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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2001 CD release of "Park Avenue Hillbillies And West End Cowboys (Country Novelty Songs)" on Discogs.
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9 ott 2001 · Park Avenue Hillbillies and West End Cowboys by Dorothy Shay released in 2001. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Dorothy Shay (April 11, 1921 – October 22, 1978) was an American popular comedic recording artist in the late 1940s and early 1950s, who later became a character actress. She was known as the " Park Avenue Hillbillie".
4 nov 2006 · From the sepulchral western swing tones of Zeke Manners and His Swing Billies' "Mr. Ghost Goes To Town" (you gotta hear this!) to the wonderfully politically barely-correct more urbane Dorothy Shay (featured on 10 of the 25 tracks), there's a surprise at every turn here.
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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1946 Shellac release of "The Park Avenue Hillbillie Sings" on Discogs.
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- 4 x Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Album
Front and center are 10 cuts from Dorothy Shay, nowadays regarded as perhaps the most important figure of the faux hillbilly period, and a regular on "The Waltons" until her death in 1978. Though extremely popular during her late '40's heyday, little of Shay's music has been available in decades.
The country performers’ growing status is kidded in a terrific Hoosier Hot Shots number that notes of wealthy chart-topping twangers: if “They’d been hanging around the mountains all those years, singing songs about the train wrecked engineers”…but…”them Hillbillies Are Mountain Williams Now!”
