In this week's episode we're focusing on Allstar Records, a part song-poem part legitimate commercial label operating between 1953-1966 in Houston, Texas. Aside from his song-sharking tendencies, Allstar's founder Daniel James Mechura no doubt had his eyes set on recording hit country music, frequently hiring above-par backing musicians to back up Allstar's roster of artists. And that roster is all the evidence you need to see that Allstar was a legitimate commercial music operation - the talent and track records from the likes of Wiley Barkdull, Jerry Jericho and Eddie Noack (all of whom recorded for Allstar) speaks to that. In fact, we've got the microscope on the sensational hard country output of Eddie Noack on Allstar this week (1962-1966): releasing ten songs with the label during that period (many self-penned), Noack continued his Texas honky tonk ways, including a stylistic nod to the super successful Buck Owens formula on several. Noack had a long and diverse career but he was sounding honky tonk ready at Allstar!

HOUR 1: 

1. Eddie Noack – We Are The Lonely Ones (1962)
2. Lonnie Spiker – Let’s Face The Music (2005)
3. Bill Anderson – A Good Love And A Bottle Of Wine (1998)
4. VINYL VAULT: Skip Graves – Mad At Me (60s?)
5. VINYL VAULT: Fran Porter – Dear Mrs. Jones (1968)
6. Kyle Shobe – Slow Mo (2019)
7. Conway Twitty – Ain’t It Sad To Stand And Watch Love Die (1968)
BUMPER: Buck Owens – Orange Blossom Special
8. Joe Barnhill – Your Old Flame’s Goin’ Out Tonight (1990)
9. Eddie Noack – The Fall-Out Keeps On Hurting (1963)
10. Eddie Noack – Prisoner Of War (1966)
11. Norma Jean – Ever Since We Said I Do (1970)
12. Jeff Autry feat. Russell Moore – Julie (1999)
13. Asleep At The Wheel – Saturday Night Fish Fry (2007)
14. Eddie Noack – Too Hot To Handle (1962)
15. Eddie Noack – You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down (1964)
 
HOUR 2: 

1. Bradley Walker – Payin’ Your Dues (2006)
2. AUSSIE INJECTION: Gary Shearston – Put A Light In Every Country Window (1964)
3. AUSSIE INJECTION: Gary Shearston – Shopping On A Saturday (1990)
4. Benny Berry – I’ll Jump Off That Bridge (1992)
5. Eddie Noack – When The Bright Lights Grow Dim (1962)
6. Eddie Noack – Two Bright Lights (1966)
7. Little Jimmy Dickens – Let’s Quit Before We Start (1957)
BUMPER: Bob Wills – San Antonio Rose
8. Gene Mabry – Poor White Trash (70s)
9. COUNTRY COVERS: Skeets McDonald – Keep Her Off Your Mind (1957)
10. COUNTRY COVERS: Ray Sanders – Crazy Arms (1979)
11. COUNTRY COVERS: Merle Haggard – Falling For You (1965)
12. SHOT OF STEEL: Clay Blaker – Heart Of Glass (1998)
13. Eddie Noack – Tell Her (1962)
14. Eddie Noack – Think Of Her Now (1963)
15. Eddie Noack – Chaperoned By A Memory (1961)
 
HOUR 3: If That Ain’t Country’s Year In Country Music - 1959

1. George Jones – Into My Arms Again
2. Johnny Cash – Five Feet High And Rising
3. Wynn Sewart – Wishful Thinking
4. Gordon Terry – A Lotta Lotta Women (Live on Town Hall Party)
5. Tommy Hill – Oil On My Land
6. Little Jimmy Dempsey – Honky Tonk World
7. Faron Young – Country Girl
8. Red Sovine – You Used To Be My Baby
9. Charlie Walker – When My Conscience Hurts The Most
BUMPER: Buck Owens – Orange Blossom Special
10. Ernest Tubb – Next Time
11. Frankie Miller – Blackland Farmer
12. Bob Gallion – You Take The Table, I’ll Take The Chairs
13. Kitty Wells – Your Wild Life’s Gonna Get You Down
14. The Osborne Brothers – Sweethearts Again
15. Lefty Frizzell – Farther Than My Eyes Can See
16. Ray Price – The Same Old Me
17. Buck Owens – Second Fiddle