The Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Bye, Bye Love
  2:13
• 2
  You Don’t Know Me
  3:14
• 3
  Half as Much
  3:26
• 4
  I Love You So Much It Hurts
  3:34
• 5
  Just a Little Lovin’
  3:28
• 6
  Born to Lose
  3:15
• 7
  Worried Mind
  2:55
• 8
  It Makes No Difference Now
  3:34
• 9
  You Win Again
  3:30
• 10
  Careless Love
  3:59
  4.0 ★
• 11
  I Can’t Stop Loving You
  4:13
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Hey, Good Lookin’
  2:12
• 13
  You Are My Sunshine
  3:01
• 14
  No Letter Today
  3:00
• 15
  Someday (You’ll Want Me to Want You)
  2:40
• 16
  Don’t Tell Me Your Troubles
  2:07
• 17
  Midnight
  3:16
• 18
  Oh, Lonesome Me
  2:10
• 19
  Take These Chains From My Heart
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Your Cheating Heart
  3:34
• 21
  I’ll Never Stand in Your Way
  2:19
• 22
  Making Believe
  2:53
• 23
  Teardrops in My Heart
  3:03
• 24
  Hang Your Head in Shame
  3:16
• CD 2
• 1
  I’m Movin’ On
  2:21
• 2
  Busted
  2:10
• 3
  No One to Cry To
  2:42
• 4
  Move It on Over
  2:40
• 5
  Love’s Gonna Live Here (Swingova)
  2:22
• 6
  I’m a Fool to Care
  3:19
• 7
  Crying Time
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Together Again
  2:40
• 9
  I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail (Swingova)
  2:11
• 10
  I Don’t Care
  2:16
• 11
  Blue Moon of Kentucky (Swingova)
  2:10
• 12
  Don’t Let Her Know
  2:52
• 13
  Please Say You’re Fooling
  2:43
• 14
  She’s Lonesome Again
  2:30
• 15
  A Born Loser
  2:12
• 16
  A Girl I Used to Know
  2:43
• 17
  Here We Go Again
  3:17
• 18
  When I Stop Dreamin’
  3:03
• 19
  If You Were Mine
  3:50
• 20
  Your Love Is So Doggone Good
  3:02
• 21
  Don’t Change on Me
  3:26
• 22
  Till I Can’t Take It Anymore
  3:32
• 23
  You’ve Still Got a Place in My Heart
  3:49
• 24
  I Keep It Hid
  4:11
• 25
  Sweet Memories
  3:34
• 26
  Good Morning Dear
  4:32
• 27
  [unknown]
  0:03
• CD 3
• 1
  Ring of Fire
  3:07
• 2
  What Am I Living For
  3:39
• 3
  The Three Bells
  4:26
• 4
  All I Ever Need Is You
  4:03
• 5
  Wichita Lineman
  4:07
• 6
  Down in the Valley
  4:41
• 7
  Take Me Home, Country Roads
  3:35
• 8
  Never Ending Song of Love
  2:38
• 9
  Come Live With Me
  3:25
• 10
  Sunshine
  3:46
• 11
  We Had It All
  4:38
• 12
  (Turn Out the Light and) Love Me Tonight
  2:28
• 13
  I Wish You Were Here Tonight
  3:08
• 14
  Ain’t Your Memory Got No Pride at All
  4:06
• 15
  Born to Love Me
  3:50
• 16
  I Don’t Want No Stranger Sleepin’ in My Bed
  3:33
• 17
  Let Your Love Flow
  3:35
• 18
  You Feel Good All Over
  4:43
• 19
  You’ve Got the Longest Leaving Act in Town
  3:16
• 20
  String Bean
  4:03
• CD 4
• 1
  3/4 Time
  4:23
• 2
  Shakin’ Your Head
  3:47
• 3
  I Had It All
  4:41
• 4
  Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
  3:49
• 5
  Woman Sensuous Woman
  3:47
• 6
  Then I’ll Be Over You
  3:41
• 7
  If I Were You
  4:11
• 8
  Workin’ Man’s Woman
  3:47
• 9
  Two Old Cats Like Us

  feat. Hank Williams, Jr.
  2:37
  3.0 ★
• 10
  This Old Heart (Is Gonna Rise Again)

  feat. the Oak Ridge Boys
  3:05
• 11
  We Didn’t See a Thing

  feat. George Jones & Chet Atkins
  2:13
• 12
  Who Cares

  feat. Janie Fricke
  2:59
• 13
  Friendship

  feat. Ricky Skaggs
  2:41
• 14
  It Ain’t Gonna Worry My Mind

  feat. Mickey Gilley
  2:55
• 15
  Little Hotel Room

  feat. Merle Haggard
  3:00
• 16
  Crazy Old Soldier

  feat. Johnny Cash
  3:34
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Seven Spanish Angels

  feat. Willie Nelson
  3:51
  3.4 ★
• 18
  The Pages of My Mind
  3:46
• 19
  Slip Away
  3:49
• 20
  Anybody With the Blues
  3:32
• 21
  A Little Bit of Heaven
  3:37
• 22
  Dixie Moon
  3:49

