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Bear Family Records

Bear Family Records is a Germany-based independent record label that specializes in reissues of archival material ranging from country music to 1950s rock and roll to old German movie soundtracks.

The label has been in existence since 1975, founded by collector Richard Weize, started with the double LP Going Back to Dixie by Bill Clifton. It has become known for its extravagant (and expensive) box sets.

The company describes itself as "a collector's record label" due to its primary business, which is reissuing rare recordings in CD format in small amounts. Their material has only limited availability in the U.S. stocked at Ernest Tubb Record Shops and through mail order sources.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bill Anderson: The First 10 Years (1956-1966)

With a career dating back to the mid-fifties, Bill Anderson is probably the most successful singer-songwriter in country music history. A member of the Grand Ole Opry for more than a half-century, he remains an engaging performer, a prolific writer and one of the industry's most respected elder statesmen.

His best-selling Decca recordings of the late fifties and through the sixties were benchmarks in the emerging Nashville Sound. Outside of indifferently assembled 'hits' packages, these sides have never been properly reissued on compact disc - until now.

The first comprehensive anthology spotlighting Bill Anderson, the most successful singer-songwriter during the Nashville Sound's classic era. Assembled with the singer's co-operation, this four-CD compilation gathers every surviving master recording from 1956 through 1966, plus an alternate version of 3 A.M. The set includes Anderson's first single, released while he was a 19-year-old University of Georgia student.

Disc 1

Empty Room
Take Me
City Lights
No Song To Sing
That's What It's Like To Be Lonesome
The Thrill of My Life
Ninety-Nine
Back Where I Started From
Not the End of Everything
Dead or Alive
No Man's Land
The Tip of My Fingers
Walk Out Backwards
Best of Strangers
Flowing Waters and Shifting Sands
Goodbye Cruel World
Po' Folks
As Long As I Live
It Takes A Worried Man
City Lights
Columbus Stockade Blues
Mama Sang A Song
Wedding Bells
Yonder Comes A Sucker
Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain
On and On and On
Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands
Down Came the Rain
Still
You Made It Easy
I Wish It Was Mine
That's What It's Like To Be Lonesome

Disc 2

1. From A Jack To A King
2. Little Band of Gold
3. Restless
4. Happiness
5. Reverend Mr. Black
6. It's Been So Long, Darlin'
7. Take These Chains From My Heart
8. Molly
9. 8 X 10
10. I'Ll Be Somewhere
11. One Mile Over - Two Miles Back
12. Take Me Home
13. Candy Apple Red
14. Cincinnati Ohio
15. Easy Come Easy Go
16. Five Little Fingers
17. Me
18. 500 Miles Away From Home
19. You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry
20. Abilene
21. Green, Green
22. I'M Leaving It All up To You
23. I Love You More and More Every Day
24. Memory #1
25. In Case You Ever Change Your Mind
26. In the Misty Moonlight
27. 3 A.M.
28. Then and Only Then
29. Worry
30. You Can Have Her
31. Then I'Ll Stop Loving You
32. Mountain Dew

Disc 3

1. 3 A.M. (Remake)
2. Twist of the Wrist
3. Certain
4. I Love You Drops
5. Once A Day
6. I Missed Me
7. I'Ve Enjoyed As Much of This As I Can Stand
8. Saginaw Michigan
9. I Don't Love You Anymore
10. Riverboat
11. I Know You are Married*
12. Time Out*
13. I'Ll Be Waiting*
14. Bright Lights and Country Music
15. Born
16. The Freighter
17. Wild Side of Life
18. Truck Drivin' Man
19. I'Ll Go Down Swinging
20. The Strangers Story
21. Walking the Dog
22. How the Other Half Lives
23. Wine
24. All Nite Cafe
25. Cocktails
26. Golden Guitar
27. Think I'Ll Go Somewhere (And Cry Myself...)
28. In the Summertime
29. Used To
30. I'M So Lonesome I Could Cry

