Geremino Bisceglia, *17-01-1909
Harrison, NY, +14-03-1987
3rd version
by Tony Russell, Praguefrank, Mario Manciotti, Thieu Van DeVorst
SESSIONS
8 November 1933 New York City – Tex Fletcher (Tex
Fletcher [vcl/gt])
001 14278 I'M A WANDERING RANGER ARC unissued
002 14279 ST. REGIS VALLEY unissued
003 14280 THE TENDERFOOT unissued
004 14281 WINDY BILL
unissued
16 November 1936 Decca Recording Studio, Pythian Temple,
135 West 70th St., New York City – Tex Fletcher as by Tack Foster (Tex Fletcher
[vcl/gt])
005 61415-A RIDGE RUNNING ROAN Decca 5302 Melotone 45010/ BACM CD D 241
006 61416-A THE ZEBRA DUN
5302 Melotone 45010/ BACM CD D 241
007 61417-A THE BORDER AFFAIR (MI AMOR MI CORAZON)
5300 Melotone 45011/ BACM CD D 241
008 61418-A I’M GOIN‘ BACK TO RED RIVER VALLEY 5300 Melotone 45011 Montgomery Ward
M-8011/BACM CD D 241 VIM 4010
MCA VIM 4010 COWBOY IMAGE (JAP, 1976);
18 December 1936 Decca Recording Studio, Pythian Temple,
135 West 70th St., New York City – Tex Fletcher as by Tack Foster (Tex Fletcher
[vcl/gt])
009 61494-A I’M
HERE TO GET MY BABY OUT OF JAIL
5312 Montgomery Ward M-8011/ BACM CD D 241
010 61495-A-B COWMAN‘S LAMENT unissued
011 61496-A STILL THERS SPARK OF LOVE 5312/ BACM CD D 241
6 February 1937 Decca Recording Studio, Pythian Temple,
135 West 70th St., New York City - Tex Fletcher as by Tack Foster (Tex Fletcher
[vcl/gt])
012 61587-A I LOST MY LOVE IN THE OHIO FLOOD 5332 Montgomery Ward M-8010/ BACM CD D 241
013 61588-A A SONG FOR MOTHER 5332 Montgomery Ward M-8010/ BACM CD D 241
2 June 1937 Decca Recording Studio, Pythian Temple, 135
West 70th St., New York City – Tex
Fletcher, * and Joe Rogers (Tex Fletcher [vcl/gt], Joe Rogers [vcl duet-1] +
unknown musicians)
014 62237-A MISTOOK IN THE WOMAN I LOVE 5391 Melotone 45206/ BACM CD D 241
015 62238-A SEVEN MORE DAYS* -1 5403/ BACM CD D 241
016 62239-A THE GIRL IN THE BLUE VELVET BAND* -1 5403/
BACM CD D 241
017 62240-A THE POOR BLIND GIRL 5391 Melotone 45206 Minerva M-14076/ BACM CD
D 241
8 October 1937 Decca
Recording Studio, Pythian Temple, 135 West 70th St., New York City – Tex
Fletcher’s Lonely Cowboys (Tex Fletcher [vcl/gt] + unknown musicians)
018 62670-A WONDERING
5441 Montgomery Ward M-8045/ BACM CD D 241
019 62671-A YODEL LADY
5450/ BACM CD D 241
020 62672-A LITTLE SWEETHEART OF THE OZARKS 5450/ BACM CD D 241
021 62673-A MY OLD DOG AND ME 5441 Montgomery Ward M-8045/ BACM CD D 241
11 February 1938
Decca Recording Studio, Pythian Temple, 135 West 70th St., New York City – Tex
Fletcher’s Lonely Cowboys (Tex Fletcher [vcl/gt] + unknown musicians)
022 63273-A HIGHWAYS ARE HAPPY WAYS (WHEN THEY LEAD THE WAY
TO HOME) 5520
023 63274-A SHINE ON, ROCKY MOUNTAIN MOONLIGHT 5489/ BACM CD D 241
024 63275-A I GET THE BLUES WHEN IT RAINS 5520/ BACM CD D 241
025 63276-A AIN’T SHE SWEET
5489/ BACM CD D 241
026 63277-A MEET ME TONIGHT IN THE COWSHED 5500/ BACM CD D 241 CD 9045
027 63278-A DOWN ON THE OLD PLANTATION 5500/CD 9045
BRONCO BUSTER CD 9045 VARIOUS C/ W ARTISTS 1931-1944 ARE YOU FROM DIXIE?
