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Chanteur
Country US né William F. Nettles, le 13 Mars 1903 à Natchitoches (Louisiane). Bill Nettles a débuté dans les années trente. Il fut managé au début des fifties par le Colonel Tom Parker, juste avant
Elvis Presley. Il est décédé le 5 Avril
1967 à Monroe (Louisiane).
Bill
Nettles was a noted songwriter and country singer over a span of three decades.
A disabled navy veteran of World War I, Nettles and his brother Norman were the
core of various ensembles in Shreveport - the Dixie Blue Boys, and the Nettles
Brothers for example - popular on KWKH radio, and oft recorded by VOCALION and
Bluebird/RCA (1937-45). In addition, Nettles is reported to have written the
huge 1934 hit "Nobody's Darling But Mine" for
Jimmie Davis. Nettles's own early
recordings often bear Davis's name as co-writer, and in later years Nettles
wrote a song about the Davis hit called "The Story Of Nobody's Darling".
Nettles's beautiful "Have I Waited Too Long?" was introduced at KWKH in 1943 by
Radio Dot and Smoky, and later became Faron
Young's theme song. Along with Harmie Smith, Bob Shelton,
Dick Hart, young
Webb Pierce, and host Hal Burns, Nettles
& His Dixie Blue Boys helped to launch a twice-weekly Louisiana Hayride program
on KWKH in the summer of 1945 that predated the more famous auditorium show by
almost three years. Nettles moved to Monroe, LA., in 1946, and except for short
performance stays in Jackson, Mississippi, and Orange, Texas, he remained there
for the rest of his life. He continued to record, on the Bullet and Imperial
labels, and then found his greatest success with Mercury Records. A tune he
wrote and recorded for that label, "Hadacol Boogie", in a Monroe radio station
in 1949, was a celebration of Dudley LeBlanc's restorative elixir. It went to #
9 on the country charts. (BTW, "Hadacol Boogie" is alleged to be the first song
that Jerry Lee Lewis performed in
public, in 1949. Occasionally Jerry will perform the song on stage, though he
never recorded it.) Nettles loved to write "answer" songs, such as "Answer To
Blue Eyes", "It's Your Turn To Walk The Floor For Me", "I Hauled Off and Loved
Her", and even answered his own songs: "(I Want To Be) Somebody's Darling" and "Hadacol
Bounce". Not having heard the Nettles version, I'm not sure if the latter is the
same song that Professor Longhair recorded, also for Mercury in 1950. Does
anyone know? Nettles recorded five sides for Starday in 1954, including the rare
proto- rockabilly single "Wine-O Boogie"/"Gumbo Mumbo" (Starday 174), and
retired from radio and TV work in 1958. He started his own label in Monroe, Nett
Records, for which he made his last recordings during 1965-67.
Talents : Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin
Style musical : Country Boogie, Western Swing, Honky Tonk
When I Go A Courtin' My Best Gal (1943)
 (Nettles Brothers
String Band)
HADACOL
BOOGIE (1949)
PUSH
AND PULL BOOGIE (1951)
WINE-O BOOGIE
(1955)
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Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
78 t. & Singles
| 09/1937 | 78 t. ARC M7-09-64 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - My Cross Eyed Nancy Jane / Shake It And Take It |
| 09/1937 | 78 t. VOCALION 03634 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - My Cross Eyed Nancy Jane / Shake It And Take It |
| 10/1937 | 78 t. ARC M7-10-63 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Just A Little Lovin / No Daddy Blues |
| 10/1937 | 78 t. VOCALION 03662 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Just A Little Lovin / No Daddy Blues |
| 11/1937 | 78 t. ARC M7-11-57 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - I Miss The Girl That Misses Me / Oxford (Mississippi) Blues |
| 11/1937 | 78 t. VOCALION 03694 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - I Miss The Girl That Misses Me / Oxford (Mississippi) Blues |
| 01/1938 | 78 t. ARC M8-01-58 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Lazy River Moon / A Heart That Is Broken For You |