Disc 4

1. Lovin' pains
2. When Liking Turns To Loving
3. Talkin' To The Wall
4. Next time Your In Tulsa
5. I Get The Fever (Remake)
6. Nail My Shoes To The Floor
7. The First Mrs. Jones
8. Papa
9. For Loving You*
10. The Untouchables*
11. Get While The Gettin's Good )
12. Something To Beieve In
13. Ride Ride Ride
14. My Daddy And My Mama And Me
15. A Satisfied Mind
16. Bad Seed
17. Remember Me
18. The Wheel Of Hurt
19. Open Up Your Heart
20. Homesick
21. I'm Ashamed Of You
22. It's All The Same To You (& Dolly Parton)
23. Here Lies The Heart Of Amos Brown
24. Once A Day
25. The Cold Hard Facts Of Life
26. Think I'll Go Somewhere (And Cry Myself...)
27. I Love You Drops (2:31)
28. I'll Go Down Swinging
29. You And Your Sweet Love
30. The Lord Knows I'm Drinkin'
31. Slippin' Away (2:11)
32. Nobody But A Fool

*With Jan Howard

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Don Gibson: The Singer: The Songwriter

Don Gibson is an original, now often overlooked. There's so much more to his music than the hits everyone knows. Mr. Gibson was one of the most sophisticated writers and singers in country music, and here we are his early sides and his biggest hits. The recordings for Mercury, Columbia, MGM are complete, as are his early recordings for RCA. Highlights include the original versions of Sweet Dreams, Oh Lonesome Me, I Can't Stop Loving You, Sweet Sweet Girl, Don't Tell Me Your Troubles and I'd Be A Legend In My Time.

Disc 1

1. I Lost My Love (2:49)
2. Why Am I So Lonely (2:57)

3. Automatic Mama (2:41)
4. Cloudly Skies (3:13)
5. I Love No One But You (2:49)
6. Carolina Breakdown (2:49)
7. Roses Are Red (2:39)
8. Wiggle Wag (2:20)
9. Dark Future (2:20)
10. Don Gibson - Just Let Me Love You (2:33)
11. A Blue Million Tears (2:26)
12. Red Lips,White Lies And Blue Hours (2:42)
13. Sample Kisses (2:23)
14. No Shoulder To Cry On (2:41)
15. Let Me Stay In Your Arms (2:31)
16. We're Stepping Out Tonight (2:14)
17. Waitin' Down The Road (2:46)
18. Walkin' In The Moonlight (2:23)
19. I Just Love The Way You Tell A Lie (2:16)
20. You Cast Me Out (Forevermore) (2:39)
21. Symptoms Of Love (2:49)
22. Selfish With Your Kisses (2:20)
23. Ice Cold Heart (2:27)
24. Many Times I've Wanted (2:34)
25. The Road Of Life Alone (2:42)
26. Run Boy (2:43)
27. Sweet Dreams (2:34)
28. I Must Forget You (2:39)

Disc 2

1. Ah-ha (2:17)
2. Happens Everytime (2:29)
3. I Ain't Gonna Waste My Time (2:29)
4. I Ain't A- Studyin' You Baby (2:09)
5. I'm Gonna Fool Everybody (2:20)
6. I Believed In You (2:08)
7. What A Fool I Was For You (2:16)
8. You're The Only One For Me (2:26)
9. I Love You Still (2:15)
10. Everything Turns Out For The Best (2:19)
11. I Can't Leave (2:21)
12. Sittin' Here Cryin' (2:22)
13. Too Soon To Know (2:35)
14. Pretty Rainbow (1:52)
15. Blue Blue Day (1:56)
16. Tell It Like It Is (2:26)
17. Oh Lonesome Me (2:32)
18. I Can't Stop Loving You (2:39)
19. Tell It Like It Is (2:14)
20. It Has To Be (2:28)
21. Give Myself A Party (2:31)
22. Look Who's Blue (2:26)
23. Bad Bad Day (2:39)
24. I Can't Leave (2:16)
25. Take Me As I Am (2:33)
26. Heartbreak Avenue (2:45)
27. We Could (2:32)
28. If You Don't Know It (2:13)
29. Sweet Sweet Girl (1:53)
30. Blues In My Heart (2:41)
31. Give Myself A Party (2:38)

