Cat. No. STCD 13: VARIOUS ARTISTS ~ NASHVILLE ROCK'N'ROLL - THE MURRAY NASH RECORDINGS. STOMPER TIME STCD 13. (IMPORT).

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THERE ARE MANY UNSUNG HEROES IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY WHOSE DEDICATION AND EFFORTS HELPED TO ESTABLISH THE CAREERS OF MANY ARTISTS. ONE OF THOSE WAS R. MURRAY NASH SIMPLY REFERRED TO AS MURRAY NASH. MURRAY STARTED HIS INVOLVEMENT IN 1936 WHEN ASKED TO TAKE ON THE JOB OF MANAGING THE RCA VICTOR FRANCHISE FOR C.M. McCLUNG, THE LARGEST HARDWARE WAREHOUSE IN THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE USA AT THE TIME. IN 1946 MURRAY WAS OFFERED A JOB WHICH HE ACCEPTED WORKING FOR MERCURY RECORDS, AND IN THE ENSUING YEARS, HELPED SET UP DOT RECORDS, WAS HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH ACUFF-ROSE AND THE RELEASE OF MANY OF HANK WILLIAMS RECORDINGS FOR MGM, FOUNDED MURRAY NASH ASSOCIATES WITH TWO OTHERS WHO ULTIMATELY, THROUGH GREED, SHAFTED MURRAY AND AS A RESULT THE COMPANY WENT UNDER. HE EVENTUALLY SET UP HIS OWN GROUP OF COMPANIES BASED AROUND DO-RA-ME RECORDS AND ASHNA PUBLISHING AND THROUGH HIS EXPERIENCE AND DEDICATION THE NEXT TEN YEARS SAW A STREAM OF FINE RELEASES ON VARIOUS LABELS OF WHICH ONLY A SMALL PROPORTION ARE FEATURED HERE. GREAT ROCK’N’ROLL *****

TRACK LISTING: Mel Robbins – Save It / Chuck Wiley – Tear It Up / Cliff Nash – Bandstand / Herbie Smith – Baby Moon / Jimmy Hurt – You Know Darling / Chuck Wiley – Come Back Baby / Cliff Nash – Explosion / Chuck Howard – Out Of Gas (alt. take) / Mel Robbins – Are You With Me / Little Willie Brown – Gonna Make It On Back / The Imps – Uh Oh / Chuck Wiley – Door To Door / Cliff Nash – Jennie Lou / The Marquees – Can It Be Wrong / Curtis Hobock – Lonely Weekends / The Imps – That’ll Get It / Chuck Wiley – Nothing Matters Anymore / Fred Carter – (You’ll Have To) Come And Get It / Cliff Nash – No Time For Sisters / Mel Robbins – Joyride / Curtis Hobock – I Wanna Shake It / Chuck Wiley – Why Worry About Me / Chuck Howard – Out Of Gas / The Sting-Rays – Hot Sausage / Chuck Wiley – Just Ahead Of Me / Audrey Bryant – Good Good Man / Mel Robbins – Foghorn / Wayne Johnson – Just Thought You Ought To Know / Chuck Wiley – Shake Up The Dance / The Rockalongs – In The Pines / Mary Ann Williams – I’m Getting Married / Forest Rye – My Sweet Baby’s Gone / Cliff Nash – Bandstand (alt. take) / Mel Robbins – Fidgety / Curtis Hobock – What A Dream.

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