Bonnie Guitar Singles As & Bs 1956-1962 & More CD

Session musician, record label founder/owner, talent scout and singer Bonnie Guitar enjoyed a career in music that few of today's artists will ever match in terms of duration. She started singing as a teenager in the late 1930s and was still active in music when she died in January of this year - just a few weeks short of her 96th birthday!Success first came to Bonnie as an artist in the mid-late 50s, when she scored a big pop and country hit with her original version of Ned Miller's much covered (now) country standard 'Dark Moon'. She followed up with several other Hot 100 hits, including 1959's 'Candy Apple Red' which was one of the first released on her own Dolton label - also home to her discoveries the Fleetwoods and the Ventures. In this collection you will find every one of Bonnie's recordings from 1955 to 1962 inclusive. All are of the highest quality, and many deserved to be more successful than they actually were. If you enjoy the vocals of the likes of Patti Page and Doris Day, and you are not yet familiar with Bonnie, you will find much to admire here. Bonnie was a much admired individual who worked tirelessly on behalf of new talent, yet somehow she managed to sustain her own career - a career that also brought her almost a dozen more country hits from the mid-60s onwards. This superb 2CD collection - remastered, as always, from the finest available sources - will hopefully bring about the serious reappraisal of an artist who has been neglected for far too long.

1. Hello, Hello, Please Answer the Phone 2. If You See My Love Dancing (Original Version) 3. Clinging Vine - Bonnie Guitar and Lee Gotch 4. Dream Dreamers 5. Dark Moon 6. Big Mike 7. If You See My Love Dancing (Remake) 8. Half Your Heart 9. Mister Fire Eyes (Single Version) 10. There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder 11. Making Believe 12. I Saw Your Face in the Moon 13. A Very Precious Love 14. Johnny Vagabond 15. Love Is Over, Love Is Done 16. Please My Love 17. Shanty Boat 18. Only the Moon Man Knows 19. I Found You Out 20. If You'll Be the Teacher 21. Whispering Hope 22. Rocky Mountain Moon 23. Candy Apple Red 24. Come to Me I Love You (Akaka Falls) 25. Baby Moon 26. Solitude 27. Tell Her Bye 28. I'll Step Down 29. Broken Hearted Girl 30. Who Is She? 31. Moonlight and Shadows 32. Carolina Moon 33. Get Out and Get Under the Moon 34. By the Light of the Silvery Moon 35. Moonlight on the Colorado 36. Shine on Harvest Moon 37. Moonlight and Roses 38. It's Only a Paper Moon 39. The Moon Is Low 40. Roll Along Prairie Moon 41. Roll Along Kentucky Moon 42. In the Sweet Bye and Bye 43. Bringing in the Sheaves 44. Softly and Tenderly 45. Peace in the Valley 46. In the Garden 47. Lord, I Want to Find My Way 48. Let the Lower Lights Be Burning 49. The Old Rugged Cross 50. Just a Closer Walk with Thee 51. Rock of Ages 52. God's Tomorrow 53. Open the Door 54. Mister Fire Eyes (Album Version) 55. Down Where the Trade Winds Blow 56. Letter from Jenny