Rex Cole's Mountaineers

Rex Cole's Mountaineers was an American country band which has seen its greatest successes 1930-1934. A famous member was the later Singing cowboy Tex Fletcher.

Career

The Mountaineers were founded by New Yorkers Arthur Fields (1888-1953) and Fred Hall ( 1898-1954 ). Fields had since 1918 taken several plates and Hall conducted at this time the New York Dance Hall Orchestra. However, all of these recordings were not country, but jazz and swing and ragtime or Minstrel title. The first recordings of the Mountaineers were made in January 1930 on Columbia Records, however, under the pseudonym Eddie Younger and his Mountaineers. In June of the same year Fields and Hall played with her Old-time set a title for the labels of the American Record Corporation ( ARC), which appeared as Sam Cole and his Cornhuskers. Over time, most plates under more than a dozen different names such as The Gaunt Brothers, The Colt Brothers and Jim Cole's Tennessee Mountaineers were published

Was Rex Cole, of the General Electric Group, sponsor of the Mountaineers representatives in spring 1930. Since then the band Rex Cole's Mountaineers was called. Singer of the group was Arthur Fields, the titles were written by Fields and Hall itself. They began regularly in the radio station WEAF program to occur. On the radio Fields and Hall appeared with her band as Long Tom & Joe Colt, to meet every now and then as Buck Wilson and his Rangers to the emerging trend of Western & Cowboy Music.

Over the next two years, Rex Cole's Mountaineers went on to become a sought-after and famous group, in addition to the recordings they had a week to hear on the radio station WEAF. 1933 Rex Cole had replaced most of the band, among other things, was now Tex Fletcher member of the group. Their popularity began to decline, the last radio appearance of the Mountaineers was on March 18, 1934.

The Mountaineers played for the hillbilly music unusual instruments such as trumpet or flute. They are considered one of the first pseudo - country bands, because all members were actually no country musician or have ever had anything to do previously with country music. Your clothes in appearances was almost exaggerated rural, and Fields used a false beard. With the Mountaineers hillbilly music gradually lost its rural character and as previously allied himself more and more with various other musical styles.

Today, the Mountaineers are almost forgotten, only different CD Sampler publish works of the group.

Discography

Many titles were published under the pseudonym Sam Cole and his Cornhuskers. Many of these songs have been published in the Je- Wel Records Banner Records.