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George Hamilton IV was a country singer and musician who started his professional life a teen idol pop singer with the 1956 Top 10 hit with his debut single "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" George Hamilton IV was a country singer and musician who started his professional life a teen idol pop singer with the 1956 Top 10 hit with his debut single "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" on the small Colonial label, immediately signing to ABC-Paramount for whom he had further hits as his style moved towards a blend of pop, country and rockabilly, as he had further notable hits including the Top 10 "Why Don't They Understand" and "I Know Where I'm Going", both of which also made the UK charts. By the end of the '50s he had become totally identified with country, moving to Nashville and becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and his hits after 1960 were almost all in the country charts, where he continued to have chart entries through to the late '70s. This great-value 58-track 2-CD set comprises almost all the A & B sides of his singles during this era for Colonial, ABC-Paramount and RCA, to whom he moved in 1961, plus selected titles from his albums for ABC "On Campus" and "Sing Me A Sad Song (Tribute To Hank Williams)" and his first RCA album "To You And Yours (From Me And Mine)". It naturally features all his fourteen pop, country and UK chart entries from these years, including, as well as those noted above, the Top 10 country hits "Before This Day Ends", "Three Steps To The Phone" and "If You Don't Know, I Ain't Gonna Tell You". It's a comprehensive overview of the key formative years of his career, and an intriguing insight into his musical development during this time, as well as being an entertaining showcase for his distinctive talent.
A Rose and a Baby Ruth
If You Don't Know
I've Got a Secret
Sam
Only One Love
If I Possessed a Printing Press
High School Romance
Everybody's Body
Why Don't They Understand
Even Tho'
Now and for Always
One Heart
I Know Where I'm Goin'
Who's Taking You to the Prom
When Will I Know
Your Cheatin' Heart
Lucy, Lucy
The Two of Us
The Teen Commandments
The Steady Game
Can You Blame Us
Gee
I Know Your Sweetheart
Why I'm Walkin'
Tremble
Before This Day Ends
Loneliness All Around Me
A Walk on the Wild Side of Life
It's Just the Idea
Three Steps to the Phone
The Ballad of Widder Jones
To You and Yours (From Me and Mine)
I Want a Girl
China Doll
Commerce Street and Sixth Avenue North
If You Don't Know, I Ain't Gonna Tell You
Where Nobody Knows Me
In This Very Same Room
If You Want Me to
When I Grow Too Old to Dream
Tell Me Why
Carolina Moon
You Tell Me Your Dream
Aura Lee
Girl of My Dreams
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
I Can't Help It
Half As Much
(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
Take These Chains from My Heart
Cold Cold Heart
You Win Again
The Wall
Rainbow
I Will Miss You When You Go
If You Don't Somebody Else Will
Baby Blue Eyes
Life's Railway to Heaven
