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Columbia Country Classics was a multi-volume set of recordings released in 1990 by Legacy Recordings. The collection contains 128 tracks from the Columbia , Epic and associated recording labels, and covers a span from the mid-1930s through the late 1980s.
Country USA was a 23-volume series issued by Time-Life Music during the late 1980s and early 1990s, spotlighting country music of the 1950s through early 1970s. Each volume in the series chronicled a specific year in country music, from 1950 through 1972, and was issued on a double-length compact disc or cassette , or two vinyl albums .
Contemporary Country is a 22-volume series issued by Time-Life during the early 1990s, spotlighting country music of the 1970s through mid 1990s.. Each volume in the series chronicled a specific time period – the early-1970s, the mid-1970s, the late-1970s, the early-1980s, the mid-1980s, the late-1980s, the early-1990s and the mid-1990s.
The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the 1980s, and focus primarily on innovators and artists from country music's Golden Age, including Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, George Jones, Kitty Wells, Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, Kenny Rogers, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Merle Haggard, along with English and ...
Lloyd Estel Copas (July 15, 1913 – March 5, 1963), known by his stage name Cowboy Copas, was an American country music singer. He was popular from the 1940s until his death in the 1963 plane crash that also killed country stars Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins. [1] Copas was a member of the Grand Ole Opry. [2]
As Time-Life Books, Inc. – which was not formally incorporated as an official subsidiary until 1964 [15] – the company gained fame as a seller of book series [16] that were directly mailed to households in (bi-)monthly installments, operating as book sales clubs, which was known as the direct-to-consumer (DTC) business model.
Colin Escott (born 31 August 1949) is a British music historian and author specializing in early U.S. rock and roll and country music.His works include a biography of Hank Williams, histories of Sun Records and The Grand Ole Opry, liner notes for more than 500 albums and compilations, and major contributions to stage and television productions.
The fall of LP record sales at the end of the 1970s marked the end of the LP-driven "golden age", [42] as the music industry faced competition from a commercial resurgence in the film industry and the popularity of arcade video games. [49] The success of MTV's music video programming also reemphasized the single format in the 1980s and early ...
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