Disc 3

1. Taller Than Trees (2:23)
2. Satisfied (2:21)
3. Wait For The Light To Shine (2:01)
4. Canaan's Land (1:52)
5. (Prayer Is The Key To Heaven) Faith Unlocks..)
6. Evening Prayer (2:30)
7. Lord I'm Coming Home (2:35)
8. Satisfied (2:23)
9. Climbing Up The Mountain (2:01)
10. Where No One Stands Alone (2:49)
11. Known Only To Him (2:55)
12. My God Is Real (2:34)
13. That Lonesome Valley (2:02)
14. Who Cares (For Me) (2:23)
15. When Will This Ever End (2:08)
16. Sweet Sweet Girl (2:10)
17. A Stranger To Me (2:35)
18. Won't Cha Come Back To Me (1:36)
19. A Stranger To Me (2:07)
20. As Much (2:01)
21. Who Cares (For Me) (2:15)
22. I Wish It Had Been A Dream (2:43)
23. Ages And Ages Ago (2:20)
24. Even Tho' (1:57)
25. Didn't Work Out, Did It ? (2:21)
26. It's My Way (2:09)
27. Almost (3:12)
28. Do You Think (2:00)
29. Foggy River (2:01)
30. Midnight (2:14)
31. Lonesome Old House (2:10)

Disc 4

1. Don't Tell Me Your Troubles (2:13)
2. I Couldn't Care Less (2:07)
3. Don't Tell Me Your Troubles (2:18)
4. Heart Break Avenue (2:23)
5. Big Hearted Me (2:19)
6. Maybe Tomorrow (2:28)
7. Everybody But Me (1:56)
8. I'm Movin' On (2:12)
9. Just One Time (2:47)
10. I May Never Get To Heaven (2:43)
11. Lonely Street (2:31)
12. On The Banks Of The Old Ponchartrain (2:41)
13. Why Don't You Love Me (1:51)
14. If I Can Stay Away (2:35)
15. Never Love Again (2:00)
16. The Streets Of Laredo (3:21)
17. My Love For You (2:39)
18. My Hands Are Tied (2:01)
19. It Only Hurts For A Little While (2:25)
20. (I'd Be) A Legend In My Time (2:26)
21. Far Far Away (2:12)
22. Foolish Me (2:15)
23. My Tears Don't Show (2:33)
24. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise (2:41)
25. What About Me (2:14)
26. The Next Voice You Hear (3:09)
27. Hurtin' Inside (2:17)
28. Sweet Dreams (2:10)
29. Time Hurts (As Well As It Heals) (2:14)
30. What's The Reason I'm Not Pleasing You (2:00)
31. Sweet Dreams (1:58)
32. The Same Street (2:23)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------George Jones: She Thinks I Still Care

George Jones was coming off a successful Mercury Records contract when his producer Pappy Daily took him to United Artists (UA) Records in 1962. Instantly, he became UA's top country star and got off to a powerful start with Dickey Lee's ballad She Thinks I Still Care, an award-winning performance at the time, a country music standard today. Over the next two and a half years, Jones recorded originals along with songs written by some of Nashville's greatest, among them Jack Clement (Not What I Had In Mind), Justin Tubb (Big Fool Of The Year), Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard (You Comb Her Hair) and Freddie Hart (My Tears Are Overdue).

Even then, Jones's peers began embracing his still-evolving singing style, rooted in his admiration for both Roy Acuff and Hank Williams, as a vocal Gold Standard. At UA, that style continued developing while at the same time he expanded his scope by teaming with the truly great female duet partner Melba Montgomery. Together, they created an amazing, even hypnotic traditional vocal synergy on hits including We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds and to this day, Jones considers his work with Montgomery his best work with a female singer. On tour, his antics still centered around his legendary boozing and hell-raising yet Jones's studio output for UA was amazingly consistent, the accompaniment traditional though the Jordanaires frequently appeared on various UA sessions. Along with revealing the complete scope of Jones's two and a half years, this collection also includes rare photos and extensive, detailed liner notes by Rich Kienzle including comments from Jones, Montgomery and the late Buck Owens.

