Deer Stomp Spade Cooley 1:59. 32 It's Dark Outside Spade Cooley 2:35. 33 Lord Nottingham's War Dance Spade Cooley 2:14. 34 Worried Mind Spade Cooley 2:13.

Album · 1996 · 26 Songs. Spade Cooley & Smokey Rodgers. 13. One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart). Spade Cooley & Becky Barfield. 14. Spade Cooley Time. Spade Cooley and His Orchestra. Classic Western Swing. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys.

Listen free to Spade Cooley – King Of Western Swing, Vol. 5 (Stompin' at the Riverside, Te Amo My Love and more). 26 tracks (). Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last. Connect to this site.

This album is an excellent collection of radio transcripts from 1944 and early 1945 that are previously unreleased. Spade Cooley's band played a superb brand of Western Swing(California style). The instrumentals are performed with verve and gusto. The Vocals, by Tex Williams, are smooth and exude an earnest sincerity. While I think it's pretty good, that's about the best I can give it now. I have a lot of western swing music that I like better. I would not purchase it again if my present copy was lost or damaged.

JSP's outstanding four-CD Bob Wills anthology consists of 100 classic Western swing performances recorded between September 1935 and April 1940 in Dallas, Fort Worth, Chicago, and Saginaw. Wills heard live big-band broadcasts originating hundreds of miles away and began combining stylistic tropes that were unmixable according to entrenched bigoted social convention.