Country & Western Hit Parade 1967 / Various Country & Western Hit Parade 1967 / Various CD

EU-only collection of true Country classics from 1967. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music (Country & Western Hitparade) tells the real story of Country music record-by-record, year-by-year. The hits are here, but they're only half the story. The set goes beyond chart books to include groundbreaking records that went nowhere at the time, but influenced generations yet to come. This is the music that influenced the White Stripes, Gillian Welch, Gram Parsons, Nick Cave, the Beatles and many others. In other words, this is the true and uncensored history of Country music. Everything you need to hear, year-by-year, as it happened! Bear Family.

1. Gentry, Bobbie - Distant Drums (Undubbed) 2. Gentry, Bobbie - Ode to Billie Joe 3. Darrell, Johnny - Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town) 4. Jennings, Waylon - Mental Revenge 5. Reeves, Jim - I Won't Come in While He's There 6. Hamilton IV, George - Break My Mind 7. Ashley, Leon - Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got) 8. Haggard, Merle - Branded Man 9. Lynn, Loretta - What Kind of Girl (Do You Think I Am)' 10. Brown, Jim Ed - Pop a Top 11. Price, Ray - Danny Boy 12. Mitchum, Robert - Little Ole Wine Drinker Me 13. Hartford, John - Gentle on My Mind 14. Campbell, Glen - By the Time I Get to Phoenix 15. Robbins, Marty - Tonight Carmen 16. Tillis, Mel - Life Turned Her That Way 17. Owens, Buck - Where Does the Good Times Go 18. Davis, Skeeter - What Does It Take (To Keep a Man Like You Satisfied) 19. Jennings, Waylon - the Chokin' Kind 20. Cash, Johnny ; Carter, June - Jackson 21. Haggard, Merle - Sing Me Back Home 22. Jackson, Wanda - Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine 23. Reed, Jerry - Guitar Man 24. Jean, Norma - Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town 25. Jones, George - Walk Through This World with Me 26. Houston, David ; Wynette, Tammy - My Elusive Dreams 27. Stewart, Wynn - It's Such a Pretty World Today 28. Owens, Buck - Sam's Place 29. Wynette, Tammy - I Don't Wanna Play House 30. Pride, Country Charlie - Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger' 31. Wagoner, Porter - Cold Hard Facts of Life 32. Lovin' Spoonful, the - Nashville Cats