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Charline Arthur | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 25, 1998)
• Format: Import
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B00000DHVM
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #850,666 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Burn That Candle

2. Just Look, Don't Touch, He's Mine

3. I Love Him Better Than You Do

4. How Many Would There Be?

5. What About Tomorrow?

6. Welcome to the Club

7. I'm Having a Party All by Myself

8. Honey Bun

9. Looking at the Moon and Wishing on a Star

10. He Fiddled While I Burned

11. I Heard About You

12. Leave My Man Alone

13. Flash Your Diamonds

14. I Was Wrong

15. Too Long, Too Many Times

16. (I'm in Love With) Someone's Used to Be

17. Waltzing

18. The Good and the Bad

19. Heartbreak Ahead

20. Soft Hearted Gal

See all 32 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A long-forgotten rowdy-billy cowgirl!, December 10, 2001

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Welcome to the Club (Audio CD)

A stellar collection of ultra-rare oldies by one of hard country's most elusive figures. Brassy, loudmouthed and a snarly, dynamic singer, Arthur demolished the traditional role of the passive, ladylike country "girl" singer. Back in the early '50s, when all the other gals were demurely performing in Kitty Wells-style gingham dresses, Arthur was wearing slacks, smoking cigarettes, and cussing Chet Atkins out in the RCA recording booth. It was probably the last habit that had the most to do with her swift fall from grace -- Arthur was dumped from the label in 1956, after having plugged away for several years without much commercial success. Admittedly, Arthur's bluesy, occasionally raunchy style was at odds with the expectations of the times, but it's a tragedy she wasn't allowed to grow as an artist -- her vocals and approach certainly prefigured the work of bluesy country/pop stylists like Patsy Cline and Brenda Lee, and (of course...) the rockabilly bop of Wanda Jackson. Notably, the singer whose voice most resembles Arthur is Skeeter Davis, who Atkins *did* succeed in taming -- you can hear similar attempts to soften and Nashville-ize Arthur's vocals throughout this disc. But uptempo or slowed down, Charline Arthur was a force to be reckoned with, and this CD should send a quiver through the hard country community -- check it out!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY--Charline Arthur, April 29, 2001

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"tfl9889" (Thompson Falls,, Montana United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Welcome to the Club (Audio CD)

Back about 1958, Charline Arthur was singing in a small bar in Eastern Montana, and my friends and I spent as much time as possible listening to her. A few years later, when I began buying LP's I started searching for recordings by her. I believe that there was a Gospel recording, but I couldn't even locate that.

Now thanks to 'Country Classics' on our TV Satelite, where I heard her songs, and to Amazon.Com, where I found the CD, I can listen to her again. When I first heard her voice on the TV I rushed to find who was singing, and was so glad to see her name.

I love listening to this CD. She has such an energy, and I am reminded of the days when I could hear her in person. Thamk you Bear Family, Dish Network, and most of all Amazon.com.

Now I hope you will do the same with recordings of Browning Bryant. I had his album, but dropped it and broke it several years ago. I have never been able to locate another.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It just gets better..., June 2, 2005

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Sybil Oliver "wildflowercat" (Sulphur, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Welcome to the Club (Audio CD)

My mother and Charline were friends so I grew up with all these songs. Today I am amazed at the talent of this woman. Regardless of all the different styles and arrangements dictated by her record producers...her raw talent shines through. What a tragedy that she was never recognized in her lifetime as the great artist she was due mostly to the fact that she wouldn't play the Nashville game. There's a song for every emotion and feeling on this album. The fifties just werent ready for this woman. I am so glad and grateful her music is available today.