Oscar Woods - Oscar "Buddy" Woods: The Lone Wolf 1930-1938 (1938)

"Lone Wolf Blues" by Oscar Woods (The Lone Wolf)

Early in his music career, Jimmie Davis played Blues tunes and often collaborated with or was accompanied by black musicians.  One such collaborator was guitarist Oscar Woods — sometimes known as Buddy Woods.  His recording career was inconsistent with only a handful of session work, a few singles and nary an album.  Document Records put out compilation album of his work Oscar "Buddy" Woods: The Lone Wolf 1930-1938.

Note: As usual, the compilation album is marked in the title, not by year of release, but by year of the last recording on said album.

Here is the discography for Oscar Woods:

Fence Breakin' Blues (1930 single by Shreveport Home Wreckers)

Flying Crow Blues (1932 single by Eddie and Oscar)

Lone Wolf Blues (1936 single as Oscar Woods (The Lone Wolf))

Evil Hearted Woman Blues (1936 single as Oscar Woods (The Lone Wolf))

Swingology (1937 single by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats)

Muscat Hill Blues (1937 single as Buddy Woods with The Wampus Cats)

I Can't Dance (Got Ants in My Pants) (1937 single by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats)

You're Standing on the Outside Now (1937 single by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats)

My Baby's Ways (1937 single by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats)

Baton Rouge Rag (1937 unissued single by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats)

Jam Session Blues (1937 single as Buddy Woods)

Doing the Dooga (1938 single by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats)

Low Life Blues (1938 single as Buddy Woods)

Oscar "Buddy" Woods: The Lone Wolf 1930-1938

Jerry's Saloon Blues (1940 Library of Congress Recordings)

"Jam Session Blues" by Buddy Woods

"Fence Breakin' Blues" by Shreveport Home Wreckers

"Gettin' Away" by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats

"Come Right Over to My House Baby" by Buddy Woods

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Leon's Lone Star Cowboys - Recorded 1932-1937 (1938)

"Texas Plains" by Leon's Lone Star Cowboys

Bob and Joe Shelton joined up with Leon Chappelear in 1929 to form their first band, the Lone Star Cowboys.  Creative differences split the friends and the Lone Star Cowboys became Leon's.  Another group without an album to its name, the blog stops at the compilation Recorded 1932-1937 released by the British Archive of Country Music.

Note: As usual, the year associated with the album is not the year of release but the year the latest released recording on the compilation.

Here is the discography for Leon's Lone Star Cowboys:

Little Joe the Wrangler (1932 single by Leon Chappelear (The Lone Star Cowboy))

Trifling Mama Blues (1933 single by Leon Chappelear)

Deep Elm Blues (1934 single as the Lone Star Cowboys)

Will There Be Cowboys in Heaven (1934 single as the Lone Star Cowboys)

Tumble Down Shack in My Dreams (1934 single as the Lone Star Cowboys)

Dillinger's Warning (1934 single)

Mistreated Blues (1935 single)

Sweet Sue (1935 single)

Four or Five Times (1935 single)

Bugle Call Rag (1935 single)

Crawdad Song (1935 single as the Lone Star Cowboys)

Dinah (1936 single)

White River Stomp (1936 single)

Just Forget (1936 single)

No Mama Blues (1936 single)

31st Street Blues (1936 single)

I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again (1936 single)

Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name (1936 single)

My Gal Sal (1936 single)

Trouble in Mind (1937 single)

Who Walks In When I Walk Out (1937 single)

Angry (1937 single)

Wild Cat Mama (The Answer to Do Right Papa) (1937 single)

Travelin' Blues (1937 single)

Mistreated Blues (1937 single)

I'm Serving Days (1937 single)

New Do Right Daddy (1938 single)

You're a Million Miles from Nowhere (1938 single)

My Mother's Rosary (Ten Baby Fingers and Ten Baby Toes) (1938 single)

Goin' Up to Dallas (1938 single)

Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia (1938 single)

Recorded 1932-1937

Toodle-Oo Sweet Mama (1939 single)

Ben Wheeler Stomp (1941 single)

Original Recordings, 1932-1937 (compilation album)

"Crawdad Song" by the Lone Star Cowboys

"Bugle Call Rag" by Leon's Lone Star Cowboys

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Orson Welles - The War of the Worlds (1938)

"The War of the Worlds" by Orson Welles with The Mercury Theater on the Air


Orson Welles, the prodigy, talked his way into the theater in Europe and parleyed that into a successful and heralded career as a theater and radio actor/director by the age of twenty.  What brought him to prominent, national attention was his work with CBS's Mercury Theater on the Air, a radio acting troupe that performed weekly various adaptations of classic novels and short stories.  The most famous and notorious being the 1938 adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, a sort of Halloween holiday special.  With the unique structure of a regular musical broadcast interrupted by increasingly alarming emergency news bulletins and field reportage, the United States was rapidly taken over by an alien threat from Mars starting in Grover's Mill, New Jersey.

It was a new structure for the radio and because some listeners only heard portions of the broadcast (the full script makes the dramatization quite clear both in its content and promotion), a spotty hysteria spread through the Northeastern United States and some parts of Canada that had people fleeing their homes.  If it all seems overblown, it might have been since the media ended up writing over 12,500 articles on the program and its aftermath.  Welles, as the director and lead actor of the program and by now a household name, was forced into an apology for any trouble the broadcast might have brewed.  He would end up building the event into a new career in film through an unprecedented contract with RKO.  Welles would return to the radio as an actor, but it would no longer be his primary profession.  The War of the Worlds adaptation remains the most talked about and available of his radio work.

Here is the discography surrounding Orson Welles's debut album:

The War of the Worlds

Orson Welles Apologizes


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