''Spade Cooley's Western Swing Song Folio'' was the first songbook to identify the big Western dance band music as ''

Western Swing Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the Western United States, West and Southern United States, South among the region's Western music (North America), Western string bands. It is dan ...

''. In October 1944, "''Billboard'' made the following announcement, unceremoniously giving the subgenre its common label for the first time in a national publication: 'Spade Cooley will put out 25 of his original tunes, together with an album of band numbers and suggestions on arrangements for Western Bands. Book to be titled 'Western Swing'." All songs in the folio list both

Spade Cooley Donnell Clyde "Spade" Cooley (December 17, 1910 – November 23, 1969) was an American convicted murderer and former Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality. In 1961 he was arrested and convicted for the Ap ...

and

Smokey Rogers Eugene Rogers (March 23, 1917–November 23, 1993), known professionally as Smokey Rogers, was an American Western swing musician and songwriter active during the 1940s and 50s on the West Coast. Born in McMinnville, Tennessee, Rogers joined ...

as co-writers. Spade Cooley was one of the first song-writers signed by

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and

Julian Aberbach Julian J. Aberbach (8 February 1909 – 17 May 2004) was an Austrian-born music publisher, who lived and worked in both the United States and France. He was responsible, with his younger brother Jean Aberbach, for establishing the Hill and Range mus ...

for their new music publishing house, Hill and Range Songs, Inc., the publishers of this folio.

Sheet music

Sheet music in the folio are:Cooley, ''Spade Cooley's Western Swing Song Folio''. * "Oklahoma Gal" * "Jive on the Range" * "There is No Sunshine" *"Heavenly Range" *"Gitar Swing" *"You're Gonna Pay" *"Now and Always" *"My Chickashay Gal" *"Do Ya or Don'tcha" *"Shawnee Blues" *"Tennessee Wagner" *"You Gotta Quit Your Triflin'" *"I'm Waiting for the Day (That You Come Back)" *"Gonna Leave You Blues" *"You're Breakin' This Poor Heart of Mine"

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Bibliography

* Cooley, Donnell C. "Spade". ''Spade Cooley's Western Swing Song Folio''. Beverly Hills, Calif: Hill and Range Songs (1945). * Lange, Jeffrey J.''Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954''. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press (2004). Song books 1945 books 1945 in American music Western swing {{anthology-book-stub