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clever invitation to 8th Annual National Country Music DJ Very WSM’s Pos. Last Pos. Last Festival being sent out on a 45 rpm disk featuring the voices of “Opry” stars Week Week Roy Acuff, Gilly Grammer, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Marty Robbins, Hank Snow, COUNTRY GIRL TENNESSEE STUD (13) the Wilburn Bros, and Opry program manager Ott Devine. . . . Tillman (3) 1 Faron 21 Eddy Arnold (RCA Victor 7542 Franks, artist service director of KWKH-Shreveport’s “Louisiana Hayride,” Young (Capitol 4233) ) infos that Johnny Horton and the Gays guested on the 10/24 show. Roy Acuff, the Wilburn Bros, and June Webb will be in for the 1 AIN'T NEVER (1) CHAIN GANG (23) . 10/31 stand at Shreveport’s Municipal Auditorium. 2 Webb Pierce (Decca 30923) 22 Freddie Hart (Columbia 41456) . . . Don Grashey, Zero Records prexy, notes that the label’s initial releases, Brad Reynolds’ etching of
‘ Pretty Polly” b/w “Georgie Porgie” and Orella I WHO SHOT SAM (14) /JT J Myers’ “Gonna Spend My Time” b/w “Give a Little THREE BELLS (2) 23 George Jones (Mercury 71464) Time,” getting good early DJ reaction. Zero, head- 3 The Browns (RCA Victor 7555) quartered in Vancouver, B. C., will service deejays who wi’ite them at 1620 Barclay St. or call Mutual Bragg’s MY LOVE AND LITTLE ME (28) 2-4366. . . . Gabe Tucker items that Doug PARTNERS (5) 24 Margie Bowes (Hickory 1102) latest “D” platter, “Unfinished Castle,” is breaking 4 Jimmy Reeves (RCA Victor 7557) out all over. He adds that the yodeling guitar player
is very proud of his 3/4 Chatau Indian heritage. . . . GIVE ME DEATH (26) Sterling Blythe, who recently completed six weeks at UNDER YOUR SPELL the Show Boat in Las Vegas, cut a Sage session in 25 Skeeter Davis (RCA Victor 7570) AGAIN (7) Nashville 10/12 and then left for a one-month tour BRAD REYNOLDS 5 Ray Price (Columbia 41977) of the mid-west. He reopens at the Show Boat 12/1. Buck Owens (Capitol 4245) CABIN IN . THE * . . H ank and Juanita Huggins and the “Kaytre Jam- HILLS (30) 1 boree” gang of KTRE-TV-Lufkin, Texas, recently headlined the show at the 26 Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (Columbia annual Peanut Festival at Grapeland, Tex. Featured on the 3-year-old, radio- DON'T TELL ME YOUR 41389) TV simulcast “Jamboree” are Bobby Byrd, Bill Lendernian, Don Manley and a D TROUBLES (6) Bill Pollard. . . . Hank Snow (and his Rainbow Ranch Boys), who last week Don Gibson (RCA Victor 7566) toured the New England area, smashing through with his latest Victor BATTLE OF i AiiAkir a . . Bill waxing, “The Last Ride”. . Dixon, KDXE-N. Little Rock, Ark., sends 27 along his plea for C&W records for the young station. . . . Charles Under- Homer & Jethro (RCA Victor 7585) 1 GOT STRIPES (4) wood, president of Richwood Records, and Paul Ritchv up to the office last 7 / Johnny Cash (Columbia 41427) £ week to tell us about their cross-country jaunt in be- half of their ‘Framed”—“Alright Again” country- SAL'S GOT A SUGAR LIP (17)
pop pairing. . . . The Louvin Bros., Charlie and Ira, 28 Johnny Horton (Columbia 41437) are booked into the Flame Club, Minneapolis, from o SAME OLD ME (16) 12/23 thru 1/2. They’ll have their families with them 0 Ray Price (Columbia 4197 7) since they’re spending Christmas & New Year’s away GRIN AND BEAR IT (22) from home. 29 Jimmy Newman (MGM 12812) * * * * * THE LAST RIDE (10) Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys head- 9 Hank Snow lined the huge Texas State Fair, one of the largest (RCA Victor 7586) OUR CHURCH in the U.S., for the 7th straight year. Following the YOUR WEDDING (32) left 30 ten-day stand there, they on a tour of the west, Roy Drusky (Decca 30943) being joined by Merle Travis and Wanda Jackson ('TIL) 1 KISSED YOU (8) 10/31 for ten days. . . . The Jim Denny Artist Bureau 10 Everly Bros. (Cadence 1369) booked a two-weeker at Harold’s Club, Reno, starting NINETY-NINE (29) 11/2 for the Judy Lynn Show, featuring Pat Kelly DOUG BRAGG 31 Bill Anderson (Decca 30914) and the Shamrocks. . . . Tex Davis, WLOW-Norfolk, JIMMY BROWN Va., has signed new Columbia artist Johnnie Humbird THE NEWSBOY (12) with the Denny Bureau and the Cedarwood Talent Agency. Humbird’s first 11 Mac Wiseman (Dot 15946) THERE'S A BIG WHEEL (47) Columbia disk, “Swamp Bird” b/w “Your Porch Light is Burning,” experienc- 32 Wilma Lee 8, Stoney Cooper !
