Catalogue: JASMCD 3548
Price Code: A
Release Date: 01/05/2004
Bar Code: 604988 35482 9
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Bill NETTLES & His Dixie Blue BoysHadacol Boogie
 
In 1945 Bill was one of the featured performers on
the newly launched Louisiana Hayride (in its original format prior to its
relocation to the municipal auditorium some three years later) which broadcast
twice weekly over KWKH from Shreveport. That same year Bill inked a recording
deal with RCA, however, it was to be a short lived deal as Bill was unhappy with
RCA and quit the label after just one session.It was with MERCURY that he scored
the nearest he ever got to a "Hit" record. In 1949 he recorded "Hadacol Boogie"
a tongue in cheek "testament" to the dubious powers of Dudley LeBlanc’s patent
"medicine" Hadacol. It was definitely the right song at the right time. Bill’s
original prompted a few "cover" versions, that by veteran perform Jessie Rogers
for the BLUEBIRD label significantly outsold Bill’s own MERCURY recording.Spells
with the TRUMPET, and STARDAY label followed in the Fifties, before Bill
"Retired" in the late Fifties, although it was to be a short retirement because
he set up his own NETT label in the mid sixties, at the age of 62, and for whom
he record a half dozen sides. Bill’s career in Country music panned three
decades. Beside his catalogue of recorded songs, Bill also had an impressive
portfolio of songs, some three hundred, that he had written, songs which had
been recorded by the likes of Gene Autry, Roy Acuff, Al Dexter, The Stanley
Brothers, Faron Young, Johnnie & Jack, and Jimmie Davis, to name just a few.
Produced by Al Turner
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