Smith,Connie Born To Sing CD

'There's only three real female singers: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, and Connie Smith. The rest of us are only pretending.' (Dolly Parton Probably no one in the long history of country music was 'Born to Sing' more than Connie Smith. She stands alongside Patsy Cline as the best pure singer the music has yet produced. Discovered by Bill Anderson in West Virginia, Connie Smith became a star overnight when her recording of Bill Anderson's Once A Day shot to Number One on the country charts in 1964 (the first debut single by a female singer ever to do so). This 4-CD set includes all of Connie Smith's RCA recordings from July 1964 to September 1967. It not only includes Once A Day, but all the great early hits: Then And Only Then, Tiny Blue Transistor Radio, If I Talk To Him, Nobody But A Fool, Cincinnati Ohio, Ain't Had No Lovin', The Hurtin's All Over, I'll Come Running, and Burning A Hole In My Mind. This set also includes Connie Smith's early LPs: 'Connie Smith,' 'Cute 'n' Country,' 'Miss Smith Goes To Nashville,' 'Great Sacred Songs,' 'Connie In The Country,' 'Downtown Country,' 'Sings Bill Anderson,' and 'Born To Sing. ' Her French session is also included. The cream of Nashville songwriters wanted their songs interpreted by Connie Smith, and here are some of the greatest early works of Bill Anderson, Dallas Frazier, Harlan Howard, Willie Nelson, as well as superlative musicianship from steel guitarist Weldon Myrick, guitarist Jerry Reed, and the justly acclaimed Nashville A-Team. Connie Smith's life story is told for the first time in Colin Escott's full-length biographical essay, and the set includes many previously unpublished photos from Connie Smith's personal collection, as well as a complete discography.

1. I'm Ashamed of You 2. Threshold 3. Once a Day 4. Darling Are You Ever Coming Home 5. I Don't Love You Anymore 6. Hinges on the Door 7. Tell Another Lie 8. Don't Forget (I Still Love You) 9. Tiny Blue Transistor Radio 10. Other Side of You 11. Then and Only Then 12. It's Just My Luck 13. Senses 14. I Can't Remember 15. Will the Real Me Please Stop Crying 16. Even Tho 17. Love Is No Excuse 18. Not 'Til You Come Back to Me 19. Two Empty Arms 20. I Can Stand It (As Long As You Can) 21. I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) 22. I Thought of You 23. I Can Turn Your World Around 24. More to Love Than This 25. House Divided 26. Holdin' on 27. If You Won't Tell 28. If I Talk to Him 29. I Don't Have Anyplace to Go 30. Everybody's Gotta Be Somewhere 31. Same As Mine 32. Holdin' on 33. Nobody But a Fool L (Would Lov Eyou) 34. I'll Never Get Over Loving You 35. Go Ahead and Make Me Cry 36. In My Baby's Arms Again 37. For Better or for Worse 38. Ain't Nothin Shakin' (But the Leaves) 39. Where Could I Go But to the Lord 40. Farther Along 41. When God Dips His Love in My Heart 42. He Set Me Free 43. Wings of a Dove 44. I Saw a Man 45. Just a Closer Wlak with Three 46. Po' Folks 47. Four Walls 48. Cry Cyr Cyr 49. In the Garden 50. Wayfairn Pilgrim 51. Keep on Holding to Those Nail Scarred Hands 52. Satisfied 53. I Wouldn't Take Nothin for My Journey 54. Five Fingers to Spare 55. Ain't Had No Lovin' 56. You and Only You 57. Strange 58. Go Away Stranger 59. Touch of Yesterday 60. Born to Sing 61. Invisible Tears 62. Paper Roses 63. I Don't Know Why I Keep Loving You 64. I Will 65. Gone 66. My Little Corner of the World 67. Pas Souvent 68. J'imaginais Autrement L'amour 69. Le Jour Et la Nuit 70. L'amour N'excuse Pas 71. Love's Gonna Live Here 72. Foolin' Around 73. You Ain't Woman Enough 74. I Overlooked An Orchid 75. I'm Little But I'm Loud 76. Y' All Come 77. A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed 78. Slowly 79. World of Forgotten People 80. Hurtin's All Over 81. It'll Be Easy 82. I'll Come Running 83. I'll Come Running 84. Ride Ride Ride 85. My Own Peculiar Way 86. Walk Out Backwards 87. Your Men'ry Comes Along 88. Downtown 89. Born a Woman 90. Night Has a Trousand Eyes 91. That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome 92. It's Gonna Rain Today 93. It's Now or Never 94. My Heart Has a Mind of It's Own 95. City Lights 96. On and on and on 97. Everybody Loves Somebody 98. That's What Lonesome Is 99. In Case You Ever Change Your Mind 100. It Comes and Goes 101. My Whole World Is Falling Down 102. It's Not the End of Everything 103. Cincinnati Ohio 104. I Love You Enough (For Both of Us) 105. Only for Me 106. I'll Come Running 107. Easy Come Easy Go 108. I Love You Drops 109. Don't Feel Sorry for Me 110. I'll Love You Enough 111. Burning Bridges 112. Don't Keep Me Lonely Too Long 113. There Goes My Everything 114. Touch My Heart 115. Walk Through This World with Me 116. It's Such a Pretty World Today 117. If Teardrops Were Silve 118. It Only Hurts for a Little While 119. How Much Lonelier Can Lonely Be 120. I'd Rather Be a Fool 121. Surely 122. I'm Your Woman 123. Burning a Hole in My Mind 124. Baby's Back Again 125. Haunted Heart 126. Burning a Hole in My Mind 127. Twelfth of Never 128. Burning a Hole in My Mind 129. The Twelfth of Never