FLAC (tracks) | Country | 02:19:20 | 2CD | 355 MbTracklist:CD1[02:51] 1. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Shame On You[02:56] 2. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Pair Of Broken Hearts[02:45] 3. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Forgive Me One More Time[02:38] 4. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – I’ve Taken All I’m Gonna Take From You[02:40] 5. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Detour[02:57] 6. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – You Can’t Break My Heart[02:37] 7. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Crazy ‘Cause I Love You[02:40] 8. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Three Way Boogie[02:55] 9. Dinah Shore with Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Heartaches, Sadness And Tears[02:49] 10. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Oklahoma Stomp[02:37] 11. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – You Better Do It Now[02:37] 12. Spade Cooley and His Band – It’s Dark Outside[02:31] 13. Spade Cooley and His Band – Minuet In Swing[02:45] 14. Spade Cooley and His Band – Bogg’s Boogie[02:36] 15. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – You Never Miss The Water (Till The Well Runs Dry)[02:36] 16. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Spadella[02:33] 17. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Troubled Over You[02:31] 18. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Cow Bell Polka[02:34] 19. Spade Cooley and His Band – All Aboard For Oklahoma[02:30] 20. Spade Cooley and His Band – Spanish Fandango[02:34] 21. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – I Guess I’ve Been Dreaming Again[02:45] 22. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Steel Guitar Rag[02:26] 23. Spade Cooley and His Band – Whistle Bait[02:58] 24. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Hide Your Face[02:20] 25. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Yodeling Polka[02:20] 26. Spade Cooley and His Band – Topeka PolkaCD2[02:44] 1. Spade Cooley and His Band – Big Chief Boogie[02:26] 2. Spade Cooley and His Band – Fickle Woman[02:36] 3. Spade Cooley and His Band – Texas Steel Guitar[02:30] 4. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – You’ll Rue The Day[02:45] 5. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Swinging The Devil’s Dream[02:38] 6. Spade Cooley and His Band – Four Fiddle Polka[02:18] 7. Spade Cooley and His Band – Call Me Darling, Do[02:15] 8. Spade Cooley and His Band – Texas Playboy Rag[02:49] 9. Spade Cooley and His Band – Flop-Eared Mule[02:43] 10. Spade Cooley and His Band – Wake Up, Susan[02:49] 11. Spade Cooley and His Band – Ida Red[02:49] 12. Spade Cooley and His Band – You Can’t Take Texas Out Of Me[03:08] 13. Spade Cooley and His Band – The Last Roundup[03:06] 14. Spade Cooley and His Band – Wagon Wheels[01:59] 15. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Lucky Leather Breeches[02:20] 16. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Honky Tonkin’[02:55] 17. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Hillbilly Fever[02:27] 18. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Mountain Boys Have Fun With Mountain Girls[02:28] 19. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – 9/10ths Of Tennessee River[02:29] 20. Spade Cooley And His Fiddlin’ Friends – Chew Tobacco Rag[02:31] 21. Spade Cooley & His String Orchestra – Tuesday Two-Step[02:39] 22. Spade Cooley & His String Orchestra – Three Fiddle Rag[01:59] 23. Spade Cooley And His Fiddlin’ Friends – Hitsitty Hotsitty[02:02] 24. Spade Cooley And His Fiddlin’ Friends – Down Yonder[02:26] 25. Spade Cooley And His Fiddlin’ Friends – Horse Hair Boogie[02:29] 26. Spade Cooley And His Fiddlin’ Friends – The Cowboy Waltz[01:47] 27. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – Carmen’s Boogie[02:12] 28. Spade Cooley & His Orchestra – One Sweet Letter From YouBandleader and fiddle player Spade Cooley, the self-styled “King Of Western Swing”, was a notoriously colourful character who worked in western movies with Roy Rogers before leading one of the biggest country orchestras of its kind, attracting massive audiences to his shows in Los Angeles.

He became popular on radio television and racked up a string of hits in the mid-‘40s until popular tastes changed and his career declined in the early ‘50s.

This great-value 54-track 2-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from his releases on the Okeh, Columbia, RCA and Decca labels during this period, representing about half of his entire recorded output in this time.

It includes his most famous recording, the No.

1 country hit “Shame On You” along with his other Top 10 country hits “A Pair of Broken Hearts”, “I’ve Taken All I’m Gonna Take From You”, “Detour”, “You Can’t Break My Heart” and “Crazy ‘Cause I Love You”, many of them featuring his long-time star vocalist Tex Williams and including one notable recording with Dinah Shore.

Along with Bob Wills, Spade Cooley was among the best-known and most popular exponents of Western Swing, and this highly entertaining anthology will underline exactly why.