Johnnie & Jack Ashes Of Love: Greatest Recordings 1949-1962 CD

'Brother Acts' have always been a staple of Country music going right back to the music's earliest days. There have been considerably fewer 'Brother-In-Law Acts', and of those that there have been none has ever been as successful as the duo of Johnnie Wright and Jack Anglin. The 12 hits that J & J placed on the Billboard Country Charts between 1950 and 1962 barely begin to hint at how popular they were in their heyday, or how influential they were on dozens of other later twosomes. In this new Jasmine 2CD set you will find almost every secular single and a smattering of the gospel 45s that J & J released between 1949 and 1962 (remastered, as always, from the finest available sources) along with selected stereo remakes of their earliest hits for a much-acclaimed 1959 album. "Ashes Of Love" starts with their earliest classics and hits and ends with their final recordings as a duo in 1962. Sadly Jack Anglin died in a car crash while on his way to the funeral of his friends Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins. But Johnny Wright carried on making hits for many years thereafter, and toured until 2000 with his equally legendary wife Kitty Wells (who can also be heard in three part harmony on many of the early selections here). Whether they were hits or not, many of the songs in "Ashes Of Love" (including the title track) have achieved classic status through multiple revivals by other artists. If you want to hear some proper hillbilly harmony, not to mention some of the best country records of the 1950s in particular, you have come to the (W)right CD - and no, we're not just Anglin' for sales, either!

1. What About You 2. Just When I Needed You 3. Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb 4. Lonesome (Original) 5. Poison Love (Original) 6. I CanÆt Tell My Heart That 7. Hummingbird 8. CryinÆ Heart Blues 9. Ashes Of Love 10. Three Ways Of Knowing 11. Slow Poison (Original) 12. DonÆt Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes 13. Hank Williams Will Live Forever 14. South In New Orleans 15. S.O.S. 16. A Pleasure Not A Habit In Mexico 17. Pig Latin Serenade 18. (Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely 19. Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight 20. Honey I Need You 21. Beware Of æItÆ 22. Kiss Crazy Baby 23. Sincerely 24. Carry On 25. No One Dear But You 26. We Live In Two Different Worlds 27. So Lovely Baby 28. Weary Moments 29. Tom CatÆs Kitten 30. You CanÆt Divorce My Heart 31. I Want To Be Loved 32. Love, Love, Love 33. I Wonder Why You Said Goodbye 34. Live And Let Live 35. Why Not Confess 36. The Banana Boat Song 37. Mister Clock 38. Move It On Over 39. No One Will Ever Know 40. Slowly 41. Wedding Bells 42. Stop The World And Let Me Off 43. Camel Walk Stroll 44. IÆve Seen This Movie Before 45. Lonely Island Pearl 46. ThatÆs The Way The Cookie Crumbles 47. Poison Love (Remake) 48. What About You (Remake) 49. Lonesome (Remake) 50. What Do You Know About Heartaches 51. Sailor Man 52. Country Music Has Gone To Town 53. Love Problems 54. Slow Poison (Remake) 55. Uncle JohnÆs Bongos 56. The Moon Is High And So Am I 57. Thirty Six, Twenty Two, Thirty Six 58. What Do You Think Of Her Now 59. I Overlooked An Orchid 60. YouÆll Never Get A Better Chance Than This