That's the Way Life Goes: Hit Songs 1950-1975

Lefty Frizzell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 30, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Raven [Australia]
• ASIN: B0002MPQN2
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,914 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. If You Got The Money I've Got The Time

2. I Love You A Thousand Ways

3. Look What Thoughts Will Do

4. Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Saturday)

5. I Want To Be With You Always

6. Always Late (With Your Kisses)

7. Mom & Dad's Waltz

8. Travellin' Blues

9. Give Me More, More, More (Of Your Kisses)

10. How Long Will It Take (To Stop Lovin' You)

11. Don't Stay Away (Till Love Grows Cold)

12. Forever (And Always)

13. I'm An Old, Old Man (Tryin' To Live While I Can)

14. (Honey Baby Hurry!) Bring Your Sweet Love Back To Me

15. Rum 'Em Off

16. I Love You Mostly

17. Cigarettes & Coffee Blues

18. Long Black Veil

19. Saginaw Michigan

20. She's Gone, Gone, Gone

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Introduction To The Legend Of Lefty, February 3, 2005

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James E. Bagley "Jim Bagley" (Sanatoga, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: That's the Way Life Goes: Hit Songs 1950-1975 (Audio CD)

A link between Mississippi's Jimmie Rodgers and California's Merle Haggard, smooth Texas crooner William Orville ("Lefty") Frizzell made #1 with both sides of his 1950 debut: "If You've Got The Money, I've Got The Time" (featuring Madge Suttee's rinky-tinky piano) and "I Love You A Thousand Ways." 1951 brought four simultaneous top-tenners: "I Want To Be With You Always," sappy "Mom And Dad's Waltz," laid-back "Always Late (With Your Kisses)" and a cover of Rodgers' 1931 "Travellin' Blues." But after '54, he only cracked the Top 10 twice: with `59's eerie "The Long Black Veil" (a future cover for The Band, The Chieftains and others) and `63's "Saginaw Michigan" with its final comic twist.

Raven's nicely remastered and annotated 28-song That's The Way Life Goes has nothing Frizzell aficionados don't already have on Varese Sarabande's That's The Way Love Goes collection that covers `70s ABC tracks or Columbia/Legacy's 1950-65 two-CD Look What Thoughts Will Do. Still, it's a fine introduction to a singer who explained, "I wanted to hold one word through a whole line of melody, to linger with it all the way down. I didn't want to let go of that no more than I wanted to let go of the woman I loved."