Roy Acuff Sings the Songs of Hank Williams

CML call number: CD/COUNTRY/Acuff
Contents: Your Cheatin' Heart, Jambalaya (On the Bayou), Hey Good Lookin', Take These Chains from My Heart, Cold Cold Heart, I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You), Lonesome Whistle, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight, You Win Again.
Robert Shelton and Burt Goldblatt wrote in The Country Music Story (1966; 784.4/Sh): "About the closest thing to a father-figure in country music is a thin, wispy man with a warm smile, a deeply lined face, and a yo-yo which he plays with on stage. If something good happens for country music in Nashville, more than a handful of musicians might remark, 'Roy would like that' or 'That would please Roy.' The Roy invoked is Roy Acuff, who bears his title of 'The King of Country Music' with a humility rare to most royalty. Since 1938, Acuff has held a peculiar position of eminence in this field, conditioned by his perennial popularity with audiences as much as by the kindly concern he shows toward most everyone in the field, as if they were his children. Acuff is a millionaire several times over. He has been performer, song writer, band leader, publisher. …" (p. 79).