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CLIFFIE STONE SONGS OF THE MONTH
(From page 11)

TOP TEN

Following are the 10 top country and western records compiled from reports by
the nation's leading disc jockeys made exclusively to Country . and Western Jamboree.
so G ART! T LABEL
I. Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley Victor
2. Blue Suede Shoes Carl Perkins Sun
3. Yes, I Know Why Webb Pierce Decca
4. I've Got Five Dollars Faron Young Capitol
5. You and Me Red Foley-Kitty Wells Decca
6. Lt"ttle Rosa Red Sovine-W ebb Pierce Decca
7. So Doggone Lonesome Johnny Cash Sun
8. Blackboard of My Heart Hank Thompson Capitol
9. Crazy Arms Ray Price Columbia
10. I Don't Believe You've
Met My Baby Louvin Brothers Capitol

MOVIN' AHEAD
It seems that Cliffie never gets away
from a microphone. Here he is, doing a
radio show with Tex Williams.
Uncle Pen Porter Wagoner Victor
Will You Will yum Janis Martin Victor
I Walk The Line Johnny Cash Sun
Baby It's In The Makin' Johnny & Jack Victor
Hoping That You're Hoping Louvin Brothers Capitol
Honkp Tonk Man Johnny Horton Columbia
20 Feet of Muddy Water onny James Capitol
What Would You Do If
Jesus Came To Your House Porter Wagoner Victor
Mr. Blues Marvin Rainwater MGM

DID YOU KNOW THAT • • •

by Phillip Fortune
You'd never guess, but that's Cliffie at
the left with Herman the Hermit and ... Gene Autry and Jimmy Long's record of Silver Haired Daddy of Mine has sold
Tennessee Ernie Ford.
over S million copies? Gene is married to Jimmy Long's niece, Ina .
. . . the late Fred Rose made records under the name of The Rambling Rogue in
Most of the country performers living
in California have at one time or the 1940's?
another appeared on Cliffie's radio show. . .• Bob Wills has been a preacher, hobo, cotton picker, barber and singer in a
Two such names to appear very early medicine show? Bob's been turning out hit songs for over 23 years, and his latest
in their careers are Polly Bergen and on Decca is So Let's Rock backed with Sugar Baby.
- Coleen Summers- now Mary Ford.
Aside from discovering and recog- . .• Hank Williams made three records for the old Sterling label before he signed
nizing talent, Cliffie has done pretty with MGM?
well on his own. He is the only West ..• Bill Haley of Rock Around the Clock movie and record fame, made many
Coast performer who has been on radio records for small labels such as Cowboy and Holiday? He was a western enter-
for eight years and on TV for seven tainer on these labels and he was billed as Bill Haley and the Saddlemen.
with a single sponsor.
He hit all the rhythm and blues . .. the Oklahoma Outlaws were composed of Tim Spencer (guitar), Bob Nolan
charts with a young chap named Bob (string bass), and Leonard Slye (guitar)? This group came to Hollywood to work
Rubian and The Popcorn Song and his for Warner Brothers, then they were called the Gold Star Rangers. And a short
Square Dance Album for Capitol has time later, these three lads were called the Sons of the Pioneers. Leonard Slye later
been a constant seller since 1947. became the famous cowboy •.• Roy Rogers.

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