Various Artists - Rounding Up The Gals, Volume One - Great Female Country Vocals

Given the rugged background of Country & Western music, it is not surprising that women have been relegated to second place in the performing stakes. Taming the West was for men, 'real' men at that, and the woman's role, if at all, was as distant wife, girlfriend or mother. A woman's place was in the home, doing the chores, washing, cooking, raising the children - it certainly wasn't riding the range and singing about the men in their lives. But of course there were major exceptions - conditions through the earlier and middle part of the Twentieth Century did not make it easy for women to succeed in the music business but feminine charms, on stage and records, were a welcome relief through the gloomy years of the Second World War and subsequently more women succeeded in a successful Country music career.

Track Listing

1. JUDY PERKINS - THE MOON STILL SHINES ON THE MOONSHINE STILL
2. PATSY MONTANA - MAMA NEVER SAID A WORD ABOUT LOVE
3. JENNY LOU CARSON - I L-O-V-E YOU
4. ROSALIE ALLEN - IT WASN'T GOD WHO MADE HONKY TONK ANGELS
5. KITTY WELLS - DEATH AT THE BAR
6. GOLDIE HILL - MAKE LOVE TO ME
7. ANN JONES - GIVE ME A HUNDRED REASONS
8. MOLLY O'DAY - DON'T SELL DADDY ANY MORE WHISKEY
9. JEAN SHEPARD - TWICE THE LOVIN' (IN HALF THE TIME)
10. JUNE CARTER - JUKE BOX BLUES
11. CAROLINA COTTON - LOVIN' DUCKY DADDY
12. JENNY LOU CARSON - I'LL NEVER TRUST YOU AGAIN
13. PENNY NICHOLS - MOUNTAIN MAW
14. JEAN SHEPARD - JAMBALAYA (ON THE BAYOU)
15. PATSY CLINE - WHEN A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
16. ANN JONES - BABY SITTER'S BLUES
17. JENNY LOU CARSON - WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO?
18. PATSY MONTANA - COWBOY RHYTHM
19. MINNIE PEARL - MAN (UH-HUH)
20. JEAN SHEPARD - I DIDN'T KNOW THE GUN WAS LOADED
21. ANN JONES - IT ISN'T ANY WONDER (THAT I LOVE YOU)
22. THE DINNING SISTERS - BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRIE
23. ANITA CARTER - KEEP IT A SECRET