Golden Classics - Country and Western

Golden Classics - Country and Western

ASIN: B0009X58UU

Track Listings

1. Take Me Home, Country Roads

2. Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys

3. Rhinestone Cowboy

4. Most Beautiful Girl in the World

5. Ring of Fire

6. Coward of the County

7. Desperado

8. To All the Girls I've Loved Before

9. Stand by Your Man

10. On the Road Again

11. These Boots Are Made for Walking

12. Jambalaya

Tracks:

Company of Cowards
This Ol' Riverboat
Love Theme (Today)
Whistlin' Dixie
Anything Love Can Buy
Ladies
Charleston Town
Company Q Whistle March
Way Down In Arkansas
Brackenby's Music Box
Riverboat Theme
Today
Ramblin'
Mighty Mississippi
Hi Jolly
A Travelin' Man
Down the Ohio
The Drinkin Gourd
Green, Green
Rovin' Gambler
Wagoner's Song
My Dear Mary Anne
Ride, Ride, Ride
Last Farewell
Chim Chim Cher-ee
This Land is Your Land

Customer Reviews:

Golden Classics Edition:.......2007-05-12

They need an age tune up so they can sing again poor stuff as far as quality!!

The Very Best of the New Christy Minstrels.......2007-01-10

When I was a small boy in the 1950s, my dad used to bring young sailors home with him sometimes. He or my mom would give them a home-cooked meal and an opportunity to visit with their kids (my siblings and me). In return, sometimes, they would provide engaging conversation and/or musical entertainment. So it was with a couple of young doughboys who would later wow audiences across America and around the world: Dean Jones and Randy Sparks.

While Dean went on to become an actor in the Disney stable and star of such classic films as 'The Love Bug' and 'Beethoven', Randy formed a band and 'sparked' (pun intended!) the Folk Music fad that swept like a wave around the world in the mid-1960s. Named for the Christy Minstrels who rambled from town to dusty town in the Old West entertaining far-flung American settlers, Randy Sparks and the New Christy Minstrels traveled around the world and fanned the cooling embers of our rich folk heritage to a bright, new flame.

Songs like 'Green, Green', 'Ramblin'' and 'Today' as well as many made popular by such other folk artists as Peter, Paul and Mary and the Kingston Trio, were often written and first performed by the Christies. Many of Randy's troupe, such as lead singer Barry Maguire, went on to have great solo careers in the music business.

Randy Sparks and Dean Jones may not remember us, but my dad, Frank King, never tires of reminiscing about entertaining them in our San Diego family home 'way back when.

Golden Classics Edition: Today/Ramblin'.......2006-12-12

I am so happy NCM have come out on CD. I have almost every NCM album (yes, vinyl) they made. My father taught me to love good music, no matter what the genre. NCM were my favorites growing up, because they so heavily relied on the voices, rather than a show or the instruments. It is a simple form of performance music, but when you look into the combinations of harmony and the talents that sprang into other areas from this group - it is one of the foundations of today's music.

Presenting/In Person The New Christy Minstrels.......2006-11-05

I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the CD. Given that there are two albums on the CD, it is a good value if this is your type of music.

Excellent.......2005-06-09

Both albums on one CD...what a bargin! A nice touch for the NCM fans!

Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me/Stop and Smell the Roses: A Golden Classics Edition

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Good Old Mac!
STOP AND SMELL THE HOOKS!
Classic
How Nice To Be A Regular Member of the Public...
Great songs by a GREAT entertainer

Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me/Stop and Smell the Roses: A Golden Classics Edition
Mac Davis
Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000093S
Release Date: 1997-07-01

Tracks:

Dream Me Home
The Lonesomest Lonesome
Everybody Loves A Love Song
Naughty Girl
Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife
Half And Half (Song For Sarah)
Spread Your Love On Me
Whoever Finds This, I Love You
Poor Boy Boogie
Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me
The Words (Don't Come Easy)
Stop And Smell The Roses
Soft, Sweet Fire
The Sweetest Song
Two Plus Two
The Birthday Song
One Hell Of A Woman
A Poor Man's Gold
Lucas Was A Redneck
Kiss It And Make It Better
Burnin' Thing
It' s Hard To Be Humble
Texas In My Rear View Mirror
Rock N' Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)

Album Description

Mac Davis, who penned the Elvis hit "In the Ghetto", was asked by a record exec to write another song with a strong musical "hook." The result--"Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"--went to #1 (and platinum) and launched Davis on a successful recording, TV and movie career. The Baby album and its successful follow-up are included here.

