Hickory Holler Revisited: For Once in My Life

O.C. Smith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 21, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00007JGTW
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,919 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Son Of Hickory Hollers Tramp

2. Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay

3. Main Street Mission

4. By The Time I Get To Phoenix

5. Long Black Limousine

6. The House Next Door

7. Little Green Apples

8. Take Time To Know Her

9. Honey (I Miss You)

10. The Best Man

11. Seven Days

12. Isnt It Lonely Together

13. For Once In My Life

14. Hey Jude

15. Wichita Lineman

16. Promises

17. I Aint The Worryin Kind

18. Melodee

19. Stormy

20. Cycles

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

O.C. went from singing in Count Basie's band to becoming a fixture on the late-'60s charts with his brand of R&B-meets-country, and here are his two highest-charting albums, from 1968 and 1969, respectively! Includes The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp; Little Green Apples; Isn't It Lonely Together; Honey (I Miss You) , and more. 22 tracks!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Double Whammy From A Great Singer., May 16, 2003

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W. Grandy (windsor, nova scotia Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hickory Holler Revisited: For Once in My Life (Audio CD)

I've been waiting for years to find 'Hickory Holler Revisited' issued in the cd format and lo and behold here it is with another great album from o c 'For Once In My Life'.
This man was hard to categorize - was he jazz, country, blues or pop?? It really doesn't matter because he had a big powerful voice for any genre.
Lots of tearjerkers here including 'Son of Hickory Hollers Tramp', 'Long Black Limousine' etc. As an added bonus to the 22 tracks on this cd is Mac Davis' 'Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife'.
Unfortunately, O C passed away last year but he left an important legacy for all of us.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hickory Holler reviewed., August 3, 2007

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Mrs. G. E. Howlett "solitarygill" (U.K.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hickory Holler Revisited: For Once in My Life (Audio CD)

Heard the title song on Saturday mornings 'Sounds of the sixties' on Radio 2. Searched my complete (and not insubstantial) record and cd collection and couldn`t believe that I did not own a copy.
So I did what I always do.... tracked it down on the ever faithful Amazon, it was shipped out to me and received in perfect condition, well within the estimated delivery date.
Double CD- REVISITED/FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE. Not disappointed. What a great
easy listening CD. OC`S HITS and perfect covers of songs made famous by other people. Country/ rock at its best.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good and a half, January 13, 2012

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hickory Holler Revisited: For Once in My Life (Audio CD)

If you're an old style, free form FM freak like me, the last thing your in the market for is an album which Bobby Russell, the guy who wrote Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" had a hand it. But i snapped up O.C. Smtih's Hickory Holler for a buck and put my bias aside.

And am surprised at the quality here. Smith makes even "Honey" function on sweet soul level: No small accomplishment. Russell also wrote "Little Green Apples," the 1968 hit for Smtih, and although I find the tinkering bells dated and cloying, I can't deny Smith's voice is excellent. I also can't deny a lot of this album is straight, if mellow, middle-of-the-road soul. (The cover of "Sittin' On The Doc Of The Bay" is outstanding.) The music works, sometimes on its own terms, and sometimes in spite of its mushiness, due to Smith's voice being so strong.

I only wish Gamble And Huff had gotten hold of Smith, and surrounded his voice with their more aggressive, Philly style. Smith reminds me of Jerry Butler, and if you want to hear a master crooner in a funky context, check out Butler's The Iceman Cometh/Ice on Ice.