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Jimmie Rodgers
Born:  September 8, 1897
Died:  May 26, 1933
Country Music Hall of Fame (1961)
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1970)
Songwriters Hall of Fame (1970)
WWNC Asheville, NC


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Jimmie Rodgers
By Robert K. Krishef
Lerner Publications Company
1978
64 Pages
ISBN:  0-8225-1404-4
 



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Jimmie Rodgers' Life Story (Complete)
By Mrs. Jimmie (Carrie) Rodgers
Ernest Tubb Publications
1935
264 Pages
 



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Jimmie Rodgers
The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler
By Nolan Porterfield
University of Illinois Press
1979
460 Pages
ISBN:  0-252-00750-6
 



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My Husband, Jimmie Rodgers
By Carrie Rodgers
CMF Press
1975
248 Pages
ISBN:  0-915608-16-2
 



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Life of Jimmie Rodgers Jimmie The Kid
By Mike Paris & Chris Comber
Da Capo Press, Inc.
1977
211 Pages
ISBN:  0-306-80133-7
 



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Bristol Sessions
Writings About The Big Bang of Country Music
By Edited By Charles K. Wolfe and Ted Olson
McFarland & Company, Inc.
2004
256 Pages
ISBN:  0-7864-1945-8
 

Recordings (78rpm/45rpm)

 
Bluebird
Rec. No. Side Song Title
  5000 A Moonlight And Skies
  5000 B Rock All Our Babies To Sleep
  5037 A Looking For A New Mama
  5037 B Gambling Bar Room Blues
  5057 A She Was Happy Till She Met You
  5057 B Whisper Your Mother's Name
  5076 A Whippin' That Old T.B
  5076 B Prairie Lullaby
  5080 A Mother Queen Of My Heart
  5080 B Peach Pickin' Time Down In Georgia
  5081 A Down The Old Road To Home
  5081 B Miss The Mississippi & You
  5082 A Roll Along Kentucky Moon
  5082 B Why Should I Be Lonely
  5083 A You And My Old Guitar
  5083 B My Time Ain't Long
  5084 A What's It
  5084 B Let Me Be Your Side Track
  5085 A Blue Yodel #1 (T For Tex)
  5085 B Away Out On The Mountain
  5136 A Mississippi Moon
  5136 B Old Pal Of My Heart
  5163 A Waiting For A Train
  5163 B When The Cactus Is In Bloom
  5223 A In The Jailhouse Now
  5223 B Frankie And Johnny
  5281 A Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel
  5281 B Fifteen Years Ago Today
  5337 A Lullaby Yodel
  5337 B Land Of My Boyhood Dreams
  5393 A Mississippi River Blues
  5393 B My Blue Eyed Jane
  5482 A Ben Dewberry's Final Run
  5482 B Mother Was A Lady
  5556 A Yodeling Ranger
  5556 B My Carolina Sunshine Girl
  5609 A My Old Pal
  5609 B My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans
  5664 A Any Old Time
  5664 B Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues
  5739 A I'm Lonesome Too
  5739 B Mystery Of Number Five
  5784 A In The Hills Of Tennessee
  5784 B For The Sake Of Days Gone By
  5838 A My Little Lady
  5838 B Treasures Untold
  5892 A I've Ranged, I've Roamed And I've Traveled
  5892 B Why Did You Give Me Your Love
  5942 A My Good Gal's Gone Blues
  5942 A Blue Yodel #11
  5991 A Daddy And Home
  5991 B Yodeling Cowboy
  7280 A Yodeling My Way Back Home
  7280 B The One Rose
  B-7280 A The One Rose (That's Left In My Heart)
  B-7280 B Yodeling My Way Back Home
 
