Nashville Sound Of Success: Country 1'S 1958-1962 Nashville Sound Of Success: Country 1'S 1958-1962 CD

EU two CD collection. The five years from the beginning of 1958 to the end of 1962 were crucial to the genesis of country music as it moved away from a traditional hillbilly and western sound to something altogether more cosmopolitan in construction. The arrival of The Nashville Sound - with vocal groups and strings replacing steel guitars and fiddles - brought country music into the mainstream and resulted in an enormous amount of crossover action between the country chart and the Hot 100. The Nashville Sound Of Success charts the progress, and the international acceptance of Country music between '58 and '62 by presenting - in chronological order - every record to make #1 on the Billboard Country chart during that period. Not all of the records were recorded in Nashville, but all of them play a vital part in telling the story of country music's first quantum leap towards becoming the commercial product it is considered to be in the 21st century. These discs are filled with some of the biggest names in country music - including Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Faron Young, Don Gibson and many more - singing some of their most beloved classic hits, and all resented in the best possible sound, from the best possible sources. As vintage country compilations go, this one takes a lot of beating. What's not to enjoy about The Nashville Sound Of Success?

1. The Story of My Life - Marty Robbins 2. Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis 3. Ballad of a Teenage Queen - Johnny Cash 4. Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson 5. Just Married - Marty Robbins 6. All I Have to Do Is Dream - the Everly Brothers 7. Guess Things Happen That Way - Johnny Cash 8. Alone with You - Faron Young 9. Blue Blue Day - Don Gibson 10. Bird Dog - the Everly Brothers 11. City Lights - Ray Price 12. Billy Bayou - Jim Reeves 13. Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash 14. When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below) - Johnny Horton 15. White Lightning - George Jones 16. The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton 17. Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson 18. The Three Bells - the Browns 19. Country Girl - Faron Young 20. The Same Old Me - Ray Price 21. El Paso - Marty Robbins 22. He'll Have to Go - Jim Reeves 23. Please Help Me, I'm Falling - Hank Locklin 24. Alabam - Cowboy Copas 25. Wings of a Dove - Ferlin Husky 26. North to Alaska - Johnny Horton 27. Don't Worry - Marty Robbins 28. Hello Walls - Faron Young 29. Heartbreak U.S.A - Kitty Wells 30. I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline 31. Tender Years - George Jones 32. Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke 33. Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean 34. Misery Loves Company - Porter Wagoner 35. That's My Pa - Sheb Wooley 36. She's Got You - Patsy Cline 37. Charlie's Shoes - Billy Walker 38. She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones 39. Wolverton Mountain - Claude King 40. Devil Woman - Marty Robbins 41. Mama Sang a Song - Bill Anderson 42. I've Been Everywhere - Hank Snow 43. Don't Let Me Cross Over - Carl Butler and Pearl 44. Ruby Ann - Marty Robbins 45. The Ballad of Jed Clampett - Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys