Initially, I wasn't able to track down much information on the western swing band Royce Riehl and the Country Cousins. This page does have some recent photos of Riehl and Ron Coulthard, another member of the band, both of whom are current members of the Stratford Musicians' Association. I got in touch with Mr. Coulthard, and this (edited slightly for length) is what he had to say about the band:

"Yes, Royce Riehl and I are two of the "Country Cousins" from back in 1965, and we still play together fairly regularly, 40 years later! We kept the Country Cousins name going for several years, but we all eventually got into different bands. I still play occasionally with fiddler Wayne Riehl and bass player Alan Riehl. Second fiddler John Rennie moved many years ago from Stratford to Owen Sound, but we still keep in touch. Drummer Gary Shouldice is still in the area, although I haven't seen him lately, and we've lost track of lead singer Floyd Sillito. Floyd came from Alberta originally and he moved back there many years ago. I did hear from him a couple of times, but have no current address, so don't know if he is still living or not. The "Old Tyme Dance Tonite" album was produced by ARC records as a prize for winning the Cookstown Orchestra Contest...It was never exactly a million seller, but we did sell quite a few copies locally at least, and copies still occasional turn up at yard sales. Somewhat after my "Country Cousins" period, I played for 10 seasons on the Circle Eight Ranch show on CKNX-TV in Wingham, Ontario. CKNX was famous, in our area at least, as the home of the CKNX Barn Dance, a travelling country show which did broadcasts from various towns and cities across southern Ontario for many years ending in 1963. Back in the 1990's, Barn Dance veteran Earl Heywood and others started what has now become the Barn Dance Historical Society, and we still do a few shows each year, and we operate a Barn Dance Museum in Wingham displaying lots of memorabilia and musical history...Royce and I play on some of these shows, and I am the Society secretary. We do try to keep that traditional country music playing!"

And here, edited more stringently for length, are the album's liner notes:

"The Country Cousins consists of seven of Canada's top old-tyme dance musicians. Royce Riehl...plays the electric Spanish. [His] cousin, Wayne Riehl, plays first violin, and has won at many of the contests throughout Ontario. John Rennie, who plays second violin, can play harmony to any tune...Ron Coulthard, the steel player, also plays the Spanish, piano, bass, violin, banjo, or anything with strings on it...Ron is also the arranger for the band. Floyd Sillito, the vocalist for the group, is a real Westerner who comes from Calgary...Gary Sholdice...has also played drums for many other bands, and does a good job of keeping the tempo rolling in any number from a waltz to a polka. The Country Cousins started performing together in 1962 to form a country swing band. They have entered the Cookstown Old Type Orchestra Contest since its beginning four years ago, and have placed first every year, except one, when they placed second, competing with numerous other good bands."

"Roly Poly" is a cover of the Fred Rose tune, which was popularized in versions by Hank Williams and Bob Wills. "Shame, Shame On You" was Spade Cooley's theme song, and a hit in the early 1940's. Both are up-tempo western swing numbers with vocals, while the last two are instrumentals. "Under The Double Eagle" is the best country music tune about the Austro-Hungarian empire you'll ever hear, while the medley includes a snippet of fiddling staple "Earl Mitton's Breakdown".

Roly Poly
Shame, Shame On You
Under The Double Eagle
Medley: Snowflake Breakdown/Earl Mitton's Breakdown/Devil's Dream