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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Shug Fisher

*26-9-1907 Grady County, Oklahoma, *16-03-1984
By Michel Ruppli, Tony Russell, Thieu Van De Vorst, Praguefrank, Luiz Roberto Costa
SESSIONS
16 July 1937 Decca Recording Studio, Pythian Temple, 135 West 70th St., New York City – Hugh & Shugh’s Radio Pals (Shug Fisher [prob. vcl-1/bass], Hugh Cross [vcl/yodel-2], Ted Grantham [fiddle], Lennie Aleshire [poss. fiddle], Buddy Ross [accordion])
H01 62398-A HONEYMOON STREAM -1 Decca 5407/BACM CD D 304
H02 62399-A UNION COUNTY 5439/BACM CD D 304
H03 62400-A ON A GREEN MOUNTAINSIDE IN VIRGINIA -1 5534/BACM CD D 304
H04 62401-A THAT’S MY PARADISE 5439/BACM CD D 304
H05 62402-A WEEPING WILLOW LANE -1 5506/BACM CD D 304
H06 62403-A SUGAR BABE 5407/BACM CD D 304
H07 62404-A THE LITTLE GIRL IN BLUE -2 5428/BACM CD D 304
H08 62405-A WHERE THE GOLDEN POPPIES GROW -1 5406/BACM CD D 304
H09 62406-A WHAT’S THE REASON (I‘M NOT PELASIN‘ YOU) 5506/BACM CD D 304
H10 62407-A THERES A BLUE SKY OVER YONDER -1 5466/BACM CD D 304
H11 62408-A BACK TO OLD SMOKEY MOUNTAINS -1 5466/BACM CD D 304
H12 62409-A NOBODY’S SWEETHEART 5534/BACM CD D 304
H13 62410-A ARE YOU FROM DIXIE? 5451 64009/BACM CD D 304
H14 62411-A MOONLIGHT AND ROSES 5406/BACM CD D 304
H15 62412-A WHEN YOU WORE A TULIP 5428/BACM CD D 304
H16 62413-A FIVE FOOT TWO, EYES OF BLUE (HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GIRL?) 5451 64009/BACM CD D 304
23 February 1945 [no. 128] poss. C.P. McGregor Studio, 729 S.Western Ave., Hollywood, CA – Wesley Tuttle & Merle Travis aka Shug Fisher & Ranchmen 3 (Shug Fisher [vcl], Wesley Tuttle [vcl], Don Whiston [gt], Frank Marvin [steel], Cliffie Stone [bass], Charles Linvill [fiddle], Margie An DeVere [fiddle])
001 577-2 THE TEXAS PLAINS Capitol 48021 AC-77
002 578-3 COOL WATER unissued
003 579-2 OUT ON THE OPEN RANGE 48021 AC-77/BCD 15637
004 580-2 THE COWBOY'S DREAM 48020 AC-77/
3 March 1945 [no. 131] poss. C.P. McGregor Studio, 729 S.Western Ave., Hollywood, CA – Wesley Tuttle & Merle Travis aka Shug Fisher & Ranchmen 3 (Shug Fisher [vcl], Wesley Tuttle [vcl], Don Whiston [gt], Frank Marvin [steel], Cliffie Stone [bass], Charles Linvill [fiddle], Margie An DeVere [fiddle])
005 589 RIDIN‘ DOWN TO SANTA FE 48006 40145 ADF 4000 AD 55/BCD 15637
006 590 WHEN THE BLOOM IS ON THE SAGE 48019 AC-77/
007 591 WHOOPEE TI YI TO (GIT ALONG,LITTLE DOGIES) 48020 AC 77
008 592 TAKE ME BACK TO MY BOOTS AND SADDLE 48019 AC 77
25 April 1945 [no T-3, transcriptions] Hollywood, CA – Shug Fisher & The Ranchmen Trio
Unknown tracks ET105/9
10 May 1945 [no T-4, transcriptions] Hollywood, CA – Shug Fisher & The Ranchmen Trio
Unknown tracks ET110/115
6 March 1946 [no T-132, transcriptions] Hollywood, CA – Shug Fisher & The Ranchmen Trio
Unknown tracks ET758/760
8 April 1946 [no T-174, transcriptions] Hollywood, CA – Shug Fisher & The Ranchmen Trio
Unknown tracks ET984/989
Probably from sessions above:
00801 OUT ON THE OPEN RANGE G-35 BACM CD D 035
