Early Hits of the Texas Troubadour [Original recording remastered]

Ernest Tubb | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 11, 2000)
• Original Release Date: July 11, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B00004TJ55
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #451,937 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Walking The Floor Over You

2. Mean Mama Blues

3. Try Me One More Time

4. Tomorrow Never Comes

5. Soldier's Last Letter

6. Careless Darlin'

7. Yesterday's Tears

8. It's Been So Long, Darling

9. Filipino Baby

10. Drivin' Nails In My Coffin

11. Rainbow At Midnight

12. So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed

13. Don't Look Now But Your Broken Heart Is Showing

14. Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello

15. Forever Is Ending Today

16. Have You Ever Been Lonely?

17. Till The End Of The World

18. Don't Rob Another Man's Castle

19. I'm Bitin' My Fingernails And Thinking Of You

20. Slippin' Around

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for all Ernest Tubb fans with great sound, October 17, 2000

By 

Bradley Olson (Bemidji, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Early Hits of the Texas Troubadour (Audio CD)

This CD really does have these 25 tracks which are among Tubb's biggest hits from 1944-1949 including 2 tracks with the Andrews Sisters (essentially both sides of the same 78), 1 track of Red Foley, his version of Blue Christmas, and of course many of the signature hits such as "Walking The Floor Over You," "Soldier's Last Letter," "Forever Is Ending Today," "Letters Have No Arms," "Rainbow at Midnight," and many others with great sound. I had found that several of the tracks on here have cleaner backgrounds and better sound than many of the same tracks on the now out of print "Country Music Hall of Fame" CD that MCA issued in 1991 that are also on this CD including "Walking The Floor Over You." If you area honky tonk fan, a country music fan in general or an Ernest Tubb fan, this CD is a must have for 25 of his earliest hits for a great price. Several of these songs are also on the Millennium Collection with 3 more recent tracks, but this and the Hall of Fame combined make a more comprehensive collection than the Millennium Collection, but the 3 tracks on that collection make the disc worth buying so that you can burn those tracks onto CD-R (assuming you have a CD burner) and then resell the Millennium CD. Buy this CD no matter how big a fan of E.T. you are. Enjoy E.T. at his earliest and just like any CD with all original recordings, E.T. at his best.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Slippin' around (obscene), October 30, 2001

By 

Roger Lafontaine (Gatineau, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Early Hits of the Texas Troubadour (Audio CD)

I purchased this CD to listen to "Slippin' around" which was banned
by the Canadian Government (circa 1949) as being obscene.
Turns out that the whole CD was great.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Single Disk available, November 3, 2005

By 

Paul W. Dennis (Winter Springs, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Hits of the Texas Troubadour (Audio CD)

This set covers roughly the same period as the Proper Box Set but focuses on the hits alone. Sound quality is excellent and the music is quintessential Texas Troubador, including the original versions of most of his biggest hits. Ernest was in his vocal prime with these recordings, and (although his bands here were not as good as later collections -particularly the mid-60s batch), they augment ET's efforts in an appropriate manner. These are the songs that made ET a superstar.