| 01/1938 | 78 t. VOCALION 03857 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Lazy River Moon / A Heart That Is Broken For You |
| 02/1938 | 78 t. ARC M8-02-54 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Answer To Wondering / When We Kissed And Said Good-Bye |
| 02/1938 | 78 t. VOCALION 03903 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Answer To Wondering / When We Kissed And Said Good-Bye |
| 03/1938 | 78 t. VOCALION 03952 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Answer To Blue Eyes / Louisiana Moon |
| 04/1938 | 78 t. VOCALION 04012 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Where The Sweet Magnilias Bloom / Early Morning Blues |
| 05/1938 | 78 t. VOCALION 04075 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - She's Running Wild / The Prisoner's Farewell |
| 02/1939 | 78 t. VOCALION 04615 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - High Steppin' Mama / Big Shot Daddy Blues |
| 03/1939 | 78 t. VOCALION 04655 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - She's Selling What She Used To Give Away / Sugar Baby Blues |
| 03/1939 | 78 t. CONQUEROR 9188 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - She's Selling What She Used To Give Away / Sugar Baby Blues |
| 04/1939 | 78 t. VOCALION 04757 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Why Do The Men Love The Women / Turn About Swing |
| 1941 | 78 t. BLUEBIRD 8720 (US) | NETTLES BROTHERS STRING BAND - Fannin' Street Blues / Dan, The Banana Man |
| 1941 | 78 t. BLUEBIRD 8805 (US) | NETTLES BROTHERS STRING BAND - You Go Your Way & I'll Go / I Never Worry Over You |
| 1941 | 78 t. BLUEBIRD 8819 (US) | NETTLES BROTHERS STRING BAND - Small Town Blues / Howdy Do Blues |
| 1941 | 78 t. BLUEBIRD 8881 (US) | NETTLES BROTHERS STRING BAND - She's Running Wild / Shift Gears Truck & Go |
| 1942 | 78 t. BLUEBIRD 8911 (US) | NETTLES BROTHERS STRING BAND - I Feel The Draft Coming On / There's No Use To Worry Now |
| 1943 | 78 t. BLUEBIRD 33-0504 (US) |
Nettle Brothers
String Band - Beautiful Hawaiian Shores /
When I Go A Courtin' My Best Gal
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| 05/1946 | 78 t. RCA-VICTOR 20-1846 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - You Walked Away With My Heart / Master Minded Mama |
| 10/1946 | 78 t. RCA-VICTOR 20-1989 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Tears Washed Away Your Smiles / Trouble's All I've Ever Known |
| 03/1947 | SP BULLET 637 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Too Many Blues / High Flautin' Mama |
| 1947 | SP BULLET 638 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Hungry / You're Breaking My Broken Heart Again |
| 07/1947 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 37732 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - She's Selling What She Used To Give Away / Sugar Baby Blues |
| 1948 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 20309 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - She's Selling What She Used To Give Away / Sugar Baby Blues |
| 1948 | SP IMPERIAL 8032 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Ain't No Tellin' What A Woman Will Do / The Same Thing Could Happen To You |
| 07/1948 | SP IMPERIAL 8039 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Tear Drops / Somebody's Darling |
| 04/1949 | 78 t. MERCURY 6190 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS -
Hadacol
Boogie
/ I'm
Footloose Now (And Free To Run) |
| 08/1949 | 78 t. MERCURY 6209 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me / Do Right Daddy |
| 03/1950 | 78 t. MERCURY 6249 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - I Hauled Off And Loved Her / Life's Road Of Sorrow |
| 03/1950 | SP MERCURY 6249-X45 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - I Hauled Off And Loved Her / Life's Road Of Sorrow |
| 08/1950 | 78 t. MERCURY 6275 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - When Your Own Love Ain't Around / Hadacol Bounce |
