CHARLINE ARTHUR - Burn That Candle (1955) TV vidéo clip (Remastered Sound)

50s Country Hillbilly Bopper from Ozark Jubilee TV Show December 3,1955.
Charline Arthur (also Charlene Arthur, born Charline Highsmith, September 2, 1929 - November 27, 1987) was an American singer of Boogie-Woogie, Blues, and Early Rockabilly.
In 1950, Arthur began work as a singer and a disc jockey at the Texas radio station KERB.
She left three years later after the impresario Colonel Tom Parker discovered her, signing her with RCA Records.
She was a regular performer on the Big D Jamboree radio program throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
She also performed and toured with Elvis Presley and others, but in 1956 RCA dropped her from the label and her career declined.
Described as a "flash in the pan" and a "woman before her time",
Arthur was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and has, since the 1980s, found favor with critics who praise her vocal style, her stage presence, and her influence on artists such as Elvis Presley and Patsy Cline.

Charline Arthur didn't play by the rules. During the '50s, country music wasn't particularly receptive to rowdy, racy material sung by females, much less one who refused to submit to the orders of her record company or promoters.
No matter how much pressure Arthur received, she didn't change her ways. With a raging temper, she was difficult to work with, particularly angering her producer, Chet Atkins.
Nevertheless, her music was frequently impressive.
In some ways, Arthur was a forerunner of rockabilly, with her bluesy, raw hillbilly music and her wild stage shows.
She was the first female singer in country music to perform in pants and she used the extra freedom to prowl the stage.
While her career was extremely brief -- she recorded for RCA for three years -- her music gained a cult following over the years, as proved by the appearance of Bear Family's "Welcome to the Club" compilation in 1986.
Suffering from debilitating arthritis, she went back to Idaho in 1979, and stayed there until her death in 1987.
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Ozark Jubilee is a 1950s United States network television program that featured country music's top stars of the day.
It was produced in Springfield, Missouri.
The weekly live stage show premiered on ABC-TV on January 22, 1955, was renamed Country Music Jubilee on July 6, 1957, and was finally named Jubilee USA on August 2, 1958.
Originating "from the heart of the Ozarks", the Saturday night variety series helped popularize country music in America's cities and suburbs, drawing more than nine million viewers.
The ABC Radio version was heard by millions more starting in August 1954.

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