Description
DESCRIPTION
The Carlisles were a hillbilly country group formed in the early 1950s by Bill Carlisle, who had previously recorded with his brother Cliff as The Carlisle Brothers during the 1930s and '40s until Cliff retired in 1950. Bill, who was known as Jumpin' Bill Carlisle, because of his habit of leaping around the stage, formed a new group under the name The Carlisles, that included singer/guitarists Betty Amos and Roy Sneed and bass player Ernie Newton, and they had several hits during the 1950s, continuing to record into the 1960s as their style evolved. This excellent-value 61-track 2-CD set comprises most of their A & B sides for the Mercury and Columbia labels from era, along with EP and LP tracks, with guitarist Chet Atkins featured on many of the recordings. Also included are some Bill Carlisle solo releases for RCA. It features all their country hits as a group, including the No. 1 "No Help Wanted" and the Top 10 hits "Too Old To Cut The Mustard", "Knothole", "Is Zat You, Myrtle", and "Tain't Nice (To Talk Like That)", many of them typical of what Bill Carlisle called his "crazy songs". It's a reasonably comprehensive overview of their recording career during this era, and is a thoroughly entertaining slice of unalloyed hillbilly country music, which makes few compromises even as they adapt their music to the pot rock 'n' roll era.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Too Old to Cut the Mustard
2 My Happiness Belongs to Somebody Else
3 Patch Up Our Old Love Affair
4 I Would If I Could (But I Can't)
5 True Love
6 Love, Love, Love (That's What It Is)
7 Woman Driver
8 No Help Wanted
9 This Heart Is Not for Sale
10 Knothole
11 Leave That Liar Alone
12 Is Zat You Myrtle?
13 Something Different
14 Tain't Nice (To Talk Like That)
15 Unpucker
16 I Need a Little Help
17 I'll Never Love Again
18 Shake-A-Leg
19 Moody's Goose
20 If You Don't Want It (The Salesman's Song)
21 Rattlesnake Daddy
22 Feet Don't Fail Me
23 Women
24 Doggie Joe
25 Honey Love
26 Female Hercules
27 Busy Body Boogie
28 The Mainest Thing
29 Rusty Old Halo
30 It's Bedtime, Bill
- Disc 2 -
1 Nine Have Tried
2 Bargain Day, Half Off
3 Lil' Liza Jane
4 Teletouch
5 Middle Age Spread
6 On My Way to the Show
7 Dangerous Crossing
8 Run, Boy
9 Goo-Goo Da Da (Baby Latin Meaning "Daddy")
10 Pickin' Peas (Down the Long Pea Row)
11 Money Tree
12 Poor Man's Riches
13 I'm Rough Stuff
14 Wouldn't You Like to
15 Ladder of Love
16 Gettin' Younger
17 I Don't Want to Run
18 Old Fashioned Love
19 Uncle Bud
20 I've Waited Too Long
21 How Will I Know
22 Dumb Bunny
23 Who's A-Gonna Stop Me
24 Down Boy
25 Union Suit
26 Air Brakes
27 Home Sweet Home
28 John Came Home
29 Skin 'Im Quick
30 Have a Drink on Me
31 Too Old to Cut the Mustard
