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Hank Locklin was one of the early exponents of the honk- tonk style of country, although his biggest successes came during the late '50s and early '60s with hits like Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On and Please Help Me I'm Falling during the time when the boundaries between country and pop were becoming increasingly blurred. This great-value 58-track 2-CD set focuses entirely on his singles output during the first fifteen years or so of his career during which his reputation was established and he had his biggest hits, from his early singles for the Gold Star label in 1948, and through his years with the Four Star label, when he had his initial hits, including the country No. 1 Let Me Be The One, until he joined RCA in 1953for whom he had his major successes. It naturally features the thirteen country and pop hits he had during this period, including, as well as those mentioned above, From Here To There To You, Geisha Girl, It's A Little More Like Heaven and Happy Birthday To Me, and comprises the majority of his A sides during that time with a good sprinkling of selected B sides as well. It's therefore an entertaining cross-section of his work, and offers an interesting insight into how his style developed during what was one of the most dynamic eras in the history of popular music.
Rio Grande Waltz
You've Been Talking in Your Sleep
Please Come Back and Stay
I Worship You
The Same Sweet Girl
Knocking at Your Door
Send Me the Pillow (That You Dream on)
I'm Lonely Darling
Our Love Will Show the Way
Are You Treating Your Neighbor As Yourself
Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
Midnight Tears
Paper Face
Come Share the Sunshine with Me
The Holy Train
No One Is Sweeter Than You
A Year of Time
The Song of the Whispering Leaves
Your House of Love Won't Stand
Stumpy Joe
Tell Me You Love Me
Down Texas Way
Who's Knocking at My Heart
Alone at a Table for Two
Crazy Over You
Let Me Be the One
I'm Tired of Bumming Around
Your Heart Is An Island
Who Am I to Cast the First Stone
Why Baby, Why'
A Good Woman's Love
Seven or Eleven
You Can't Never Tell
She's Better Than Most
14 Karat Gold
Goin' Home All By Myself
Geisha Girl
Livin' Alone
Send Me the Pillow You Dream on
Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me
It's a Little More Like Heaven
Blue Grass Skirt
That Inner Glow
The Upper Room
I Gotta Talk to Your Heart
Foreign Car
Border of the Blues
Blues in Advance
Please Help Me I'm Falling
My Old Home Town
One Step Ahead of My Past
From Here to There to You
You're the Reason
Happy Birthday to Me
Happy Journey
I Need You Now
We're Goin' Fishin'
Wabash Cannonball
