Light Crust Doughboys - Swinging Down In Texas: The Singles Collection 1932-41 (2026)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Beautiful Texas
02. Bill Cheatham
03. Prairie Lullaby
04. El Rancho Grande
05. Waltz You Saved For Me
06. Rural Rhythm
07. In A Little Gypsy Tea Room
08. My Melancholy Baby
09. My Blue Heaven
10. I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bone
11. I'm A Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas
12. Uncle Zeke
13. Happy Cowboy
14. When The Moon Shines On The Mississippi Valley
15. Blue Guitars
16. Roll Along Jordan
17. Dusky Stevedore
18. Just Once Too Often
19. Waiting For The Robert E. Lee
20. The Birth Of The Blues
21. Sitting On Top Of The World
22. Stumbling
23. Slow Down, Mr Brown
24. It Makes No Difference Now
25. Pussy, Pussy, Pussy
26. Baby, Give Me Some Of That
27. Dirt Dish Rag Blues

CD2
01. Blue Eyed Sally
02. Gulf Coast Blues
03. Weary Blues
04. Mama Won't Let Me
05. We Must Have Beer
06. Thinking Of You
07. Mama Gets What She Wants
08. We Found Her Little Pussy Cat
09. You Got What I Want
10. I'll Keep On Loving You
11. Beer Drinking Mama
12. Horsie Keep Your Tail Up
13. Careless
14. In Ole Oklahoma
15. Texas Song Of Pride
16. Jazzbo Joe
17. Cattle Call
18. Alice Blue Gown
19. South
20. Cripple Creek
21. If You'll Come Back
22. Mean Mean Mama
23. Good Gracious Gracie
24. Don't Lie To An Innocent Maiden
25. Five Long Years
26. Bear Creek Hop
27. Sweet Sally



The Light Crust Doughboys occupied a very unusual niche in popular music. They were a western swing band from Texas, created and organised in the early 1930s by the Burrus Mill and Elevator Company in Saginaw, Texas, in order to promote the company's brand of Light Crust Flour on radio and link that to advertising. The company's president Lee O'Daniel, a natural showman, was at the heart of the strategy and often travelled to perform and record with the group. They became major stars and their recording career in their original incarnation lasted for around a decade. They recorded prolifically, and this 54-track 2-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides from their releases on Vocalion and Okeh from this era. It features western swing version of classic country, folk, blues, jazz and pop songs like Waiting For The Robert E. Lee, Washington And Lee Swing, El Rancho Grande, Sittin' On Top Of The World, Chinatown My Chinatown, Birth Of The Blues, It Makes No Difference Now, My Blue Heaven and many more. It features ace western swing musicians Jim Boyd, John Parker, Cecil Brower, Kenneth Pitts, Dick Reinhart, Marvin Montgomery and others. They were pioneers of the western swing genre, and this is a hugely entertaining set.