78 RPM - Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys - Please Don't Leave Me / My Life's Been A Pleasure - Columbia - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys
Label:	Columbia
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	36593
Date:	15 May 1942
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys	Please Don't Leave Me	Ashlock	Rate
B	Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys	My Life's Been A Pleasure	Ashlock	Rate

Notes

A: Vocal by Tommy Duncan with Instrumental Acc.
B: Vocal by Leon McAuliffe with Instrumental Acc.
Recorded July 23 & 24, 1941, CBS Studio (Radio Station KNX), 6121 Gower & Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA, mx: H 375 (A), H 383 (B).
Also released on OKeh 6681 (poss. June 1942), reissued Columbia 37025 (Jul 1946) and 20051 (May 1948).

BB May 23, 1942, p. 63 (Week's Best Releases - Review)

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BigBadBluesMan 10th Mar 2015



fixbutte 27th Jan 2015		The Texas Playboys present two very catchy and swinging sides on this record, both written by the band's fiddler, Jesse Ashlock. The pleading "Please Don't Leave Me", featuring Tommy Duncan's rich vocal and the band's fiddles (by Bob Wills and the composer), is excellent, but I favorite the ultra-positive "My Life's Been A Pleasure", cheerfully sung by Leon McAuliffe with hot playing by the band's saxes and clarinets. There were no C&W (or Folk) charts in 1942, but there are several references in the Billboard magazine about both sides "hitting top spots" in the sales reports from the South and the West and being "top nickel-pullers" for the juke boxes there. At the time of this release, however, record companies had to cut down the number of releases because of shellac bottlenecks. In the same May 23, 1942 issue in which the review of this record was published, the Billboard magazine reported: Recording companies are cutting down on the total number of folk tune releases because of the shellac priorities situation. The three major disk outfits are now averaging one release a week each. In addition, Columbia has switched its folk releases for the past two weeks from the Okeh to the Columbia label, thus boosting it from 35 cents to 50 cents. There is a strong possibility that the other companies may follow suit. Consequently, Billboard's review pointed at the Columbia 36593 issue of this record (still the band's only one with the Columbia label until Sep 1945). I have noticed that W.B.lbl edited the accurate release date of this issue (May 15, 1942) but added the information "same day" for the OKeh 6681 issue that I had guessed for some weeks later. Actually I have faint doubts about the simultaneous release of the Columbia issue (50 cents) and the OKeh issue (35 cents), but then again those were times of distress for any kind of business.