Johnnie & Jack Johnnie & Jack Collection 1945-62 CD

Country duo Johnnie & Jack were Johnnie Wright and Jack Anglin, singers, songwriters and guitarists who had been performing together for several years, interrupted by war service, since the late 1930s when they made their first records in 1945. They came together because Johnnie Wright was married to Kitty Wells, and Jack married Wright's sister. They combined typical southern harmonies with songs on familiar themes of love gone wrong, sometimes imbued with a faith-based seriousness, which proved popular with the market and they had more than a dozen hits through the 1950s recording for RCA and were long-time members of the Grand Ole Opry. This great-value 62-track 2-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides from their early releases on the Apollo label, and then from their ten years with RCA before they moved to Decca in the early 1960s, their career being cut short by Jack Anglin's death in an auto accident in 1963. For most of their career, they were billed on their record labels as Johnnie and Jakc, The Tennessee Mountain Boys. It features all their career hits, including the Country No. 1 "(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely" and the Top 10 entries "Poison Love", "Cryin' Heart Blues", "How Can I Believe In You", "Cryin' Heart Blues", "Three Ways Of Knowing", "Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight", "Honey I Need You", "Beware Of It", "Kiss Crazy Baby" and "Stop The World (And Let Me Off)". It includes at least one side from most of their 60 or so releases during their career, and it provides a substantial showcase for their distinctive talent and style

1. Love in the First Degree 2. This Is the End 3. She Went with a Smile 4. Just When I Needed You 5. I Heard My Saviour Call 6. Pray Together and We'll Stay Together 7. Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb 8. Shout 9. Jesus Remembered Me 10. Poison Love 11. Lonesome 12. I Can't Tell My Heart That 13. Take My Ring from Your Finger 14. Cryin' Heart Blues 15. How Can I Believe in You 16. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide 17. You Tried to Ruin My Name 18. Three Ways of Knowing 19. Slow Poison 20. Shake My Mother's Hand for Me 21. I've Gone and Done It Again 22. Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes 23. I'll Live with God (To Die No More) 24. Hank Williams Will Live Forever 25. South in New Orleans 26. Private Property 27. Angels Rock Me to Sleep 28. Pig Latin Serenade (Pa Won't Know and Ma Won't Care) 29. From the Manger to the Cross 30. Cheated Out of Love 31. You Got Me in Your Power 32. Borrowed Diamonds 33. (Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely 34. You're Just What the Doctor Ordered 35. Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight 36. Honey I Need You 37. Beware of 'It' 38. Kiss Crazy Baby 39. Sincerely 40. No One Dear But You 41. Look Out 42. S.O.S 43. I Want to Be Loved 44. I Loved You Better Than You Knew 45. Tom Cat's Kittens 46. The Banana Boat Song 47. Pleasure Is Not a Habit in Mexico 48. That's Why I'm Leavin' 49. Move It on Over 50. Camel Walk Stroll 51. Stop the World (And Let Me Off) 52. I've Seen This Movie Before 53. Lonely Island Pearl 54. That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles 55. I Wonder If You Know? 56. Sailor Man 57. Sweetie Pie 58. Just Like You 59. Country Music Has Gone to Town 60. Uncle John's Bongos 61. Sweet Baby 62. Thirty Six-Twenty Two-Thirty Six