Mick Hartley

A spot of Country Boogie from "King of the Strings" Joe Maphis, from the early Fifties. It's a generic song really – named, as host Tex Ritter says, for the place where the Town Hall Party show was recorded. A chance to show off those instrumental skills.

I like the way, towards the end, he plays a little, then doffs his hat to the next soloist.

Unusual, I think, for the women instrumentalists. That's Marian Hall on pedal steel.

Not forgetting Joe's trademark double-neck Mosrite guitar.

He wrote the Country standard Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music), first recorded in 1952 by Flatt and Scruggs.

Here he is dueting with Merle Travis.

Showing off his skills on the Jimmy Dean Show.

More showing off – a compilation.

And, with wife Rose, in Don't Make Love in a Buggy. Sensible advice, but a surprisingly upfront title for the conservative Fifties you might think. I guess back then make love just meant what they liked to call canoodling.