Lee,Wilma / Cooper,Stoney Singles Collection 1947-62 CD

Husband and wife duo Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, who performed and recorded through most of their career with their group The Clinch Mountain Clan, had their roots in the gospel, folk and hillbilly musical traditions of the Appalachian mountain country of their native West Virginia. They stayed true to their unalloyed country style, making few concessions to the commercial honky-tonk and New Nashville developments during the 1950s, but as stalwarts on West Virginia's rival to the Grand Ole Opry "The WWVA Jamboree, still managed to achieve a run of hits in the late 1950s and into the early '60s, defying the trends in the wider pop music market. This great-value 58-track 2-CD set comprises at least one side from most of their releases on the Rich-R-Tone and Columbia labels, along with most of their A & B sides from their singles for the Hickory label from this era. It features all their career chart entries, including the Top 10 country hits "Come Walk With Me", "Big Midnight Special", "There's A Big Wheel" and "Wreck On The Highway", plus their Top 20 country hits with country/pop crossover songs like "Johnny My Love" and "This Ole House". They were a highly distinctive act, occupying a particular niche on the country scene, and this selection of their recordings is a worthy showcase for their style.

1. Girl in the Blue Velvet Band 2. What Good Will It Do 3. The Little Rosewood Casket 4. Two Little Orphans 5. This World Can't Stand Long 6. Willie Roy (The Crippled Boy) 7. Moonlight on West Virginia 8. What's the Matter with This World 9. I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow 10. The White Rose 11. Golden Rocket 12. Sunny Side of the Mountain 13. You Tried to Ruin My Name 14. I'm Taking My Audition (To Sing Up in the Sky) 15. Walking My Lord Up Calvary Hill 16. My Lord's Gonna Shake My Hand 17. Have Mercy on Me 18. Clinch Mountain Waltz 19. You Belong to Somebody Else 20. You Can't Take It with You 21. Bamboozled 22. A Brand New Baby 23. How It Hurts to Cry Alone 24. Just for a While 25. Please Help Me to Be Wrong 26. Each Season Changes You 27. I Want to Be Loved 28. Cheated Too 29. This Crazy Crazy World 30. The Tramp on the Street 31. Loving You 32. This Thing Called Man 33. Diamond Joe 34. I Tell My Heart 35. He Taught Them How 36. I'm Not the Girl 37. It's Just As Well 38. Come Walk with Me 39. Is It Right 40. Big Midnight Special 41. X Marks the Spot 42. Rachel's Guitar 43. There's a Big Wheel 44. Johnny My Love (Grandma's Diary) 45. More Love 46. Heartbreak Street 47. This Ole House 48. I Gotta Laugh (To Keep from Crying) 49. Train, You Took My Baby 50. Night After Night 51. Wreck on the Highway 52. The Mighty Battle Cry 53. Heartaches Don't Lie 54. Have Faith in Me 55. Philadelphia Lawyer 56. Trouble Ahead 57. Doing My Time 58. Singing Waterfall