Golden Classics

Johnny Tillotson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B0000008NW
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,448 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Poetry in Motion

2. Dreamy Eyes

3. Well, I'm Your Man

4. True True Happiness

5. Why Do I Love You So

6. Earth Angel

7. Pledging My Love

8. Jimmy's Girl

9. Without You

10. Cutie Pie

11. It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin'

12. Send Me the Pillow You Dream On

13. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)

14. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

15. Out of My Mind

16. You Can Never Stop Me Loving You

17. Funny How Time Slips Away

18. Talk Back Trembling Lips

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just about sums up Johnny Tillotson's golden years., February 15, 2000

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Wilfredo C. Derequito (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Golden Classics (Audio CD)

This album captures the essence of the musical career of Johnny Tillotson during the Fifties and Sixties.

Best cuts are the rock and rolling Poetry In Motion; the exultant True True Happiness; Pledging My Love; Without You; the fast paced Cutie Pie; It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin, Johnny's self-penned song which at first hearing gives the impression of being about losing a girl but is actually a paean to his dead father; Send Me The Pillow; Hank Williams' I Can't Help It and I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry; and Willie Nelson's Funny How Time Slips Away.

Technically, the recording is okay and retains its 'punch' despite the pre-stereo technology. That the songs are able to stand out despite the not-so-advanced technology tells us a lot about their quality.

After hearing the whole album, true true happiness came to this Johnny Tillotson fan!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Sound Quality, Some in Stereo, July 18, 1998

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This review is from: Golden Classics (Audio CD)

This is a typical reissue of Johnny Tillotson's early hits. Included in true stereo are "Poetry In Motion" and the more rare "Talk Back Trembling Lips". Eighteen tracks in all, seven are in true stereo. Sound quality could be from the original master tapes, although there is no mention of this is on the CD.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't You Still Remember?, May 26, 2005

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

This review is from: Golden Classics (Audio CD)

Did Johnny's romantic tunes fail to make you feel "cool"? Is that why no review in over five years?! Well! Besides his early stuff, there's a whole wealth of tunes (which were also hit singles) from his 1962 album, "It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin'", the double-sided hit single of Hank Williams, Sr.'s "I Can't Help It"/"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", and "Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On" written by another Hank. There's the summer of '63's "You Can Never Stop Me Loving You" and from a year or so later, a song from prolific songwriter/singer John D. Loudermilk, "Talk Back Trembling Lips" also recorded for the country charts by Ernest Ashworth. For good measure there's Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away", which also was well-done in a soulful version by Jimmy Elledge for RCA in 1961, adequately serviced here by Johnny. There is more than one good Tillotson compilation. This is one of them.