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I’ve been using Ernie ball cobalt flats and really like them.
I’ve got a used set kicking about somewhere, I’ll stick them in the post if you fancy trying them out.
sorry didn’t answer your question but not really sure if the country boys favour flats or not.
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Rotosound then started making the Swing Bass roundwound strings for him, and the rest is history... but I would guess most other players didn’t use them until at least the late 60s.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/bass/bass6066.html
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
As I understand it Monk Montgomery playing with Art Farmer in 1953 generally seems to be regarded as the first recorded electric bass, the soundtrack to Return to the Forbidden Planet in 1956 the first time large numbers of people heard it and then Jailhouse Rock in 1957 is effectively the song that sold the instrument. So for rocknroll or country tracks pre dating 1957 it’s probably not bass guitar you can hear.
From then to the late sixties, as has been said, it would have all been flatwounds.
Gonna cut up a foam washing up scrubber later and shove it under the fretless strings by the bridge to see if I can fake it
* I'm reliably informed that all upright basses are she, leastways they are in eBay ads.