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| 1. Girl On The Billboard |
| 2. The Belles Of Southern Bell |
| 3. Women Do Funny Things To Me |
| 4. A Dime At A Time |
| 5. Looking At The World Through A Windshield |
| 6. Good Time Charlie's |
| 7. Be Glad |
| 8. There Wouldn't Be A Lonely Heart In Town |
| 9. A Lover's Question |
| 10. The Philadelphia Fillies |
| 11. Crying In The Rain |
| 12. But I Do - Del Reeves Duet With Penny DeHaven |
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Just the facts Jack!,
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This review is from: Del Reeves - His Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
I give this CD 4 stars because 7 of the 12 titles are the best of the United Artists recordings from the '60's. I am here to rave about the quality of this CD as compared to many others out there. Razor and Tie is one of the best at re-issues of original material. I am only sad to say that this CD is now deleted. It's a shame because this is Del in his prime. As I have said to many of my friends "If you love a country singer who rocks like Buck Owens and sings a lot like George Jones then you'll love Del Reeves". So many of the CD's that we get imply that they are original recordings, but, turn out to be re-recorded and basically garbage. When I and many others buy these re-recorded cd's we feel RIPPED OFF!!!!! The music industry complains that people on the internet are ripping them off, but why when they give us these re-recordings and spending all our hard earned money and thinking that we're getting the original recordings, that they're ripping us off? I guess they think that's OK?! Why can't they just give us the original recordings that we grew up to that make us feel so good.
Since all of Del Reeves original United Artists material is out of print I discovered a CD in September 2004 from Vienna, Austria by a label called (RCR) Rockin Country Records that has a fantastic compilation of some old original Decca recordings especially his late 1962 hit "He Stands Real Tall". The rest of the CD is of all his United Artists recordings. The only downfall is "Looking At The World Through A Windshield" is not on this CD. But the rest of it is F A N T I S T I C !!!!!!!! 34 tracks all together on this CD and all are original recordings. The name of this CD is called "The Wonderful World of Del Reeves". You can also e-mail them at RCR-Aus@online.com I cannot believe that Amazon.com and Amazon.ca and Earnest Tubb Record Shop do not have this on their on line shopping list, but, Amazon.dk (Germany) has it if you can speak German, there is no English translation on that site, not that I could find. For all those who are big Del Reeves fans like myself and think he's the greatest I recommend that you go to MusicStack.com, it takes about 6 weeks to reach you but you will never regret it. All the material that I have on Del is on VINYL, I only wish that a record label like Bear Family Records would buy up all the rights to his United Artists years and put it out as a box set. Oh bye the way, you can get "The Wonderful World of Del Reeves" at www.bearfamily.com. BUY IT YOU'LL NEVER REGRET IT!!!!! Dave Cormier Brampton, Ontario Canada November 25, 2004 JulieHarris342@hotmail.com
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
We REALLY Need A Comprehensive Del Reeves Compilation,
By AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Del Reeves - His Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
Surprisingly, there isn't a whole lot available covering the hits of Del Reeves. What's listed is either out of stock or cheap re-makes and, for the most part, confined to 10 or 12 tracks. Like this one which, coming from Razor & Tie, you will at least be assured are originals and all were hits. That is, if you can find one.
Born Franklin Delano Reeves on July 14, 1933 in Sparta, North Carolina, he grew up the youngest of 11 children and learned to play a guitar at a young age. Indeed, he was playing on the radio when he was just 12 years old. Following a stint in the services he settled in Sacramento where, from 1958 to 1961, he was a regular on The Chester Smith Show. A relocation to Nashville and a recording contract with Decca led to his first hit single, Be Quiet Mind, which was a pretty fair debut, reaching # 9 in late 1961. It would, however, be a full year before he had his second hit, He Stands Real Tall, which also did well, hitting the # 11 Country slot in December. Nothing else worked at Decca, though, and 1963 found him with Reprise where his only hit was The Only Girl I Can't Forget [# 13 in June]. Another year and another label [Columbia] later he reached # 41 with Talking To The Night Lights. By now, however, he and his wife were also churning out hits for others as songwriters, among them Rose Maddox, Roy Drusky, Carl and Sheb Wooley. He then linked up with United Artists and came up with a # 1 with Girl On The Billboard. His only # 1, it also became his only Billboard Pop Hot 100 crossover, reaching # 96 in May 1965. Even so, this time he had found a home, and from there to 1978 would chalk up another 44 hit singles. In addition to Girl On The Billboard, this little package gives you 11 more of those United Artist hits all of which, with two exceptions, were Top 20. The exceptions are Crying In The Rain, a # 54 cover of The Everly Brothers 1962 hit which, in a duet with Penny DeHaven, made it only to # 54 in summer 1972, and But I Do, a 1975 cover of the Clarence "Frogman" Henry hit which peaked at # 65 in April. The inclusion of these two calls into question the title "His Greatest Hits" since there were many more in his United Artists years which fared better. For example, Wild Blood, a # 18 in early 1968, Land Mark Tavern, a more successful duet with deHaven which reached # 20 in summer 1970, two # 22s - Right Back Loving You Again in 1970 and Lay A Little Lovin' On Me in 1973, and two # 29s - The Best Is Yet To Come from 1972 and On The Rebound, a 1976 duet with Billy Jo Spears. Even the # 31 duet with Bobby Goldsboro in 1969, Take A Little Good Will Home, would have been a good choice. After leaving United Artists, Del would have five more charted hits for the Koala label, and in 1986 closed out his chart career with Playback. This isn't a bad offering from Razor & Tie. It just doesn't go deep enough.
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is the one!,
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This review is from: Del Reeves - His Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
I bought Del Reeves- His greatest Hits for a loved one who is a big fan of the "billboard" song. He loved this cd and it is the original radio version of the songs, not a later recording. I would highly recommend this to any Del Reeves or trucker song fans!!!!
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