Homer & Jethro - The Kings Of Comedy Country: The Collection 1949-62 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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 InchBaby, It's Cold OutsideInch. 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 InchBaby It's Cold OutsideInch and InchHow Much Is That Hound Dog In The WindowInch, and the Top 20 hits InchHernando's HideawayInch and InchThe Battle Of KookamungaInch. 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. Album Tracks 1. 2. Baby It's Cold Outside 3. Tennessee Border Number Two 4. I've Got Tears in My Ears (From Lyin' on My Back in My Bed While I Cry Over You) 5. She Made Toothpicks Out of the Timber of My Heart 6. I Said My Nightshirt (And Put on My Pray'rs) 7. (Put Another Nickel in) Music! Music! Music! 8. You Tell Her I Stutter 9. Does the Spearmint Lose It's Flavor 10. D