For sale is a 1948 78 RPM ALBUM SET – DOROTHY SHAY – THE PARK AVENUE HILLBILLIE – COMING ROUND THE MOUNTAIN. 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. This big band album set (Record Set C-171) 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:
Joan Of Arkansaw
Pure As The Driven Snow
Why Don’t Someone Marry Mary Anne
No Ring On Her Finger
Since Mother Was A Girl
Love Isn’t Born (It’s Made)
Grandpa’s Getting Younger Ev’ry Day
The Old Apple Tree
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.
