Topic: Cluck Old Hen - Old Hat Records new release

[uncle bud]

Hasn't been mentioned yet. A new Old Hat compilation, Cluck Old Hen - A Barnyard Serenade 1926-1940 is now available. Theme is chickens, of course. Old Hats are always essential in my book and this looks like no exception.

Tracklist:

1. CHICKEN REEL  J. O. LaMadeleine
2.ROOSTER BLUES Casey Bill
3. RILEY'S HEN-HOUSE DOOR Riley Puckett
4. CHICKEN John & Emery McClung
5. CORN DODGER No. 1 SPECIAL George Edgin?s Corn Dodgers
6. THE CROWING ROOSTER Walther Rhodes with "Pet" and "Can"
7. TURKEY BUZZARD BLUES Peg Leg Howell & Eddie Anthony
8 . UNDER THE CHICKEN TREE Earl McDonald?s Original Louisville Jug Band
9. IT TAKES THE OLD HEN TO DELIVER THE GOODS Cliff Carlisle
10. CLUCK OLD HEN Grayson & Whitter
11. ALL BIRDS LOOK LIKE CHICKEN TO ME Sweet Papa Stovepipe
12. HEN PARTY BLUES Dixieland Jug Blowers
13. CROW BLACK CHICKEN Leake County Revelers
14. STAY AWAY FROM MY CHICKEN HOUSE Gene Autry
15. WHOLE STOLE DE LOCK? The Georgia Browns
16. THE CHICKEN AND THE WORM Teddy Bunn & Spencer Williams
17. THERE'S A TRICK IN PICKIN' A CHICK-CHICK-CHICKEN Six Jumping Jacks
18. BARNYARD FROLIC Carolina Ramblers String Band
19. CHICKEN Utica Institute Jubilee Singers
20. CHICKEN YOU CAN ROOST BEHIND THE MOON Beale Street Sheiks
21. ROOSTER ON THE LIMB Mustard & Gravy (Dixie?s Tastiest Combination)
22. THE CHICKEN SERMON Honeyboy & Sassafras
23.CHICKEN REEL STOMP The Tune Wranglers
24. I'LL RISE WHEN THE ROOSTER CROWS Binkley Brothers Dixie Clodhoppers
   

[jostber]

Here is a review from the Red Lick Records web site:

http://www.redlick.com/review_read.php?id=371

[uncle bud]

It's a good one, for sure. Highly recommended, as long as you like chickens.

[jaycee]

my copy of, cluck old hen. popped through the letter box yesterday morning, just played it and its another sure fire winner from old hat records.

[JohnLeePimp]

No Soldier Boy Houston?

[oddenda]

JLP -

     Nothing post-war for Old Hat.

pbl

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I think Old Hat does a wonderful job with their re-issue series, but feel like this particular one is cutting a mighty narrow swath.
All best,
Johnm

[uncle bud]

Review of this in the latest Old-Time Herald by our own Lyle Lofgren. "If you can only buy one chicken record, this is it." 

What's wrong with Gene Autry, Lyle? 

[oddenda]

Can't argue with Lyle's comment. The same could be said for their barbecue disc, too!

pbl

[Lyle Lofgren]

Review of this in the latest Old-Time Herald by our own Lyle Lofgren. "If you can only buy one chicken record, this is it." 

What's wrong with Gene Autry, Lyle? 

I don't think his delivery is up to the (admittedly high, for a chicken record) standards set by, for example, the Louisville Jug Band, Grayson & Whitter, or The Leake County Revelers. I even regard him as weak compared with other Jimmie Rodgers imitators, none of whom get close to the original. And the attempts at sound effects are particularly feeble. Other than that, I have no objections, and I'm glad Old Hat included the cut, because otherwise I'd have never heard it.

And, certainly, this is better than the songs he sang as a movie cowboy, which gave him enough wealth to buy a baseball team. As a result, a business associate once took me to a game when I was in Los Angeles, and pointed out that Doris Day was sitting in the front row along the first base side -- he even had binoculars so I could verify that it was her and not some other blonde. So nothing is all bad, which is why I wrote "...with the possible exception of Gene Autry, there's nothing here that offends my sensibilities." Note the inclusion of "possible."

Lyle

[uncle bud]

Fair comment, and I agree about the sound effects. Autry did do rather better than your average 78 artist, didn't he...