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To You And Yours From Me And Mine

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This is a lot of material and different musical styles. The quality of the music runs from pedestrian to fantastic. Unless you are a big fan, you won't want all of this. He was kind of boring. Kind of like if you have heard one of his songs, you have heard them all. The biggest suprise is on the last disk. A whole helping of him covering Wynn Stewart and Merle Haggard, and then a helping of live sets from the opry. You won't be upset if you get this, but this is a lot of material to digest.

This guy is pleasant pleasant pleasant, another Bill Anderson I could say. Truthfully he recorded a lot of songs that he could have left on the shelf, but so did a lot of other artists. Bear Family give you EVERYTHING and are the leaders in what they do, so you get EVERYTHING, and I am a completest and I am happy with the set.

All George's work from his best days (1956-65) is present in this box. A few oddities like early interview, demo and radio performance. The cd is edited by Bear Company, which garantees best quality and information. Beautiful book with lots of pics) added.

George Hamilton IV is a minor talent who sounds like Ricky Nelson. In this set of six discs which ranges from awful to pretty good you get some hillbillyish novelty numbers, some rockabilly, some folk, some country, and a lot of pop. There is no more than one disc of material that is worth listening to even once. Hamilton was at his best on more up-tempo numbers, but sadly, there are very few of these after the second disc (the strongest in the set by far). Song after song finds him at a metronomic slowish tempo where his lack of range and non-existant phrasing means one mildly pleasant and completely forgettable song after another. Oddly enough, the instrumental arrangements of these songs are interesting and varied, but vocally they are a pile of stale rice cakes. Yes, Hamilton's biggest hit, Abilene, is one of these stale rice cakes.

The sound quality of this set is excellent. The booklet, as with every Bear Family set I've seen, is very nice.

This set was in my collection for about two weeks which was the time it took me to listen to it. I would pay for lossless downloads of fifteen or twenty of the tracks from this set, but the good just isn't that good and the bad is too plentiful for it to have a place on my shelf.

I love several of the old GH IV songs: Take My Hand for a While; Big Steel Rails; Get the Urge for Goin'. But don't know whether these are included in the box set. I'd kind of like to know what's included for 130 bucks! Amazon, please provide play list. Thanks

a I brought this box set in singapore in 1997.6 CDinside, the set includes private demos,live recording from"the arthur godfrey show"and"the grand ole opry" Also includes a 88 pages hardcover, rare photos.discography by Richare Weize.Songs likes,A rose and a Baby Ruth,Abilene,You are my Sunshine,china Doll.I want to collect all GH songs.Still looking for songs like "Time" a "four Strong Winds".Amazon,please include all the titles of songs .I will buy it if this another different box set