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Growth of Popularity and Diversification of Style The Corn Huskers were likely the first country band to tour nationally - from the Maritimes to the prairies, during the 1930s. Thus for many years personal appearances and radio work sustained Canadian country performers, including such regionally popular bands as the Gully Jumpers, Charlie Hannigan and His Mountaineers, Billy Hole and the Livewires in Toronto, Bert Anstice and His Mountaineers, who were heard on the CRBC from Montreal, and Andy DeJarlis Red River Mates in Winnipeg. However, their records' success was limited by the small and unfocussed nature of the domestic market. His success prompted Victor to record other Canadians, including George Wade (1933), Hank Snow (1936), and Hank LaRiviere (1941). His 'My Swiss Moonlight Lullabye' was a national hit, the first in Canada recorded by a Canadian. In 1932 Wilf Carter was recorded in the new commercial style by A. In the USA the music underwent its first period of popularization in the late 1920s, as evident in the great success of such performers as Vernon Dalhart, Jimmie Rodgers ('The Singing Brakeman,' country music's first star, and an influence on Wilf Carter and especially Hank Snow), the (US) Carter Family, and several instrumental groups. By 1925 the Apex label (see Compo) carried 78s of several English-Canadian traditional musicians, including the fiddlers Percy Scott, Dennis O'Hara, and Jock McDonald, and the harmonica and ukulele player Billy Russell. However, French-Canadian traditional instrumentalists had recorded as early as 1918 (eg, the violoneux J.B. The US fiddlers Eck Robertson and Henry Gilliand are cited among the first US hillbilly performers to be recorded (Victor, 1922) for commercial release. Country music soon was broadcast on Canadian radio, beginning with George Wade and His Cornhuskers on CFRB, Toronto, in 1928, and Don Messer on CFBO, Saint John, NB, in 1929. Early shows on WBAP, Fort Worth (beginning in 1923), WLS, Chicago ('WLS Barn Dance' 1924), and WSM, Nashville ('Grand Ole Opry' 1925), as well as on the later (1933) and influential WWVA, Wheeling, WV, were heard in many parts of Canada. The expansion and evolution of instrumental accompaniment (guitar, banjo, fiddle, string bass, steel guitar, dobro guitar, and drums) were major factors in the transition of country music from a folk to a pop form.Ĭountry music was introduced to Canadian audiences by US radio. Initially it was sung in the high, nasal voice characteristic of the traditional singer of the southern USA, although in later years country singing styles have diversified under the influence of other pop music genres. See also the EMC entries Folk music and Anglo-Canadian Folk music, for a discussion of this tradition in Canada.) With those folksongs and ballads country music shares a melodic and harmonic simplicity. Malone, Country Music, U.S.A., Austin, Texas, 1968, for further discussion of the folk background of country music. Its roots have been traced to the folksongs and ballads brought to North America by Anglo-Celtic immigrants and preserved especially in the southern USA.
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Popular music genre of southern US origin, also called 'hillbilly' (1920s and 1930s) and 'country and western' (1940s and 1950s).