Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1524 in Music
- Published on: 2009
- Released on: 2009-09-18
- Number of discs: 10
- Format: Box set
- Dimensions: 1.66 pounds
Product Description
With 158 hits on 10 CDs, the 'Golden Age of Country' is the most comprehensive collection ever devoted to country music of the 1950s and '60s. We've brought together all the major C&W stars and their hits from the two most important decades in the genre's history.
Along with classics by Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, George Jones, Merle Haggard,Tammy Wynette and more, the collection also features early '50s legends such as Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Webb Pierce, Hank Snow and Kitty Wells. Other gems include Loretta Lynn's first hit, 'I'm a Honky Tonk Girl,' on the small Zero label, and Elvis' first single, 'That's All Right,' on Sun from 1954. Plus, we've included two very special CDs of
rarely anthologized hard-to-find' hits by artists like Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Ernest Ashworth, and Roy Drusky. It's a dream collection for any fan of classic country music.
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
By Annmarie
Fans of classic country music will LOVE this collection. I bought this as a gift for my parents and they love love LOVE it! They listen to it all the time and even enjoy looking at the disc covers trying to identify the different artists. Priced below the Time Life site, I couldn't have found a better deal!
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
By Thomas E. Davis
Time-Life sells this box set on TV for an inflated price, so it's similarly overpriced on Amazon, but it does include wonderful music from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. If you buy it at a discount from an Amazon Marketplace seller, you'll be happier.Nearly all of the major country performers of the period are here: Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Glen Campbell, Roger Miller, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Kitty Wells, and many others. During the "Golden Age of Country," the genre stopped being called hillbilly music and entered the mainstream along with pop stars like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and the Everly Brothers, all of whom are well-represented on this anthology.In addtion to the big hits, there are also many rarities as well as two discs devoted to "hard-to-find hits." You'll get a total of 10 themed CDs with 158 well-mastered tracks in seemingly random order, as if you happened upon them while listening to the radio. They're housed in a box with booklets containing liner notes. A full track listing follows:CD 1: Waltz Across Texas 11 Hey, Good Lookin' - Hank Williams2 White Lightning - George Jones3 You Ain't Woman Enough - Loretta Lynn4 Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke5 Waltz across Texas - Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadours6 Next in Line - Conway Twitty7 King of the Road - Roger Miller8 Crazy - Patsy Cline9 Love's Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens10 Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers11 In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce12 It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells13 Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys14 A Week in a Country Jail - Tom T. Hall15 Mama Sang a Song - Bill Anderson16 There Goes My Everything - Jack GreeneCD 2: Waltz Across Texas 21 Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams2 Walkin' after Midnight - Patsy Cline3 There Stands the Glass - Webb Pierce4 Makin' Believe - Kitty Wells5 Ballad of a Teenage Queen - Johnny Cash6 The Tennessee Waltz - Patti Page7 My Special Angel - Bobby Helms8 Tender Years - George Jones9 Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) - Loretta Lynn10 It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty11 Trouble's Back in Town - Wilburn Brothers12 Still - Bill Anderson13 Three Hearts in a Tangle - Roy Drusky14 What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser out of Me) - Jerry Lee Lewis15 Dang Me - Roger Miller16 Rocky Top - Osborne BrothersCD 3: Crazy Arms 11 Singing the Blues - Marty Robbins2 (When You Feel Like You're in Love) Don't Just Stand There - Carl Smith3 If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time - Lefty Frizzell4 I Can't Stop Lovin' You - Don Gibson5 Crazy Arms - Ray Price6 Four Walls - Jim Reeves7 That's All Right - Elvis Presley8 The Cattle Call - Eddy Arnold and His Guitar9 I'm Moving On - Hank Snow10 The Carroll County Accident - Porter Wagoner11 The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton12 A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash13 The Three Bells (Les Trois Cloches) - The Browns14 Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson15 My Elusive Dreams - Tammy Wynette and David Houston16 The End of the World - Skeeter DavisCD 4: Crazy Arms 21 Heartaches by the Number - Ray Price2 Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins3 The Last Thing on My Mind - Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton4 Once a Day - Connie Smith5 Kaw-Liga - Charley Pride6 Jackson - Johnny Cash and June Carter7 I've Got a Tiger by the Tail - Buck Owens8 Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line - Waylon Jennings9 May the Bird of Paradise Fly up Your Nose - "Little" Jimmy Dickens10 The Ballad of Jed Clampett - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys11 D-I-V-O-R-C-E - Tammy Wynette12 Pop a Top Jim - Ed Brown13 Abilene - George Hamilton IV14 Slow Poke - Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys15 This Ole House - Stuart Hamblen16 Last Date - Floyd CramerCD 5: Honky Tonk Man 11 Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash2 Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson3 El Paso - Marty Robbins4 Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley5 Pick Me Up on Your Way Down - Charlie Walker6 Detroit City - Bobby Bare7 He'll Have to Go - Jim Reeves8 Make the World Go Away - Eddy Arnold9 Don't Let Me Cross Over - Carl Butler and Pearl10 Wolverton Mountain - Claude King11 Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean12 Stand by Your Man - Tammy Wynette13 Charlie's Shoes - Billy Walker14 Flowers on the Wall - The Statler Brothers15 Skip a Rope - Henson Cargill16 Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger - Charley PrideCD 6: Honky Tonk Man 21 Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers2 Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis3 (Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely - Johnnie & Jack4 City Lights - Ray Price5 Honky-Tonk Man - Johnny Horton6 Saginaw, Michigan - Lefty Frizzell7 Please Help Me, I'm Falling - Hank Locklin8 Daddy Sang Bass - Johnny Cash9 Walk through This World with Me - George Jones10 Almost Persuaded - David Houston11 I've Been Everywhere - Hank Snow12 Green, Green Grass of Home - Porter Wagoner13 My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens14 Don't Touch Me - Jeannie Seely15 Hey Joe! - Carl Smith16 I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know - The Davis SistersCD 7: The Wild Side of Life1 I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash2 Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford3 The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson4 You Win Again - Jerry Lee Lewis5 Young Love - Sonny James6 Okie from Muskogee - Merle Haggard and the Strangers7 The Race Is On - George Jones8 Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell9 It's Such a Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart10 Wings of a Dove - Ferlin Husky11 Hello Walls - Faron Young12 We Must Have Been out of Our Minds - George Jones and Melba Montgomery13 I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby - The Louvin Brothers14 Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes - Skeets McDonald15 Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely16 Indian Love Call - Slim WhitmanCD 8: Hillbilly Heaven1 Mama Tried - Merle Haggard and the Strangers2 She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones3 I Dreamed of a Hill-Billy Heaven - Tex Ritter4 Funny How Time Slips Away - Willie Nelson5 Galveston - Glen Campbell6 My Baby's Gone - The Louvin Brothers7 A Dear John Letter - Ferlin Husky and Jean Shepard8 The Shot Gun Boogie - Tennessee Ernie Ford9 Squaws along the Yukon - Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys10 Alone with You - Faron Young11 You Better Not Do That - Tommy Collins12 Gone - Ferlin Husky13 Girl on the Billboard - Del Reeves14 Old Rivers - Walter Brennan with the Johnny Mann Singers15 Right or Wrong - Wanda Jackson16 You're the Only World I Know - Sonny JamesCD 9: Hard to Find Hits 11 Why Baby Why - Red Sovine and Webb Pierce2 Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Red Foley3 A Little Bitty Tear - Burl Ives4 Thanks a Lot - Ernest Tubb5 I Ain't Never - Webb Pierce6 Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins7 Six Days on the Road - Dave Dudley8 I'm a Honky Tonk Girl - Loretta Lynn9 From a Jack to a King - Ned Miller10 Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got?) - Leon Ashley11 Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright12 You're the Reason - Bobby Edwards13 Statue of a Fool - Jack Greene14 The Bridge Washed Out - Warner Mack15 For Loving You - Bill Anderson and Jan HowardCD 10: Hard to Find Hits 21 Alabam - Cowboy Copas2 Fraulein - Bobby Helms3 Gonna Find Me a Bluebird - Marvin Rainwater4 Wishful Thinking - Wynn Stewart5 It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin' - Johnny Tillotson6 Talk Back Trembling Lips - Ernest Ashworth7 Let's Think about Living - Bob Luman8 Yes, Mr. Peters - Roy Drusky and Priscilla Mitchell9 A Fallen Star - Jimmy Newman10 I Found My Girl in the U.S.A. - Jimmie Skinner11 No Help Wanted - The Carlisles12 Put It Off until Tomorrow - Bill Phillips13 That's My Pa - Sheb Wooley14 There's a Big Wheel - Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper15 Giddyup Go - Red Sovine
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
By Karen B. Nelson
I was raised on country music and its always been my favorite. This collection is great.I also saved $30 by getting it on Amazon rather that time life and did not have the hassel with my credit card and it arrived within 3 days of my order.Have since ordered several cd's from amazon and have been pleased with all of them.
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