George Hamilton IV - Collection 1956-62 (CD)

George Hamilton IV was a country singer and musician who started his professional life a teen idol pop singer with the 1956 Top 10 hit with his debut single "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" George Hamilton IV was a country singer and musician who started his professional life a teen idol pop singer with the 1956 Top 10 hit with his debut single "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" on the small Colonial label, immediately signing to ABC-Paramount for whom he had further hits as his style moved towards a blend of pop, country and rockabilly, as he had further notable hits including the Top 10 "Why Don't They Understand" and "I Know Where I'm Going", both of which also made the UK charts. By the end of the '50s he had become totally identified with country, moving to Nashville and becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and his hits after 1960 were almost all in the country charts, where he continued to have chart entries through to the late '70s. This great-value 58-track 2-CD set comprises almost all the A & B sides of his singles during this era for Colonial, ABC-Paramount and RCA, to whom he moved in 1961, plus selected titles from his albums for ABC "On Campus" and "Sing Me A Sad Song (Tribute To Hank Williams)" and his first RCA album "To You And Yours (From Me And Mine)". It naturally features all his fourteen pop, country and UK chart entries from these years, including, as well as those noted above, the Top 10 country hits "Before This Day Ends", "Three Steps To The Phone" and "If You Don't Know, I Ain't Gonna Tell You". It's a comprehensive overview of the key formative years of his career, and an intriguing insight into his musical development during this time, as well as being an entertaining showcase for his distinctive talent.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. A Rose and a Baby Ruth
2. If You Don't Know
3. I've Got a Secret
4. Sam
5. Only One Love
6. If I Possessed a Printing Press
7. High School Romance
8. Everybody's Body
9. Why Don't They Understand
10. Even Tho'
11. Now and for Always
12. One Heart
13. I Know Where I'm Goin'
14. Who's Taking You to the Prom
15. When Will I Know
16. Your Cheatin' Heart
17. Lucy, Lucy
18. The Two of Us
19. The Teen Commandments
20. The Steady Game
21. Can You Blame Us
22. Gee
23. I Know Your Sweetheart
24. Why I'm Walkin'
25. Tremble
26. Before This Day Ends
27. Loneliness All Around Me
28. A Walk on the Wild Side of Life
29. It's Just the Idea
30. Three Steps to the Phone

Disc: 2

1. The Ballad of Widder Jones
2. To You and Yours (From Me and Mine)
3. I Want a Girl
4. China Doll
5. Commerce Street and Sixth Avenue North
6. If You Don't Know, I Ain't Gonna Tell You
7. Where Nobody Knows Me
8. In This Very Same Room
9. If You Want Me to
10. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
11. Tell Me Why
12. Carolina Moon
13. You Tell Me Your Dream
14. Aura Lee
15. Girl of My Dreams
16. Let Me Call You Sweetheart
17. I Can't Help It
18. Half As Much
19. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
20. Take These Chains from My Heart
21. Cold Cold Heart
22. You Win Again
23. The Wall
24. Rainbow
25. I Will Miss You When You Go
26. If You Don't Somebody Else Will
27. Baby Blue Eyes
28. Life's Railway to Heaven