| 08/1950 | SP MERCURY 6275-X45 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - When Your Own Love Ain't Around / Hadacol Bounce |
| 05/1951 | 78 t. MERCURY 6330 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS -
Push
And Pull Boogie
/ Smiles Won't Hide An Achin' Heart |
| 05/1951 | SP MERCURY 6330-X45 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS -
Push
And Pull Boogie
/ Smiles Won't Hide An Achin' Heart |
| 07/1951 | 78 t. MERCURY 6350 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Smiles Won't Hide An Achin' Heart / The Long Road To Travel |
| 01/1955 | SP STARDAY 45-174 (US) |
Wine-O Boogie
/ Gumbo Mumbo |
| 1965 | SP NETT 10001 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS -
One Step Behind /
Everybody Needs A Little Loving
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| 1966 | SP NETT 10002 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - God Bless My Darling He's Somewhere (In Viet Nam) / Got A Lot Of Lovin' To Do |
| 1967 | SP NETT 10005 (US) | Bill NETTLES & His DIXIE BLUE BOYS - Old Age Pension Blues / I'm Crying You Out Of My Heart |
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Unissued Tracks
| 1953 | TRUMPET 214 unissued |
When My Kitten Stars Cattin' Around |
| 1953 | TRUMPET 214 unissued |
Be Fair With Your Heart |
| 1954 | TRUMPET 220 unissued |
A Little Bit Of Everything |
| 1954 | TRUMPET 220 unissued |
A Little Bit Of Everything / Don't Let Your Lips Say Yes (And Your Heart Say No) |
Albums
| 2001 | CD CATTLE CCD 248 (GER) |
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SHAKE IT AND TAKE IT - Oxford (Miss.) Blues / I Miss The Girl (That Misses Me) / She's Selling What She Used T0 Give Away /Sugar Baby Blues / Master Minded Mama / You're Breaking My Broken Heart Again / Hungry / Too Many Blues / High Falutin' Mama / Tears Have Washed Away Your Smile / Trouble's All I've Ever Known / Why Do The Men Love The Women? / Turn About Swing / The Answer To Wondering / Answer To Blue Eyes / When We Kissed And Said Goodbye / Louisiana Moon / Shake It And Take It / My Cross Eyed Nancy Jane / Lazy River Moon / A Heart That Is Broken For You / Fannin' Street Blues / Dan, The Banana Man / Tear Drops (On The Moon Tonight) / Somebody's Darling |
| 08/2004 | CD JASMINE JASMCD-3548 (UK) |
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HADACOL BOOGIE - Hadacol Boogie / Life's Road Of Sorrow / You Can't Hen Peck Me (Vocals : Danny Dedmon) / Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me / High Falutin' Mama / The Blues Keep Hangin' On (Vocals : Danny Dedmon) / You're Breakin' My Broken Heart Again / I Hauled Off And Loved Her / Gin Drinkin' Mama (Vocals : Danny Dedmon) / Do Right Daddy / Push And Pull Boogie / Somebody's Darlin' / Long Road To Travel / Hungry / Hoochie Coochie Woogie (Vocals : Danny Dedmon) / I'm Footloose Now (And Free To Run) / Hadacol Bounce / Sweet Little Sweetie Pie (Vocals : Danny Dedmon) / When You're Own Love Ain't Around / The Same Thing Could Happen To You / Hula Hula Woogie (Vocals : Danny Dedmon) / Ain't No Tellin' What A Woman Will Do / When I Pick Another Wife / Too Many Blues |
| 07/2009 | CD Master Classics ? (US) |
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Hillbilly Best - Gin Drinkin' Mama (Vocals : Danny Dedmon) / You're Breakin' My Broken Heart Again / Hula Hula Woogie / You Can't Hen Peck Me (Vocals : Danny Dedmon) / Too Many Blues / Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me / The Same Thing Could Happen To You / Life's Road Of Sorrow / Hadacol Boogie / When I Pick Another Wife / I'm Footloose Now (And Free To Run) / Long Road To Travel / I Hauled Off And Loved Her / High Falutin' Mama / When You're Own Love Ain't Around / Ain't No Tellin' What A Woman Will Do / Hadacol Bounce / Push And Pull Boogie / Do Right Daddy / Somebody's Darlin' / Sweet Little Sweetie Pie* H*****e Coochie Woogie (Vocals : Danny Dedmon) / The Blues Keep Hangin' On (Vocals : Danny Dedmon) / Hungry |
© Rocky Productions 22/06/2016
