Decca matrix NA 9529. It's hard to love (and not to be loved) / Roy Acuff ; The Smoky Mountain Boys

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Ruppli session personnel note: Roy Acuff (vocals), with Howard "Howdy" Forrester (fiddle), James L. "Jimmy" Riddle (harmonica, piano), Lonnie "Pap" Wilson, Jess Esterhasy (guitar), Beecher "Bashful Brother Oswald" Kirby (dobro, harmony vocals), Joseph S. Zinkan (bass).
Documentation of Decca Records derives from Michel Ruppli's "The Decca labels: a discography" (Greenwood Press, 1996). Data has not been systematically reviewed or edited by ADP staff, except as indicated.
Ruppli session note: All titles issued on CD Bear Family (Germany) BCD 15652/2.
Master renumbered by Decca as 100818.
Take Date and PlaceTakeStatusLabel Name/NumberFormatNote
10/19/1956 Nashville, Tennessee. Owen Bradley Studio [A] Master Decca 30141 10-in.
10/19/1956 Nashville, Tennessee. Owen Bradley Studio [A] Master Decca 9-30141 45-rpm
10/19/1956 Nashville, Tennessee. Owen Bradley Studio [A] Master Bear Family (Germany) BCD 15652/2 Compact disc

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Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Decca matrix NA 9529. It's hard to love (and not to be loved) / Roy Acuff ; The Smoky Mountain Boys," accessed December 13, 2025, http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000347615/NA_9529-Its_hard_to_love_and_not_to_be_loved.

Decca matrix NA 9529. It's hard to love (and not to be loved) / Roy Acuff ; The Smoky Mountain Boys. (2025). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 13, 2025, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000347615/NA_9529-Its_hard_to_love_and_not_to_be_loved.

"Decca matrix NA 9529. It's hard to love (and not to be loved) / Roy Acuff ; The Smoky Mountain Boys." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2025. Web. 13 December 2025.

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