{"product_id":"t-texas-tyler-man-with-a-million-friends-cd","title":"The Man With A Million Friends CD","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eT. Texas Tyler\u003cbr\u003eThe Man With A Million Friends - Classic Recordings 1946-1955 CD\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was billed on many of his recordings and was widely known as “The Man With A Million Friends”, and while David ‘T Texas’ Tyler might not have known quite that many people, he was a genuinely big star of Hillbilly and Western Swing.\u003cbr\u003eTTT recorded around 150 songs in a 10 year period.\u003cbr\u003eOnly of them eight charted, but many of his releases were very big sellers - particularly on the west coast where he was based.\u003cbr\u003eA considerable number of those songs have not been reissued in any shape or form prior to this release, which chooses to mostly forego further reissue of familiar material in favour of bringing you great tracks that have mostly not been heard for so many years.\u003cbr\u003eSome of the greatest musicians of the Golden Age of Western Swing passed through the ranks of TTT’s band the Oklahoma Melody Boys in the 1940s, including steel guitarist Noel Boggs, fiddler Don Decker, pianist Jimmy Pruitt and guitarist Jimmy Wyble to name just a few.\u003cbr\u003eThey can be heard at their best on tracks like \u003cem\u003eFairweather Baby\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIda Red\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eThe musicians who played on TTT’s '50s sides featured here are no less impressive, among them steelie \u003ca title=\"Speedy West\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raucousrecords.com\/searchbyartist?racoartist=5998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eSpeedy West\u003c\/a\u003e and guitar wizard Jimmy Bryant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"235\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7-s3WgwjOOE?list=RD7-s3WgwjOOE\" title=\"Scratch and Itch\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJust Out Of Reach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScratch and Itch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLittle Miss Muffet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePretender\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Bucket’s Got A Hole In It\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Tickled Her Under The Chin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElectric Guitar Polka\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt’s My Heart It’s My Conscience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTattler’s Wagon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLet’s Get Married\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCry Baby Heart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSnow On The Mountain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Jack David\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFairweather Baby\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIda Red\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrong Side Of Town\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOld Fashioned Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTen-Ten-Tennessee Line\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Nearly Lose Your Mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGals Don’t Mean A Thing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Doggone Son Of A Gun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDead Ashes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomebody’s Rose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Firemen and Engineers’ Ball\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCountry Boy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn My Little Red Book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThat’s What You Mean To Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThat’s All\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"T Texas Tyler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54209684111689,"sku":"0604988377521 JASMCD3775","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1008\/3427\/9753\/files\/t-texas-tyler-million_friends_cd.jpg?v=1776345586","url":"https:\/\/www.raucousrecords.com\/products\/t-texas-tyler-man-with-a-million-friends-cd","provider":"Raucous Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}