Smokey Warren

*12-08-1916, +30-10-2005
by Mario Manciotti, Praguefrank
SESSIONS also recorded with Shorty Warren & His Western Rangers with solo vocals or vocal duets as by Warren Brothers
1953 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren
I WASN'T FREE Cattle LP-50
GOLDEN GATE EXPRESS Cattle LP-50
BACK IN '52 Cattle LP-50
1955 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren
PRISONER'S DREAM Yale 250 Cattle LP-50
1956 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren
I WONDER WHERE YOU ARE TONIGHT Cattle LP-50
BALL OF FIRE Yale 250 Cattle LP-50
WHERE WAS MY MIND? Cattle LP-50
1957 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren
LET ME DOWN AGAIN Cattle LP-50
1958 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren
SMOKEY'S POLKA –instr.- Yale 250 Cattle LP-50
1958 unknown – Smokey Warren
PRISONER’S DREAM Roulette 7006
BALL OF FIRE Roulette 7006
1958 unknown – Warren Brothers
NECESSARY TO ME Cool 105
I WONDER WHERE YOU ARE TONIGHT Cool 105
ca December 1958 unknown – Smokey Warren
UNKNOWN
SELFISH HEART
ca January 1959 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren & Dottie Mae
SUGAR DOLL Yale Y-101
SOMETHIN’ WONDERFUL Y-101
Spring 1959 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren & Shorty Warren
SO BAD Flame 111
YOU’RE GONNA GRIEVE WHEN I LEAVE Flame 111
1959 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren
THE LETTER EDGED IN BLACK Cattle LP-50
1961 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren
TRUCK DRIVER'S RIDE –instr.- Cattle LP-50
WHEN YOU AND I WERE YOUNG MAGGIE –instr.- Cattle LP-50
ca early 1960s unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren
unknown tracks for Y-1000
ca early 1963 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren
I DREAMED OF AN OLD LOVE AFFAIR Flamingo 542
BALL OF FIRE Flamingo 542
1960s unknown – Smokey Warren (Earl Bateman [calls])
DAISEY MAE ROUND Diplomat DS 2609
SHAKERAG - OPRY HOEDOWN Diplomat DS 2609
FLATROCK FIDDLER Diplomat DS 2609
FOX RUN-A-ROUND Diplomat DS 2609
GOOD OLE' COUNTRY MUSIC Diplomat DS 2609
VIRGINIA BLUES Diplomat DS 2609
SQUARE DANCE TONIGHT Diplomat DS 2609
OLD HEN SQUARE Diplomat DS 2609
TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE Diplomat DS 2609
1967 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren
WHERE THE OLD RED RIVER FLOWS Yale 226
MAGGIE Yale 226
1967 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren & Dottie Mae
U4KM-8773 RUNNING FROM ANOTHER BROKEN HEART Yale 227
U4KM-8774 MARIE Yale 227
ca 1979 unknown, NJ – Smokey Warren & Dottie Mae
JERSEY CENTRAL SPECIAL Polka Town LP-7079
BLUE EYES CRYING IN THE RAIN Polka Town LP-7079
IF TEARDROPS WERE PENNIES Polka Town LP-7079
KEYS IN THE MAILBOX Polka Town LP-7079
THERE HE GOES Polka Town LP-7079
WALK RIGHT BACK Polka Town LP-7079
HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO YODEL Polka Town LP-7079
LOOSE TALK Polka Town LP-7079
ONE ROSE Polka Town LP-7079
TEXAS WHEN I DIE Polka Town LP-7079
NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW Polka Town LP-7079
BORIK’S BOUNCE Polka Town LP-7079 – CA 79
Discography is incomplete



ALBUMS
Yale Y-1000 Yea ! Smokey - Eastern King Of Western Swing: (tracks unknown) – 6-?
Diplomat D/DS 2609 Daisy Mae Round / Smokey Warren’s Square Dances: Daisey Mae Round; Shakerag - Opry Hoedown; Flatrock Fiddler; Fox Run-A-Round; Good Ole' Country Music; Virginia Blues; Square Dance Tonight; Old Hen Square; Trail Of The Lonesome Pine – ca 66 (calls by Earl Bateman)
Yale 250 Country Music Revue: Ball Of Fire (Smokey); Good Man Is Hard To Find (Dottie Mae); Southern Home (Shorty & Smokey); Reynolds Waltz (Harvey Reynolds); Barbara Waltz (Instrumental); Letter Edged In Black (Smokey); Jersey Central Special (Shorty); Cowboy Jack (Dottie Mae); Prisoners Dream (Smokey); Sittin' And Thinkin' (Jerry Hatton); Smokey's Polka (Instrumental); Old Love Affair (Shorty) - 68
Polka Town LP-7079 The Best Of Smokey Warren & Dottie Mae: Jersey Central Special; Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain; If Teardrops Were Pennies; Keys in the Mailbox; There He Goes; Walk Right Back; He Taught Me How to Yodel; Loose Talk; One rose; Texas When I Die; No One Will Ever Know; Borik’s Bounce – ca 79
Cattle LP-50 The Eastern King Of Western Swing: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight; Prisoner's Dream; Ball Of Fire; Where Was My Mind?; I Wasn't Free; Let Me Down Again; Truck Driver's Ride (Inst.); The Letter Edged In Black; When You And I Were Young Maggie (Inst.); Golden Gate Express; Back In '52; Smokey's Polka - 63

SINGLES (very incomplete)
Roulette (1958)
7006 Prisoner’s Dream / Ball Of Fire - 58
Cool (1958)
105 Necessary To Me / I Wonder Where You Are Tonight – 58 Warren Brothers
Yale (1959-)
Y-101 Sugar Doll / Somethin' Wonderful – 03-59 w. Dottie Mae (rev. March 23)
226 Where The Old Red River Flows / Maggie - 67
227 Running From Another Broken Heart / Marie – 67 w. Dottie Mae
Flame
111 So Bad / You’re Gonna Grieve When I Leave – 59 w. Shorty Warren
Flamingo (1963)
542 I Dreamed Of An Old Love Affair / Ball of Fire – 63