Hank Williams Sr. - The Original Singles Collection
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Artist: Hank Williams Sr.Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Mercury Nashville
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- I'm Not Coming Home Anymore
- Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door)
- Calling You
- Wealth Won't Save Your Soul
- When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels
- My Love For You (Has Turned To Hate)
- I Don't Care (If Tommorow Never Comes)
- Pan American
- Honky Tonkin'
- (Last Night) I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep
- Move It On Over
- On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain
- Fly Trouble
- My Sweet Love Ain't Around
- Rootie Tootie
- Honky Tonkin'
- I'll Be A Bachelor 'Til I Die
- I'm A Long Gone Daddy
- The Blues Come Around
- Six More Miles (To The Graveyard)
- I Saw The Light
- A Mansion On The Hill
- I Can't Get You Off My Mind
- Lovesick Blues
- Wedding Blues
- I've Just Told Mama Goodbye
- Mind Your Own Business
- There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
- Lost Highway
- You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
- My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
- May You Never Be Alone
- I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Living
- Long Gone Lonesome Blues
- My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
- Why Don't You Love Me
- A House Without Love
- Why Should We Try Anymore
- They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
- Moanin' The Blues
- Nobody's Lonesome For Me
- Cold, Cold Heart
- Dear John
- I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
- Howlin' At The Moon
- My Heart Would Know
- Hey, Good Lokin'
- (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
- Crazy Heart
- I'd Still Want You
- Baby, We're Really In Love
- I'm Sorry For You, My Friend
- Honky Tonk Blues
- Half As Much
- Let's Turn Back The Years
- Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
- Window Shopping
- Settin' The Woods On Fire
- You Win Again
- I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
- I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You
- Kaw-Liga
- Your Cheatin' Heart
- I Won't Be Home No More
- Take These Chains From My Heart
- Please Make Up Your Mind
- Ramblin' Man
- House Of Gold
- With Tears In My Eyes
- Alone And Forsaken
- Fool About You
- I'm Free At Last
- Someday You'll Call My Name
- I Can't Escape From You
- Something Got A Hold Of Me
- Weary Blues From Waitin'
- I Ain't Got Nothin' But Time
- Angel Of Death
- There's No Room In My Heart For The Blues
- At The First Fall Of Snow
- The Log Train
- All The Love I Ever Had
- There's A Tear In My Beer
Music reviews of The Original Singles Collection
Music Review: Picks Up Where 40 Greatest Hits Leaves Off
Rating: 5 Stars
This 84-track 3-CD set from PolyDor/PolyGram picks up where the 2-CD set, Hank Williams 40 Greatest Hits, leaves off, giving us the charted singles overlooked in that set and most of the B-sides. The large [vinyl LP-size] box contains a 20-page book which provides a complete discography of the contents and 16 pages of background information written by Colin Escott of Showtime Music in Toronto.
Sprinkled throughout are photographs of the legend and his entourage and family, taken at varying stages of his young life [he was just 29 when he died], including one taken in the 1930s as he sang on the streets of Montgomery, Alabama. Another vintage shot shows him with Little Jimmy Dickens, Roy Acuff, Red Foley, and Jimmy Riddle, and there are a couple of not very flattering pictures, one of which shows him "Blotto in Toronto in 1952.". There are also numerous poster reproductions.
But it's the music, of course, that is the star of this set, including four releases [A- and B-sides] for the Stirling label in 1947 [tracks 2 to 9 on disc 1] and one prevously unreleased Stirling cut [track 1]. None of those charted, but when he moved to MGM in 1947 things began to happen very quickly.
That August Move It On Over rose to # 4 b/w Last Night I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep, and while the follow-up On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain b/w Fly Trouble failed to chart, few among his subsequent releases suffered the same fate. In July 1948 an MGM re-release of Honky Tonkin' made it to # 14 b/w I'll Be A Bachelor Til I Die, followed almost immediately by I'm A Long Gone Daddy which topped out at # 6 b/w The Blues Come Around.
1949 was, however, THE breakthrough year with no less than eight hit singles, starting off with the blockbuster Lovesick Blues. It not only made it to # 1, but stayed there for an incredible SIXTEEN weeks, spending 42 weeks on the charts in all, amd also crossed over to the pop charts, hitting # 24. Even the flipside did well, with Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door) peaking at # 6 Country. A month or so later Wedding Bells reached # 2 [kept from the # 1 by Lovesick Blues] b/w I've Just Told Mama Goodbye, and in September Mind Your Own Business made it to # 5 b/w the now-classic There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight [later a pop hit for Tony Bennett].
In October he had another double-sided hit when You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave} reached # 4 and its B-side, the haunting Lost Highway, made it to # 12. He then closed out a very successful year with My Bucket's Got A Hole In It which climbed to # 2 [Ricky Nelson would later have a pop hit with a jumped-up version], b/w another now-classic, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.
From there to his untimely death, brought on by bouts with alcohol, Hank would chalk up another 21 hit singles, many of them double-sided and among them the monster hits Long Gone Lonesome Blues [8 weeks at # 1], Why Don't You Love Me? [10 weeks at # 1], Hey, Good Lookin' [8 weeks at # 1], and Jambalaya (On The Bayou) which spent 14 weeks at # 1 and also made it to # 20 pop in late 1952.
Ironically, just climbing the charts when he died on January 1, 1953, was the eerily prophetic I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, which also became a # 1. Posthumous hits included Kaw-Liga [13 weeks at # 1] and its flipside, Your Cheatin' Heart [6 weeks at # 1], and Take These Chains From My Heart [4 weeks at # 1]. All this is documented in the accompanying book.
In 1989 Hank returned to the charts when an over-dubbed version with son Hank Jr. of There's a Tear In My Beer made it to # 7. The version in disc 3 is a previously-unreleased cut. Just a magnificent set all around for one of the 20th Century's greatest artists. Most highly recommended.
Description of The Original Singles Collection
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.This three-CD, 84-song indoctrination to The Basic Hank may not actually offer all of Hank's singles (it's missing most of his Luke the Drifter tunes, and his duets with Audrey), but it goes a long way to explain why Williams was country's first big legend and a superstar by 25. Smitten with the blue yodel of Jimmie Rodgers and the mountain whine of Roy Acuff, Williams gradually added a racy edge to brew his own style of honky-tonk. And with the good-natured wink of "Hey, Good Lookin," the Cajun spice of "Jambalaya," and the donkey's bray of "Honky Tonkin'," Williams shows that he could balance his melancholia with upbeat songs of joy. Whatever his subject matter, however, Hank's aim was always for the heart. As these songs attest, he rarely missed. In beautifully restored audio. --Alanna Nash
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