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I appreciate Case44's posting of the above Wayne Raney song. In his earlier days, Raney performed with the Delmore Brothers. In the 1950's he was a night DJ on Cincinnati's 50,000-watt WCKY where he played traditional Country records and gave a lot of air play to such bluegrass bands as the Stanley Brothers and Reno & Smiley. I was a regular listener. Raney refused to play any music that was considered Progressive. This included nearly everything by Elvis and virtually all the "Nashville Sound" recordings that were being produced by Owen Bradley, Chet Atkins and others. Therefore, some of Country's biggest stars like Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, the Everly Brothers, Brenda Lee, Marty Robbins, etc. were seldom heard on Raney's program because many of their recordings had background voices or strings, or because the percussion was too loud. Raney believed that traditional Country was on the way out and fancied himself one of the very last crusaders who were valiantly fighting to save real Country music. I hope he later realized that the Nashville Sound probably saved Country by greatly enlarging its audience and enabling it to survive the onslaught of British Rock that soon took the country by storm. Anyway, Raney's show was abruptly cancelled when WCKY became the Cincinnati Reds flagship station. More than 50 years later I am still a big Wayne Raney fan.
I appreciate Case44's posting of the above Wayne Raney song. In his earlier days, Raney performed with the Delmore Brothers. In the 1950's he was a night DJ on Cincinnati's 50,000-watt WCKY where he played traditional Country records and gave a lot of air play to such bluegrass bands as the Stanley Brothers and Reno & Smiley. I was a regular listener. Raney refused to play any music that was considered Progressive. This included nearly everything by Elvis and virtually all the "Nashville Sound" recordings that were being produced by Owen Bradley, Chet Atkins and others. Therefore, some of Country's biggest stars like Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, the Everly Brothers, Brenda Lee, Marty Robbins, etc. were seldom heard on Raney's program because many of their recordings had background voices or strings, or because the percussion was too loud. Raney believed that traditional Country was on the way out and fancied himself one of the very last crusaders who were valiantly fighting to save real Country music. I hope he later realized that the Nashville Sound probably saved Country by greatly enlarging its audience and enabling it to survive the onslaught of British Rock that soon took the country by storm. Anyway, Raney's show was abruptly cancelled when WCKY became the Cincinnati Reds flagship station. More than 50 years later I am still a big Wayne Raney fan.
Raney held up his end of the deal quite nicely, but over time, maybe he could have been a little more accepting of the growth and change in country music. Thanks for the good word, RR. Raney was quite a trooper with what he stood for, but I think he would have mildly appreciated truckers' music more than the Nashville Sound or countrypolitan. We'll never really know, but I'm just speculating. Had it been around during Raney's show's heyday, it might have garnered some decent time on his program; more so, anyway, than the others we've mentioned. If he could infuse the boogie style, then he could digest the trucking music style and all that that employed.
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Sunday Country Gold
