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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Ben Christian

By Bill Daniels, Praguefrank, Carl LaFong
 SESSIONS see also Bar X Cowboys
ca. August 1948 Houston, TX – “Smiling“Jerry Jericho and Ben Christian and His Texas Cowboys

001 1883 MOONLIGHT ISLAND  4-Star 1270
002 1884 LET’S TRY IT OVER AGAIN  1270/Cattle Compact CCD-321
ca. March 1949 Houston, TX – Ben Christian,* and Smiling Jerry Jericho and His Texas Cowboys
003 3075 HERR SCHMITT 1296
004 3076 10 PRETTY GIRLS 1296
005 3077 PLEASE DON’T LET ME LOVE YOU*  1297/Cattle Compact CCD-321
006 3078 LOVESICK BLUES*   1297/Cattle Compact CCD-321
ca. March 1949 Houston, TX – Ben Christian and Smiling Jerry Jericho and His Texas Cowboys
007 3098 YOU PLAYED THE GAME AND LOST  1300
008 3099 I KNEW THAT YOU‘ D BE SORRY  1300
ca. April 1949 prob. Houston, TX – Ben Christian and the Texas Cowboys
009 3140 BIRD IN THE CAGE 1317
010 3141 SOLDIER’S JOY 1317
011 3142 LIBERTY  1318
012 3143 TWO STARS, VENUS AND MARS  1318
013 3144 RAGTIME ANNIE 1319
014 3145 DOUBLE STAR 1319
015 3146 EIGHT OF JANUARY  1320
016 3147 WAGON WHEELS 1320
ca. June 1949 Houston, TX – Ben Christian and The Texas Cowboys
017 3190 DURANG’S HORNPIPE 1343
018 3191 KENDALL’S HORNPIPE 1343
019 3192 UNDER THE DOUBLE EAGLE 1344
020 3193 OVER THE WAVES 1344
021 3194 GOLDEN SLIPPERS 1345
022 3195 TEXAS SCHOTTISCHE 1345
Poss. early 1950s Houston, TX – Ben Christian
023 TEXAS COWBOY RAG Melody 502
024 MOONLIGHT ISLAND Melody 502


SINGLES
4 Star (1949)
1296  Ten Pretty Girls / Herr Schmidt – 49
1297  Lovesick Blues / Please Don't Let Me Love You – 04-49 (rev. Apr. 30)
1300 You Played The Game And Lost / I Knew That You’d Be Sorry – 49 w. Jerry Jericho
1317  Soldier's Joy / Bird In The Cage With Seven Hands Around - 49
1318  Two Stars, Venus And Mars /Liberty - 49
1319  Double Star / Ragtime Annie  - 49
1320  Eighth Of January / Wagon Wheels - 49
1343  Durang's Hornpipe / Kendall's Hornpipe - 49
1344  Under The Double Eagle / Over The Waves - 49
1345  Golden Slippers / Texas Schottische – 49
Melody
502 Texas Cowboy Rag / Moonlight Island
 
 

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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Thanks to Michel Ruppli, not only for his books which I use daily, but also for a large amount of rare and unpublished data from his giant archive.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.