I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
1949 · From 40 Greatest Hits
Issued as a B-side because jukeboxes wanted uptempo, with Jerry Byrd's steel guitar shadowing every line Williams sings.
★ 8.5
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Showing 4 songs from 1949
The Fat Man
1949
Cosimo Matassa's J&M studio, December 1949: Earl Palmer's backbeat, Domino's wordless wah-wah, and a million copies sold.
★ 6.5
Mind Your Own Business
1949 · From 40 Greatest Hits
Cut at Castle Studio in 1949, Williams answering the gossips with a grin, a fiddle and Clyde Baum's mandolin.
★ 4.5
Rudolph the Red-Nosed ReindeerGene Autry
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1949
Recorded in June 1949 by a reluctant Autry, at his wife's urging, from a story written for a department store.
★ 4.4