20 Number One Country Hits [Import]

20 Number One Country Hits [Import]

20 Number One Country Hits [Import]

ASIN: B0002HSDXM

Track Listings
 
1. Your Cheatin' Heart
2. I'm Movin' On
3. Bimbo
4. Wild Side Of Life
5. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
6. Sugar Moon
7. Candy Kisses
8. Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
9. I Forget More Than You'll Ever Know
10. Divorce Me C.O.D.
11. Golden Rocket
12. Wondering
13. Lovesick Blues
14. Dear John Letter
15. Mexican Joe
16. If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time
17. Tennessee Saturday Night
18. Eddy's Song
19. I'll Go On Alone
20. I Love You Because

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
20 classic songs from 'The Golden Age Of Country' by legendary artists including Hank Williams, Jim Reeves, Hank Snow, Marty Robbins, & Kitty Wells. Castle Pulse. 2004.

20 Number One Country Hits,Various Artists,Castle/Pulse,Country Collections,Country/Bluegrass
20 Number One Country Hits
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		20 Number One Country Hits
    Various Artists
    Manufacturer: Castle/Pulse
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B0002HSDXM
    Release Date: 2004-08-30

    Tracks:

    1. Your Cheatin' Heart
    2. I'm Movin' On
    3. Bimbo
    4. Wild Side Of Life
    5. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
    6. Sugar Moon
    7. Candy Kisses
    8. Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
    9. I Forget More Than You'll Ever Know
    10. Divorce Me C.O.D.
    11. Golden Rocket
    12. Wondering
    13. Lovesick Blues
    14. Dear John Letter
    15. Mexican Joe
    16. If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time
    17. Tennessee Saturday Night
    18. Eddy's Song
    19. I'll Go On Alone
    20. I Love You Because

    Album Description

    20 classic songs from 'The Golden Age Of Country' by legendary artists including Hank Williams, Jim Reeves, Hank Snow, Marty Robbins, & Kitty Wells. Castle Pulse. 2004.

    Album Details

    Number One Hits from the Us Country Chart of the 40s and 50s.
    Merle Haggard 20 Number One Hits
    Average customer rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
    • Remakes
    • Unnecessary third reissue of re-recorded hits
    • the same remakes as used on other discs
    		 Merle Haggard 20 Number One Hits
    Merle Haggard
    Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
    Honky-TonkHonky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music
    Outlaw & Progressive CountryOutlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music
    Western SwingWestern Swing | Country | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B00004WJ6I
    Release Date: 2000-09-12

    Tracks:

    1. I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
    2. Branded Man
    3. Sing Me Back Home
    4. The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde
    5. Mama Tried
    6. Hungry Eyes
    7. Working Man Blues
    8. Okie From Muskogee
    9. The Fightin' Side Of Me
    10. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
    11. Carolyn
    12. It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
    13. Everybody's Had The Blues
    14. If We Make It Through December
    15. Things Aren't Funny Anymore
    16. Kentucky Gambler
    17. Always Wanting You
    18. It's All In The Movies
    19. The Roots Of My Raising
    20. I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink

    Customer Reviews:

    1 out of 5 stars Remakes.......2005-08-13

    A few years ago, Merle Haggard sat down and remade almost all of his biggest hits in a mamoth recording session. Now all of these songs are spreading around to every cheap record company who repackages them.

    Be careful, everything here is remakes.

    2 out of 5 stars Unnecessary third reissue of re-recorded hits.......2000-11-03

    This is a truly surprising release for Varese. Not only is it an unnecessary addition to the market, but the titling and small-print disclaimer on the back are bound to mislead casual buyers in record stores.

    Though the title proclaims on the front cover "20 Number One Hits," one has to read the tiny print on the rear insert to learn that "all songs are new recordings of Merle Haggard's #1 Hits recorded between 1994 and 1995." Aside from the poor construction of the disclaimer (the covers were recorded between 1994 and 1995, while the original #1 hits were recorded between 1967 and 1981), its location seems like a cheap marketing gimmick. No doubt many unwary buyers will pick this out of the bin thinking its a good sampler of Haggard's classic hits. Especially so given that the rear cover's track listing is annotated with the original chart information. Beyond this misdirection, it's unclear what need there is for this disc in the first place. The re-recorded tracks presented here are available on not one, but two in-print discs: 1998's "16 Biggest Hits," and 1999's "For the Record: 43 Legendary Hits." True, this disc offers 20 tracks, rather than 16 or 43, but that's a quibble.

    To get to the heart of the matter, one has to ask whether or not these latter-day reinterpretations offer something over the readily available original recordings. For the most part the answer is no. Haggard's maturity as an artist doesn't pay many additional dividends. The songs are great, the Hag is great, but so were they when originally recorded. Worse, by recording them over a two-year period the songs are robbed of the variety invested over the 14 years in which the original hits were waxed.

    The band (Haggard's road band, The Strangers) are certainly the right backing combo, just as they were on the original recordings - there's just nothing new here. This disc is certainly a solid spin (how could Haggard singing these songs not be?), but these re-recordings are no substitute for the originals, and their third reissue, in a package that makes it unclear they're not the original hit recordings, is not up to Varese's usual standard of excellence.

    2 out of 5 stars the same remakes as used on other discs.......2000-09-19

    The versions of the hits on this collection are not the originals on Capitol and MCA, but rather the 1994-1995 remakes that are often licensed and are owned by Sony/ATV Tree music. These remakes are also on "16 Biggest Hits," "For The Record: 43 Legendary Hits," "Super Hits," and other CD's. If you have any of these other collections, you basically have this collection but in a different package and the originals are much superior to this collection.

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