Sweeter Than Wine [Import]

Jimmie Rodgers (Pop) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 22, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Westside
• ASIN: B000024WTE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #406,133 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Honeycomb

2. Their Hearts Were Full of Spring

3. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

4. The Long Hot Summer

5. Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again

6. Secretly

7. Make Me a Miracle

8. Are You Really Mine

9. The Wizard

10. Bimbombey

11. Woman from Liberia

12. Because You're Young

13. I'm Never Gonna Tell

14. Froggy Went a Courting

15. Ring-A-Ling-A-Lario

16. Wonderful You

17. Tucumcari

18. T.L.C. Tender Love and Care

19. Waltzing Matilda

20. Just a Closer Walk with Thee

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

All of Rodgers UK and US hits from his original version of 'Honeycomb' as well as the best of his near misses all included here.

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fifties crooner's finest music, October 6, 2002

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweeter Than Wine (Audio CD)

There have been three Jimmie Rodgers - a blues singer, a country singer and a pop/folk singer - the pop/folk singer is the subject of this compilation. This Jimmie Rodgers is most famous in America for Honeycomb, a #1 hit. It was followed by a string of other hits, three of which (Kisses sweeter than wine, Uh-oh I'm falling in love again and Secretly) sold well enough to earn Jimmie gold disks. In Britain, his biggest hits (both top ten) were Kisses sweeter than wine and English country garden (which was only a B-side in America).

All these hits, plus others that also charted in Britain or America, are included on this collection, which includes some singles that failed to chart anywhere, some B-sides and some album tracks. Jimmie preferred folk songs while his record label wanted to market him as a pop singer. Both genres are in evidence here, though most tracks are a mix of the two. The wreck of the John B is a song that has been recorded under various titles, but is best known now as Sloop John B.

This is the best compilation of Jimmie's music yet released, though some of his original albums have been released on twofers for those who wish to explore his music in greater depth.