George Jones: Walk Through This World With Me

No other period of George Jones' long, legendary career is as murky and mysterious as his stint at Musicor, his home from 1965 through 1971. He left United Artists (UA) for Musicor after The Race Is On topped the charts in 1964, once again following his producer, mentor and manager, Pappy Daily, to new, seemingly greener pastures that just happened to be financially advantageous to Pappy Daily. George was UA's flagship country artist, but Musicor had only one other hit-maker on its roster and that was Gene Pitney, the operatic pop singer who flirted with country music in 1965, the year George joined Musicor and a year after the British Invasion stole much of Pitney's pop audience.

Jones and Pitney cut two albums' worth of duets which brought them both a bit of crossover, but Pitney's star continued to fade in the late '60s as Jones' burned bright, so Daily did what any huckster would; he ran his only star into the ground, having him record almost 300 sides in just over six years, flooding the market with singles and albums (LPs), churning out records on Musicor as well as RCA Records and its budget-line Camden offshoot; well after George Jones severed ties with Musicor and Pappy Daily by buying out his contract in 1971.

In a fitting irony, this profligate parade of product found its counterpart in an utter dearth of CD reissues of Musicor material. A handful of cuts showed up on Rhino's 1991 The Best of George Jones, the Pitney duets were collected on a generous 1994 CD by Bear Family, the same years some cuts appeared on a two-disc retrospective from Epic called The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country, but the bulk of the Musicor recordings remained unavailable due to various legal reasons until 2009, when Bear Family released all of them in two big box sets.

Walk Through This World with Me is the first volume, covering the first two-and-a-half years of Jones' time at Musicor, a quarter of a decade that produced several huge hits, many forgotten gems and a bunch of standard-issue Texas honky-tonk elevated by the natural grace of George Jones and the grit of his Jones Boys. In a move that seems a test to prove whether the old adage of whether a great singer could sing the phone book is true, Daily would have Jones sing almost any old song, provided that he owned the copyright.

Daily had a stable of regular writers, most quite talented, working overtime to turn out material, and when that failed, he dug up public domain gospel numbers he could arrange, then filled out sessions with current hits and re-recordings. Since Pappy Daily did have Leon Payne, Dallas Frazier and Peanuts Montgomery on his short list, he gave George Jones lots of good, sometimes great, songs to record and unlike Col. Tom Parker, he wasn't loathe to have Jones cut a tune if his company couldn't get the publishing. That said, there are times during this box where it seems as if Pappy Daily was almost testing the old adage of whether a great singer could sing the phone book and sound good. Of course, that's giving Daily a bit too much credit; he wasn't there for art, he was there for commerce, picking songs and pushing Jones to break Musician's Union rules (according to George, they once recorded a full album in three hours, way beyond the union's three-song limit), but letting the singer conduct the band and set the arrangements, something that's made clear by the session tapes that conclude this five-disc box. This hands-off approach might explain why the first half of the Musicor years doesn't depart greatly from the sound of George's UA recordings; there are a few cuts that show a heavy Roger Miller influence and a few that bear traces of the Bakersfield twang of Buck Owens, along with some Merle Haggard, but by and large, this is hardcore country with an emphasis on sweet, mournful ballads and when it comes to this sound, nobody does it better than George Jones.

A few of the big hits included in this box set are:

Color of the Blues
Cup of Loneliness
Developing My Pictures
Four-O-Thirty Three
I Can't Get There from Here
If My Heart Had Windows
I'm a People
Life Turned Her That Way
Love Bug
Old Brush Arbors
Seasons of My Heart
Take Me
Tender Years
The Honky Tonk Downstairs
The Shoe Goes on the Other Foot Tonight
Things Have Gone to Pieces
Treasure of Love
Walk Through This World with Me
We Must Have Been out of Our Minds
Window Up Above
White Lightnin'

George Jones: A Good Year For the Roses

Picking up only a matter of months after its predecessor, Walk Through This World with Me, left off, Bear Family's four-disc box A Good Year for the Roses; The Complete Musicor Recordings (1965-1971) Pt. 2 runs through the last half of George Jones' stint with Musicor, a period that showed a greater sonic variety than his preceding two and a half years with the label yet ultimately illustrates that George's partnership with producer and manager Pappy Daily had reached a dead end.

