Radio ... and Me - 5

In the mid-1950s, the music from the U-S-A played locally was called ‘Country & Western,’ and featured such singers as,
-- Eddy Arnold, the ‘Tennessee Ploughboy,’ with Cattle Call, and Bouquet of Roses; His later R-C-A recordings, such as Make the World Go Away, helped introduce the ‘Nashville Sound’ ,
and were among the first to feature a full string section, a bold move which met with some opposition. His reaction was, ‘We ended up selling 90 million records, so we must have been doing something right.’;
-- Johnny Cash, who wrote and sang, I Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues and many others. He was a deep-voiced kid from the South, on contract with Sun Records, in Memphis, TN, where Elvis had first recorded;
-- Red Foley, sang of the Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy;
-- Lefty Frizzell, with, If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time;
-- Don Gibson, who wrote and sang Oh, Lonesome Me, and a whole truckload of hits, at R-C-A;
-- Webb Pierce, classic honky-tonk singer, sang, Wondering, In the Jailhouse Now and Back Street Affair;
-- Jim Reeves, sang Four Walls, and He’ll Have to Go, which 'crossed-over' to the pop charts, to became the best-selling record of that era.
And, ... those were just a few of my favourite ‘Country & Western’ artists and songs on the radio at that time.