each was made a Kentucky Colonel. . . . Rocky Rauch and the Rhythmaires keeping busy with dances, p.a.’s IGMOO (42) ballroom gigs and Air Force service club shows be- NEXT TIME (20) 34 Stonewall Jackson (Columbia 41458) sides their regular shows on KRLC-Lewiston, Idaho. 14 Ernest Tubb . . . Leon McAuliff and his Cimarron Boys had Ferlin (Decca 30952) Husky as a special guest 10/17 on the opening show of their new TV series being viewed in Tulsa and ARE YOU WILLING, WILLIE . . (— Oklahoma City. . Bill Anderson, Decca recording A WOMAN'S INTUITION (27) 35 artist, who recently completed Marion Worth (Cherokee 5 03) a 10-day Canadian tour 15 Wilburn Brothers (Decca 3096S) for A. V. Bamford, out with “Dead or Alive” b/w
“It’s Not the End of Everything”. . . . Ramblin’ Lou, WJJL-Niagra Falls, N. Y., has an Opry package HEARTACHES BY LITTLE DUTCH GIRL (39) that includes Ernest Tubb, Skeeter Davis, Hawkshaw THE NUMBER (15) 36 George Morgan (Columbia 41420) Hawkins and Jean Shepard coming in to play Niagara 16 Ray Price (Columbia 41374) STERLING BLYTHE Falls 11/1, Batavia, N. Y. 11/2 and Syracuse 11/3. . . . Bradley J. Brown, vice president of Country Jubi- MOON JOE lee Records, is happy with the results the new diskery (40) DECK OF CARDS (25) Lawton Williams has gained. He’s excited about CJ’s latest release, “They Said It Couldn’t 37 17 Wink Martindale (Dot 15968) (RCA Victor 7580) Be Done” b/w “The Wife of a Hard Working Man” by Les Waldrop and his
Carolinians. ... * *
George N. Haxell, Co-editor of the ‘Country-Western Express,’ JOHNNY REB (9) sends NO REGRETS (43) along the following items Britain: received its 18 Johnny Horton (Columbia 41437) from “Country music biggest 38 Carl Belew (Decca 30947) boost from any U.K. label when Capitol promoted a ‘Country Music Week’ (10/2-10/9). The promotion covered its own artists but will do much to popular- ize C&W music as a whole throughout Great Britain. . . . ‘Grand Ole Opry’ I'M BEGINNING SAILOR TV films are causing such a stir being shown in the Wales area only that TO FORGET YOU (21) MAN (43) ^ 19 39 Johnnie ITV is planning to run the entire series of 96 films over all channels, thereby Jim Reeves (RCA Victor 7557) & Jock (RCA Victor 7545)
covering most of Britain. . . . Melodise issuing good sides by Starday artists
Frankie Miller, Bill Clifton and James Eanes. . . . Mercury doing the same with Jimmie Skinner and George Jones disks. Mercury also planning a C&W OLD MOON (11) YOU TELL ME (41) 20 Betty Foley (Bandera 1034) 40 Johnny Cash (Sun EP series titled ‘Country & Western Trail Blazers’. . . . RCA issuing many 331) EP’s and singles, among which are sides by Hank Snow, Jim Reeves, Hawk- shaw Hawkins, the Browns (whose ‘Three Bells’ continues up the charts), Don Gibson, Johnnie & Jack, Homer & Jethro and Eddy Arnold. . . . Parlophone 41. THE STORM WITHIN MY HEART. 46. WHAT A PRICE TO PAY. is providing a steady flow of country music via its ‘Country and Western’ 42. JOHN WESLEY HARDIN 47. ANGEL'S CRYIN'. 43. BIG MIDNIGHT SPECIAL. 48. BALLAD OF THE BLUE PyP’s. Recent issues, culled from the U.S. King label, are by Grandpa Jones, AND GRAY. 44. EL PASO. 49. I'M JUST A NOBODY. hawkshaw Hawkins, the Delmore Bros., the York Bros, and Wayne Raney.” 45. I'M JUST AN OILFIELD BOY. 50. WHEN MY CONSCIENCE HURTS THE MOST. “ft’s What’s in THE CASH BOX That Counts—INTERNATIONALLY”