Golden Age of Country - Various Artists

Golden Age of Country

Compilation by Various Artists

Released 2009

Tracklist

CD 1: Waltz Across Texas (disc 1)
1
Hey, Good Lookin’
Hank Williams
2:56
3.6 ★
2
White Lightning
George Jones
2:47
2.0 ★
3
You Ain’t Woman Enough
Loretta Lynn
2:13
4.0 ★
4
Walk on By
Leroy Van Dyke
2:23
5.0 ★
5
Waltz Across Texas
Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours
2:40
6
Next in Line
Conway Twitty
2:51
7
King of the Road
Roger Miller
2:26
4.5 ★
8
Crazy
Patsy Cline
2:45
4.1 ★
9
Love’s Gonna Live Here
Buck Owens
1:59
4.0 ★
10
Bye Bye Love
The Everly Brothers
2:24
4.4 ★
11
In the Jailhouse Now
Webb Pierce
2:06
4.0 ★
12
It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Kitty Wells
2:32
5.0 ★
13
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys
2:09
14
A Week in a Country Jail
Tom T. Hall
3:02
5.0 ★
15
Mama Sang a Song
Bill Anderson
3:28
2.0 ★
16
There Goes My Everything
Jack Greene
2:33
CD 2: Waltz Across Texas (disc 2)
1
Lovesick Blues
Hank Williams
2:44
4.0 ★
2
Walkin’ After Midnight
Patsy Cline
2:35
4.6 ★
3
There Stands the Glass
Webb Pierce
2:25
3.6 ★
4
Makin’ Believe
Kitty Wells
2:55
5
Ballad of a Teenage Queen
Johnny Cash
2:13
4.5 ★
6
The Tennessee Waltz
Patti Page
3:04
7
My Special Angel
Bobby Helms
3:00
8
Tender Years
George Jones
2:25
3.0 ★
9
Don’t Come Home a-Drinkin’ (with Lovin’ on Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
2:09
4.0 ★
10
It’s Only Make Believe
Conway Twitty
2:15
4.0 ★
11
Trouble’s Back in Town
The Wilburn Brothers
2:12
12
Still
Bill Anderson
2:49
13
Three Hearts in a Tangle
Roy Drusky
2:43
14
What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)
Jerry Lee Lewis
2:37
15
Dang Me
Roger Miller
1:52
16
Rocky Top
The Osborne Brothers
2:35
CD 3: Hard to Find Hits (disc 1)
1
Why Baby Why
Red Sovine and Webb Pierce
2:32
4.0 ★
2
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
Red Foley
2:47
3
A Little Bitty Tear
Burl Ives
2:05
4
Thanks a Lot
Ernest Tubb
2:33
4.0 ★
5
I Ain’t Never
Webb Pierce
1:55
4.0 ★
6
Lonesome 7-7203
Hawkshaw Hawkins
2:44
7
Six Days on the Road
Dave Dudley
2:22
8
I’m a Honky Tonk Girl
Loretta Lynn
2:16
9
From a Jack to a King
Ned Miller
2:10
10
Laura (What’s He Got That I Ain’t Got)
Leon Ashley
2:35
11
Hello Vietnam
Johnnie Wright
3:07
12
You’re the Reason
Bobby Edwards
2:40
13
Statue of a Fool
Jack Greene
2:52
5.0 ★
14
The Bridge Washed Out
Warner Mack
2:19
15
For Loving You
Bill Anderson and Jan Howard
2:45
CD 4: Hard to Find Hits (disc 2)
1
Alabam
Cowboy Copas
2:20
2
Fraulein
Bobby Helms
2:53
5.0 ★
3
Gonna Find Me a Bluebird
Marvin Rainwater
2:32
4
Wishful Thinking
Wynn Stewart
2:46
5
It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin’
Johnny Tillotson
2:49
6
Talk Back Trembling Lips