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Release credits

• Al Schmitt
  engineer [19-20]
• Benny Carter
  arranger [2]
• Bill McElhiney
  conductor [17], trumpet [17]
• Bill Putnam
  engineer [2.2, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6-7, 1.9, 1.11]
• Billy Sanford
  acoustic guitar [11, 16], classical guitar [17], electric guitar [9], guitar [13]
• Billy Sherrill
  producer [16-17]
• Bob Arnold
  engineer [2]
• Bobby Ogdin
  keyboard [11]
• Bobby Wood
  keyboard [9]
• Bruno Carr
  drums (drum set) [13]
• Buddy Emmons
  steel guitar [11]
• Buddy Pearson
  alto saxophone [2]
• Chet Atkins
  guitar [11]
• Dale Sellers
  acoustic guitar [9, 13, 16-17]
• David “Fathead” Newman
  solo [5], tenor saxophone [2.2, 1.5, 1.13]
• Denis Solee
  saxophone [9]
• Diane Tidwell
  background vocals [9, 17]
• Don Wilkerson
  tenor saxophone [13]
• Edgar Willis
  bass [13], bass guitar [2]
• Frank Abbey
  engineer [5, 8, 10, 12]
• G. T. Hogan
  drums (drum set) [2]
• George Jones
  performer [11]
• Gerald Wilson
  arranger [5, 10, 12-13, 18], conductor [18]
• Hank Crawford
  alto saxophone [1.13, 2.2]
• Hank Williams, Jr.
  performer [9]
• Hargus “Pig” Robbins
  keyboard [11, 13, 16-17]
• Henderson Chambers
  trombone [1.13, 2.2]
• Henry Strzelecki
  bass [9, 11, 16]
• Hurshel Wiginton
  background vocals [9, 16-17]
• James Clay
  tenor saxophone [2]
• James Harbert
  trombone [1.13, 2.2]
• Janie Fricke
  performer [12]
• Jerry Carrigan
  drums (drum set) [9]
• Jerry Douglas
  resonator guitar [13]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [13]
• Johnny Cash
  performer [16]
• Johnny Cue
  engineer [18]
• Jose McElhiney
  trumpet [17]
• Julian Priester
  trombone [2]
• Keg Johnson
  trombone [2.2, 1.13]
• Kenny Malone
  drums (drum set) [11, 13, 16-17]
• Leon Comegys
  trombone [13]
• Leroy Cooper
  baritone saxophone [2.2, 1.13]
• Lisa Silver
  background vocals [9, 17]
• Louis Nunley
  background vocals [9, 16-17]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [13]
• Margie Hendrix
  vocal [13]
• Marty Paich
  arranger [2, 4, 6-7, 9, 11, 19-20], conductor [19-20], producer [2]
• Merle Haggard
  performer [15]
• Mickey Gilley
  performer [14]
• Oliver Beener
  trumpet [2]
• Pete Bordonali
  acoustic guitar [11], classical guitar [17], electric guitar [9, 13, 16]
• Pete Drake
  resonator guitar [11], steel guitar [9, 13, 16-17]
• Phillip Guilbeau
  trumpet [1.13, 2.2]
• Ray Charles
  lead vocals [17], performer [9, 16], piano [1.2, 1.4-13, 1.19, 2.2, 2.7-8], vocal [1.2, 1.4-13, 1.19, 2.2, 2.7-8]
• Reggie Young
  electric guitar [11]
• Ricky Skaggs
  acoustic guitar [13], performer [13]
• Robert Wray II
  bass [13, 17]
• Ron Reynolds
  percussion [11]
• Rudy Powell
  alto saxophone [13]
• Sid Feller
  arranger [7-8], producer [1.11, 1.13, 2.2, 2.8]
• Sonny Forriest
  guitar [2.2, 1.13]
• Terry McMillan
  harmonica [9, 11, 16-17], percussion [13, 16]
• The Jack Halloran Singers
  background vocals [1.19, 2.7-8], vocal [20]
• The Raelettes
  background vocals [13]
• The Ray Charles Big Band
  performer [2.2, 1.18]
• The “A” Strings
  strings [16-17]
• Wallace Davenport
  trumpet [1.13, 2.2]
• Walter “Gil” Fuller
  arranger [8]
• Willie Nelson
  lead vocals [17]
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Issues

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  The Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986

  4x CD
  October 1998