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Tennessee Ramblers:
V.2 - The Jack Gillette Years 1939-1946 |
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In the summer of 1945, after surviving the upheaval of the War years, there was a defining split in the long-lived and nationally renowned Charlotte, North Carolina-based band the Tennessee Ramblers. After a relatively stable and very successful period following the departure of the band’s founder Dick Hartman in 1938, the wartime draft had decimated the group. But founding member Cecil Campbell and long-time band manager Jack Gillette had held the Ramblers together through the war, even travelling to Hollywood to make the bands forth movie appearance in Sundown Valley in 1944. But something happened that summer and by the end of it, there were two different Tennessee Ramblers.
Historical accounts have tended to airbrush Gillett’s 1945-1947 version of the Ramblers out of the picture and have characterized Campbell’s post-war group as a seamless continuation of the pre-war band. But not only had Gillette been the band’s manager for some years by this time, his post-war group was popular, and highly lauded in the hillbilly press of the day. Gillette eventually gave up the band and the name, perhaps because Campbell, as a member of the original group had a right to the Tennessee Ramblers tag. Jack Gillette’s tenure as a manager of the group was in some ways the most successful of the band’s long history. |
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Track Listing
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Trumpet Talking Blues
Don’t Put A Tax On The Beautiful Girls
Carry Me Back To Carolina
Four Or Five Times
Hoochie-Koochie-Koo
The Washboard Man
Doug Ain’t Doin’ The Jitterbug
I’ve Love To Be A Cowboy
I’ll Never Let You Cry
Hard Hearted Love
Coquette
Grab Your Saddle Horn And Blow
Blue Eyed Baby
Sweet Mama Tree Top Tall
I’m Through Wishing On Stars
Come Swing With Me
Steel Guitar Swing
I Love Hawaii
Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep
In The Same Old Way
Nothing To Lose
Timber Trail (Opening Theme)
Can’t Win, Can’t Place, Can’t Show
Trouble In Mind
I’ll Pray You’ll Be Mine Bye And Bye
Yum Yum Blues
My Sweet Little Blue Eyed Baby |
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| Label |
BACM - British Archive Of Country Music |
| Number |
288 |
| Subsidiary Artists: |
Jack Gillette |
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