Episode Twenty One: The Girls of the Golden West

Jack is back from a two-month hiatus to tell you all he can about the pioneering close-harmony sister duo The Girls of the Golden West.

Songs:

Girls of the Golden West - Started out from Texas

Gene Autry - Cowboy Yodel

Girls of the Golden West - Home Sweet Home in Texas

Girls of the Golden West - Colorado Blues 

Girls of the Golden West - Hi O, Hi O (Night Herding Song)

Girls of the Golden West - Sleepy Hollow Bill

Girls of the Golden West - Lonely Cowgirl 

Girls of the Golden West - The Cowgirl's Dream 

Girls of the Golden West - Will there be any Yodelers in Heaven?

Girls of the Golden West - Texas Moon 

Girls of the Golden West - I Wanna be a Real Cowboy Girl

Bing Crosby & the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra - I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)

Louise Massey - Nobody to Love

Girls of the Golden West - The Round-Up in Cheyenne 

Girls of the Golden West - Beautiful Texas

Arkie the Arkansas Woodchopper - Sweet Evalina

Hoosier Hot Shots - Meet me by the Ice House, Lizzie 

Red Foley - Old Shep 

Coon Creek Girls - Flower Blooming in the Wildwood 

Lulu Belle and Scotty - Nobody's Business

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - I Wanna be a Cowboy's Sweetheart

Henry Burr - I'll Take you Home again, Kathleen 

Girls of the Golden West - Roamin' in the Gloamin'

Girls of the Golden West - I Love Her Just the Same

Girls of the Golden West - Ragtime Cowboy Joe

Lois Johnson and Hank Williams Jr. - We Must Have Been Out of Our Mind

Girls of the Golden West - Santa Fe Trail

The Davis sisters - I've Forgotten More than You'll Ever Know (About Him)

Shirley Thoms - Where the Golden Wattle Blooms

June Holms - Daddy was a Yodelin' Cowboy

Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys - Slowpoke

References:

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McCusker, K. M. (2008). Lonesome cowgirls and honky-tonk angels: The women of barn dance radio (Vol. 543). University of Illinois Press.

Millie Good McClusky & Bill McClusky, November 4, 1988, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Peterson, R. A. (2013). Creating country music: Fabricating authenticity. University of Chicago Press.

Russell, T. (2007). Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost. Oxford University Press.

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