(GER, 1998)
1948 poss. New York City
028 CACTUS SUE Flint 1781
029 BORN TO LOSE Flint 1781
030 HARDING COUNTRY HOME Flint 1782
031 WRECK OF THE 97 Flint 1782
032 LONESOME HIGHWAY Flint 1787
033 HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU Flint 1787
034 LET‘S
BE SWEETHEARTS AGAIN 1788
035 SAFE AT
HOME 1788
036 THE
GIRL IN THE BLUE VELVET BAND 1789
037 LITTLE
BLOSSOM 1789
22
September 1949 Decca Recording
Studio, Pythian Temple, 135 West 70th St., New York City -
Tex Fletcher
038 75293
COUNTRY BOY Vocalion 55062
039 75294
WHY DON'T YOU HAUL OFF Vocalion 55063
040 75295
WARM RED WINE 55062
041 75296
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS 55063
1956 New
York City – Tex Fletcher with Shorty Warren and His Western Rangers
042 YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LONESOME IS Waldorf MF33-169 MHK33-1206
Grand Award GA-33-350
043 WABASH CANNON BALL Waldorf MH
45-231/MF33-169 MHK33-1206 Grand Award GA-33-350
044 I WISH I HAD NEVER SEEN SUNSHINE Waldorf MH 45-231/ MF33-169 MHK33-1206 Grand Award GA-33-350
045 BORN TO LOSE Waldorf MH
45-231/MF33-169 MHK33-1206
Grand Award GA-33-350
046 THE GRAND RIVER WALTZ Waldorf
MF33-169 MHK33-1206 Grand Award GA-33-350
047 SWEETHEARTS OR STRANGERS Waldorf MH 45-231/ MF33-169 MHK33-1206 Grand Award GA-33-350
1957 New York City – The
Sons Of The Purple Sage And Tex Fletcher With "Shorty" Warren And His
Western Rangers
048 SIOUX CITY SUE Waldorf
MHK33-1206
049 WAGON WHEELS Waldorf
MHK33-1206
050 TUMBLING TUMBLEWEED
Waldorf MHK33-1206
051 MEXICALI ROSE Waldorf
MHK33-1206
052 DEEP IN THE HEART OF
TEXAS Waldorf MHK33-1206
053 THE LAST ROUNDUP
Waldorf MHK33-1206
1965? unknown – Tex Fletcher with Kit Stewart and The Dakotans
054
MERRY CHRISTMAS POLKA EP 6621/ST 6676
055
CHRISTMAS ANGEL EP 6621/ST 6676
056
JINGLE BELLS LULLABY EP 6621/ST 6676
057
HAPPY NEW YEAR EP 6621/ST 6676
058
MY VALENTINE EP 6622/ ST 6676
059
THAT WONDERFUL MOTHER OF MINE EP6622/ ST 6676
060
INDEPENDENCE DAY EP 6622/ ST 6676
061
GUSSIE THE GOBLIN EP 6623/ST 6676
062
THANKSGIVING DAY EP 6623/ ST 6676
063
BIRTHDAY PARTY EP 6622/ST 6676
064
OUR WEDDING DAY EP 6623/ ST 6676
065
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY EP 6623/ST 6676
ALBUMS
Waldorf Music Hall MF33-169 Western Roundup: You Don't Know What Lonesome Is; Wabash Cannon Ball; I Wish I Had Never
Seen Sunshine; Born To Lose; Grand River Waltz; Sweethearts Or Strangers - 27-12-56
(10” LP) w. Shorty Warren and His Western
Rangers
Waldorf Music Hall MHK33-1206 On The Trail: Sioux City Sue; Wagon Wheels; Tumbling Tumbleweed; Mexicali
Rose; Deep In The Heart Of Texas; The
Last Roundup; Wabash Cannon Ball; Born To Lose; Sweethearts Or Strangers; The
Grand River Waltz; I Wish I Had Never Seen The Sunshine; You Don't Know What
Lonesome Is – 57 The
Sons Of The Purple Sage And Tex Fletcher With "Shorty" Warren And His
Western Rangers
Grand
Award GA-33-350 Rodeo: [Rosalie Allen:] Columbus Stockade
Blues; My Adobe Hacienda; I'll Keep Loving You; Ding Dong Polka;Jealous Heart;
Your Cheating Heart; [Tex Fletcher:] You Don't Know What Lonesome Is; Wabash
Cannon Ball; I Wish I Had Never Seen Sunshine; Born To Lose; Grand River Waltz;
