Description
DESCRIPTION
George Morgan was a country singer from Tennessee who was described in the same terms as Eddy Arnold and Jim Reeves as a "country crooner", with as much in common with the likes of Bing Crosby and Perry Como as with his peers in the honky-tonk realm. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry even before he had made a record, and when the Opry moved to it's new home in 1974, he was last artist to perform at the old one, and the first to perform at the new one, such was the esteem in which he was held. In 1949 he made his chart debut at No. 1 with his first release "Candy Kisses", and in the first year of his career racked up no less than eight hits, with more following through the 1950 and beyond - he eventually had his last chart entry in 1979. This great-value 54-track 2-CD set comprises selected A and B sides of the fifty or more singles which he released during this era, and so enables us to present a varied and entertaining cross-section of his work. It naturally features all his chart entries from these years, including the Top 5 hits "Candy Kisses", "Please Don't Let Me Love You", "Room Full Of Roses", "Cry-Baby Heart" "Almost" "I'm In Love Again" and "You're the Only Good Thing". George Morgan is an artist who is perhaps less high-profile than other country stars of the post-war era, but this collection underlines that he was a distinctive and stylish performer worthy of a wider hearing
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Please Don't Let Me Love You
2 Candy Kisses
3 All I Need Is More Lovin
4 There's a Rainbow in My Heart
5 Put All Your Love in a Cookie Jar
6 Room Full of Roses
7 Cry Baby Heart
8 I Love Everything About You
9 Why in Heaven's Name
10 Ring on Your Finger
11 So Far
12 Don't Be Afraid to Love Me
13 Somebody Robbed My Beehive
14 Broken Candy Heart
15 My Heart Keeps Telling Me
16 Tennessee Hillbilly Ghost
17 Waltzing By the Ohio
18 I Wish I May, I Wish I Might
19 Mansion Over the Hilltop
20 You're a Little Doll
21 Almost
22 Be Sure You Know
23 Every Little Thing Rolled Into One
24 Stranger in the Night
25 Most of All
26 A Lover's Quarrel
- Disc 2 -
1 Withered Roses - Rosemary Clooney & George Morgan
2 How Many Times
3 Look What Followed Me Home Tonight
4 First Time I Told You a Lie
5 Sweetheart
6 A Shot in the Dark
7 A Cheap Affair
8 The Best Mistake
9 Ain't Love Grand
10 Lonesome Record
11 Send for My Baby
12 Now You Know
13 There Goes My Love
14 Tears Behind the Smile
15 My House Is Divided
16 Late Date
17 Loveable You
18 Rockabilly Bungalow
19 I'm in Love Again
20 Last Thing I Want to Know
21 Little Dutch Girl
22 You're the Only Good Thing
23 Who Knows You Best
24 It's Best You Know
25 The Little Green Men
26 Every Day of My Life
27 I Can Hear My Heart Break
28 Across the Wide Missouri