Customer Reviews:

Good Old Mac!.......2006-02-22

Reminds me of the good old days when my kids were growing up. Great great great!

STOP AND SMELL THE HOOKS!.......2005-12-24

MAC DAVIS-BABY DON'T GET HOOKED ON ME/STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES: This "two-fer" CD (plus bonus tracks, no less) combines a pair of the Lubbock, Texas songwriter/singer's best known albums, the title tracks of each representing two of his biggest hits. Amounting to a better retrospective than his official "Greatest Hits" (at least, after you separate the wheat from the chaff), the four tacked on cuts alone include the smug novelty singalong IT'S HARD TO BE HUMBLE (a pretty fair summary of Davis' often tongue in cheek composing style), country charter TEXAS IN MY REAR VIEW MIRROR, and the autobiographical ROCK N' ROLL I GAVE YOU ALL THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE. All of these fine "Lost 45s" are nearly impossible to find nowadays. Among the twenty other songs here, you get the number one anti-commitment classic BABY DON'T GET HOOKED ON ME, the seductive slices NAUGHTY GIRL and ONE HELL OF A WOMAN, and the gospel-colored STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES. All make for guilty pleasure listening, even if there are sometimes long stretches of audio Nutri Sweet in between. When Davis writes a good'un (Kenny Rogers, Elvis, and Gallery all did fine by his SOMETHIN'S BURNIN', IN THE GHETTO, and I BELIEVE IN MUSIC respectively), everything is right in pop music circles. I suggest you do what I did---burn your own customized anthology from the dozen or so pop picks here, and leave that other album's worth of pablum for the elevators and dentist offices. RATING: FOUR HOOKS

Classic.......2005-09-24

I've been looking for "Stop and Smell the Roses" ever since my cassette tape bit the dust 3 years ago. All the songs I grew up to in a better quality. I've even tried to find MP3 downloads for these songs and couldn't! I'm so relieved I finally got what I've been searching so long for.

How Nice To Be A Regular Member of the Public..........2003-03-15

"Poor boy don't need 'lectronics to make no Rock 'n Roll...Poor boy got Boogie-Woogie born right in his soul..." and the lyrics (from "Poor Boy Boogie") goes to tell us that you'd only need sticks, spoons and friends to make good music. This was in the early 70's...when most of us young folks were listening to heavy electrified UNDERGROUND!...But (believe it or not) Mac Davis could, at that time, divert our attention from Henrix and Grand Funk Railroad to his kind of music....Good deep voice, catchy tunes and the lyrics made us feel that, well, we belonged! With the exemption of "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" which is everybody's favourite...nice melody....but the words can be dangerous....just don't sing it to your sweetheart....! Get this CD! These songs will last for many years to come...good to listen to while drivin' too!

Great songs by a GREAT entertainer.......2002-09-22

One of the best performers ever. A note for the person who wondered why "Convoy and Rhinestone Cowboy" are missing from the album. Convoy was done by C.W. McCall, and Rhinestone Cowboy was done by Glen Campbell. They shouldn't be on this one!

Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 1: The Golden Age

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columbia classics Vol 1
A perfect Appalachian honeymoon soundtrack

Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 1: The Golden Age
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Sony
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ASIN: B00000271Y
Release Date: 1990-12-29

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Great Speckled Bird - Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans
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Time Changes Everything - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
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Don't Let That Man Get You Down - Texas Ruby
Shame On You - Spade Cooley
Born To Lose - Ted Daffan's Texans
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Wreck On The Highway - Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys
When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels - Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks
The Tramp On The Street - Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks
I Saw The Light - Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys
Are You Walking And A-Talking For The Lord - Stoney Cooper
Molly And Tenbrooks (The Race Horse Song) - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
Poor Ellen Smith - Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks
Wabash Cannonball - Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys
Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain - Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys
Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
The Fields Have Turned Brown - The Stanley Brothers
Don't Get Above Your Raisin' - Lester Flat

Customer Reviews:

columbia classics Vol 1.......2005-04-08

I was born in 1931 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvina. That was way before TV. I remember all these artists and the songs. When they were appearing in Pittsburgh or Wheeling West Virginia (The WWVA Jamboree) I would be right there in the front row. I loved the music when it was Hillbilly, then country western and than The Nashville Sound.

