Hank Locklin - Singles Collection 1948-62 (CD)

Hank Locklin was one of the early exponents of the honk- tonk style of country, although his biggest successes came during the late '50s and early '60s with hits like Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On and Please Help Me I'm Falling during the time when the boundaries between country and pop were becoming increasingly blurred. This great-value 58-track 2-CD set focuses entirely on his singles output during the first fifteen years or so of his career during which his reputation was established and he had his biggest hits, from his early singles for the Gold Star label in 1948, and through his years with the Four Star label, when he had his initial hits, including the country No. 1 Let Me Be The One, until he joined RCA in 1953for whom he had his major successes. It naturally features the thirteen country and pop hits he had during this period, including, as well as those mentioned above, From Here To There To You, Geisha Girl, It's A Little More Like Heaven and Happy Birthday To Me, and comprises the majority of his A sides during that time with a good sprinkling of selected B sides as well. It's therefore an entertaining cross-section of his work, and offers an interesting insight into how his style developed during what was one of the most dynamic eras in the history of popular music.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Rio Grande Waltz
2. You've Been Talking in Your Sleep
3. Please Come Back and Stay
4. I Worship You
5. The Same Sweet Girl
6. Knocking at Your Door
7. Send Me the Pillow (That You Dream on)
8. I'm Lonely Darling
9. Our Love Will Show the Way
10. Are You Treating Your Neighbor As Yourself
11. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
12. Midnight Tears
13. Paper Face
14. Come Share the Sunshine with Me
15. The Holy Train
16. No One Is Sweeter Than You
17. A Year of Time
18. The Song of the Whispering Leaves
19. Your House of Love Won't Stand
20. Stumpy Joe
21. Tell Me You Love Me
22. Down Texas Way
23. Who's Knocking at My Heart
24. Alone at a Table for Two
25. Crazy Over You
26. Let Me Be the One
27. I'm Tired of Bumming Around
28. Your Heart Is An Island

Disc: 2

1. Who Am I to Cast the First Stone
2. Why Baby, Why'
3. A Good Woman's Love
4. Seven or Eleven
5. You Can't Never Tell
6. She's Better Than Most
7. 14 Karat Gold
8. Goin' Home All By Myself
9. Geisha Girl
10. Livin' Alone
11. Send Me the Pillow You Dream on
12. Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me
13. It's a Little More Like Heaven
14. Blue Grass Skirt
15. That Inner Glow
16. The Upper Room
17. I Gotta Talk to Your Heart
18. Foreign Car
19. Border of the Blues
20. Blues in Advance
21. Please Help Me I'm Falling
22. My Old Home Town
23. One Step Ahead of My Past
24. From Here to There to You
25. You're the Reason
26. Happy Birthday to Me
27. Happy Journey
28. I Need You Now
29. We're Goin' Fishin'
30. Wabash Cannonball