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In 1948–49, Bill Haley fronted a group called the Four Aces of Western Swing – often referred to as simply The Four Aces. The style of music this group played was country and western , and it was with the group that Haley recorded his first singles for the Cowboy Records label in 1948.
As Bill Haley and the Four Aces of Western Swing: 1948 Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals (vocal by Tex King)/Four Leaf Clover Blues (Cowboy CR1201) August 1948 [38] 1949 Tennessee Border/Candy Kisses (Cowboy CR1202) March 1949 [39] As Johnny Clifton and His String Band: 1950 Stand Up and Be Counted/Loveless Blues (Center C102)
In around the mid-1940s, Bill Haley performed with the Down Homers and formed a group called the Four Aces of Western Swing. The group that later became the Comets initially formed as "Bill Haley and the Saddlemen" c. 1949 –1952, and performed mostly country and western songs, though occasionally with a bluesy feel.
A large cache of country-western recordings made by Haley in the 1946–51 era, before the formation of the Comets (also released on Rock 'n' Roll Arrives); An April 1955 concert in Cleveland, Ohio including the earliest known live recordings of "Rock Around the Clock" ( Rock 'n' Roll Show , Hydra Records, 1995);
Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...
She finished the week with 35 kills (.403 hit%), four aces, two blocks and 19 digs. Audrey Utterback, Plainfield The freshman debuted this week, putting down 113 kills and hitting .353 with 48 digs.
[4] The song contains a similar theme as Hank's own "Men with Broken Hearts" but, like "The Funeral," somehow lacks the down-to-earth gravitas that characterized his own lyrics. Williams recorded the song in Nashville at Castle Studio at the first Luke the Drifter session on January 10, 1950, with Fred Rose producing.
Four holes later, Hand, 66, hit a 56-degree wedge from 97 yards out to ace the 17th hole for his third career ace -- two of them coming at the Island Green. Both are TPC Sawgrass members.