Ernie Ashworth
2:36
7
Let’s Think About Living
Bob Luman
2:04
8
Yes, Mr. Peters
Roy Drusky & Priscilla Mitchell
2:35
9
A Fallen Star
Jimmy C. Newman
2:17
10
I Found My Girl in the U.S.A.
Jimmie Skinner
2:59
11
No Help Wanted
The Carlisles
2:26
12
Put It Off Until Tomorrow
Bill Phillips
2:34
13
That’s My Pa
Sheb Wooley
2:26
14
There’s a Big Wheel
Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper
2:18
15
Giddyup Go
Red Sovine
3:55
CD 5: Crazy Arms (disc 1)
1
Singing the Blues
Marty Robbins
2:27
3.0 ★
2
(When You Feel Like You’re in Love) Don’t Just Stand There
Carl Smith
2:25
3
If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time
Lefty Frizzell
2:55
4
I Can’t Stop Lovin’ You
Don Gibson
2:37
5
Crazy Arms
Ray Price
2:34
3.0 ★
6
Four Walls
Jim Reeves
2:51
7
That’s All Right
Elvis Presley
1:58
2.9 ★
8
The Cattle Call
Eddy Arnold
2:33
9
I’m Moving On
Hank Snow
2:48
4.0 ★
10
The Carroll County Accident
Porter Wagoner
2:50
11
The Battle of New Orleans
Johnny Horton
2:32
4.8 ★
12
A Boy Named Sue
Johnny Cash
3:48
13
The Three Bells (Les Trois Cloches)
The Browns
2:52
14
Waterloo
Stonewall Jackson
2:29
15
My Elusive Dreams
David Houston & Tammy Wynette
2:53
16
The End of the World
Skeeter Davis
2:36
4.2 ★
CD 6: Crazy Arms (disc 2)
1
Heartaches by the Number
Ray Price
3:00
2
Blue Suede Shoes
Carl Perkins
2:17
4.0 ★
3
The Last Thing on My Mind
Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
2:36
4.0 ★
4
Once a Day
Connie Smith
2:20
4.0 ★
5
Kaw-liga
Charley Pride
3:10
6
Jackson
Johnny Cash & June Carter
2:45
4.0 ★
7
I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail
Buck Owens
2:11
4.0 ★
8
Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line
Waylon Jennings
2:23
3.0 ★
9
May the Bird of Happiness Fly Up Your Nose
‘Little’ Jimmy Dickens
2:25
10
The Ballad of Jed Clampett
Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys
2:03
11
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Tammy Wynette
2:59
3.2 ★
12
Pop a Top
Jim Ed Brown
2:21
13
Abilene
George Hamilton IV
2:13
14
Slow Poke
Pee Wee King and his Golden West Cowboys
3:02
15
This Ole House
Stuart Hamblen
2:58
16
Last Date
Floyd Cramer
2:26
4.0 ★
CD 7: Honky-Tonk Man (disc 1)
1
Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash
2:44
4.9 ★
2
Oh Lonesome Me
Don Gibson
2:32
4.0 ★
3
El Paso
Marty Robbins
4:41
5.0 ★
4
Heartbreak Hotel
Elvis Presley
2:11
3.7 ★
5
Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
Charlie Walker
2:26
6
Detroit City
Bobby Bare
2:48
4.0 ★
7
He’ll Have to Go
Jim Reeves
2:21
4.4 ★
8
Make the World Go Away
Eddy Arnold
2:40
5.0 ★
9
Don’t Let Me Cross Over
Carl and Pearl Butler
2:57
10
Wolverton Mountain
Claude King
3:00
11
Big Bad John
Jimmy Dean
3:01
4.0 ★
12
Stand by Your Man
Tammy Wynette
2:41
3.8 ★
13
