For sale is a DOROTHY SHAY’S 1947 BILLBOARD #1 ALBUM SET – The Park Avenue Hillbillie Sings from Colombia Records. This is a four record album set. The front cover has broken away from the binding. The records are untested but appear playable. The records in the set for sale include the following songs:
Feudin’ And Fightin’
Say That We’re Sweethearts Again
Mountain Gal
Efficiency
Flat River, Missouri
I’ve Been To Hollywood
Uncle Fud
I’m In Love With A Married Man
Here’s some of politically incorrect lyrics from the “Feudin’ And Fightin'” song:
Grandma, poor old grandma
Why’d they have to shoot poor grandma
She lies ‘neath the clover
Someone caught her bending over
Picking up a daisy
Feudin’ a-fussin’ and a-fightin’
This is a wrong that needs a rightin’
Let’s get that funeral service over so then
We’ll go feudin’ and fightin’ again
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Feudin’ a-fightin’ and a-fussin’
No use a-standin’ here a-cussin’
Let’s give our daughter a pistol
Now that she’s four
The above lyrics are tame compared to the song “Uncle Fud,” which is an ode to inbreeding that captures the full flavor of the mountain characters and mixed-up kinfolks.
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.