Always eager to make a quick buck, Daily steered George Jones toward the weirdest quick cash-in he ever recorded, pushing the trippy folk-rock mock-protest song "Unwanted Babies" upon Possum, its swirling minor-key march sounding like psychedelic 1967 but like nothing else here. The rest of the music on the box is firmly within the tradition established by the first Musicor set, meaning there's plenty of hard honky tonk and ballads, but within that Jones is beginning to branch out, building upon the Bakersfield and Roger Miller influences evident on Walk Through This World with Me, but also edging toward richer, detailed productions, a sound evident on both the dense Burn Another Honky Tonk Down and the gorgeous, elegant title track. Pappy Daily may have pushed A Good Year for the Roses on George, hearing a hit when the singer didn't, but that doesn't mean he was showing any more care in recording his label's rising star.

Daily still fed Jones songs from his publishing house, not caring much about their quality, happy to re-record old songs once again and filling out a session by covering current hits. This situation was only exacerbated at the end of Jones' time at the label, when he was burning through songs intent on ending his contract, re-recording tunes he originally did when he first started at Musicor! Emphasizing quantity over quality didn't much bother Daily; it gave him more product to sell or to license later to RCA; which is one of the primary reasons Jones was eager to leap from Musicor to Epic, where he would be able to duet with his new love, Tammy Wynette, and record with her producer, Billy Sherrill, yet listening to A Good Year for the Roses as a body of work it's possible to understand Pappy Daily's side of things.

At his worst, which didn't arrive all that often, George Jones was still a compelling vocalist, and his Musicor recordings are uniformly enjoyable, even with subpar performances and slapdash productions. Pappy Daily could package this stuff and sell it to satisfied customers because it was always good and occasionally transcendent. As on Walk Through This World with Me, it can take some digging to ferret out those gems, but it's a pleasurable hunt, more so than before due to that greater sonic variety, which also happens to be the very thing that illustrates beyond a doubt that George Jones could achieve more artistically than he did here.

At Musicor, he was treated as a hitmaking machine, churning out pure product without discrimination. At Epic, he was treated as an artist and wound up with bolder records that turned into bigger hits. Some have called those Sherrill productions overblown, but after listening to Jonrs' Musicor recordings in their entirety, it's easy to see why Jones was eager to be over-produced: he had spent too long with no production at all.

George Jones was born in 1931 in the East Texas town of Saratoga. As a kid he sang for tips on the streets of nearby Beaumont. By age 24, he had been married twice, served in the Marines and was a veteran of the Texas honky-tonk circuit. On a recording session in 1955 for Starday Records, producer Pappy Dailey suggested he quit singing like his idols, Lefty Frizzell, Roy Acuff and Hank Williams, and try singing like George Jones. The result was “Why Baby Why,” his first Top Five Hit.

At Starday, Jones made rockabilly records as Thumper Jones. As many artists did at the time, Jones also played guitar and sang the “hits of the day” on radio shows.

During one of these radio shows, George Jones had the opportunity to play guitar for his hero, Hank Williams. George remembers that day with awe and said, “When he started to sing, I was star struck and never hit a note on the guitar.” Jones had his first country No. 1 at Mercury Records in 1959 with White Lightning. The hits kept coming and he had No. 1s with Tender Years, She Thinks I Still Care The Window Up Above The Race Is On and “Walk Through This World With Me.

Jones, the top male singer in country music, married country music’s hottest new female artist Tammy Wynette in 1969. He soon joined Wynette’s label, Epic Records, where he enjoyed an extremely successful 20-year association with producer Billy Sherrill. His hits included The Grand Tour A Picture Of Me Without You and The Door and, while his marriage to Wynette was stormy, they were perfect duet partners and their hits included We’re Gonna Hold On, Golden Ring and Near You.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Marty Robbins Country (1951-1958)

Marty Robbins was one of the original country music balladeers and his long career promoted him to the top of his game in America, where he won the affection of many lovers of the genre.

Marty Robbins sang from a various styles including country of course, Hawaiian, Mexican and even rock and roll! On this box set you will hear Marty at his very best. The first CD features Marty's early country recordings from 1951-1953 and the original version of My Isle Of Golden Dreams is also included on this CD.