I am so thrilled you recorded all the greats on one CD. I love it and am so happy to be able to purchase it. PS -- I had all the 78rpm records, but over time they got lost. Thank you for putting them all on one CD.
Dorothy W. Rossa

A perfect Appalachian honeymoon soundtrack.......1999-01-25

We bought this - on cassette - in Washington DC on our first day of honeymoon in September 1997. Having flown from Northern Ireland, it provided us with the perfect honeymoon soundtrack as we drove from Washington to Nashville, along the Skyline drive, down through South West Virginia, across Eastern Kentucky to Berea, and down to Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. We are from an Ulster-Scots/Scotch-Irish background, and during those three weeks we fell in love with the land that our forebears had settled in so many centuries before, bringing thier fiddles and folk songs with them, creating what was the core of mountain old-time music and bluegrass. From the Carter Family right through, every song is a classic. You must buy this!

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Golden Classics

Golden Classics
Ace Cannon
Manufacturer: Deluxe
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ASIN: B0000023IL
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Battle Hymn Of The Republic
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Customer Reviews:

Golden Classics.......1999-12-10

Brings back all time favorites,with the Cannon class

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Get the box set
You'll be happier with an earlier release

Golden Classics: 22 Classic Tracks
Roger Miller
Manufacturer: Double Play (Int600)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000021YEV
Release Date: 1996-08-06

Tracks:

King of the Road
England Swings
Billy Bayou
Dang Me
Heartaches by the Number
Me and Bobby McGee
Chug-A-Lug
Engine, Engine #9
Kansas City Star
Last Word in Lonesome Is Me
My Elusive Dreams
Release Me
Do-Wacka-Do
Don't We All Have the Right
Burning Bridges
Husbands and Wives
In the Summertime
Everything's Coming Up Roses
You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd
When Two Worlds Collide
Walkin' in the Sunshine
My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died

Customer Reviews:

Get the box set.......2003-01-07

All of these tracks are re-recordings Miller must have made later in life. The problem is that there is no disclaimer so that the consumer isn't aware of the this until you get the disk home. The box set, The Genius of Roger Miller, is the real McCoy. My recommendation is to spend the money and get the box set.

You'll be happier with an earlier release.......2001-11-30

Disappointing from first track to last. All the spice is gone.

For example in Dang Me, the words: "lack nineteen dollars of having" are all the same note, and spoken, not sung. Apparently his vocal agility was gone. In the same song, "high from the highest treeee-YEEE!" - the high-pitched "YEEE!" on the end is gone.

The same thing in "Chug-a-lug". There's no uplift at the end of "hi-dee-ho". Still a pretty good song but just doesn't sparkle.

The spice in a Roger Miller song is that he transitions from high to low and back, or the reverse. On this disc he might transition up or down, but not back, and that makes it dull.

I give positive points for the collection of songs which is excellent for the price.

Golden Classics Edition
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Songs are Missing

Great value compilation

Two classic albums from one of country's finest singers

Country, rock, standards: what's not to enjoy?

Back when the voice is what counted most!

Golden Classics Edition
Lynn Anderson
Manufacturer: Collectables
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000093Q
Release Date: 1997-07-01

Tracks:

Rose Garden
For The Good Times
Another Lonely Night
I Don't Want To Play House
Snowbird
Your Sweet Love Lifted Me
Sunday Morning Coming Down
I Still Belong To You
I Wish I Was A Little Boy Again
It's Only Make Believe
Nothing Between Us
You're My Man
I Can Spot A Cheater
I'm Gonna Write A Song
Cry, Cry Again
Knock Three Times
Flying Machine
Proud Mary
Help Me Make It Through The Night
Put Your Hand In The Hand
Joy To The World
I Might As Well Be Here Alone
How Can I Unlove You
Cry
Top Of The World
What A Man, My Man Is

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From its breathless opening rush of pile-driver strings, Lynn Anderson's signature hit, "Rose Garden," announces itself to be every bit as pop as it is country, and consequently it stands as a supreme example of the countrypolitan sound. A crossover smash, "Rose Garden" was nothing less than a dense, twangy version of Phil Specter's Wall of Sound, all pounding country rhythms, whizzing steel guitar, soaring backing vocals, and dramatic strings. What gets lost a bit in there, though, is that Anderson was a fine and subtle country singer, a gift she displays repeatedly on Golden Classics, never more so than on countrypolitan classics like "How Can I Unlove You" and her thrilling 1972 version of the pop standard "Cry." --David Cantwell

Customer Reviews:

Songs are Missing.......2005-11-10

I'm kind of disappointed here; there is one of my favorites of hers that is missing here. Instead we get what, a bunch of covers? Including For the Good Times, I want to hear Ray Price singing that song, nobody sings it like him, and it's a classic not to be tampered with. Meanwhile the Lynn Anderson songs I want are missing. I guess I'll have to content myself with the copy I have on Beta.

