Title: The Kings Of Comedy Country: The Collection 1949-62
Artist: Homer & Jethro
Label: Acrobat
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046341923
Genre: Country

Homer and Jethro were a country duo, real names Henry Haynes and Kenneth Burns, with their musical roots in hillbilly and bluegrass, who worked together on radio in the 1930s and reunited after service in WWII to perform again on radio, developing an act which featured exaggerated hillbilly comedic routines. After signing to RCA in 1949, their producer suggested developing their style by recording parodies of well-known pop and country hits, and they immediately struck a chord with their re-working of composer Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside". Over the next dozen years or so they remained consistently popular on radio and TV with this approach, and focused much of their recorded output in this direction. This great-value 58-track 2-CD set brings together selected A & B sides of their releases on RCA from this era, mostly comprising their trademark parody and comic performances. It features all their country and pop chart entries on RCA from these years, including the Top 10 hits "Baby It's Cold Outside" and "How Much Is That Hound Dog In The Window", and the Top 20 hits "Hernando's Hideaway" and "The Battle Of Kookamunga". They represented a highly individual and idiosyncratic strand of country music, cornering the market as just about the only practitioners of this particular art, and this collection offers a showcase not only for their unusual material but also for their finely-honed skills as instrumentalists and harmony vocalists.

Tracks:
1.1 :
1.2 Baby It's Cold Outside
1.3 Tennessee Border Number Two
1.4 I've Got Tears in My Ears (From Lyin' on My Back in My Bed While I Cry Over You)
1.5 She Made Toothpicks Out of the Timber of My Heart
1.6 I Said My Nightshirt (And Put on My Pray'rs)
1.7 (Put Another Nickel in) Music! Music! Music!
1.8 You Tell Her I Stutter
1.9 Does the Spearmint Lose It's Flavor
1.10 Disc Jockey's Nightmare
1.11 I'm Movin' on No. 2
1.12 Sound Off #2 (The Duckworth Chant)
1.13 Too Young
1.14 Too Old to Cut the Mustard
1.15 Cold Cold Heart #2
1.16 Slow Poke #2
1.17 When It's Toothpickin' Time in False Teeth Valley
1.18 L'il Ole Kiss of Fire
1.19 Billboard Song
1.20 Child Psychology
1.21 You Belong to Me #2
1.22 Jam-Bowl-Liar (Jambalaya)
1.23 Settin' the Woods on Fire #2
1.24 Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyeballs
1.25 (How Much Is) That Hound Dog in the Window
1.26 I'm Walking Behind You-All
1.27 Your Clobbered Heart
1.28 I Saw Mommy Smoochin' Santa Claus
1.29 You-Ewe-U
2.1 Oh My Pappy!
2.2 Swappin' Partners
2.3 Hernando's Hideaway
2.4 Hey There
2.5 Santa Baby
2.6 Nutty Lady of Shady Lane
2.7 Mister Sandman
2.8 Let Me Go Blubber
2.9 Ballad of Davy Crew-Cut
2.10 Yaller Rose of Texas, You All
2.11 Love and Marriage
2.12 Hart Brake Motel
2.13 Houn' Dawg
2.14 I'm My Own Grandpaw
2.15 Mama from the Train or (Throw Mama Down the Stairs Her Hat of Blue)
2.16 At the Flop
2.17 My Special Angel
2.18 I Guess Things Happen That Way
2.19 Lullaby of Bird Dog
2.20 Don't Sing Along (On Top of Old Smokey)
2.21 Middle Aged Teenager
2.22 The Battle of Kookamonga
2.23 Waterloo
2.24 El Paso (Numero Dos)
2.25 Sink the Bismarck
2.26 He'll Have to Go
2.27 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
2.28 Please Help Me, I'm Falling
2.29 Are You Lonesome Tonight
2.30 She Thinks I Don't Care

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