8-CD box (LP-size) with 168-page hardcover book, 285 tracks. Total playing time approx. 686 mns.

The dawn of rock 'n' roll, like you've never heard it before - live from Texas 1950-1958!
Hear stars like Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Wanda Jackson and many more performing live at the dawn of their careers, sometimes singing songs they never recorded!
State-of-the-art live recording for the day. Incredible atmosphere. Fabulous performances!
Unseen photos and newly researched biographies fill out this incredible time capsule!

We all know that the Grand Ole Opry wanted nothing to do with rock 'n' roll, while the Louisiana Hayride gave national exposure to Elvis Presley, Johnny Horton, and others. Well, the Hayride wasn't alone. The Big 'D' Jamboree in Dallas started with Texas country music but embraced the new music, giving an all-important break to Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, and many, many more. In a nearly two-decade run that began in the aftermath of World War II, the Saturday night extravaganza packed the Sportatorium, a metal wrestling arena in a seedy neighborhood south of downtown.

Broadcast locally on KRLD and nationally on CBS radio, the Jamboree was an exuberant cross-section of the most vibrant country and rock 'n' roll music of the time, showcasing everyone from talented but largely forgotten singers such as Riley Crabtree, Orville Couch and Helen Hall to national figures, including Johnny Cash, Sonny James, Hank Locklin, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Wanda Jackson and Gene Vincent. Rockabilly stalwart Ronnie Dawson got his start on the Jamboree, years before overseas fans revived his career. Charline Arthur, ''a Janis Joplin before her time,'' leaped from amplifiers and belted out soulful, hard-core country from the arena's wrestling-ring stage before vanishing into a tragic obscurity.
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Track Listing

• Keine Künstlerinformation - Kapitel 13, Unvergessen 13:11
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Falstaff Beer Advert
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Opening Theme (October 21, 1950)
• Billy Jack Saucier - Devil's Dream
• Jimmy Fautheree - I'm Moving On
• Jimmie Heap - Carbon Copy
• Ramona Reed - If I Could Only Learn To Yodel
• Sid Ervin - This Ole House (fragment)
• Sid Ervin - That's All Right Mama
• Sid Ervin - There's A Big Rock In The Road
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (April 28, 1956 /Show #2)
• Texas Stompers - The Poor People Of Paris
• Orville Couch - So Doggone Lonesome
• Eddie Shelton - Flint Hill Special
• Commodores - Two Loves Have I
• Commodores - Didn't It Rain
• Commodores - Shake, Rattle & Roll
• Nancy Castleberry - Ivory Tower
• Joe Poovey - Honolulu Rock-A Roll-A
• Texas Stompers - Red Wing Stomp
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (May 5, 1956 /Show #6)
• Texas Stompers - Ain't She Sweet
• Orville Couch - Folsom Prison Blues
• Sid King - Booger Red
• Sid King - Ooby Dooby
• Eddie Shelton - Salty Dog Blues
• Carl Perkins - Slippin' And Slidin'
• Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes
• Helen Hall - Nothing Can Change My Love For You
• Helen Hall - I Need You All The Time
• Helen Hall - How Long
• Helen Hall - One Brown, One Black
• Betty Lou Lobb - Chime Bells
• Betty Lou Lobb - Wide Rolling Plains

• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (May 19, 1956 /Show #9)
• Texas Stompers - Double Eagle Stomp
• Cowboy Copas - Tragic Romance
• Ferlin Husky - Aladdin's Lamp
• Simon Crum - Muki-Ruki
• Hank Locklin - A Good Woman's Love
• Carl Perkins - I Got A Woman
• Carl Perkins - Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (May 26, 1956 /Show #41)
• Texas Stompers - River Road Two-Step
• Orville & Eddie - Uncle Pen
• Leon Payne - Doorstep To Heaven
• Leon Payne - I Love You Because
• Hank Locklin - Seven Or Eleven
• Billy Edwards - When It's Night Time In Nevada
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (July 14, 1956 /Show #12)
• Texas Stompers - Snow Deer Stomp
• Hank Locklin - You Can't Never Tell
• Charline Arthur - Welcome To The Club
• Billy Briggs - Should I'
• Jerry Reed - Mr=Whiz
• Belew Twins - Hot Dog Buddy Buddy
• Belew Twins - A Tear Fell
• Belew Twins - If You're Mine
• Belew Twins - Dontcha Wanna Be Happy
• Belew Twins - Don't Wantcha
• Johnny Hicks - Baby Baby Baby
• Johnny Hicks - Action
• Johnny Hicks - Fancy Dan
• Johnny Hicks - Keep On A-Keepin' On
• Billy Edwards - I Forgot To Remember To Forget
• Billy Edwards - Singing The Blues
• Paul Blunt - Always A Bridesmaid Never A Bride

• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (August 11, 1956 /Show #19)
• Texas Stompers - Bonaparte's Retreat
• Keith Boyle - Cannonball Yodel
• Belew Twins - Crazy Arms
• Charline Arthur - What About Tomorrow
• Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line
• Johnny Cash - Get Rhythm
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (October 20 (or December 8'), 1956 /Show #34)
• Texas Stompers - Alexander's Ragtime Band
• Sid King - When My Baby Left Me
• Nancy Castleberry - The Wayward Wind
• Warren Smith - Black Jack David
• Warren Smith - Hound Dog
• Warren Smith - Rock 'n' Roll Ruby
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (August 31, 1957 /Show #54)
• Tommy Mitchell - Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep
• Rangers Quartet - Ain't That Love
• Max & Alvis - Honey Don't
• Leon Payne - One By One
• Leon Payne - Teddy Bear
• Pat Smith - Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me
• Marksmen Quartet - You Hurt Me So
• Tennessee Ernie Ford - Announcement
• Billy Jack Hale - Honey Bee Love
• Billy Jack Hale - Strange Desires
• Billy Jack Hale - Me And Fred And Joe And Bill
• Billy Jack Hale - If You Can't Live Down Live It Up
• Billy Jack Hale - He Don't Love You Like I Do
• Billy Jack Hale - The Chain Of Love
• Helen Hall - They
• Helen Hall - Wee Bitty Baby

• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (October 5, 1957 /Show #58)
• Gene Rambo - Jailhouse Rock
• Rangers Quartet - Why Baby Why
• Rangers Quartet - This Ole House
• Tommy Mitchell - Lotta Lovin'
• Pat Smith - Rainbow
• Belew Twins - A Red Cadillac & A Black Moustache
• Werley Fairburn - All By Myself
• Texas Stompers - Cindy
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (December 14, 1957 /Show #68)
• Charles Goode - Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
• Charles Goode - Somebody Loves Me
• Belew Twins - Black Slacks
• Belew Twins - Maybe Tomorrow
• Gene Vincent - Bluejean Bop
• Gene Vincent - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
• Gene Vincent - Dance To The Bop
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (January 25, 1958 /Show #73)
• Johnny Carroll - Suzy Q
• Belew Twins - Should We Tell Him
• Tommy Mitchell - I Beg Of You
• Texas Stompers - Liechtensteiner Polka
• Johnny Dollar - Great Balls Of Fire
• Dee & Patty - Parking
• Darrell Glenn - Candy And Cake
• George McCoy - The Wandering Kind
• Gene Rambo - Baby Doll
• Pat Smith - Right Now
• Johnny Hicks - Draggin' The Drive Ins
• Johnny Hicks - Gossip Of The Town
• Ronnie Dawson - Why Did You Cry'
• Johnny Hicks - The Guy That Looks Like Me
• Johnny Hicks - Holy Mack-Rel

• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (March 1, 1958 /Show #78)
• Lonnie Smithson - Me And The Blues
• Johnny Dollar - Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie
• Orville Couch - King For A Day
• Orville Couch - Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
• Tommy Mitchell - Too Much
• Wanda Jackson - No Wedding Bells For Joe
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (May 10, 1958 /Show #83)
• Joe Poovey - Move Around
• Darrell Glenn - Congratulations To Me
• Billy Jack Hale - Your Eyes
• Tommy Mitchell - Glad All Over
• Lonnie Smithson - Put A Quarter In The Jukebox
• Paul Blunt - Everywhere You Go
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (June 14 ('), 1958 /Show #88)
• Various - Record Label Profiles - Oh Lonesome Me
• Johnny Carroll - I'll Wait
• Orville Couch - Overnight
• Darrell Glenn - Hang Up That Telephone
• Ferrell Brothers - What Makes A Man Wander
• Ferrell Brothers - She's No Angel
• Texas Stompers - Silver Bells
• Eddie McDuff - A Thousand To One
• Couch, Orville & McDuff, Eddie - Misery
• Johnny Dollar - My Gal Friday
• Darrell Glenn - Lovely Loretta
• Darrell Glenn - My Guiding Light
• Bob Kelly - When We Get Together
• Eddie McDuff - Easier Said Than Done
• Belew Twins - Cindy Lou
• Belew Twins - When The Party's Over

• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (July 19,1958 /Show #93)
• Leon Payne - Tell Her Lies And Feed Her Candy
• Belew Twins - Rockin' Bones
• Lawton Williams - Casino On The Hill
• Ferrell Brothers - Go Away With Me
• Ferrell Brothers - Ocean Of Diamonds
• Mitchell Torok - Love Me Like You Mean It
• Ronnie Dee - Thirty Days
• Ronnie Dee - Johnny B=Goode
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (Summer 1958 /Show #98)
• Lonnie Smithson - Guess Things Happen That Way
• Belew Twins - This Little Girl Of Mine
• Ferrell Brothers - Ashes Of Love / Down South..=
• Orville Couch - Easy Does It
• Billy Jack Hale - The Stairway Of Love
• Tommy Mitchell - Don't
• Keine Künstlerinformation - Introduction (August 30, 1958 /Show #102)
• Lonnie Smithson - Quarter In The Jukebox
• Belew Twins - I Can't Stop Loving You
• Carolyn Belew - Blue Doll
• Eddie McDuff - A New Love Was Born
• Eddie McDuff - Fire, Fire, Fire
• Orville Couch - Convince Me
• Orville Couch - My Gal Specs
• Orville Couch - I'm In Love
• Beavers - Barbara Allen
• Joy King - How Should I Your True Love Know'
• Orville Couch - The Record
• Orville Couch - Bad Dream
• Chuck Jennings - His And Hers
• Chuck Jennings - Home Away From Home

• Bill Callahan - Milk Cow Blues
• Shelton Brothers - Deep Elm Boogie Woogie Blues
• Stoney Carlisle - I'm Tired Of You
• Roy Wiley - Drivin' Nails In My Coffin
• Buddy Walker - No Use To Be Apart
• Riley Crabtree - Lonely World
• Johnny Hicks - Mended One Broken Heart
• Gene O'Quin - Blues Come Around
• Johnny Mathis - Tell Me Why
• Billy Walker - You Didn't Try And Didn't Care
• Dewey Groom - Butane Blues
• Homer Clemons - Operation Blues #2=
• Okie Jones - Love Fever
• Jimmy Lee - Bluest Feeling
• Jimmy Lee - If You Don't, Somebody Else Will
• Riley Crabtree - Always Together Never Apart
• Paul Blunt - Domino Gal
• Johnny Hicks - Pick Up Blues
• Bobby Williamson - My Gal Comes From Heaven
• Big Bill Lister - Blowing The Suds Off My Beer
• Riley Crabtree - I'll Make You Want Me
• Norman Perry - After Your Wedding
• Joe Andrews - Brain Cloudy Blues
• Sunshine Ruby - Too Young To Tango
• Sunshine Ruby - Datin'
• Skeeter Webb - Was It A Bad Dream
• Ralph Sanford - Oo-Ee-Baby
• Helen Hall - Unwanted Love / Unwanted Heart
• Doug Bragg - The Texas Special
• Joe Bill - Do You Love Me Anymore
• Jimmy Patton - Teen Age Heart
• Jimmy Collie - Conscience Set Me Free

• Jimmy Collie - Cry Like A Baby
• Buck Griffin - Let's Elope Baby
• Sonny James - For Rent
• Paul LaFawn - You've Turned Off The Music
• Paul LaFawn - Can't Get You Out Of My Mind
• Tommy Mitchell - Do Baby Do
• Mac Curtis - What You Want
• Johnny Carroll - Band Stand Doll
• Eddie McDuff - Bad Boy
• Lonnie Smithson - No Surrender No Retreat
• Lonnie Smithson - Paul Revere
• Ronnie Dawson - Summer's Comin'
• Lawton Williams - Satan's Bell
• Frankie Miller - Give A Purpose To My Love
• Tony Douglas - Shrimpin'
• George Kent - How Can I Write On Paper What I Feel In My Heart
• George Kent - Out Of My Arms And Into My Dreams
• George Kent - Packed And Ready
• George Kent - You're Just Not The Type
• Riley Crabtree - Poison Mind
• Mitchell Torok - Rio Grande
• Mitchell Torok - Heartbreaker Of The Year
• Mitchell Torok - I Wish That It Was Me
• George Kent - Gossip Of A Friend
• George Kent - A Better Way To Die
• George Kent - The Shadow On The Wall
• Joe Paul Nichols - Operator #10
• Joe Paul Nichols - Shy Young Sue
• Eddie McDuff - The Street Of Loneliness
• Jim & Louise - Be Careful
• Sandra Salling - What Do The Losers Do
• Sandra Salling - There's No One Loving Me Now
• Chuck Jennings - I'd Rather Be Hurt By You
• Chuck Jennings - You're A Little Heartache
• Janet McBride - Yodelin' Jan

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Country

Run Time: 686 mins

Release Date: 10/25/13

UPC: 5397102160868