Charlie’s Shoes
Billy Walker
2:17
14
Flowers on the Wall
The Statler Brothers
2:21
4.0 ★
15
Skip a Rope
Henson Cargill
2:37
16
Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger
Charley Pride
2:24
2.0 ★
CD 8: Honky-Tonk Man (disc 2)
1
Wake Up Little Susie
The Everly Brothers
2:00
4.5 ★
2
Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On
Jerry Lee Lewis
2:54
4.6 ★
3
(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely
Johnnie and Jack
1:58
4
City Lights
Ray Price
3:01
5
Honky Tonk Man
Johnny Horton
2:13
6
Saginaw, Michigan
Lefty Frizzell
3:03
5.0 ★
7
Please Help Me I’m Falling
Hank Locklin
2:24
8
Daddy Sang Bass
Johnny Cash
2:21
3.5 ★
9
Walk Through This World With Me
George Jones
2:18
4.0 ★
10
Almost Persuaded
David Houston
2:56
11
I’ve Been Everywhere
Hank Snow
2:34
12
Green, Green Grass of Home
Porter Wagoner
2:24
13
My Heart Skips a Beat
Buck Owens
2:25
14
Don’t Touch Me
Jeannie Seely
3:15
15
Hey Joe
Carl Smith
2:30
16
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
The Davis Sisters
2:59
CD 9: The Wild Side of Life
1
I Walk the Line
Johnny Cash
2:45
4.2 ★
2
Sixteen Tons
Tennessee Ernie Ford
2:38
4.6 ★
3
The Wild Side of Life
Hank Thompson
2:44
4
You Win Again
Jerry Lee Lewis
2:57
5
Young Love
Sonny James
2:32
6
Okie From Muskogee
Merle Haggard and The Strangers
2:44
3.6 ★
7
The Race Is On
George Jones
2:07
8
Wichita Lineman
Glen Campbell
3:05
3.8 ★
9
It’s Such a Pretty World Today
Wynn Stewart
2:33
10
Wings of a Dove
Ferlin Husky
2:18
4.0 ★
11
Hello Walls
Faron Young
2:24
4.0 ★
12
We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds
George Jones and Melba Montgomery
2:41
13
I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby
The Louvin Brothers
2:07
14
Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
Skeets McDonald
2:46
15
Slipping Around
Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
2:13
3.0 ★
16
Indian Love Call
Slim Whitman
3:07
CD 10: Hillbilly Heaven
1
Mama Tried
Merle Haggard and The Strangers
2:10
4.5 ★
2
She Thinks I Still Care
George Jones
2:34
5.0 ★
3
I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven
Tex Ritter
3:10
4.0 ★
4
Funny How Time Slips Away
Willie Nelson
3:02
3.8 ★
5
Galveston
Glen Campbell
2:42
6
My Baby’s Gone
The Louvin Brothers
2:44
7
A Dear John Letter
Jean Shepard and Ferlin Husky
2:32
8
Shotgun Boogie
Tennessee Ernie Ford
2:36
4.0 ★
9
Squaws Along the Yukon
Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys
2:30
10
Alone With You
Faron Young
1:59
11
You Better Not Do That
Tommy Collins
2:30
12
Gone
Ferlin Husky
2:23
13
Girl on the Billboard
Del Reeves
2:42
4.0 ★
14
Old Rivers
Walter Brennan with the Johnny Mann Singers
2:47
15
Right or Wrong
Wanda Jackson
2:39
4.0 ★
16
You’re the Only World I Know
Sonny James
2:12