00802 COWBOY'S DREAM G-35 BACM CD D 035
00803 LITTLE JOE THE WRANGLER G-35/BACM CD D 035
00804 TEXAS PLAINS G-35/ BACM CD D 035
00805 WHEN THE BLOOM IS ON THE SAGE G-36/ BACM CD D 035
00806 BURY ME OUT ON THE LONE PRAIRIE G-36/ BACM CD D 035
00807 RIDIN' DOWN TO SANTA FE G-36/ BACM CD D 035
00808 COWBOY JUBILEE G-36/ BACM CD D 035
00809 YOUR HEART WILL CHANGE YOUR MIND G-37
00810 WHOOPEE TI YI YO/GET ALONG LITTLE DOGIES G-37/ BACM CD D 035
00811 COOL WATER G-37/ BACM CD D 035
00812 BELLE OF CHEYENNE G-37/ BACM CD D 035
00813 TAKE ME BACK TO MY BOOTS AND SADDLE G-38
00814 CHIME BELLS G-38
00815 DON'T HAND ME THAT OLD LINE G-38/BACM CD D 304
00816 THE LITTLE OLD SOD SHANTY ON TH CLAIM G-38
00817 DON'T PRETEND THAT YOU CARE G-38
00818 CRAWDAD SONG G-39
00819 FROGGY WENT A-COURTIN' G-39
00820 SHAME ON YOU G-39
00821 GO WEST,YOUNG MAN G-39
00822 GOIN' BACK TO TEXAS G-39
00823 TENDER FOOT G-39
00824 TWENTY ONE YEARS IS A MIGHTY LONG TIME G-40
00825 WHOOPEE TI YI YO,GIT ALONG LITTLE DOGIES G-40
00826 RHEUMATISM BLUES G-40
00827 OUT ON LOCO RANGE G-40
00828 I'M A HAPPY GUY IN MY LEVI BRITCHES G-40
00829 ELEVATED RAILROAD G-40
00830 DETOUR G-85
00831 I'M THINKING TONIGHT OF MY BLUE EYES G-85
00832 WABASH CANNON BALL G-85
00833 PEACH PICKIN' TIME DOWN IN GEORGIA G-85
00834 GOOSEBERRY PIE G-85/ BACM CD D 035
00835 SAN ANTONIO ROSE G-86
00836 BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN BLUES G-86
00837 SANTA FE TOWN G-86
00838 CLIMBIN' UP THE GOLDEN STAIRS G-86
00839 TURNIP GREEMS G-86
00840 TEXAS,U.S.A. G-87
00841 ROUNDUP IN THE SKY G-87
00842 FIDDLER JOE G-87/ BACM CD D 035
00843 FORGIVE AND FORGET G-87/ BACM CD D 035
00844 LOVE AND TEARS G-87
00845 I'M NOT FOOLIN' NOW G-88/ BACM CD D 304
00846 THE SPANISH CAVALIER G-88/ BACM CD D 035
00847 WE'LL REST AT THE END OF THE TRAIL G-88/ BACM CD D 035
00848 THE CONVICT AND THE ROSE G-88/ BACM CD D 035
00849 WAIT TILL THE SUN SHINES,NELLIE G-88/ BACM CD D 304
00850 MAPLE ON THE HILL G-93
00851 OKLAHOMA CITY BLUES G-93/ BACM CD D 304
00852 COWBOY JACK G-93
00853 JESSE JAMES G-93/ BACM CD D 304
00854 IN THE CUMBERLAND MOUNTAINS G-94
00855 RIDGE RUNNING ROAN G-94
00856 I FOLLOW THE STREAM G-94/ BACM CD D 304
00857 ECHOES FROM THE HILLS G-94
00858 ONLY A MESSAGE FROM HOME SWEET HOME G-94/ BACM CD D 035
00859 BLUE MOUNTAIN SHACK G-95
00860 BEAUTIFUL TEXAS G-95/ BACM CD D 035
00861 LONESOME TRAIN BLUES G-95/ BACM CD D 035
00862 MOONLIGHT ON THE PRAIRIE G-95/ BACM CD D 035
00863 SWEET EVALINA G-95/ BACM CD D 035
00864 WAIT FOR THE WAGON G-96
00865 BURY ME BENEATH THE WILLOW G-96
00866 DON'T PRETEND THAT YOU CARE G-96/ BACM CD D 304
00867 WONDER VALLEY G-96/ BACM CD D 035
00868 LITTLE CABIN IN THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS G-96/ BACM CD D 035
00869 WHEN IT'S HARVEST TIME,SWEET ANGELINE G-116
00870 COWBOY'S DANCE G-116/ BACM CD D 304
00871 BY THE WINDOW AT THE END OF THE LANE G-116
00872 MOONLIGHT AND ROSES G-116/ BACM CD D 304
Ca 1946 [radio transcriptions] Hollywood, CA – Wesley Tuttle & Shug Fisher
00873 RIDIN' DOWN TO RHYTHM RANCH (OPENING THEME) E 928-1
