Classic Country: The Fifties: Legends

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
# Title Artist Rating Length
1 Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash 2:49
2 Who Shot Sam
George Jones 2:23
3 More and More
Webb Pierce 2:22
4 Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Tomorrow You'll Cry)
Porter Wagoner 2:22
5 Blue Boy
Jim Reeves 2:13
6 Rose Marie
Slim Whitman 2:22
7 (When You Feel Like You're in Love) Don't Just Stand There
Carl Smith 2:26
8 The New Green Light
Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys 2:11
9 Birmingham Bounce
Red Foley 3:03
10 If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
Lefty Frizzell 2:57
11 Cold, Cold Heart
Hank Williams 2:45
12 Just Call Me Lonesome
Eddy Arnold 2:37
13 Love Me Tender
Elvis Presley 3.8 2:43
14 Searching (For Someone Like You)
Kitty Wells 2:25
15 Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight
Johnnie and Jack 2:11
▼ CD 2
# Title Artist Rating Length
1 All Shook Up
Elvis Presley 3.65 1:59
2 Great Balls of Fire
Jerry Lee Lewis 5 1:54
3 Believe What You Say
Ricky Nelson 2:06
4 Give Myself a Party
Don Gibson 2:39
5 Yellow Roses
Hank Snow 2:48
6 Set Him Free
Skeeter Davis 2:17
7 It's a Little More Like Heaven
Hank Locklin 2:37
8 Devoted to You
The Everly Brothers 2:25
9 I Wann Play House With You
Eddy Arnold 2:13
10 Always Late (With Your Kisses)
Lefty Frizzell 3:07
11 Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Hank Williams 2:39
12 The Same Old Me
Ray Price 2:46
13 Knee Deep in the Blues
Marty Robbins 2:12
14 Sweet Dreams
Faron Young 2:44
15 Goodnight, Irene
Ernest Tubb & Red Foley 3:01

Credits

CD 1

additional writer:
Vera Matson (1956) (track 13)
Elvis Presley (1956) (track 13)
assistant engineer:
Dan Milazzo (track 13)
Claudius Mittendorfer (track 13)
composer:
Johnny Cash (country music legend) (track 1)
Hank Williams (country music legend) (track 11)
George R. Poulton (1861) (track 13)
engineer:
Ray Bardani (track 13)
lead vocals:
Elvis Presley (1956-09-01) (track 13)
lyricist:
Johnny Cash (country music legend) (track 1)
Hank Williams (country music legend) (track 11)
Ken Darby (1956) (track 13)
vocals:
Jon Dodson (1956-09-01) (track 13)
Charles Prescott (1956-09-01) (track 13)
Rad Robinson (1956-09-01) (track 13)
publisher:
Aberbach (London) (Publisher) (track 1)
Acuff Rose Music, Inc. (track 11)
Carlin Music Corporation (track 1)
Hiriam Music (track 11)
Elvis Presley Music (1956 –) (track 13)
remasters:
Love Me Tender (legacy edition remaster) by Elvis Presley (track 13)
later parody versions:
Donnie Prison Blues (track 1)
The Cats of Cash (track 1)
later translated versions:
Estima'm tendrament (track 13)
Folsom Prison Blues (German version) (track 1)
Gå min äskling (Love Me Tender) (track 13)
Mit dir leben! (track 13)
Sluten anstalt blues (track 1)
recording of:
Cold, Cold Heart (track 11)
Folsom Prison Blues (track 1)
Love Me Tender (1956-09-01) (track 13)
version of:
Aura Lea (track 13)

CD 2

bass guitar:
[unknown] (Special Purpose Artist - Do not add releases here, if possible.) (track 2)
drums:
[unknown] (Special Purpose Artist - Do not add releases here, if possible.) (track 2)
piano:
Jerry Lee Lewis (1957-10) (track 2)
additional performer:
The Jordanaires (track 1)
assistant engineer:
Dan Milazzo (track 1)
Claudius Mittendorfer (track 1)
composer:
Don Gibson (track 4)
Dorsey Burnette (track 3)
Johnny Burnette (track 3)
Melvin Endsley (track 13)
Hank Williams (country music legend) (track 11)
engineer:
Ray Bardani (track 1)
lead vocals:
Elvis Presley (track 1)
lyricist:
Dorsey Burnette (track 3)
Johnny Burnette (track 3)
Melvin Endsley (track 13)
Hank Williams (country music legend) (track 11)
producer:
Chet Atkins (track 6)
Jack Clement (track 2)
Jimmie Haskell (track 3)
Ozzie Nelson (track 3)
Ricky Nelson (rock n roll artist) (track 3)
Sam Phillips (Producer at Sun Records) (1957) (track 2)
vocals:
Ricky Nelson (rock n roll artist) (track 3)
Jerry Lee Lewis (1957-10) (track 2)
writer:
Otis Blackwell (tracks 1–2)
Jack Hammer (Earl Burroughs, co-wrote Great Balls of Fire) (track 2)
Elvis Presley (track 1)
phonographic copyright by:
Sun Record Company (1957) (track 2)
publisher:
Carlin Music Corporation (track 2)
Hill & Range Songs, Inc. (track 2)
Matragun Music Inc. (track 3)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (track 3)
Sony/ATV Songs LLC (track 3)
DJ-mixes:
Swing the Mood by Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers (track 1)
That's What I Like by Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers (track 2)
edit of:
Great Balls of Fire (chat & master) by Jerry Lee Lewis (track 2)
remixes:
Great Balls of Fire (master differently drum overdubbed) by Jerry Lee Lewis (track 2)
Great Balls of Fire (master electronically created stereo) by Jerry Lee Lewis (track 2)
part of:
Dave Marsh: The Best of the Top 40 Singles: 1957 (number: 7) (track 2)
Dave Marsh: The Best of the Top 40 Singles: 1957 (number: 18) (track 1)
The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 96) (track 2)
The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 353) (track 1)
later translated parody versions:
Ich bin ganz hochgeschüttelt (track 1)
later translated versions:
Estremécete (track 1)
later versions:
J'ai tout mon temps (track 2)
recording of:
Believe What You Say (track 3)
Give Myself a Party (track 4)
Knee Deep in the Blues (track 13)
Long Gone Lonesome Blues (track 11)
All Shook Up (1957-01-12) (track 1)
Great Balls of Fire (1957-10) (track 2)
referred to in medleys:
Mix 4: All Shook Up / Great Balls of Fire / Don’t Be Cruel / See You Later, Alligator / Let’s Twist Again / Rock Around the Clock / Hound Dog (reprise) (tracks 1–2)
The Anniversary Waltz, Part 1 (track 2)
Swing the Mood (track 1)

Release

ASIN: US: B000MS9UY2 [info]

Release Group

part of: Classic Country (Time-Life Music) (number: 16)