"The Daddy of 'Em All," released in 1957 on Decca Records (DL-8553), is an album by Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours — the honky-tonk patriarch whose 1941 recording of "Walking the Floor Over You" virtually invented the electrified country sound that defined postwar American music. By 1957 Tubb was an elder statesman of the form he had created, recording in Nashville at the height of the honky-tonk era while the Nashville Sound was beginning to smooth away its rough edges. The album's title — both a boast and a historical claim — reflects Tubb's central place in country music history as a Grand Ole Opry cornerstone since 1943 and the founder of the Ernest Tubb Record Shop on Broadway in Nashville in 1947.
Tracklist
- 1 You're Breaking My Heart 2:41
- 2 I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair alt version 2:33
- 3 I Know My Baby Loves Me In My Own Perculiar Way 2:26
- 4 Mississippi Gal 2:23
- 5 When A Soldier Knocks And Finds Nobody Home 2:24
- 6 Daisy May 2:20
- 7 I've Got The Blues For Mammy 2:23
- 8 This Troubled Mind O' Mine 2:22
- 9 I Knew The Moment I Lost You 2:26
- 10 You're The Only Good Thing (That's Happened To Me) 2:45
- 11 My Hillbilly Baby 2:14
- 12 There's No Fool Like A Young Fool 2:49