00874 RIDIN' DOWN TO RHYTHM RANCH (CLOSING THEME) E 928-1
00875 I DREAMED THAT MY BABY COME HOME (OPENING THEME) E 928-1
00876 I DREAMED THAT MY BABY COME HOME (CLOSING THEME) E 928-1
28 October 1947 [no.745] Radio Recorders, 7000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA – Cliffie Stone & His Hometown Jamboree (Shug Fisher [vcl])
009 2394-3 WESTPHALIA WALTZ 40096 F1109/Cattle Compact CCD-282
010 2395-1 PUT YOUR LITTLE FOOT RIGHT OUT (VARSOVIANNA) 40113 57-40207 F1109
011 2396-1 THE CRAWDAD SONG 15229
012 2397-2 WABASH BLUES 40083/Cattle Compact CCD-282

ALBUMS
BACM [UK] CD D 035 Cowboy Jubilee: Out On The Open Range; Cowboy’s Dream; Little Joe The Wrangler; Texas Plains; When The Bloom Is On The Sage; Bury Me Out On The Prairie; Ridin’ Down To Santa Fe; Cowboy Jubilee; Whoopee Ti Yi Yo Git Along Little Dogies; Cool Water; Belle Of Cheyenne; Fiddler Joe; We’ll Rest At The End Of The Trail; The Convict And The Rose; Sweet Evalina; Forgive And Forget; Spanish Cavalier; Only A Message From Home Sweet Home; Beautiful Texas; Lonesome Train Blues; Moonlight On The Prairie; Wonder Valley; Little Cabin In The Cascade Mountains; Gooseberry Pie – 04 Shug Fisher & His Ranchmen (1945-46 transcriptions)
BACM [UK] CD D 304 Hugh/Shug's Radio Pals Featuring Shug Fisher & The Ranchmen Trio And Hugh Cross & The Smokey Mountain Ramblers: [Hugh/Shug's Radio Pals, Decca:] Honeymoon Stream; Union Countr; On A Green Mountainside In Virgina; That's My Paradise;Weeping Willow Lane; Sugar Babe; Little Girl Dressed In Blue; Where The Golden Poppies Grow; What's The Reason I'm Not Pleasing You; There's A Blue Sky Over Yonder; Back In Old Smoky Mountain; Nobody's Sweetheartt; Are You From Dixie; Moonlight And Roses; When You Wore A Tulip; Five Foot Two Eyes Of Blue Has Anybody Seen My Gall; [Smokey Mountain Ramblers, Knoxville Tn 28-03-1930:] San Antonio (Vo 5422 K 8022 Hugh Cross Lead Vocal As Heavy Martin); Back To Old Smoky Mountain (Vo 5422 K K 8023 Hugh Cross As Heavy Martin); [Shug Fisher And The Ranchmen Trio:, transcriptions, 1945/46:] Don't Hand Me That Old Line (Trio Vocal; Don't Pretend That You Care (Shug Fisher Vocal); I'm Not Fooling Now (Shug/Trio Vocal); Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie (Shug/Trio Vocal); Oklahoma Blues (Shug Fisher Vocal); Jesse James (Shug/Trio Vocal); Follow The Stream (Shug/Trio Vocal); Cowboy's Dance (Shug Fisher Vocal); Moonlight And Roses (Trio Vocal) - 10

SINGLES
Decca (1937) Hugh/Shug’s Radio Pals
5406 Moonlight And Roses / Where Golden Poppies Grow – 07-37
5407 Honeymoon Stream / Sugar Babe – 08-37
5428 When You Wore A Tulip / Little Girl In Blue – 09-37
5439 Union County / That‘s My Paradise – 10-37
5451 Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue / Are You From Dixie? – 11-37 (reissued on Coral 64009)
Capitol (1945-47)
48006 Ridin' Down To Santa Fe / Miss Molly [Tex Williams] - (reissued on 40145 in 1949)
48019 When The Bloom Is On The Sage / Take Me Back To My Boots And Saddle
