78 RPM - Roy Acuff And His Crazy Tennesseeans - Wabash Cannon Ball / Freight Train Blues - Vocalion - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Roy Acuff And His Crazy Tennesseeans
Label:	Vocalion
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	04466
Date:	Nov 1938
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	7 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$80
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PRICE GUIDE

$80

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Roy Acuff And His Crazy Tennesseeans	Wabash Cannon Ball		Rate
B	Roy Acuff And His Crazy Tennesseeans	Freight Train Blues		Rate

Notes

Roy Acuff and His Crazy Tennesseans:
Roy Acuff, fiddle, sound effects; Sam "Dynamite" Hatcher, vocals; Clell Summey, steel guitar; Jess Easterday, guitar; Red Jones, stand-up bass.

A mx: C 1589-1; B mx: C 1590-2.
Recorded at the Furniture Mart Building, 666 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, October 21, 1936.

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BigBadBluesMan 11th Sep 2021



BigBadBluesMan 11th Sep 2021



fixbutte 22nd Aug 2015		The original recordings of "Wabash Cannonball" and "Freight Train Blues" by Roy Acuff and His Crazy Tennesseans were made on their second session on October 21, 1936. Contrary to expectations, vocals on both sides were not taken by the leader but by the mysterious Sam "Dynamite" Hatcher who also played harmonica with the group (but left before the next session in 1937). Nonetheless, when the record was released at the end of 1938, "Wabash Cannon Ball", a traditional train song first recorded by both Hugh Cross and The Carter Family in 1929, became Roy Acuff's biggest-ever hit, supposedly having sold already more than a million discs in 1942, at the height of its popularity. Both sides were re-recorded by Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys with Acuff's own vocals on January 28, 1947 and first released on Columbia #37008 (alternative issue, later on Columbia #20034; in contrast, the original Columbia #37008 and Columbia #20197 were reissues of the 1936 recordings). Altogether, both versions of "Wabash Cannon Ball" eventually sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.