Release credits

Al De Lory
producer [10.5, 9.8]
Al Williams
double bass [8]
Asa Wilkerson
background vocals [5]
Ben Speer
vocal [4]
Bill Abbott
background vocals [5]
Bill Anderson
vocal [3.15, 1.15, 2.12]
Bill Black
bass [5.7, 7.4], double bass [7]
Bill Monroe
lead vocals [13], mandolin [13]
Bill Porter
engineer [16]
Billy Liebert
piano [8]
Billy Sherrill
producer [12]
Bob Ferris
engineer [4]
Bob Irwin
additional [1]
Bob Johnston
producer [7.1, 8.8]
Bob Morris
bass [7], electric bass guitar [7]
Bobby Dyson
bass [8]
Bobby Gibbons
acoustic guitar [2]
Bonnie Owens
background vocals [1]
Buck Owens
background vocals [7], guitar [7], lead vocals [7]
Buddy Harman
drums (drum set) [10.6, 1.3, 1.10, 2.9, 6.10]
Carl Perkins
electric guitar [8.8, 7.1], guitar [2], vocal [2]
Charles Parlato
trumpet [2]
Charlie Cline
fiddle [13]
Charlie Louvin
guitar [10.6, 9.13], vocal [10.6, 9.13]
Charlie McCoy
harmonica [8]
Chet Atkins
electric guitar [10], guitar [4], producer [5.6, 5.16, 7.6-7, 6.8, 6.16]
Clayton Perkins
double bass [2]
Cliffie Stone
double bass [8]
Clyde Baum
mandolin [1]
Cyd Mosteller
background vocals [5]
D.J. Fontana
drums (drum set) [4]
Darol Rice
bass clarinet [2]
David Briggs
piano [3]
Dolly Parton
vocal [3]
Don Carter
background vocals [5]
Don Everly
guitar [10], vocal [10]
Don Law
producer [5.1, 5.11, 6.6, 6.10, 7.3]
Don Rich
background vocals [7], electric guitar [7], guitar [7]
Dottie Deleonibus
background vocals [8]
Doyle Holly
guitar [7]
Earl Scruggs
banjo [10]
Edd Mayfield
guitar [13]
Eddie Hill
guitar [13]
Eddie Kirk
acoustic guitar [8]
Elvis Presley
acoustic guitar [7], guitar [5.7, 7.4], lead vocals [7.4, 5.7], vocal [5.7, 7.4]
Ernie Newton
double bass [1.13, 5.9]
Floyd Cramer
piano [1.10, 2.9, 7.4]
Floyd D. 'Lightnin'' Chance
bass [10], double bass [9.13, 10.6]
Frank Jones
producer [6.6, 6.10, 7.3]
Fred Carter, Jr.
guitar [8]
George Bruns
trombone [2]
Glen Campbell
background vocals [1], guitar [1], lead vocals [10.5, 9.8]
Gordon Stoker
background vocals [6.8, 9.5], vocal [4]
Gordon Terry
fiddle [13]
Grady Martin
electric guitar [1.3, 2.9], guitar [2]
Hal Rugg
steel guitar [1.3, 2.9]
Hank Garland
guitar [10]
Hank Snow
guitar [9], vocal [9]
Hank Williams
guitar [1], vocal [1]
Hargus “Pig” Robbins
piano [8]
Harold Bradley
electric bass guitar [2.9, 1.3]
Harold Hensley
fiddle [3.8, 10.8]
Hoyt Hawkins
background vocals [8]
Hugo Winterhalter
performer [8]
Ira Louvin
mandolin [10.6, 9.13], vocal [9.13, 10.6]
Jack Anglin
guitar [12]
Jack Clement
producer [8.2, 2.5]
Jack Fascinato
arranger [2], conductor [2]
Jack Rael
conductor [6]
Jack Rael and His Orchestra
performing orchestra [6]
Jack Shook
guitar [9]
Jake Tullock
double bass [10]
James Burton
resonator guitar [1]
Jan Howard
background vocals [8], vocal [15]
Jay Perkins
guitar [2]
Jean Shepard
performer [7]