Sweethearts Or Strangers – 58 (sampler)
DAKOTA ST6676 Holiday Songs Country Style: Merry Christmas Polka;
Christmas Angel; Jingle Bells Lullaby; Happy New Year; My Valentine; That
Wonderful Mother of Mine; Independence Day; Gussie The Goblin;Thanksgiving Day;
Birthday Party; Our Wedding Day; Happy Anniversary – 65
And More Bears AMB90005 Riding The Range: Casey Jones; I'd Like to Be
in Texas; Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad; Cowboy's Dream; Under the Double
Eagle; Cowboy Jack; The Midnight Special; Arkansas Polka; Chopo My Pony; Ol'
Joe Clark; Cindy; Speed the Plow; Cowboy's Lament; The Old Grey Mare – 24-08-07(Reisssue
of SESAC Transcription Disc TR-1071 Series A: 43 and 44)
BACM [UK] CD D 241 The Lonely Cowboy: I'm Going Back To Red River
Valley; Border Affair; Ridge Runnin' Roan; Zebra Dun; I'm Here To Get My Baby
Out Of Jail; Still There's A Spark Of Love; I Lost My Love In The Ohio Flood; A
Song For Mother; Mistook In The Woman I Love; Poor Blind Child; Seven More
Days; The Girl In Blue Velvet Band; Wondering; My Old Dog And Me; Little
Sweetheart Of The Ozarks; Yodel Lady; Shine On Rocky Mountain Moonlight; Ain't
She Sweet; Meet Me Tonight In The Cowshed; Down On The Old Plantation; Highways
Are Happy Ways; I Get The Blues When It Rains - 08
EPs
Waldorf MH 45-231 Western Roundup: Wabash Cannon Ball;
Sweethearts Or Strangers / I Wish I Had Never Seen Sunshine; Born To Lose – 56
w. Shorty Warren and His Western Rangers
Pan [SUI] GC 458 Deep In The Heart Of Texas: Wabash Cannon
Ball; The Grand River Waltz; You Don't
Know What Lonesome Is / Deep In The Heart Of Texas; Born To Lose; Sweethearts Or Strangers – 5- The Sons Of The Purple Sage And Tex Fletcher With
"Shorty" Warren And His Western Rangers
Dakota EP 6621 Holiday
Sing No. 1: Jingle Bells Lullaby; Happy
New Year / Merry Christmas Polka; Christmas Angel
– 69? w. Kit Stewart with The Dakotans
Dakota EP 6622 Holiday Sing No. 2: Birthday Party; My Valentine / That Wonderful Mother of
Mine/Independence Day – 01-70 w. Kit
Stewart with The Hootenanny Orchestra
Dakota EP 6623 Holiday Sing No. 3: Gussie The Goblin
(Halloween); Thanksgiving Day; Our Wedding Day; Happy Anniversary – 70? w. Kit Stewart with The Hootenanny Orchestra
RADIO TRANSCRIPTION
DISCS (Tex Fletcher and The Ranch Hands), prob. Late 1940s
SESAC
TR 1070 [ A 41/42] American Folk Music And Dances, Western And Cowboy Songs,
Hymns: Martha Polka; Blue Tail Fly; Leather Breeches; Careless Love; Frankie
And Johnnie Blues; Powder River Let'er Buck; Bile Dem Cabbage Down; Jenny Lind Polka; Lane County Bachelor; Chicken
Reel; Jesse James; Cripple Creek; Zebra Dun; Leavin' On The New River Train –
5- (MX: YTNY 5816/17)
SESAC TR 1071 [A 43/44] American Folk Music And Dances, Western And
Cowboy Songs, Hymns : Casey Jones; I’d Like To
Be In Texas; Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad; Cowboy’s
Dream; Under The Double Eagle; Cowboy Jack; The
Midnight Special; Arkansas Polka; Chopo
My Pony; Ol’ Joe Clark; Cindy; Speed
The Plow; Cowboy’s Lament; The Old
Grey Mare - 5- (reissued on And More
Bears AMB 90005)
SESAC TR-1072 [A45/46] American Folk Music and Dances,
