Clark Jones - Early American Folk Music and Songs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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After releasing nearly one hundred sides in the 1920s, Clark Kessinger-like many other musicians of the time-lost his recording career during the Depression. This album is his first since 1930, although this fine fiddler continued playing on radio and at local dances, as well as at the National Folk Festival in Washington, DC in the late 1930s.

Very few instrumentalists can match the chart success of American pianist Roger Williams, who had well over thirty chart entries during his career, and came to fame with his 1955 debut hit InchAutumn LeavesInch, which remains the only piano instrumental to reach No. 1 in the Billboard pop charts, selling over two million copies in the process. A classically-trained pianist, who also studied jazz piano at New York's renowned Juilliard School of Music, he was signed to the Kapp tag after winning a talent contest, and was launched to fame with his second for the tag. This great-value 51-track 2-CD collection is drawn entirely from his A and B sides released by Kapp during the period, with the majority of his releases during the period represented by at least one side, with both the A and B sides of many of his releases included. It naturally includes all of the eighteen Billboard or Cash Box chart entries he achieved during this era, notably the Top 10 hit InchNear YouInch as well as InchAutumn LeavesInch, and features his versions of many of the fine melodies of the times such as InchThe Warsaw Concerto (The World Outside)Inch, InchTchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1Inch and InchThe Skater's WaltzInch, characterised by rich orchestral accompaniments, plus his hit duet with singer Jane Morgan InchTwo Different WorldsInch.