The second CD you will hear Marty singing a few rock and roll songs, he even does a covers of Elvis's Thats All Right Mama. Marty also does a version of Little Richard's Long Tall Sally. Robbins' singing can really touch you heart.

This boxset is very well done. Each cd contains 70+ minutes of great country music by a vastly underrated artist.

Disc 1

1. Tomorrow You'll Be Gone
2. I Wish Somebody Loves Me
3. Love Me Or Leave Me Alone
4. Crying 'Cause I Love You
5. I'll Go On Alone
6. Pretty Words
7. You're Breaking My Heart
8. I Can Get Alone (Without You Very Well)
9. I Couldn't Keep From Crying
10. Just In Time
11. Crazy Little Heart
12. After You Leave
13. Lorelei
14. A Castle In The Sky
15. Your Heart's Turn To Break
16. Why Keep Wishing (You Don't Care)
17. A Half-Way Chance With You
18. Sing Me Something Sentimental
19. At The End Of Long Lonely Day
20. Blessed Jesus, Should I Fall Don't Let Me Lay
21. Kneel And Let The Lord Take Your Load
22. Don't Make Me Ashamed
23. It's A Long, Long Ride
24. It Look Like I'm Just In Your Way
25. I'm Happy 'Cause You're Hurtin'
26. My Isle Of Golden Dreams
27. Have Thine Own Way, Lord
28. God Understands
29. Aloha Oe (Farewell To Thee)

Disc: 2

1. What Made You Change Your Mind
2. The Way Of A Hopeless Love
3. Pain And Misery
4. Juarez
5. I'm Too Big To Cry
6. Call Me Up (And I'll Come Calling On You)
7. It's A Pity What Money Can Do
8. Time Goes By
9. This Broken Heart Of Mine
10. It Looks Like I'm Just In Your Way
11. I'll Love You Till The Day I Die
12. Don't Let Me Hang Around (If You Don't Care)
13. Pray For Me Mother Of Mine
14. Daddy Loves You
15. That's All Right
16. Gossip
17. Maybelline
18. Pretty Mama
19. Mean Mama Blues
20. Long Gone Lonesome Blues
21. I Can't Quit (I've Gone Too Far)
22. Singing The Blues
23. Tennessee Toddy
24. Baby, I Need You (Like I Need You)
25. Long Tall Sally
26. Mister Teardrop
27. Respectfully Miss Brooks
28. You Don't Owe Me A Thing
29. I'll Know You're Gone
30. How Long Will It Be

Disc: 3

1. Where D'Ja Go?
2. Most Of The Time
3. The Same Two Lips
4. Your Heart Of Blue Is Showing Through
5. Knee Deep In The Blues
6. The Little Rosewood Casket
7. The Letter Edged In Black
8. Twenty One Years
9. The Convict And The Rose
10. The Bus Stop Song (A Paper Of Sins)
11. The Dream Of The Miner's Child
12. The Little Box Of Pine In The 7:29
13. The Wreck Of The Number Nine
14. The Sad Lover
15. The Little Shirt My Mother Made For Me
16. My Mother Was A Lady
17. When It's Lamplighting Time In The Valley
18. The Wreck Of The 12:56
19. It's Too Late Now (To Worry Anymore)
20. I Never Let You Cross My Mind
21. I'll Step Aside
22. Bouquet Of Roses
23. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
24. Lovesick Blues
25. Moanin' The Blues
26. Rose Of Ol' Pawnee
27. I Hang My Head And Cry
28. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
29. All The World Is Lonely Now

