Classic Country: Golden 50's

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 17, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 1950
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Time Life Records
• ASIN: B00005AQHH
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #407,919 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. White Lightning

2. There Stands the Glass

3. Your Cheatin' Heart

4. Heartbreak Hotel

5. Bye Bye Love

6. Oh, Lonesome Me

7. Waterloo

8. Heartaches by the Number

9. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels

10. A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)

11. Tennessee Waltz

12. Cattle Call

13. Gone

14. Four Walls

15. Send Me the Pillow You Dream On

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Personal Associations, September 12, 2001

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Thomas A. Holmes (Johnson City, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic Country: Golden 50's (Audio CD)

This entry in the Time Life CLASSIC COUNTRY series just has loads of good personal associations--I remember hearing these songs on the car radio as a boy while travelling with my parents. How was I to know then the way these songs define a period of country music? This disc includes George Jones' "White Lightning," Webb Pierce's "There Stands the Glass," Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin' Heart," Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel," the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love," Don Gibson's "Oh Lonesome Me," Stonewall Jackson's "Waterloo," Ray Price's "Heartaches by the Number," Kitty Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels," Marty Robbins' "A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)," Patti Page's "Tennessee Waltz," Eddy Arnold's "Cattle Call," Ferlin Huskey's "Gone," Jim Reeves' "Four Walls," and Hank Locklin's "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On." While a few of these tunes seem more HIT PARADE than country (particularly the Eddy Arnold, Patti Page, and Elvis tracks--maybe Marty Robbins and the Everly Brothers), the remaining ten show how the major country acts of the time defined the genre, blending honky-tonk and torch, and casting a flailing loneliness into some of the hottest country licks ever recorded. Discs like this one justify buying a jukebox, and I doubt anyone buying it would be disappointed.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent service, December 28, 2010

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