Western and Cowboy Songs, and Hymns: Charlie the Boxer; I'll Be All Smiles Tonight; Devil
Among the Tailors; Kitty Wells; Kitty O'Neil; Take Me Back to Colorado; There
is a Tavern in the Town; Coming Thru the Rye; The Night Herding Song; Haste to
the Wedding; Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane; John Henry; They Grow 'em Big in
Texas; Hear Dem Bells,
SESAC TR-1073 [A 47/48] American Folk Music and
Dances, Western and Cowboy Songs, and Hymns: Ta Ra Ra Boom De A; Cowboy's Meditation; Garry
Owen; In the Evening By the Moonlight; Low Down Blues; The Blue Juniata; The
More I Grew Tomatoes; Oneta Polka; Little Rosewood Casket; Crawdad Song; Sweet
Betsy From Pike; Fisher's Hornpipe; Wabash Cannon Ball; Whoa Mule Whoa
SESAC TR-1074 [A 49/50] American Folk Music and
Dances, Western and Cowboy Songs, and Hymns: Dixie; Little Mohee; Cowboy's Reel; Dear
Evalina; Tisket A Tasket; Shoo Fly; Four
Thousand Years Ago; Go In and Out the Window; A Froggie Went A Courtin'; Pretty
Girl Milking Her Cow; Tenting Tonight; Highland Fling; Uncle Ned; She Promised
She'd Meet Me
SESAC TR-1075 [A 51/52] American Folk Music and
Dances, Western and Cowboy Songs, and Hymns: The Caissons Go Rolling Along; Jack O'Diamond;
Mississippi Sawyer; The Old Oaken Bucket; The Ship That Never Returned; The
Roving Gambler; Ring Ring De Banjo; Boola Boola; Kevin Barry; Old Crow; Long
Long Ago; The Preacher and the Bear; The Maple on the Hill; Keep on the Sunny
Side
SINGLES
Decca (1936-38)
5300 The Border Affair (Mi Amor Mi Corazon) / I’m Goin‘ Back To Red River Valley –
12-36 (Canadian issue on Melotone 45011)
5302 Ridge Running Roan / The Zebra Dun – 12-36 (Canadian issue on Melotone 45010)
5312 I’m Here To Get
My Baby Out Of Jail / Still Thers Spark Of Love – 01-37
5332 I Lost My Love In The Ohio Flood / A Song For Mother –
03-37
5391 Mistook In The Woman I Love / The Poor Blind Girl –
06-37(Canadian issue on Melotone 45206)
5403 Seven More Days /
The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band – 07-37 with Joe Rogers
5441 Wondering / My Old Dog And Me – 10-37
5450 Yodel Lady /
Little Sweetheart Of The Ozarks -
11-37
5489 Ain’t She Sweet / Shine On, Rocky Mountain Moonlight –
03-38
5500 Meet Me Tonight In The Cowshed / Down On The Old Plantation – 03-38
5520 I Get The Blues When It Rains / Highways Are Happy Ways (When They Lead The
Way To Home) - 05-38
Montgomery Ward
M-8010 I Lost My Love In The Ohio Flood / A Song For Mother (reissue of Decca 5332)
M-8011 I’m Goin‘ Back To Red River Valley / I’m
Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail
M-8045 Wondering / My Old Dog And Me
Flint (1948)
1781 Cactus Sue / Born To Lose – 03-48 (adv. March 20)
1782 Harding Country Home / Wreck Of The 97 – 08-48 (rev.
Aug. 7)
1787 Lonesome Highway / Have I Told You Lately That I Love
You – 08-48 (rev. Aug. 7)
1788 Let‘s
Be Sweethearts Again / Safe At Home – 08-48 (adv. Sept. 4)
1789 The
Girl In The Blue Velvet Band / Little Blossom – 08-48
Vocalion
(1949)
55062 Warm
Red Wine / Country Boy – 10-49 (adv. Oct. 22)
55063 Why
Don’t You Haul Off And Love Me / Mind Your Owen Business – 10-49 (adv. Oct. 22)
Josie
45-970 Thank You Baby / Walk On Out - 67