Disc: 4

1. You Only Want Me When Your're Lonely
2. Crying Steel Guitar Waltz
3. Beauitful Ohio
4. Now Is The Hour (Maori Farewell Song)
5. Down Where The Tradewinds Blow
6. Sweet Leilani
7. Beyond The Reef
8. Constancy (Ua Like No More)
9. Don't Sing Aloha When I Go
10. Song Of The Islands
11. Moonland
12. Island Echoes
13. My Isle Of Golden Dreams
14. Aloha Oe (Farwell To Thee)
15. A Faded Petal From A Beautiful Bouquet
16. Then I Turned And Slowly Walked Away
17. Jodie (Judy)
18. A House With Everything But Love
19. Nothing But Sweet Lies
20. Baby I Need You (Like You Need Me)
21. Kaw-Liga
22. Paper-Face
23. Many Tears Ago
24. Address Unknown
25. Waltz Of The Wind
26. The Hands You're Holding Now
27. Shackles And Chains
28. Oh, How I Miss You (Since You Went Away)
29. Footprints In The Snow
30. Wedding Bells
31. It's Driving Me Crazy

Disc: 5

1. The Story Of My Life (CO 58730, Take 2-)
2. The Story Of My Life (Take 2-Complete)
3. The Story Of My Life (Take 3-Complete)
4. Once-A-Week-Date (CO 58371, Take 1-Complete)
5. Once-A-Week-Date (Take 2-Falste Start)
6. Once-A-Week-Date (Take 3-Complete)
7. She Was Only Seventeen (CO 58372, Rehearsal)
8. She Was Only Seventeen (Take 1-False Start)
9. She Was Only Seventeen (Take 2-Complete)
10. She Was Only Seventeen (Take 3-Complete)
11. She Was Only Seventeen (Take 4-Complete)
12. Wedding Bells (OB 1580, Take 1-False Start)
13. Wedding Bells (Take 2-Imcomplete)
14. Wedding Bells (Take 3-Complete)
15. Wedding Bells (Take 4-Complete)
16. Wedding Bells (Take 5-Complete)
17. Shackles And Chains (Take 6-False Start)
18. Shackles And Chains (Take 7-False Start)
19. Shackles And Chains (Take 8-Complete)
20. Shackles And Chains (Take 9-False Start)
21. Shackles And Chains (Take 10-False Start)
22. Shackles And Chains (Take 11-Complete)
23. Oh, How I Miss You (Since You Went Away

24. Footprints In The Snow (OB 1582, Take 1)

25. Footprints In The Snow (Take 2-Incomplete)
26. Footprints In The Snow (Take 3-Complete)
27. Wedding Bells (OB 1583, Take 1-Complete)
28. Wedding Bells (Take 2-False Start)
29. Wedding Bells (Take 3-False Start)
30. Wedding Bells (Take 4-Complete)
31. It's Driving Me Crazy (OB 1584, Take 1)
32. It's Driving Me Crazy (Take 2-Complete)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys

Pee Wee King was a Polish-American kid in Wisconsin who picked up the accordion and more or less lucked into the field of country music. That said, he was worthy of the genre.

This onetime polka dance-band leader went on to record with vocalist Redd Stewart some of the best-known country songs ( Slow Poke; Tennessee Waltz; Bonaparte's Retreat , etc.) of the '40s and '50s, and you'll find them all here, compiled Bear Family-style in this 6-CD, 151-song set!

Along with all his classic RCA recordings from 1946 to 1958 are such rarities as his never-reissued 1946 Bullet recordings and a 1952 Record Preview disc in which Pee Wee talks about his music.

Disc 1

1.That Cheap Look in Your Eye
2.You Were the Cause of It All
3.Texas Toni Lee
4.Tennessee Central (Number 9)
5.Southland Polka
6.Steel Guitar Rag
7.I Hear You Knockin'
8.Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers off of Me
9.Don't Feel Sorry for Me
10.Arkansas Traveler
11.Out of My Mind
12.Ten Gallon Boogie
13.Kentucky Waltz
14.Don't Forget
15.Juke Box Blues
16.Chattanooga Bess
17.Say Good Mornin' Nellie
18.Forty Nine Women
19.Ghost and Honest Joe, The
20.New York to New Orleans
21.I'm Satisfied With You
22.Quit Honkin' That Horn
23.Oh Monah
24.Bull Fiddle Boogie
25.Tennessee Waltz
26.Rootie Tootie

