6-CD box (LP-size) with 66-page book, 152 tracks. Playing time approx. 402 mns

One of the strangest stories in country music is how a polka bandleader called Frank Kuczynski from Wisconsin became Pee Wee King and led a big band on the Opry, then wrote several of the biggest hits in country music history. The story is here, and the music is here, including the original versions of Tennessee Waltz, Slow Poke and Bonaparte's Retreat, as well as lesser-known classics like Tennessee Central #9, Ten Gallon Boogie, Jukebox Blues, Bull Fiddle Boogie, Birmingham Bounce, Plantation Boogie, and even the first cover version of Blue Suede Shoes.

All told, there are 151 songs cut for RCA and Bullet between 1946 and 1958. Nothing swung harder than the Golden West Cowboys! After suffering a heart-attack on February 28, Pee Wee King died March 7, 2000 at age 86.

Track Listing

• That Cheap Look In Your Eye
• You Were The Cause Of It All
• Texas Toni Lee
• Tennessee Central #9
• Southland Polka
• Steel Guitar Rag
• I Hear You Knockin'
• Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers Off Of Me
• Don't Feel Sorry For Me
• Arkansas Traveler
• Out Of My Mind
• Ten Gallon Boogie
• Kentucky Waltz
• Don't Forget
• Jukebox Blues
• Chattanooga Bess
• Say Good Mornin' Nellie
• Forty Nine Women
• The Ghost And Honest Joe
• New York To New Orleans
• I'm Satisfied With You
• Quit Honkin' That Horn
• Oh Monah
• Bull Fiddle Boogie
• Tennessee Waltz
• Rootie Tootie

• Gotta Climb Those Golden Stairs
• Everytime I Feel The Spirit
• Gospel Boogie
• Singin' As I Go
• Waltz Of The Alamo
• Whisper Waltz
• I Lost My Love (The Color Song)
• Bonaparte's Retreat
• Blue Grass Waltz
• Alabama Moon
• Tennessee Tears
• Get Together Polka
• The Nashville Waltz
• The Waltz Of Regret
• Tennessee Polka
• Lonesome Steel Guitar
• Cornbread, 'Lasses And Sassafras Tea
• Fire On The Mountain
• Shocking Rye Straw
• Billy In The Low Ground
• Devil's Dream
• Fisher's Hornpipe
• Sally Goodin
• Whistling Rufus

• Going Back To A.L.A.
• You Call Everybody Darlin'
• The Battle Hymn Of The Republic
• Black Eyed Susie
• When They Played That Old Missouri Waltz
• Blame It All On Nashville
• The Kissing Dance
• Rag Mop
• What, Where And When
• Birmingham Bounce
• We're Gonna Go Fishin' (Next Saturday Night)
• Cincinnati Dancing Pig
• River Road Two Step
• Mop Rag Boogie
• No One But You
• Within My Heart (La Golondrina)
• Helegged Hilegged
• You Drifted
• The Strange Little Girl
• Chew Tobacco Rag
• Slow Poke
• You Won't Need My Love Anymore
• Two Roads
• Railroad Boogie
• Makin' Like A Train

• The Crying Steel Guitar Waltz
• Ragtime Annie Lee
• Slow Bloke
• Slow Coach
• Silver And Gold
• If And When
• Busybody
• I Don't Mind
• Two-Faced Clock
• A Mighty Pretty Waltz
• Tennessee Tango
• The Crazy Waltz
• Varsoviana
• San Antonio Rose
• My Adobe Hacienda
• The One Rose (That's Left In My Heart)
• Under The Double Eagle
• Spanish Two Step
• Over The Waves
• Screwball
• Last Night On The Back Porch
• Till I Waltz Again With You
• Gone
• I'll Go On Alone
• That's Me Without You
• Your Kisses Aren't Kisses Anymore
• Here Lies My Heart

• Oh Mis'rable Love
• Ricochet
• Dragnet
• Deck Of Cards
• Huggin' My Pillow
• Changing Partners
• Bimbo
• Backward, Turn Backward
• In A Garden Of Roses
• The Red Deck Of Cards
• Keep Your Eye On My Darling
• Indian Giver
• Why Don't You All Go Home'
• How Long
• Peek-A-Boo Waltz
• Peaches And Cream
• I Can't Tell A Waltz From A Tango
• Flying Home
• Woodchopper's Ball
• Seven Come Eleven
• Farewell Blues
• Tippin' In
• Melody Of Love
• You Can't Hardly Get Them No More
• Tweedle Dee

• Plantation Boogie
• Jim, Johnny And Jonas
• Nevermind
• Beauty Is As Beauty Does
• Half A Dozen Boogie
• Blue Suede Shoes
• Tennessee Dancin' Doll
• Ballroom Baby
• Catty Town
• Absolutely, Positively
• Hoot Scoot
• I'll Be Walking Alone In A Crowd
• Sugar Beet
• (I Tasted) Tears On Your Lips
• A Catchy Tune
• My Darlin' (We're Not Too Young To Know)
• Do You Remember
• Congratulations Joe
• Prelude To A Broken Heart
• Unbreakable Heart
• Janie
• A Little Bit About Myself (A Phonobiography)

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Country

Run Time: 402 mins

Release Date: 01/02/07

UPC: 4000127157270