48020 Whoopee Ti Yi To (Git Along,Little Dogies) / The Cowboy’s Dream
48021 The Texas Plains / Out On The Open Range
40083 Peepin' Thru The Keyhole (Watching Jole Blon)/Wabash Blues – 02-48 Cliffie Stone
40096 Westphalia Waltz / Spanish Bells – 03-48 Cliffie Stone
40113 Sugar Pie / Put Your Little Foot – 04-48 Cliffie Stone
15229 The Crawdad Song / I Don't Know Why I Love You – Cliffie Stone
57-40207 Black Hawk Waltz / Put Your Little Foot Out - 08-49 Cliffie Stone
Coral (1949)
64009 Are You From Dixie? / Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue – 49 Hugh & Shug’s Radio Pals

Saddle Tramps

by Tony Russell (Country Discography 1921-42), Praguefrank
SESSIONS
23 June 1937 Brunswick Warehouse, Dallas, TX – The Saddle Tramps (Bob Fite [gt], ? [banjo], Julian Akins [bass], J. R. Chatwell [fiddle], ? [harmonica-1], Highpockets Busse [accordion], Jimmy Cole [piano], unidentified vcl duet [-2], vcl trio [-3], yodel duet [-4], yodel trio [-5])
001 DAL 437-1 AWAY OUT OF THERE -3-5 Vocalion 03649 ARC labels 7-10-53
002 DAL 438-2 THERE’S A BLUE SKY WAY OUT YONDER -3-5 03649 ARC 7-10-53
003 DAL 439-1 GOOD-BYE GAL -3-5 03708 ARC 7-11-65
004 DAL 440 ROLLING CARAVAN unissued
005 DAL 441 ROLLING HERD unissued
006 DAL 442-1 I’M THINKING TONIGHT OF MY BLUE EYES -2 04037
007 DAL 443 MAMA WHAT MAKES YOU THAT WAY unissued
008 DAL 444-1 I’M BLUE AND LONESOME -1-3-5 03868 ARC 8-01-56
009 DAL 445 DRIFTIN‘ ON unissued
010 DAL 446 SHE’S ALWAYS ON MY MIND unissued
011 DAL 447-2 HOT AS I AM 03708 ARC 7-11-65
24 June 1937 Brunswick Warehouse, Dallas, TX – The Saddle Tramps (Bob Fite [gt], ? [banjo], Julian Akins [bass], J. R. Chatwell [fiddle], ? [harmonica-1], Highpockets Busse [accordion], Jimmy Cole [piano], unidentified vcl duet [-2], vcl trio [-3], yodel duet [-4], yodel trio [-5])
012 DAL 454-2 GIVIN‘ EVERYTHING AWAY -3 Conqueror 8942 Vocalion 03609 ARC 7-08-69 Columbia 37709 20286
013 DAL 455-2 JUST BECAUSE NO.3 -2 8942 ARC 7-08-69 03609 37709 20286
014 DAL 456-2 MAMA HOW CAN YOU BE SO MEAN -1-2-4 04037
015 DAL 457 TEXAS HOME unissued
016 DAL 458-1 MAMA MAMA -3-5 03868 ARC 8-01-56
017 DAL 459 ROCKY MOUNTAIN EXPRESS unissued
018 DAL 460 HIDDEN VALLEY unissued
019 DAL 467-2 I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU USED TO BE -2 03940
020 DAL 468-1 HOLD THEM CRITTERS DOWN -3 03940
021 DAL 469 COWBOY’S CALL unissued

SINGLES
ARC
Vocalion
03609 Givin‘ Everything Away / Just Because No.3 - 37
03649 Away Out Of There / There’s A Blue Sky Way Out Yonder - 37
03708 Good-Bye Gal / Hot As I Am - 37
03868 I’m Blue And Lonesome / Mama Mama - 37
03940 I Don’t Care What You Used To Be / Hold Them Critters Down - 48
04037 I’m Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes / Mama How Can You Be So Mean - 48
ARC labels (Melotone, Oriole, Romeo, Perfect, Banner)
7-08-69 Givin‘ Everything Away / Just Because No.3 – 08-37
7-10-53 Away Out Of There / There’s A Blue Sky Way Out Yonder – 10-37
7-11-65 Good-Bye Gal / Hot As I Am - 11-37
8-01-36 I’m Blue And Lonesome / Mama Mama - 01-38
Conqueror
