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'There's only three real female singers: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, and Connie Smith. The rest of us are only pretending.' (Dolly Parton
Probably no one in the long history of country music was 'Born to Sing' more than Connie Smith. She stands alongside Patsy Cline as the best pure singer the music has yet produced. Discovered by Bill Anderson in West Virginia, Connie Smith became a star overnight when her recording of Bill Anderson's Once A Day shot to Number One on the country charts in 1964 (the first debut single by a female singer ever to do so). This 4-CD set includes all of Connie Smith's RCA recordings from July 1964 to September 1967. It not only includes Once A Day, but all the great early hits: Then And Only Then, Tiny Blue Transistor Radio, If I Talk To Him, Nobody But A Fool, Cincinnati Ohio, Ain't Had No Lovin', The Hurtin's All Over, I'll Come Running, and Burning A Hole In My Mind. This set also includes Connie Smith's early LPs: 'Connie Smith,' 'Cute 'n' Country,' 'Miss Smith Goes To Nashville,' 'Great Sacred Songs,' 'Connie In The Country,' 'Downtown Country,' 'Sings Bill Anderson,' and 'Born To Sing. ' Her French session is also included. The cream of Nashville songwriters wanted their songs interpreted by Connie Smith, and here are some of the greatest early works of Bill Anderson, Dallas Frazier, Harlan Howard, Willie Nelson, as well as superlative musicianship from steel guitarist Weldon Myrick, guitarist Jerry Reed, and the justly acclaimed Nashville A-Team. Connie Smith's life story is told for the first time in Colin Escott's full-length biographical essay, and the set includes many previously unpublished photos from Connie Smith's personal collection, as well as a complete discography.
TracksCredits
1 I'm Ashamed of You
2 Threshold
3 Once a Day
4 Darling Are You Ever Coming Home
5 I Don't Love You Anymore
6 Hinges on the Door
7 Tell Another Lie
8 Don't Forget (I Still Love You)
9 Tiny Blue Transistor Radio
10 Other Side of You
11 Then and Only Then
12 It's Just My Luck
13 Senses
14 I Can't Remember
15 Will the Real Me Please Stop Crying
16 Even Tho
17 Love Is No Excuse
18 Not 'Til You Come Back to Me
19 Two Empty Arms
20 I Can Stand It (As Long As You Can)
21 I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)
22 I Thought of You
23 I Can Turn Your World Around
24 More to Love Than This
25 House Divided
26 Holdin' on
27 If You Won't Tell
28 If I Talk to Him
29 I Don't Have Anyplace to Go
30 Everybody's Gotta Be Somewhere
31 Same As Mine
32 Holdin' on
33 Nobody But a Fool L (Would Lov Eyou)
34 I'll Never Get Over Loving You
35 Go Ahead and Make Me Cry
36 In My Baby's Arms Again
37 For Better or for Worse
38 Ain't Nothin Shakin' (But the Leaves)
39 Where Could I Go But to the Lord
40 Farther Along
41 When God Dips His Love in My Heart
42 He Set Me Free
43 Wings of a Dove
44 I Saw a Man
45 Just a Closer Wlak with Three
46 Po' Folks
47 Four Walls
48 Cry Cyr Cyr
49 In the Garden
50 Wayfairn Pilgrim
51 Keep on Holding to Those Nail Scarred Hands
52 Satisfied
53 I Wouldn't Take Nothin for My Journey
54 Five Fingers to Spare
55 Ain't Had No Lovin'
56 You and Only You
57 Strange
58 Go Away Stranger
59 Touch of Yesterday
60 Born to Sing
61 Invisible Tears
62 Paper Roses
63 I Don't Know Why I Keep Loving You
64 I Will
65 Gone
66 My Little Corner of the World
67 Pas Souvent
68 J'imaginais Autrement L'amour
69 Le Jour Et la Nuit
70 L'amour N'excuse Pas
71 Love's Gonna Live Here
72 Foolin' Around
73 You Ain't Woman Enough
74 I Overlooked An Orchid
75 I'm Little But I'm Loud
76 Y' All Come
77 A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed
78 Slowly
79 World of Forgotten People
80 Hurtin's All Over
81 It'll Be Easy
82 I'll Come Running
83 I'll Come Running
84 Ride Ride Ride
85 My Own Peculiar Way
86 Walk Out Backwards
87 Your Men'ry Comes Along
88 Downtown
89 Born a Woman
90 Night Has a Trousand Eyes
91 That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome
92 It's Gonna Rain Today
93 It's Now or Never
94 My Heart Has a Mind of It's Own
95 City Lights
96 On and on and on
97 Everybody Loves Somebody
98 That's What Lonesome Is
99 In Case You Ever Change Your Mind
100 It Comes and Goes
101 My Whole World Is Falling Down
102 It's Not the End of Everything
103 Cincinnati Ohio
104 I Love You Enough (For Both of Us)
105 Only for Me
106 I'll Come Running
107 Easy Come Easy Go
108 I Love You Drops
109 Don't Feel Sorry for Me
110 I'll Love You Enough
111 Burning Bridges
112 Don't Keep Me Lonely Too Long
113 There Goes My Everything
114 Touch My Heart
115 Walk Through This World with Me
116 It's Such a Pretty World Today
117 If Teardrops Were Silve
118 It Only Hurts for a Little While
119 How Much Lonelier Can Lonely Be
120 I'd Rather Be a Fool
121 Surely
122 I'm Your Woman
123 Burning a Hole in My Mind
124 Baby's Back Again
125 Haunted Heart
126 Burning a Hole in My Mind
127 Twelfth of Never
128 Burning a Hole in My Mind
129 The Twelfth of Never