Great value compilation.......2003-11-19

This album is great value for money, combining Lynn Anderson's albums Rose Garden and You're My Man in one. It is mainly a collection of country and pop classics from the late 1960s and early 1970s but Anderson's interpretations never fail to please.

Backed by a lush, string-driven country pop sound, she delivers memorable and engaging covers of hits like For The Good Times, I Don't Want To Play House, Snowbird and It's Only Make Believe. I also love her version of Dawn's huge 1971 hit Knock Three Times and Flying Machine, Cliff Richard's not so huge hit from the same year.

She even makes Three Dog Night's Joy To The World her own, although I don't think she succeeds so well on Sunday Morning Coming Down. Somehow I just can't see Lynn stumbling down the stairs with a hangover on a Sunday morning!

Other very listenable numbers include You're My Man, I Can Spot A Cheater, Cry, Cry Again, the gospel song Put Your Hand In The Hand and Help Me Make It Through The Night. She has a full and warm country voice and the backing is beautiful in that early 1970s way. I love this album as it really evokes the innocent spirit of the seventies.

Two classic albums from one of country's finest singers.......2003-03-30

There was a time when Lynn was one of the most important ladies in country music, though that is not reflected in CD releases. I bought nearly all her albums on vinyl, but very few have ever been released on CD. This twofer contains the two most obvious.

Both albums contain plenty of covers. Indeed, Rose garden was itself a cover. It was written by Joe South and originally appeared on the same album of his that included Games people play (which has also been covered by Lynn, but her version has never appeared on CD). Lynn had a major international hit with it, going high in the pop charts in Britain, America and many other countries.

Among the songs covered by Lynn on the Rose Garden album are For the good times (Kris Kristofferson), Another lonely night (Jean Shepherd), I don?t want to play house (Tammy Wynette), Snowbird (Anne Murray), Sunday morning coming down (Kris Kristofferson) and It?s only make believe (Conway Twitty). The original songs include two co-written by her then-husband (Your sweet love lifted me, I wish I was a little boy again) and Nothing between us, a song Lynn wrote herself.

The second album is You?re my man. The title track, one of four songs that Glenn Sutton wrote or co-wrote, was a huge country hit. Most, if not all, of the other songs are covers, including Knock three times (Tony Orlando and Dawn), Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival), Help me make it through the night (Kris Kristofferson), Put your hand in the hand (first recorded by Anne Murray) and Joy to the world (Three dog night).

On this edition, four bonus tracks are added. These are some of her other hits from her peak years.

These are not my absolute favorite Lynn Anderson albums, but they are excellent and they are the only ones from her peak years so far released on CD, except for a Christmas album that was made available for a short time and is now a collector?s item. Buy this now to encourage record companies to release more of Lynn?s music on CD.

Country, rock, standards: what's not to enjoy?.......2003-03-15

Songbird Lynn Anderson likely gained her widest recognition with her 1970 crossover mega-smash "Rose Garden." From there and in only a relatively few years, Ms. Anderson carved her own niche in music annals with an array of signature songs, "Rose Garden" notwithstanding. But who can't help but feel the rushing tide of emotion in her powerful and soulful version of "Cry" and an equally powerful "How Can I Unlove You?" You don't have to be an Anderson fan to savor this 26-track CD that boasts the best (so far) of vintage Lynn, some surprising hidden gems like Kris Kristofferson's "Sunday Morning Coming Down" and a few standards. For the dedicated Anderson fan, this compilation is perhaps her best (again, so far) and no Anderson musical library is complete without it. Even if you're not an Anderson fan, you'll probably get so wrapped up in the lady's vocal charms that you won't notice the hours of enjoyment going by. To all who haven't heard from the lady lately, it'd be inaccurate to dub this CD "the best of." Incredibly, she's still giving her best!

Back when the voice is what counted most!.......2001-07-16

Back in the early '70s, I had the Rose Garden LP and nearly wore it out. I really enjoyed the soaring vocals and strings that were seamlessly melded together. Her style was indeed unique during this period. I had a Panasonic 4-channel system(the one with the joystick balance control for the four speakers), and while browsing in the record section found a 4-channel release of the Rose Garden LP. It, along with the rest of my record collection, was unfortunately stolen during a military transfer and I haven't been able to find another copy. My favorites on this album are 'Rocky Top', 'Nothing Between Us' and 'Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down'. The latter one, written by Kris Kristofferson, was made popular by Johnny Cash, but Lynn puts so much more of herself into this one. It was orchestrated with a choir that, in surround sound, comes up all around the room and raises goosebumps on the first-time listener. This would be an excellent candidate to be remastered in DTS. For classic country/pop crossover, this album is a must.

