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Good Old Country

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This is a good CD just be advised is not the original recordings ...Donna has re recorded some of her Warner Bros. hits that are available on the Curb "best of" CD if you want the original versions. However this does contain 3 re mastered versions of songs released prior to Donna's first hit Happiest Girl..which are Wishful Thinkin, Sticks and Stones, and All Thats Keeping Me Alive...so if you are a fan or collector this a must for you. It appears to be a Canadian Product..

I love Donna Fargo and I am so glad to see her music is still around.. I grew up listening to her. I would also like to know if anyone out there knows how to get her song.. Jockamo...I have almost every one of her cd's and cant find the one with it on there.

Of course, I should have followed my own advice when picking up a couple of this series issued about seven years ago by St. Clair Entertainment Group, Inc. Despite what it says on some of the headers here in Amazon, these are NOT the original recordings. In small print on the back its says "This album contains new stereo recordings performed by the featured artists" and, if you read some of the other reviews for the various entries, the sound quality, not to mention the voices themselves (which, in many instances, were getting a little long in the tooth when they did them) range from horrible to mediocre to barely adequate.

Also there are no liner notes nor even a discography of the contents to at least tell you WHEN they were recorded. They are, however, cheap, and if you don't mind re-makes of what were some smash Country hits by some of the best artists ever, then by all means get them.

As far as I can determine, the series covered, in addition to Donna Fargo: Freddy Fender; Charlie Rich; Waylon Jennings; Buck Owens; Porter Wagoner; Kitty Wells; Lynn Anderson; Willie Nelson; Merle Haggard; Kenny Rogers; Ray Price; Jeannie C. Riley; Lee Greenwood; Roger Miller; Faron Young; David Houston; Johnny Paycheck; and Barbara Mandrell.