8942 Givin‘ Everything Away / Just Because No.3 – 05-38 (reissue)
Columbia
37709 Givin‘ Everything Away / Just Because No.3 – 07-47 (reissue)
20286 Givin‘ Everything Away / Just Because No.3 – 04-48 (reissue)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Michel Ruppli, not only for his books which I use daily, but also for a large amount of rare and unpublished data from his giant archive.
Thanks to all my friends - country music fans - in Czech Republic - Vladimir Pikora, Michal Gololobov, Milos Holecek, Tony Foglar, Rene Pavlik and Petr Vitous.
Thanks to Mario Manciotti for sending session details daily
Thanks to Kurt Rokitta for a lot of session info
Thanks to Bill Daniels for sharing a lot of labels info
Thanks to Lillies Ohlsson for many western swing contributions.
Thanks to Dick Grant for many artists files
Thanks to Thieu Van De Vorst for a lot of additions and corrections
Thanks to Goran Adolph for many rare albums info
Thanks to Hans Sandberg for many rare session data
Thanks to Chris Huskey for many sessions info.
Thanks to Kittra Moore for musicians and recording data
Thanks to Dik de Heer for many additions on rockabilly.
Thanks to Luiz Roberto Costa for helping me with the western genre.
Thanks to Wolf Ruediger Sommer, who not only sent me additional data, but is also watch-dog, correcting my typos and other errors.
Thanks to Robert Platt for priceless info on Canadian (but not only) artists.
Thanks to Phil Watson for hard work on Crown Prince of country music discography. Thanks to Walter Gabriel for filling the gaps in track listings of rare albums and various artists compilations.
Thanks to Kent Heineman for many independent recordings info
Thanks to Ken Nelson for bluegrass and more additions.
Thanks to Tony Middleton for RCA session info.
Thanks to Xavier Maire for interesting additions and for info on his website www.bopping.org.
Thanks to Henk Scholts for long time cooperation.
Thanks to Richard Price for miscellaneous session information
Thanks to Carl G. Cederblad for additions to sessionographies
Thanks to Paul Urbahns, Marc Alesina, Bill Millet, Bengt Wahlström, John Morris, Dominique Anglares, Pierre Monnery, Jeremy Roberts, Ben Collins, Alex Frazer-Harrison, K.F.Raizor, Ed Tabor, Mario Wildner, Ole Skjoldhøj, Eileen Sisk, Per Kammersgaard, David Bussey, Bill Marks for rare info on their favorite artists.
Thanks to Reginald Bartlette for info and additions of Columbia custom numbers.
Thanks to Katarina Fromm for various singles info.
Thanks to many others who sent some info - all are important.
Thanks to Richard Weize for his idea to produce projects, which have small commercial potential, but huge value for collectors - I spend a lot of money buying boxes and CDs, sometimes mainly because of the accompanying discographies.
Thanks also to Patrick Milligan, who created many discographies for Bear Family projects
Thanks to Marek Bozickovic for picture in head
And last but not least I would like to thank all who visit this blog - they come from more than 100 countries.