Various Artists Best Of Country
The songs that grace this comprehensive double vinyl package all come from the golden age of country music. For nearly a century now, country music has been captured on cylinder, vinyl, tape and compact disc. In America during the 1950s, while rock & roll battled calypso as the nation's favourite sound, meanwhile in the background, these classic country songs could be heard across the land - all the way from the Gulf of Mexico, right up to the frozen wastes of Minnesota. After the golden age of what might be called pure country, came country-rock, alt-country and Americana. But the century of songs gathered together here is plain and simple country music - at it's best
- 1. Crazy - Patsy Cline
- 2. Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich
- 3. Sea of Heartbreak - Don Gibson
- 4. Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
- 5. Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
- 6. I'm a Honky Tonk Girl - Loretta Lynn
- 7. Rawhide - Frankie Laine
- 8. Funny How Time Slips Away - Willie Nelson
- 9. Welcome to My World - Jim Reeves
- 10. It's Four in the Morning - Faron Young
- 11. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
- 12. Single Girl - Sandy Posey
- 13. Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
- 14. Hey Good Lookin' - Hank Williams
- 15. Alabam - Cowboy Copas
- 16. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells
- 17. Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
- 18. My Special Angel - Bobby Helms
- 19. I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee
- 20. Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson
- 21. He'll Have to Go - Jim Reeves
- 22. Dark Moon - Bonnie Guitar
- 23. Big Iron - Marty Robbins
- 24. Your Cheatin' Heart - Hank Williams
- 25. Haper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
- 26. From a Jack to a King - Ned Miller
- 27. Six Days on the Road - Dave Dudley
- 28. I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline
- 29. Crazy - Willie Nelson
- 30. Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash
- 31. Singing the Blues - Marty Robbins
- 32. I Can't Stop Loving You - Ray Charles