Jelly Sanders
guitar [7]
Jerry Byrd
steel guitar [1]
Jerry Carrigan
drums (drum set) [8]
Jerry Kennedy
guitar [14], producer [2.14-15, 1.7, 1.14]
Jerry Lee Lewis
piano [9.4, 8.2], vocal [8.2, 9.4]
Jerry Ward
bass [1]
Jim Reeves
vocal [7]
Jimmy Bryant
electric guitar [8]
Jimmy Van Eaton
drums (drum set) [2]
Joe Allison
producer [4]
Joe Zinkan
double bass [3]
Johnnie Wright
bass [12]
Johnny Cash
acoustic guitar [2.5, 8.8, 9.1], guitar [1], instrument [6], lead vocals [2.5, 9.1], vocal [7.1, 6.6, 8.8]
Johnny Russell
guitar [9]
Joseph Talbot III
steel guitar [9]
Josh Graves
resonator guitar [10]
June Carter Cash
performer [6], vocal [6]
Junior Huskey
bass [8], double bass [9]
Ken Nelson
producer [10.1, 1.9, 6.7]
Kitty Wells
lead vocals [2.4, 1.12], vocal [12]
Lee Holt
background vocals [5]
Lena Brock "Mom" Speer
vocal [4]
Lester Flatt
guitar [10], lead vocals [10]
Loretta Lynn
vocal [1.3, 3.8, 2.9]
Louie Innis
guitar [1]
Luther Perkins
electric guitar [7.1, 2.5, 8.8, 9.1]
Marshall Grant
bass [8.8, 7.1], double bass [2.5, 9.1]
Marvin Hughes
piano [13]
Melba Montgomery
performer [12]
Merle "Red" Taylor
fiddle [13]
Merle Haggard
lead vocals [1]
Neal Matthews
background vocals [8]
Nita Smith
background vocals [5]
Owen Bradley
producer [1.3, 1.8, 1.15, 2.9, 2.12]
Patsy Cline
vocal [1.8, 2.2]
Paul Warren
fiddle [6.10, 1.12]
Paul Yandell
electric guitar [13], guitar [6]
Phil Everly
guitar [10], vocal [10]
Porter Wagoner
vocal [3]
Ray Edenton
acoustic guitar [3], guitar [8]
Ray Stevens
organ [8]
Ray Walker
background vocals [8]
Red Foley
solo [2]
Red Mandel
clarinet [2]
Red Sovine
lead vocals [1]
Redd Stewart
vocal [14]
Roger Miller
vocal [2.15, 1.7]
Roland Janes
guitar [8.2, 9.4]
Rolly Bundock
double bass [2]
Roy Burris
drums (drum set) [1]
Roy Harte
drums (drum set) [9.2, 10.8]
Roy Lanham
guitar [8]
Roy Nichols
electric guitar [1]
Sam Phillips
engineer [7], producer [9.1, 5.7, 8.2]
Scotty Moore
electric guitar [7], guitar [7.4, 5.7]
Shot Jackson
steel guitar [12]
Skeeter Davis
vocal [16]
Smiley Wilson
guitar [6]
Sonny James
lead vocals [5]
Speedy West
steel guitar [3.8, 10.8]
Tammy Wynette
lead vocals [12]
Tennessee Ernie Ford
finger snaps [2], lead vocals [2], vocal [8]
The Carter Family
background vocals [8]
The Jordanaires
vocal [3.2, 1.3, 2.9]
The Statler Brothers
background vocals [8]
Tom Brumley
pedal steel guitar [7]
Tom Sparkman
engineer [14]
Tom T. Hall
vocal [14]
Tommy Jackson
fiddle [1]
Tommy Vaden
fiddle [9]
W.S. Holland
drums (drum set) [6.2, 7.1, 8.8]
Waylon Jennings
guitar [8], lead vocals [8]
Wayne Moss
guitar [8]
Webb Pierce
background vocals [1]
Willie Cantu
drums (drum set) [7]
Willie Thawl
bass [1]
Zeke Turner
guitar [1]

Issues

G
Golden Age of Country
18x CD
2009
G
Golden Age of Country
10x CD
2009
G
Golden Age of Country
10x CD
22 February 2011