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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Move It on Over | |||
| 2. Mansion on the Hill | |||
| 3. Lovesick Blues | |||
| 4. Wedding Bells | |||
| 5. Mind Your Own Business | |||
| 6. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) | |||
| 7. Lost Highway | |||
| 8. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It | |||
| 9. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry | |||
| 10. I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin' | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. I can't help it (if I'm still in love with you) | |||
| 2. Hey good lookin' | |||
| 3. Crazy heart | |||
| 4. Lonesome whistle | |||
| 5. Baby, we're really in love | |||
| 6. Ramblin'man | |||
| 7. Honky tonk blues | |||
| 8. I'm sorry for you my friend | |||
| 9. Half as much | |||
| 10. Jambalaya | |||
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hank Williams,
This review is from: 40 Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
Initially i ordered this product because i had taken a liking to some of Hanks songs but after i recieved this product i was amazed. Not only did it contain all the songs i had liked but i had also found new favorities. If you like Hank williams music this is a must have for your collection.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Surpassed Only By The 3-CD Box Set,
By AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 40 Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
When this came out in October 1990 as a CD version of 1978 PolyGram vinyl LPs it was welcomed by all fans of the late, great Hank Williams who were, quite simply, fed up with phony "drain-pipe" stereo releases, or those with overdubbed strings and other instruments which had permeated the market back then.That was, in essence, regarded by many as blasphemous treatment of a legend. These CDs, however, were the originals just as he recorded them in glorious mono, and at the time we were even willing to forgive the odd scratchy track [3 on disc 1 and 15 and 20 on disc 2 were mastered from 78 rpm records]. There were, admittedly, some key cuts missing from among the 40 selections - such as Honky Tonkin' [# 14 in 1948, I'm A Long Gone Daddy [# 6 in 1948], and Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door) which was the flip of Lovesick Blues and a # 6 on its own in 1949 - but again we were willing to overlook that too just to get our hands on a decent Hank Williams compilation. And as a bonus there was an insert with a complete discography of the contents along with six pages of background notes written by Tony Byworth, editor of Country Music People, as well as several more candid shots of Hank. But two years later, in 1992, PolyDor/PolyGram came out with a 3-CD box set containing 39 of those 40 tracks [only I Saw The Light is missing], along with another 45 cuts, which immediately surpassed this set. Even so, this is still desirable if only for Byworth's notes which sum up Hank's career with this paragraph "Hank Williams couldn't read or write music, but he had created some 125 compositions, many of which have subsequently become classics of popular music. He did live to bask in some of the music's success - but he was not to realize how his material was to alter the whole concept of the idiom by opening up the way for a new breed of country writers and, in turn, songs that would reach mass audiences. Over the years his music has played a vital role in furthering the careers of a diverse range of artists that has included Frankie Laine, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Del Shannon, Johnny Cash and Dean Martin." To that list can be added names like Jo Stafford, Fats Domino, Rosemary Clooney, and Joni James, among many many more. One can only wonder at what classic tunes died with him on New Year's Day, 1953 when he left us some nine months shy of his 30th birthday.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great overview--and a rare track found nowhere else!,
By Gerald L. Russell (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 40 Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
Would you expect to find a single c.d. of Elvis' greatest hits? Sinatra's greatest? The Beatles' greatest? Not unless you like eating half a sandwich. Hank rated up there with these guys as one of the top ten recording acts of all time. This c.d. set begins to do him justice. Buy it and avoid Mercury's "20 Greatest." This set contains a rare track found nowhere else and which requires your purchase of this set at least long enough to burn a copy of the track. The track? "Weary Blues from Waitin,'" just as it was released as a single in 1953, which went straight to the top of the country charts. Even the COMPLETE HANK WILLIAMS doesn't have it.
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