Disc 2

1.Gotta Climb Those Golden Stairs
2.Every Time I Feel the Spirit
3.Gospel Boogie
4.Singin' as I Do
5.Waltz of the Alamo
6.Whisper Waltz
7.I Lost My Love (The Color Song)
8.Bonaparte's Retreat
9.Blue Grass Waltz
10.Alabama Moon
11.Tennessee Tears
12.Get Together Polka
13.Nashville Waltz, The
14.Waltz of Regret, The
15.Tenessee Polka
16.Lonesome Steel Guitar
17.Cornbread, 'Lasses and Sassafras Tea (Bird in the Cage)
18.Fire on the Mountain
19.Shocking Rye Straw (The 'H' Dance)
20.Billy in the Low Ground
21.Devil's Dream
22.Fisher's Hornpipe
23.Sally Goodin'
24.Whistling Rufus

Disc 3

1.Going Back to A.L.A.
2.You Call Everybody Darlin' (You Call Everybody Darlin' Dance)
3.Battle Hymn of the Republic, The (Glory Hallelujah Dance)
4.Black Eyed Susie (Divide the Ring) (North Carolina Folk Fancy)
5.When They Played That Old Missouri Waltz
6.Blame It All on Nashville
7.Kissing Dance, The
8.Rag Mop
9.What Where and When
10.Birmingham Bounce
11.We're Gonna Go Fishin' (Next Saturday Night)
12.Cincinnati Dancing Pig
13.River Road Two-Step
14.Mop Rag Boogie
15.No One But You
16.Within My Heart (La Golondrina)
17.Helegged Hilegged
18.You Drifted
19.Strange Little Girl, The
20.Chew Tobacco Rag
21.Slow Poke
22.You Won't Need My Love Anymore
23.Two Roads
24.Railroad Boogie
25.Makin' Like a Train

Disc 4

1.Crying Steel Guitar Waltz, The
2.Ragtime Annie Lee
3.Slow Bloke
4.Slow Coach
5.Silver and Gold
6.If and When
7.Busybody
8.I Don't Mind
9.Two-Faced Clock
10.Mighty Pretty Waltz, A
11.Tennessee Tango
12.Crazy Waltz, The
13.Varsoviana
14.San Antonio Rose
15.My Adobe Hacienda
16.One Rose, The (That's Left in My Heart)
17.Under the Double Eagle
18.Spanish Two Step
19.Over the Waves
20.Steel Guitar Rag
21.Screwball
22.(I Loved Her Best of All) Last Night on the Back Porch
23.Till I Waltz Again With You
24.Gone
25.I'll Go on Alone
26.That's Me Without You
27.Your Kisses Aren't Kisses Anymore
28.Here Lies My Heart

Disc 5

1.Oh Mis'rable Love
2.Ricochet
3.Dragnet
4.Deck of Cards
5.Huggin' My Pillow (And Dreaming of You)
6.Changing Partners
7.Bimbo
8.Backward, Turn Backward
9.In a Garden of Roses
10.Red Deck of Cards, The
11.Keep Your Eye on Darling
12.Indian Giver
13.Why Don't You All Go Home?
14.How Long
15.Peek-A-Boo Waltz
16.Steel Guitar Rag
17.Peaches and Cream
18.I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango
19.Flying Home
20.Woodchopper's Ball
21.Seven Come Eleven
22.Farewell Blues
23.Tippin' In
24.Melody of Love
25.You Can't Hardly Get Them No More
26.Tweedle Dee

Disc 6

1.Plantation Boogie
2.Jim, Johnny and Jonas
3.Never Mind
4.Beauty Is as Beauty Does
5.Half a Dozen Boogie
6.Blue Suede Shoes
7.Tennessee Dancin' Doll
8.Ballroom Baby
9.Catty Town
10.Absolutely, Positively
11.Hoot Scoot
12.I'll Be Walking Alone in a Crowd
13.Sugar Beet
14.(I Tasted) Tears on Your Lips
15.Catchy Tune, A
16.My Darlin' (We're Not Too Young to Know)
17.Do You Remember
18.Congratulations Joe
19.Prelude to a Broken Heart
20.Do You Remember
21.Unbreakable Heart
22.Janie
23.Little Bit About Myself, A (A Phonobiography)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Researched, compiled and written by Richard Bell, Roots of Country Music, Jan. 12m 2012

Antioch, TN 37013