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buy a different Merle Haggard compilation

Golden Classics: 23 Classic Tracks
Merle Haggard
Manufacturer: Double Play (Int600)
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Binding: Audio CD

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(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
Swinging Doors
Bottle Let Me Down
I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
I Threw Away the Rose
Branded Man
Sing Me Back Home
Mama Tried
Hungry Eyes
Workin' Man Blues
Okie from Muskogee
Fightin' Side of Me
Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
Carolyn
It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
Everybody's Had the Blues
If We Make It Through December
Things Aren't Funny Anymore
Always Wanting You
It's All in the Movies
I'm Always on a Mountain When I Fall
I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
Today I Started Loving You Again

Customer Reviews:

buy a different Merle Haggard compilation.......2002-11-04

to get a good quality, single-disc collection of the original recordings of some of Merle Haggard's greatest music, "20 Greatest Hits" on the Capitol/EMI label is good, as is the budget cd "Best of the Best" also on Capitol (avoid similarly titled releases on different labels)...to really do Merle Haggard's legacy justice, easily the best single purchase currently available is the multi-label box set compilation called "Down Every Road"

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An Excellent Album
The Originals
AM radio Top-40 pop

Golden Classics
Ray Stevens
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Release Date: 1997-11-04

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Moonlight Special
Misty
Indian Love Call
Jeremiah Peabody
Freddie Feelgood
Turn Your Radio On
Mama and a Papa
All My Trails
Everything Is Beautiful
Gitarzan
Young Love
Harry the Hairy Ape
Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
America, Communicate with Me
Mr. Businessman
Along Came Jones
Bridget the Midget
Unwind
Ahab, the Arab

Customer Reviews:

An Excellent Album.......2007-06-08

I am enjoying this album. Many of Ray's best works are on here, though some are not original versions, but copies of tapes redone by other companies. I don't believe "Harry the Hairy Ape" or "Ahab, the Arab" are originals.

Be that as it may, the recordings are of very good quality, and there is such a great selection on this disk. If you like Ray Stevens, you probably enjoy this album. I am especially enjoying some of Ray's more serious hits, such as "Misty", "Sunday Morning Commin' Down" written by the great songwriter, Chris Christopherson, but sung extremely well here by Ray. "Mr. Businessman" is done very well, as is the very funny, "Along Came Jones".

This album is well worth the money, in my opinion.

The Originals .......2006-03-28

A priceless treasure from a label usually known for second rate re-recordings. In this instance the original recordings have been licensed from Barnaby including some of the more serious numbers such as "Unwind" ,"Mr.Businessman", "Misty" and "Everything Is Beautiful" and the Albert Brumley gospel classic "Turn Your Radio On". Plenty of good Ray Stevens comedy here, including the original version of his biggest hit "The Streak".

This is the best Ray Stevens collection on the market. If you can find this CD you truly will have the "Best of Ray Stevens"

AM radio Top-40 pop.......2003-12-05

for nostalgia buffs craving some music from the Top-40 era on AM radio and are a bit tired of the British invasion acts all over Oldies radio, check out this Ray Stevens CD. It contains 20 songs, each and every one was a hit song on the pop, country, or AC charts! this CD is fabulous and it rekindles AM Top-40 pop radio when all it took was sales and or public acceptance for a single to be a hit. now a committee has to say what gets played and what time it plays and playlists are all pre-determined in advance leaving no room for break-out hits and the like.

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Golden Classics: 23 Classic Tracks
Patsy Cline
Manufacturer: Double Play (Int600)
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Walkin' After Midnight
Lonely Street
Crazy Dreams
Too Many Secrets
Lovesick Blues
Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray
Just out of Reach
Let the Teardrops Fall
Poor Man's Roses
Stop the World
I'm Blue Again
That Wonderful Someone
I Cried All the Way to the Alter
Hidin' Out
Hungry for Love
Cry Not for Me
Walking Dream
Church, a Courtroom and Then Goodbye

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Golden Classics - Country & Western
Stars at Studio 99
Manufacturer: Legacy
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music

General | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0009X58UU
Release Date: 2005-03-10

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