Birth of a Legend: The Truly Complete Starday & Mercury Recordings 1954-1961

Compilation by George Jones

Released 24 February 2017

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CD 1
1
No Money in This Deal
2
No Money in This Deal (alt)
3
For Sale or for Lease (take 1)
4
For Sale or for Lease (take 2)
5
Play It Cool Man - Play It Cool
6
You’re in My Heart
7
If You Were Mine
8
Wrong About You
9
You All Goodnight
10
Hold Everything
11
Hold Everything (alt)
12
Heartbroken Me
13
Heartbroken Me (2)
14
Let Him Know
15
My Sweet Imogene
16
What’s Wrong With You
17
What’s Wrong With You (alt)
18
Painless Heart
19
Still Hurtin’
20
Settle Down
21
Dancing Mexican Boy
22
Mexican Boogie (Boogie Woogie Mexican Boy)
23
Why Baby Why
24
What Am I Worth
25
Seasons of My Heart
26
Seasons of My Heart (alt)
27
What Am I Worth (remake)
28
It’s OK
29
Your Heart
30
Dancing Mexican Boy (alt)
31
You Never Thought
32
I’m Ragged but I’m Right
CD 2
1
I’m Ragged but I’m Right (alt)
2
You Gotta Be My Baby (take 1)
3
You Gotta Be My Baby (take 2)
4
You Gotta Be My Baby (take 3)
5
I’ve Got Five Dollars and It’s Saturday Night
6
Run Boy
7
Heartbreak Hotel (short ending)
8
Yes I Know Why
9
’Cause I Love You
10
You Gotta Be My Baby
11
Rock It
12
Rock It (alt)
13
How Come It
14
Boat of Life
15
Taggin’ Along
16
Yearning
George Jones & Jeanette Hicks
17
Yearning (alt)
George Jones & Jeanette Hicks
18
I’m With the Wrong One
George Jones & Jeanette Hicks
19
Sweet Dreams
20
I Take the Chance
George Jones & Jeanette Hicks
21
Any Old Time
22
Gonna Come Get You
23
Gonna Come Get You (alt)
24
Just One More
25
No Money in This Deal
26
I’m With the Wrong One (edit)
George Jones & Jeanette Hicks
27
I’m With the Wrong One
George Jones & Jeanette Hicks
28
You’re Running Wild
29
Singing the Blues
30
Wasted Words
31
One Woman Man
32
Before I Met You
33
Go Away With Me
34
Radio Spot 1, 1956
35
Radio Spot 2, 1956
36
Radio Spot 3, 1956
CD 3
1
You’re Back Again
George Jones & Hank Locklin
2
Don’t Stop the Music
3
(That’s) All I Want to Do
4
Uh, Uh, No
5
Uh, Uh, No (alt)
6
Cup of Loneliness
7
Cup of Loneliness (alt)
8
Please Take the Devil Out of Me
9
Giveaway Girl
10
Too Much Water
11
Flame in My Heart
George Jones & Virginia Spurlock
12
No, No, Never
13
Don’t Do This to Me
14
Hearts in My Dreams
15
Tall Tall Trees
16
No Use to Cry
17
One Is a Lonely Number
18
That’s the Way I Feel
19
Frozen Heart
20
Never Been So Weary
21
Maybe Next Christmas
22
New Baby for Christmas
23
Wandering Soul
24
If You Want to Wear a Crown
25
Gotta Talk to Your Heart
26
Nothing Can Stop Me
27
I Always Wind Up Losing
28
Color of the Blues
29
Eskimo Pie
5.0 ★
30
Maybe Little Baby
31
Rain Rain (Rain Keeps Fallin’)
32
(I Believe) The Good Old Bible
33
We’ll Understand It (Farther Along)
CD 4
1
I’m Gonna Burn Your Playhouse Down
2
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
3
Life to Go
4
Jesus Wants Me
5
My Lord Has Called Me
6
All by Yourself
7
Deep in the Heart of a Fool
8
Last Night
George Jones & Bobbie Ellison
9
Now Tell Me (take 1)
George Jones & Bobbie Ellison
10
Now Tell Me (take 2)
George Jones & Bobbie Ellison
11
Now Tell Me (take 3)
George Jones & Bobbie Ellison
12
Now Tell Me (take 4)
George Jones & Bobbie Ellison
13
Treasure of Love
14
White Lightnin’
15
Long Time to Forget
16
If I Don’t Love You (Grits Ain’t Groceries)
17
Stay on Board
18
The Likes of You
19
There’s Gonna Be One
20
Into My Arms Again
21
Who Shot Sam
22
Mr. Fool
23
Candy Hearts (undubbed)
24
Candy Hearts
25
Have Mercy on Me
26
If You Believe
27
Big Harlan Taylor
28
Someone Sweet to Love
29
Everything Ain’t Right
30
Relief Is Just a Swallow Away
31
Money to Burn
32
Time Lock
33
Talk to Me Lonesome Heart
CD 5
1
Your Old Standby
2
Watcha Gonna Do
3
Accidentally on Purpose
4
Vitamins L-O-V-E
5
The Last Town I Painted
6
Revenooer Man
7
Sparkling Brown Eyes
8
The First One
9
You Better Treat Your Man Right
10
Out of Control
11
Glad to Let Her Go
12
You’re Still on My Mind
13
Just Little Boy Blue
14
Tarnished Angel
15
Slave Lover
16
Why Baby Why
17
Poor Man’s Riches
18
Heartaches by the Number
19
I Love You Because
20
Oh Lonesome Me
21
(I’ll Be There) If You Ever Want Me
22
If You’ve Got the Money (I’ve Got the Time)
23
I Walk the Line
24
It’s Been So Long
25
Just One More
26
You Gotta Be My Baby
27
Life to Go
28
Settin’ the Woods on Fire
29
Window Shopping
30
Howlin’ at the Moon
31
There’ll Be No Teardrops Tonight
32
Hey Good Lookin’
33
Half as Much
CD 6
1
Nobody’s Lonesome for Me
2
Cold, Cold Heart
3
Why Don’t You Love Me
4
Honky Tonkin’
5
Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
6
I Can’t Help It
7
Family Bible
8
The Window Up Above
9
I Wouldn’t Know About That
10
With Half a Heart
11
Aching Breaking Heart
12
Battle of Love
13
Tender Years
14
When My Heart Hurts No More
15
Did I Ever Tell You
George Jones & Margie Singleton
16
Not Even Friends
George Jones & Margie Singleton
17
I Want to Be Where You’re Gonna Be
George Jones & Margie Singleton
18
Waltz of the Angels
George Jones & Margie Singleton
19
Are You Mine
George Jones & Margie Singleton
20
One Excuse Is as Good as Another
George Jones & Margie Singleton
21
Yearning
George Jones & Margie Singleton
22
Looking Back to See
George Jones & Margie Singleton
23
One by One
George Jones & Margie Singleton
24
If You Don’t Somebody Else Will
George Jones & Margie Singleton
25
When Two Worlds Collide
George Jones & Margie Singleton
26
Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)
George Jones & Margie Singleton
27
Talk About Lovin’
George Jones & Margie Singleton
28
I Don’t Hear You
George Jones & Margie Singleton
29
Why Baby Why (edited version)
30
Seasons of My Heart (remake)
31
Heartbreak Hotel (long edit)
32
Let Me Be Your Salty Dog
Arlie Duff
33
Back to the Country
Arlie Duff

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Birth of a Legend: The Truly Complete Starday & Mercury Recordings 1954-1961
6x CD
24 February 2017