Please Help Me I'm Falling

Hank Locklin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 14, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sun Entertainment
• ASIN: B000006M2W
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #440,292 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Please Help Me I'm Falling is a four-disc box set containing every recording Hank Locklin made between 1955 and 1964. It traces his evolution from a hillbilly balladeer to a smooth country-pop crooner, although Lockin's performance style, and the kinds of songs he sang, didn't change dramatically. The instrumentation, however, changed in a big way thanks to the rise of the Nashville sound; sweet vocal choruses appeared around 1957, and then strings and muted horns began to dominate arrangements that sometimes sounded more like Guy Lombardo than any antecedent in country music. Locklin has such a pure country tenor, though, that he sounds plenty "country" in any context. Despite the preponderance of country-pop ballads and international material (which includes lots of Irish, Hawaiian, and faux-ethnic material of the "Filipino Baby" variety), Locklin occasionally returned to hillbilly themes as on his 1962 hit "We're Gonna Go Fishin'" (although even that incorporates a rock & roll saxophone). The set takes its name from Locklin's 1960 hit that held the number one spot for months and became one of the decade's biggest hits. Typical for the Bear Family label, the box set is packaged in an LP-sized box with a book full of biographical and discographical information, and many photos. In tandem with Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On, Bear Family's box set of Locklin's early 4-Star sides, Please Help Me I'm Falling rounds up Locklin's complete recordings from the most commercially and artistically vital stage of his career. ~ Greg Adams, All Music Guide --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Love Locklin but CD disappoints., March 3, 2003

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Bill Bailey Office "Bill Bailey" (Pasadena, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Please Help Me I'm Falling (Audio CD)

As an old country music radio jock I have more than a passing interest and knowledge of the music. I recently purchased this CD in a group of "Greatest Hits" albums (CDs).
The music starts off great but then goes downhill when you hear that several of the tracks are presented with "Concerthall" effects. I call it echo.

Locklin always had a pristine clear voice but this presentation simply muddles it up.

If you are a true Locklin fan, as I am, then you should look elsewhere.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars There seems to be some confusion..., November 21, 2006

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Please Help Me I'm Falling (Audio CD)

It might help to point out that there are two different Hank Locklin packages called "Please Help Me I'm Falling," one is a single-disc collection that I believe is the one that another reviewer says has bad, fake-stereo remastering... The other is a four-CD box set on the Bear Family label, which is pretty much guaranteed NOT to have funky sound quality, and gathers a lot of Locklin's classic work on the RCA label in the 1960s.

Hope this helps sort out the two.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best in real country, February 8, 2008

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Henry J. Whitney - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Please Help Me I'm Falling (Audio CD)

i am a real country music fan i am 58 years old i grew up with hank willams miss kitty wells and a lot more on saterday night my mom would toon in wwva wheeling west va.

i can say the service with amazon is great.

henry j whitney