Tex Ritter's
1957 Ranch Party
DISC ONE:
U.S. TV show. Tex Ritter: "We Live In Two
Different Worlds." Collins Kids: "They're Still
in Love." Jimmy Newman: "A Sweet Kind of Love."
Ranch Party Gang: "I Know My Baby Cares Only For
Me," "Nobody's Darling but Mine." Skeets
McDonald: "Trouble in Mind." Joe Maphis and Rose
Lee: "Are You Fer It." Johnny Cash and the
Tennessee Two: "Give My Love to Rose." Larry
Collins and Joe Maphis: "Flying Fingers." The
Hoosier Hot Shots: "There's Something About a
Home Town Band"
Les 'Carrot Top' Anderson: "The New
Panhandle Rag." Lorrie Collins: "Since I Met You
Baby." Joe Maphis and Fiddlin' Kate: "Hoedown."
Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two: "There You
Go." Joe Maphis: "Fiddlin' Breakdown." Ranch
Party Gang: "I'm Gonna Ride Into Town." The
Hoosier Hot Shots: "Crazy Medley." Jimmy Newman:
"A Fallen Star." Tex Ritter: "When You Leave
Don't Slam The Door." Collins Kids: "Just
Because."

DISC TWO:
U.S. TV show. Ranch Party Gang: "Cimarron,"
"Remember the Alamo." Collins Kids: "Rockaway
Rock." Jimmy Wakely: "Boots and Saddles," "You
Are My Sunshine." Merle Travis: "John Henry."
Marilyn Tuttle: "Honey Bun" Johnny Bond: "They
Got Me." Fiddlin' Kate: "Old Time Breakdown." Joe
Maphis, Merle Travis & Larry Collins: "The
Wildwood Flower."
Ranch Party Gang: "Ridin' and
Ropin'." Lorrie Collins: "Young Love." Joe Maphis
and Fiddlin' Kate: "Instrumental." The Sons of
the Pioneers: "The Chant of the Wanderer,"
"There's A Round Up In the Sky." Tex Carmen:
"Dixie Cannonball." Marilyn Tuttle and Rose Lee:
"I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know." Johnny
Bond: "Down Yonder." Freddie Hart: "Singing the
Blues." Collins Kids: "Razzle Dazzle."

DISC THREE:
U.S. TV show. Carl Perkins: "Blue Suede Shoes,"
"Your True Love." Lorrie Collins: "There He
Goes." Ranch Party Gang: "Night Train To
Memphis." Smiley Burnette: "Hominy Grits." Wes
and Marilyn Tuttle: "Hey Good Lookin'." Mac
Wiseman: "Wabash Cannonball." Collins Kids: "Kaw
-liga." Tex Ritter: "Children and Fools."
Collins Kids: "Let's Have A Party."
Johnny Cash: "I Walk The Line." Ranch Party Gang:
"Blue Tail Fly." Patsy Cline: "I've Loved and
Lost Again." Les 'Carrot Top' Anderson: "Dimples
or the Dumplins." Joe Maphis and Fiddlin' Kate:
"Instrumental Hoedown." Dorothy Wright: "Just a
Closer Walk with Thee." Bobby Helms: "Long Gone
Daddy" (Terrific rockabilly!). Lorrie Collins:
"Young Heart." Ranch Party Gang: "Deep In the
Heart of Texas."

DISC FOUR:
U.S. TV show. Tex Williams: "That's What I Like
The West." Ranch Party Gang: "You're From Texas."
Ray Price: "It's All Your Fault." Joe Maphis and
Rose Lee: "Don't Make Love in a Buggy." Joe
Maphis and Larry Collins: "Under the Double
Eagle." (Wild high-speed guitar duel! They both
play the same double neck guitar!). Johnny Bond
and Wes Tuttle: "If You Don't, Somebody Else
Will." Ranch Party Gang: "Worried Man Blues."
George Jones: "You Gotta Be My Baby." Collins
Kids: "Hoy Hoy." Tex Ritter: "Green Grow The
Lilacs."
Ranch Party Gang: "Take Me Back To
Tulsa." Tex Ritter: "The Best Time of All." Joe
Maphis and Larry Collins: "Flying Fingers"
(Lightening fast guitar duel, Tex calls it,
"Double harness, twin guitar magic!" After song
Larry gives Joe a kiss!). Dorothy Wright: "Wasted
Words." Cannonball Taylor: "Don't Forget Me When
I'm Gone." Johnny Bond: "Oklahoma Hills."
Fiddlin' Kate: "Fiddlin' Hoedown." Les 'Carrot
Top' Anderson: "Won't You Ride In My Little Red
Wagon." Collins Kids: "Hop, Skip and Jump"
(terrific rockabilly!). Eddie Dean: "Along the
Navajo Trail."
TV episodes featuring a fantastic mix of rockabilly, hillbilly and country music late 1950s style!
Terrific lightning speed guitar duels between Larry Collins and Joe Maphis! Very cool 1950s
rockabilly on TV! The presenter of this show was Tex Ritter, and it ran for four years. The regular
announcer was Jay Stewart, who also worked on the 'Town Hall Party' shows. Excellent sound
and picture quality here. "One of the popular American Country & Western shows of the 1950s
was Town Hall Party, a barn dance program put off every Saturday night in Compton, California.
The West Coast's answer to the Louisiana Hayride and the Grand Ole Opry, it was broadcast first
on radio and then went to TV in the Los Angeles area. The cast of Town Hall Party came to include
Tex Ritter as MC, Joe Maphis and Rose Lee Maphis, Johnny Bond, Merle Travis, and Larry &
Lorrie Collins ('The Collins Kids'). The program featured guest spots by many country and rock &
roll artists of the day: Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jimmy Wakley, and Patsy Cline, to name a few.