Spade Cooley's Western Swing Song Folio was the first songbook to identify the big Western dance band music as Western Swing

Western swing

Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands...

. The songs were written (or co-written) by Spade Cooley

Spade Cooley

Donnell Clyde Cooley , better known as Spade Cooley, was an American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality...

. Smokey Rogers co-wrote several of the songs. Spade Cooley was one of the first song-writers signed by Jean

Jean Aberbach

Joachim "Jean" Aberbach was an Austrian-born American music publisher. With his brother Julian, he was responsible for establishing Hill and Range as one of the leading music publishing houses, responsible for songs recorded by Elvis Presley and many others.-Life and career:Aberbach was born in...

 and Julian Aberbach

Julian Aberbach

Julian J. Aberbach was an Austrian-born music publisher, who lived and worked in both the United States and France...

for their new music publishing house, Hill and Range Songs, Inc., the publishers of this folio.

Sheet music

Sheet music in the folio are:

• "Oklahoma Gal"
• "Jive on the Range"
• "There is No Sunshine"
• "Heavenly Range"
• "Gitar Swing"
• "You're Gonna Pay"
• "Now and Always"
• "My Chickashay Gal"
• "Do Ya or Don'tcha"
• "Shawnee Blues"
• "Tennessee Wagner"
• "You Gotta Quit Your Triflin'"
• "I'm Waiting for the Day (That You Come Back)"
• "Gonna Leave You Blues"
• "You're Breakin' This Poor Heart of Mine"