Montgomery Ward
Rec. No. Side Song Title
  4200 A In The Hills Of Tennessee
  4200 B Peach Pickin' Time Down In Georgia
  4201 A Rock All Our Babies To Sleep
  4201 B Prairie Lullaby
  4202 A Long Tall Mama Blues
  4202 B Down The Old Road To Home
  4203 A Looking For A New Mama
  4203 B Gambling Barroom Blues
  4204 A Why Should I Be Lonely?
  4204 B Whippin' That Old T.B.
  4205 A No Hard Times - Blue Yodel
  4205 B The Hobo's Meditation
  4206 A Mother, Queen Of My Heart
  4206 B I Miss The Mississippi And You
  4207 A Whisper Your Mother's Name
  4207 B She Was Happy Till She Met You
  4208 A What's It
  4208 B Blue Yodel No.10
  4209 A Blue Yodel No.9
  4209 B Let Me Be Your Side Track
  4210 A Hobo Bill's Last Ride
  4210 B Blue Yodel No.7
  4211 A Blue Yodel No.6
  4211 B Those Gambler's Blues
  4212 A Jimmie's Texas Blues
  4212 B Blue Yodel No.5
  4213 A Yodeling Cowboy
  4213 B Blue Yodel No.3
  4214 A Brakeman's Blues
  4214 B Blue Yodel No.2 (My Loving Gal)
  4215 A My Rough And Rowdy Ways
  4215 B Ninety Nine Years Blues
  4216 A When The Cactus Is In Bloom
  4216 B Moonlight And Skies
  4217 A I'm Lonely And Blue
  4217 B Treasures Untold
  4218 A Lullaby Yodel
  4218 B My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans
  4219 A Home Call
  4219 B Roll Along Kentucky Moon
  4220 A Mississippi Moon
  4220 B I'm Lonesome Too
  4221 A For The Sake Of Days Gone By
  4221 B A Drunkard's Child
  4222 A That's Why I'm Blue
  4222 B My Blue Eyed Jane
  4223 A Train Whistle Blues
  4223 B Mystery Of Number Five
  4224 A You And My Old Guitar
  4224 B Mother Was A Lady
  4309 A Frankie And Johnny
  4315 A He's In The Jailhouse Now No.2
  4316 A Pistol Packin' Papa
  4324 A She's More To Be Pitied Than Censured
  4415 A Fifteen Years Ago Today
  4415 B Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel
  4450 A Land Of My Boyhood Dreams
  4450 B Memphis Yodel
  4451 A My Carolina Sunshine Girl
  4451 B Desert Blues
  4453 A I'm Free
  4454 A Old Love Letters
  4454 B Somewhere Below The Mason Dixon Line
  4720 A Jimmie Rodgers Visits The Carter Family
  4720 B Moonlight And Skies
  4721 A Frankie And Johnny
  4721 B In The Jailhouse Now
  4722 A Blue Yodel No.4
  4722 B Mississippi River Blues
  4723 A Jimmie's Mean Mama Blues
  4723 B Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No.8)
  4724 A Blue Yodel No.9
  4724 B Nobody Knows But Me
  4725 A Memphis Yodel
  4725 B Blue Yodel No.10
  4726 A Sweet Mama, Hurry Home
  4726 B Blue Yodel #11
  4727 A Blue Yodel No.12 (Barefoot Blues)
  4727 B Cowhand's Last Ride
  4728 A Land Of My Boyhood Dreams
  4728 B Southern Cannon Ball
  4729 A Traveling Blues
  4729 B T.B. Blues
  4730 A Any Old Time
  4730 B Pistol Packin' Papa
  4731 A Jimmie The Kid
  4731 B My Little Lady
  5014 A My Good Gal's Gone Blues
  5036 A Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues
  5036 B The Sailor's Plea
  7137 A That Wonderful City (w/The Carter Family)
  7138 A I've Only Loved Three Women
  7138 B Why There's A Tear In My Eye (w/The Carter Family)
  7139 A Yodeling My Way Back Home
  7139 B I'm Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes
  8109 A Waiting For A Train
  8109 B Daddy And Home
  8121 A Blue Yodel No.2
  8124 A Blue Yodel No.4
  8235 A Blue Yodel No.8
  M-4058 A Yodeling Cowboy
  M-4058 B Bud Billings Trio: Red River Valley
  M-4452 A Sleep, Baby, Sleep
  M-4452 B The Soldier's Sweetheart
 
RCA Victor
Rec. No. Side Song Title
  20-6092 A In The Jailhouse Now No.2
  20-6092 B Peach Picking Time Down In Georgia
  20-6205 A Mother, Queen Of My Heart
  20-6205 B Mule Skinner Blues
  20-6408 A Daddy And Home
  20-6408 B Never No Mo Blues
 
RegZon
Rec. No. Side Song Title
  EE-150 (Aus) A My Old Pal
  EE-150 (Aus) B Daddy And Home
 
Victor
Rec. No. Side Song Title
  20864 A Sleep Baby Sleep
  20864 B The Soldier's Sweetheart
  21142 A Blue Yodel (T For Texas)
  21142 B Away Out On The Mountain
  21245 A Ben Dewberry's Final Run
  21245 B In The Jailhouse Now
  21291 A Blue Yodel No. 2
  21291 B The Brakeman's Blues
  21433 A Treasures Untold
  21433 B If Brother Jack Were Here
  21531 A Blue Yodel No. 3
  21531 B Never No' Mo' Blues
  21574 A My Little Old Home Town In New Orleans
  21574 B Dear Old Sunny South By The Sea
  21636 A Lullaby Yodel
  21636 A Memphis Yodel
  21757 A Daddy And Home
  21757 B My Old Pal
  22072 A Blue Yodel No. 5
  22072 B I'm Sorry We Met
  22220 A Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues
  22220 B My Rough And Rowdy Ways
  22271 A Blue Yodel No. 6
  22271 B Yodeling Cowboy
  23535 A T.B. Blues
  23535 B Mississippi River Blues
  23669 A Ninety Nine Years Blues
  23669 B My Time Ain't Long Plays Great
  40054 A I'm Lonely And Blue
  40054 B The Sailor's Plea
  V-40054 A I'm Lonely And Blue
  V-40054 B The Sailor's Plea
  VI40014 A Waiting For A Train
  VI40014 B Blue Yodel No.4 - California Blues
  VI40054 A I'm Lonely And Blue
  VI40054 B The Sailor's Plea (w/The Three Southerners)
  VI40072 A My Little Lady
  VI40072 B You And My Old Guitar
  VI40096 A My Carolina Sunshine Girl
  VI40096 B Desert Blues


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