For sale is a 1947 78 RPM ALBUM SET – DOROTHY SHAY – THE PARK AVENUE HILLBILLIE – GOES TO TOWN. This big band jazz album set was issued by Columbia Records and is a four record set. The records are untested but appear playable. The records in the set for sale include the following songs:
Just A Friendly Feeling
Mountain Lullaby
He’s The One
The Style To Which I’m Accustomed
With A Little Indiscretion On The Side
It’s The Little Things That Count
Agnes Clung
The Drainpipe Song (Your Baby Has Gone Down The Drainpipe)
Dorothy Shay, known as the “Park Avenue Hillbillie”, was an American comedic recording artist in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In her singing engagements, she performed dressed as a sophisticated urbanite while talking like a rural Southerner. She was popular in nightclubs, radio, and television. She released her biggest hit “Feudin’ and Fightin'” in 1947. That same year, her album, “Dorothy Shay (The Park Avenue Hillbillie) Sings”, was rated #1 in Billboard magazine’s Best-Selling Popular Albums. Shay was the first female artist to have a #1 album on the Billboard chart. Dorothy Shay’s first motion picture was the 1951 Abbott and Costello movie: Comin’ Round The Mountain. She played a nightclub singer involved in a hillbilly feud.
