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Patsy Cline - The Definitive Collection
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The Essential Willie Nelson
: :With 41 tracks drawn from nine record labels, the two-disc Essential Willie Nelson is impressive in its breadth. Disc one is simply superb; it begins with 1961's 'Night Life,' recorded for the obscure Bellaire label, and moves on to several of Nelson's early 1960s Liberty recordings, an overlooked gem recorded for Monument in 1964 ('I Never Cared for You'), a cherry-picked selection of his RCA and Atlantic sides, and finally his mid-1970s hits for Columbia (where he found his greatest chart success, beginning, in 1975, with the No. 1 single 'Blue ...
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Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
: :A lonely Westerner in Nashville, Marty Robbins salved his soul by cutting an album (in one afternoon) of mostly self-composed cowboy ballads. One of them was a four-and-a-half-minute epic, 'El Paso,' that broke every rule of Top 40 programming to become a No. 1 pop and country hit in 1960. Robbins was arguably the most surefooted and accomplished singer in all country music, and that was never more obvious than on these Western ballads performed to often breathtaking perfection with a very small group and a vocal trio. Other titles include ...
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Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits
:Album Description:This is the longest selling album in the history of country music. Released in 1967, this collection of a dozen gems from country music's greatest female voice raced to #5 on the country charts upon release and has spent over 630 weeks on the country catalog charts since reissue on CD in 1988. Digitally remastered/HDCD. MCA. 2003. essential recording:In the late 1950s and the '60s, country music was essentially a singles medium. This album, first released in 1967 and reissued on compact disc in 1988, collects Patsy Cline's biggest ...
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12 Songs of Christmas
:Album Description:This is the longest selling album in the history of country music. Released in 1967, this collection of a dozen gems from country music's greatest female voice raced to #5 on the country charts upon release and has spent over 630 weeks on the country catalog charts since reissue on CD in 1988. Digitally remastered/HDCD. MCA. 2003. essential recording:In the late 1950s and the '60s, country music was essentially a singles medium. This album, first released in 1967 and reissued on compact disc in 1988, collects Patsy Cline's biggest ...
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Pulp Fiction: Music From The Motion Picture
:Album Description:1998 reissue on Simply Vinyl of MCA's smash soundtrack toQuentin Tarantino's 1994 film starring John Travolta, SamuelL. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis. Contains classicslike Urge Overkill's cover of 'Girl, You'll Be A WomanSoon', Dusty Springfield' :Dick Dale's surf-guitar provided the memorable title theme ('Misirlou'), for Quentin Tarantino's 1994 smash, and although that sound runs throughout the soundtrack (along with bits and pieces of dialog from the movie), this is a pretty eclectic bunch of really terrific songs. I don't know how it all manages to hang together, but it ...
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Wanted! The Outlaws
: :Less successful when it's sentimental (Waylon Jennings' 'My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys') than when it's wry (Willie Nelson's myth-puncturing 'Me and Paul'), this cash-in compilation of previously released cuts was just in time to grab the first platinum record ever awarded a country album. It's not bad, but both Jennings' contemporaneous Dreaming My Dreams and Nelson's Red Headed Stranger are more nuanced tastes of the good-bad-but-not-evil-ol'-boy lifestyle. (Not to mention much of Tompall Glaser's own Outlaw compilation.) This 1996 CD reissue adds nine more tracks from the era as well ...
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All the Best
: :In 1967 Glen Campbell broke through to become a household name following his hit version of Jimmy Webb's 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix.' With follow-up hits 'I Wanna Live' and 'Wichita Lineman' paving the way for his enormously successful CBS variety show The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, Campbell rode a trail of hit singles well into the 1970s. This hits collection reflects his wide-ranging repertoire and flair for mixing old and new. Though his spin on John Hartford's 'Gentle on My Mind' barely broke the Top 30 in 1967, ...
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One Hell Of a Ride (4-CD Box Set)
:Album Description:This box contains a wealth of American music, plus a couple of jewels--Django Reinhardt's 'Nuages' and Jimmy Cliff's 'The Harder They Come'--from beyond these shores. Here are 100 songs commemorating Willie Nelson's incredible journey by going full circle. 'When I've Sang My Last Hillbilly Song,' leading off Disc One, was recorded in 1954 or '55; it is reprised on Disc Four's final track, updated in 2007. Between those years Nelson, a Depression era kid who grew up dirt poor in Abbott, Texas, became one of the world's most recognizable figures, ...
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Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits
:Album Description:This box contains a wealth of American music, plus a couple of jewels--Django Reinhardt's 'Nuages' and Jimmy Cliff's 'The Harder They Come'--from beyond these shores. Here are 100 songs commemorating Willie Nelson's incredible journey by going full circle. 'When I've Sang My Last Hillbilly Song,' leading off Disc One, was recorded in 1954 or '55; it is reprised on Disc Four's final track, updated in 2007. Between those years Nelson, a Depression era kid who grew up dirt poor in Abbott, Texas, became one of the world's most recognizable figures, ...
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