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Crazy Hillbilly Show

sponsored by the Crazy Hotel, a health spa in the 1930s known for curing women of the "crazies."

Crazy Hillbilly Show

12 old time radio show recordings
(total playtime 2 hours, 2406 min)
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Crazy Hotel

The Hillbillies in this 1930's show originating in New York City were not as crazy as their Sponsor.

The residents of Mineral Wells, Texas, had long appreciated the laxative effects of the minerals in their local drinking water. There had been a significant "Health Spa Boom" in the early years of the twentieth century, and Mineral Wells had a healthy economy attracting tourists to partake in their curative waters. The "Crazy Well" got its name when two women suffering from "hysterical mania peculiar to their sex" were cured after drinking the waters.

A pair of investors from Dallas, Carr P. Collins and his brother Hal, built the Crazy Hotel to take advantage of the boom. Hoping to expand this market, they began buying radio time on a Dallas radio station; their first broadcast was in Feb, 1930. They featured the Old Timey music that would become a Crazy staple. One of Hal's early commercials went: "When I was a kid, I used to have a shotgun, and when that shotgun got clogged up, I used to take a ramrod and give it a good cleaning. Now Crazy Water does the same for you. When you get clogged up, Crazy Water is just like that ramrod."

Crazy WaterThe Collins boys got involved with pirate "Border Blaster" radio stations, and were able to sing the praises of their wonderful water using an incredibly powerful transmitter just across the Mexican Border. There have been reports of Crazy Water Crystal ads heard as far away as Hawaii. By the time the Border Blaster station was shut down, Crazy Water Crystals were being hyped on a number of other country music outlets throughout the Eastern and Southern States. The Crazy Hillbilly Show originated in New York City.

When the depression curtailed travel to health spas Crazy Water was boiled down so that its mineral salts could be cheaply shipped and reconstituted using tap water. Although the claims made by the Collins brothers were not as blatant as those of other patent medicine salesmen, they were lumped into the same category when the Federal Government began to enact Pure Food and Medicine regulations. This is how the company went from Hal Collins' Ram-rod to helping with maladies related to "False Elimination" described by Colonel Jack on the Crazy Hillbilly Show.

The music featured on the Crazy Hillbilly show has been called "Pre-Bluegrass". Bluegrass finds its roots in "Old time" music, a melting pot of folk music from the British Isles and Europe as well as Africa. These styles fused into a dance-hall sound that was played on stringed instruments and sometimes harmonica. Old Time Music usually features one instrument playing the melody with the others in accompaniment; Bluegrass features more improvisation with each instrument giving treatment to the melody in turn. Bluegrass became popular in urban areas with the advent of the post-war recording industry.

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  • MP3 CDs are delivered by mail. These archival quality MP3 CDs are playable in your computer and many MP3 player devices.



    12 recordings on 1 MP3 CD for just $5.00. Total playtime 2 hours, 2406 min
    12 recordings on 1 MP3 CD for just $5.00
    total playtime 2 hours, 2406 min
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    1. 12 shows – total playtime 2 hours, 40 minutes
    2. Crazy Hillbillies 09 Under Double Eagle.mp3
    3. Crazy Hillbillies 10 Dance All Night W Bottle In My Hand.mp3
    4. Crazy Hillbillies 11 Old Wagoneer.mp3
    5. Crazy Hillbillies 12 Devils Dream.mp3
    6. Crazy Hillbillies 13 Hell On Wabash.mp3
    7. Crazy Hillbillies 14 Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet.mp3
    8. Crazy Hillbillies 15 Boiling Cabbage Down.mp3
    9. Crazy Hillbillies 16 Hog Trough Reel.mp3
    10. Crazy Hillbillies 17 Sally Ann.mp3
    11. Crazy Hillbillies 18 Hogs In Trough.mp3
    12. Crazy Hillbillies 19 Redwing.mp3
    13. Crazy Hillbillies 20 Birdy Birdy Birdy.mp3
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    12 recordings on 1 MP3 Collection Download for just $5.00. Total playtime 2 hours, 2406 min
    12 recordings on 1 MP3 Collection Download for just $5.00
    73 MB – total playtime 2 hours, 40 min
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    1. 12 shows – 73 MB – total playtime 2 hours, 40 minutes
    2. Crazy Hillbillies 09 Under Double Eagle.mp3
    3. Crazy Hillbillies 10 Dance All Night W Bottle In My Hand.mp3
    4. Crazy Hillbillies 11 Old Wagoneer.mp3
    5. Crazy Hillbillies 12 Devils Dream.mp3
    6. Crazy Hillbillies 13 Hell On Wabash.mp3
    7. Crazy Hillbillies 14 Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet.mp3
    8. Crazy Hillbillies 15 Boiling Cabbage Down.mp3
    9. Crazy Hillbillies 16 Hog Trough Reel.mp3
    10. Crazy Hillbillies 17 Sally Ann.mp3
    11. Crazy Hillbillies 18 Hogs In Trough.mp3
    12. Crazy Hillbillies 19 Redwing.mp3
    13. Crazy Hillbillies 20 Birdy Birdy Birdy.mp3
  • Standard Audio CDs are delivered by mail on archival quality media with up to 60 minutes on each CD and play in all CD players



    12 recordings on 3 Audio CDs. Total playtime 2 hours, 40 min
    12 recordings on 3 Audio CDs
    total playtime 2 hours, 40 min

    Crazy Hillbilly Show Disc A001

    1. Crazy Hillbillies 09 Under Double Eagle
    2. Crazy Hillbillies 10 Dance All Night W Bottle In My Hand
    3. Crazy Hillbillies 11 Old Wagoneer
    4. Crazy Hillbillies 12 Devils Dream
    5. Crazy Hillbillies 13 Hell On Wabash

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    Crazy Hillbilly Show Disc A002

    1. Crazy Hillbillies 14 Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
    2. Crazy Hillbillies 15 Boiling Cabbage Down
    3. Crazy Hillbillies 16 Hog Trough Reel
    4. Crazy Hillbillies 17 Sally Ann
    5. Crazy Hillbillies 18 Hogs In Trough

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    Crazy Hillbilly Show Disc A003

    1. Crazy Hillbillies 19 Redwing
    2. Crazy Hillbillies 20 Birdy Birdy Birdy

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