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Dorsey Burnette | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 23, 1994)
• Label: K-Tel
• ASIN: B000000S3M
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,300 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. (There Was A) Tall Oak Tree

2. Hey Little One

3. That's Me Without You

4. Hard Rock Mine

5. Red Roses

6. That Lucky Old Sun

7. Great Shakin' Fever

8. Hard Working Man

9. Big Rock Candy Mountain

10. The Ghost Of Billy Maloo

11. It's No Sin

12. I Got The Sun In The Morning

13. Suddenly There's A Valley

14. Noah's Ark

15. The Wayward Wind

16. Lazy Bones

17. (There Was A) Tall Oak Tree (Unreleased Alternate Take)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Still a Mystery, November 10, 2004

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Eclectic Revisited "Charlie" (Arizona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

If you have a large collection of music, you may virtually never get around to playing this one. Dorsey Burnette, a rockabilly pioneer with his more prolific younger brother, Johnny, was never the commercial success that he deserved to be. What memories do most people have? Neither brother lived a full life, Dorsey died just shy of age 47 and Johnny near his 30th birthday. I still own a clean 45 vinyl of "Tall Oak Tree". It is a song like no other I can recall. "Hey,Little One" had that same heartfelt quality but only found real success through Glen Campbell's recording it. Frankly, that was about it. (He did appear on Glen's late 1960's "Goodtime Hour"). When he turned to country music, he found modest success, but the fact is before the early 80s, if you had a #1 country hit in the USA, it would likely be #40 on the pop survey (with some exceptions) where most people spent their money. And Dorsey Burnette never had close to a #1 country hit; who can say why? His arcane country tunes are probably lost to history, but this compilation is worth the price for those two very special songs mentioned above. Don't forget to play it sometime.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Collectables Records, December 16, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

Once again Collectables Records has taken a K-tel album and restored it to its full glory.Excellent sound on all recordings just the way you heard them back in the early 60's. (...)