Spade Cooley's Western Swing Song Folio

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name = Spade Cooley's Western Swing Song Folio


image_caption = Folio cover.
author = Donnell C. "Spade" Cooley
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country = Unted States
language = English
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genre = Song book
publisher = Hill and Range Songs, Inc.
pub_date = 1945
media_type = Folio
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"Spade Cooley's Western Swing Song Folio" was the first songbook to identify the big Western dance band music as "Western Swing". [Lang, "Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly", p. 89: In October 1944, "Billboard" made the following announcement, unceremoniously giving the subgenre its common label for the first time in a national publication: 'Spade Cooley will put out 25 of his original tunes, together with an album of band numbers and suggestions on arrangements for Western Bands. Book to be titled 'Western Swing'."] The song's were written (or co-written) by Spade Cooley. Smokey Rogers co-wrote several of the songs. Spade Cooley was one of the first song-writers signed by the Aberbach brothers for their new music publishing house, Hill and Range Songs, Inc., the publishers of this folio.

heet music

Sheet music in the folio are: [Cooley, "Spade Cooley's Western Swing Song Folio".]
*"Oklahoma Gal"
*"Jive on the Range"
*"There is No Sunshine"
*"Heavenly Range"
*"Gitar Swing"
*"You're Gonna Pay"
*"Now and Always"
*"My Chickashay Gal"
*"Do Ya or Don'tcha"
*"Shawnee Blues"
*"Tennessee Wagner"
*"You Gotta Quit Your Triflin'"
*"I'm Waiting for the Day (That You Come Back)"
*"Gonna Leave You Blues"
*"You're Breakin' This Poor Heart of Mine"

References

Bibliography

*Cooley, Donnell C. "Spade". "Spade Cooley's Western Swing Song Folio". Beverly Hills, Calif: Hill and Range Songs (1945).
*Lange, Jeffrey J."Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954". Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press (2004).