Description
DESCRIPTION
Country duo Johnnie & Jack were Johnnie Wright and Jack Anglin, singers, songwriters and guitarists who had been performing together for several years, interrupted by war service, since the late 1930s when they made their first records in 1945. They came together because Johnnie Wright was married to Kitty Wells, and Jack married Wright's sister. They combined typical southern harmonies with songs on familiar themes of love gone wrong, sometimes imbued with a faith-based seriousness, which proved popular with the market and they had more than a dozen hits through the 1950s recording for RCA and were long-time members of the Grand Ole Opry. This great-value 62-track 2-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides from their early releases on the Apollo label, and then from their ten years with RCA before they moved to Decca in the early 1960s, their career being cut short by Jack Anglin's death in an auto accident in 1963. For most of their career, they were billed on their record labels as Johnnie and Jakc, The Tennessee Mountain Boys. It features all their career hits, including the Country No. 1 "(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely" and the Top 10 entries "Poison Love", "Cryin' Heart Blues", "How Can I Believe In You", "Cryin' Heart Blues", "Three Ways Of Knowing", "Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight", "Honey I Need You", "Beware Of It", "Kiss Crazy Baby" and "Stop The World (And Let Me Off)". It includes at least one side from most of their 60 or so releases during their career, and it provides a substantial showcase for their distinctive talent and style
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Love in the First Degree
2 This Is the End
3 She Went with a Smile
4 Just When I Needed You
5 I Heard My Saviour Call
6 Pray Together and We'll Stay Together
7 Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb
8 Shout
9 Jesus Remembered Me
10 Poison Love
11 Lonesome
12 I Can't Tell My Heart That
13 Take My Ring from Your Finger
14 Cryin' Heart Blues
15 How Can I Believe in You
16 Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
17 You Tried to Ruin My Name
18 Three Ways of Knowing
19 Slow Poison
20 Shake My Mother's Hand for Me
21 I've Gone and Done It Again
22 Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
23 I'll Live with God (To Die No More)
24 Hank Williams Will Live Forever
25 South in New Orleans
26 Private Property
27 Angels Rock Me to Sleep
28 Pig Latin Serenade (Pa Won't Know and Ma Won't Care)
29 From the Manger to the Cross
- Disc 2 -
1 Cheated Out of Love
2 You Got Me in Your Power
3 Borrowed Diamonds
4 (Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely
5 You're Just What the Doctor Ordered
6 Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight
7 Honey I Need You
8 Beware of 'It'
9 Kiss Crazy Baby
10 Sincerely
11 No One Dear But You
12 Look Out
13 S.O.S
14 I Want to Be Loved
15 I Loved You Better Than You Knew
16 Tom Cat's Kittens
17 The Banana Boat Song
18 Pleasure Is Not a Habit in Mexico
19 That's Why I'm Leavin'
20 Move It on Over
21 Camel Walk Stroll
22 Stop the World (And Let Me Off)
23 I've Seen This Movie Before
24 Lonely Island Pearl
25 That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
26 I Wonder If You Know?
27 Sailor Man
28 Sweetie Pie
29 Just Like You
30 Country Music Has Gone to Town
31 Uncle John's Bongos
32 Sweet Baby
33 Thirty Six-Twenty Two-Thirty Six
