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~ George Jones - She Thinks I Still Care, 1962-1964 5-CD-Box & Book
Views: 5493 |  |  |  |  | George Jones She Thinks I Still Care The Complete United Artists Recordings, 1962 - 1964 5-CD Boxed Set (LP-Size) with 48-Page Book # The complete George Jones United Artists recordings, 150 songs compiled in one package for the first time ever. # Compile ...More s every surviving title including six previously unissued tracks. # Including his greatest hits from the era: She Thinks I Still Care, You Comb Her Hair, A Girl I Used To Know, She Once Lived Here and The Race Is On along with lesser-known Jones gems including Open Pit Mine and Jones's overlooked original composition In The Shadow Of A Lie. # Features his highly regarded tribute albums to Little Jimmy Dickens, Hank Williams, Bob Wills along with 'George Jones Sings The Hits Of His Country Cousins' the gospel package 'Homecoming In Heaven' and 'The Best Of George Jones. # Includes his complete UA duet recordings with Melba Montgomery including their admired 'Bluegrass Hootenanny' album. # Contains a full bio covering the UA years and rare photos. George Jones was coming off a successful Mercury Records contract when his producer Pappy Daily took him to United Artists Records in 1962. Instantly, he became UA's top country star and got off to a powerful start with Dickey Lee's ballad She Thinks I Still Care, an award-winning performance at the time, a country music standard today. Over the next two and a half years, Jones recorded originals along with songs written by some of Nashville's greatest, among them Jack Clement ... |
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~ We keep the show going tonight show with Dennis You Comb Her
Views: 3 |  |  |  |  | Wekeep the show going tonight show with Dennis You Comb Her Hair by George Jones. we are broadcasting from a littel cafe called Tomi's Cowgirl Cafe in Bakersfield CaSponsored By: Bakersfield Midas, GoodTimeKaraoke.com 1-800-200-9935, ChartBuster Karaoke, ...More MyBakersfieldPrinter.com - Captured Live on Ustream at www.ustream.tv |
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~ The Life and Work of Hank Cochran (2/2) ~ Songs By: Jeannie Seely & Patsy Cline
Views: 491 |  |  |  |  | Click here for a brief biography and song listing of Hank Cochran. The Life and Work of Hank Cochran (August 2, 1935 -- July 15, 2010) Hank Cochran was born on August 2, 1935 in Isola, Mississippi, a farming area north of Jackson. His parents divorced whe ...More n he nine years old. By age ten, Hank was playing guitar and singing in church. He moved to Memphis to live with his father for a while, but the hardscrabble post-Depression-era existence was difficult for them, and Hank was soon placed in an orphan home in Memphis. During his early teens, Hank and his uncle who also played guitar, moved to Hobbs, New Mexico to work in the oilfields. A few years later, Hank returned to Mississippi for a while, but then headed out to California. After having success with amateur contests throughout the area, Hank decided to form a band to play at various clubs and events. His search for a guitar player led him to Eddie Cochran (not related to Hank). The two teens formed a rock 'n' roll duo called The Cochran Brothers. They appeared on the Town Hall Party and toured with country legend Lefty Frizzell. When the duo disbanded, Eddie found brief stardom in rock 'n' roll, before he died in a car accident (1960). That year (1960), Hank moved to Nashville to take a job as a songwriter with Pamper Music, a publishing company partly owned by the legendary singer Ray Price. There, Hank teamed up with Harlan Howard and wrote I Fall to Pieces. It became a major hit for Patsy Cline (No. 1, 1960). Cline ... |
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