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- SKU: BCD16821
- Format: CD/DVD
- UPC: 4000127168214
- Street Date: 01/02/07
- PreBook Date: 01/01/01
- Label: Bear Family Records »
- Genre: Country
- Run Time: 257 mins
- Number of Discs: 5
- Year of Production: 2007
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
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Nashville Stars On Tour
4-CD Box/1DVD (LP-size) with 114-page hardcover book, 96 tracks. Total playing time approx. 257:20 mns
- List Price: $199.99
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Nashville Stars On Tour, 1964
RCA's top brass in New York rolled out the red carpet for a troupe arriving from Tennessee. And they should have. Corporate HQ had long ago stopped laughing at its country division as first Steve Sholes and then Chet Atkins made the Nashville branch into a goldmine that delivered hit after hit year after year. Several artists on the roster, Eddy Arnold, Hank Snow, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves and Bobby Bare, delivered not just country hits... but pop hits, and not just national hits... but international hits.
Now a delegation from Nashville was to fly to Germany to introduce Europe to the Nashville Sound. lt was a time when the music world was consumed with all things British, and it was a bold move to bring American country acts to Europe. RCA, though, was desperate. The company had no acts to compete with the Beatles, and, in the spring of 1964, country music looked like RCA's best bet for beating back the British. Jim Reeves could look back on 25 Top 10 hits in the 'Billboard' country charts, and several of those had cracked the pop charts as well. He'd done almost as well overseas. Bobby Bare had gone pop with Shame On Me and Detroit City, and had just delivered his knockout punch, 500 Miles Away From Home.
Even Anita Kerr (as Anita And Th'So-And-So's) had scored a Hot 100 with Joey Baby. At 2:00 pm on April 2, 1964, RCA's corporate managers hosted a reception for the Nashville troupe at Lufthansa's VIP lounge in New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Jim Reeves (aged 40) was the only one to show his colours as a Texan by wearing a pair of cowboy boots. Bobby Bare (29) wore a lounge suit, while Chet Atkins (39) passed around a Stetson hat that Anita Kerr jokingly put on her bobbed hair-do. One of RCA's staff photographers snapped away, recording the event for the company's in-house magazine. They all tried to loosen the somewhat stiff atmosphere, but they ...Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/
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