The Singer -- The Songwriter: 1949-1960

Original Release Date:  1991

Track Listing

• 1. I Lost My Love (The Color Song)
• 2. Why Am I So Lonely?
• 3. Automatic Mama
• 4. Cloudy Skies
• 5. I Love No One But You
• 6. Carolina Breakdown [Instrumental]
• 7. Roses Are Red
• 8. Wiggle Wag [Instrumental]
• 9. Dark Future
• 10. Just Let Me Love You
• 11. A Blue Million Tears
• 12. Red Lips, White Lies and Blue Future
• 13. Sample Kisses
• 14. No Shoulder to Cry On
• 15. Let Me Stay in Your Arms
• 16. We're Stepping Out Tonight
• 17. Waitin' Down the Road
• 18. Walkin' in the Moonlight
• 19. I Just Love the Way You Tell a Lie
• 20. You Cast Me Out (Forevermore)
• 21. Symptoms of Love
• 22. Selfish With Your Kisses
• 23. Ice Could Heart
• 24. Many Times I've Waited
• 25. The Road of Life Alone
• 26. Run Boy
• 27. Sweet Dreams
• 28. I Must Forget You
• 29. Ah-Ha
• 30. It Happens Everytime
• 31. I Ain't Gonna Waste My Time
• 32. I Ain't A-Studyin' You, Baby
• 33. I'm Gonna Fool Everybody
• 34. I Believed in You
• 35. What a Fool I Was to Fall (For You)
• 36. You're the Only One for Me
• 37. I Love You Still
• 38. Everything Turns Out for the Best
• 39. I Can't Leave
• 40. Sittin' Here Cryin'
• 41. Too Soon to Know
• 42. Pretty Rainbow
• 43. Blue Blue Day
• 44. Tell It Like It Is
• 45. Oh, Lonesome Me
• 46. I Can't Stop Loving You
• 47. Tell It Like It Is
• 48. It Has to Be
• 49. Give Myself a Party
• 50. Look Who's Blue
• 51. Bad Bad Day
• 52. I Can't Leave
• 53. Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)
• 54. Heartbreak Avenue
• 55. We Could
• 56. If You Don't Know It
• 57. Sweet, Sweet Girl
• 58. Blues in My Heart
• 59. Give Myself a Party
• 60. Taller Than Trees
• 61. Satisfied
• 62. Wait for the Light to Shine
• 63. Canaan's Land
• 64. (Prayer Is the Key to Heaven) Faith Unlocks the Door
• 65. Evening Prayer
• 66. Lord I Am Coming Home
• 67. Satisfied
• 68. Climbing Up the Mountain
• 69. Where No One Stands Alone
• 70. Known Only to Him
• 71. My God Is Real
• 72. That Lonesome Valley
• 73. Who Cares (For Me)
• 74. When Will This Ever End
• 75. Sweet, Sweet Girl
• 76. A Stranger to Me
• 77. Won't Cha Come Back to Me
• 78. A Stranger to Me
• 79. As Much
• 80. Who Cares (For Me)
• 81. I Wish It Had Been a Dream
• 82. Ages and Ages Ago
• 83. Even Tho'
• 84. Didn't Work Out, Did It?
• 85. It's My Way
• 86. Almost
• 87. Do You Think
• 88. Foggy River
• 89. Midnight
• 90. Lonesome Old House
• 91. Don't Tell Me Your Troubles
• 92. I Couldn't Care Less
• 93. Don't Tell Me Your Troubles
• 94. Heartbreak Avenue
• 95. Big Hearted Me
• 96. Maybe Tomorrow
• 97. Everybody But Me
• 98. I've Movin' On
• 99. Just One Time
• 100. I May Never Get to Heaven
• 101. Lonely Street
• 102. On the Banks of the Old Ponchartrain
• 103. Why Don't You Love Me
• 104. If I Can Stay Away Long Enough
• 105. Never Love Again
• 106. The Streets of Laredo
• 107. My Love for You
• 108. My Hands Are Tied
• 109. It Only Hurts for a Little While
• 110. (I'd Be) Be a Legend in My Time
• 111. Far Far Away
• 112. Foolish Me
• 113. My Tears Don't Show
• 114. The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
• 115. What About Me
• 116. The Next Voice You Hear
• 117. Hurtin' Inside
• 118. Sweet Dreams
• 119. Time Hurts (As Well as It Heals)
• 120. What's the Reason I'm Not Pleasing You
• 121. Sweet Dreams
• 122. The Same Street

Credits

• Bill Monroe: ?
• Doug Kershaw: Composer
• Bill Anderson: Composer
• Chet Atkins: Guitar, Composer, Guitar (Electric), Producer, A&R
• Gene Autry: Composer
• Floyd Cramer: Piano
• Hank Garland: Guitar
• Don Gibson: Bass, Guitar, Composer, Leader, Vocals, Photography, Illustrations, Quotes Researched & Compiled
• Benny Martin: Composer
• Hank Snow: Composer
• Sue Thompson: ?
• Brook Benton: Composer
• The Jordanaires: Choir, Chorus
• Roy Orbison: ?
• Jimmie Lunceford: Fiddle
• Jimmie Grier: Composer
• Roy Drusky: Composer
• Don Everly: ?
• Anita Kerr: Vocals, Choir, Chorus
• Jimmy Day: Guitar (Steel)
• Grady Martin: Guitar
• Teddy Randazzo: Composer
• Rusty Kershaw: Guitar, Composer
• Howard White: Photography, Illustrations
• Los Índios Tabajaras: ?
• Martha Carson: Composer
• Carl Belew: Composer
• Carl Butler: Composer
• Frank Abbey: Transfers, Disc Transfers, Disc Dub
• The Anita Kerr Singers: Choir, Chorus, Vocal Group
• Brenton Banks: Organ
• Dick Baxter: Mixing
• Dave Burgess: Composer
• Ray Edenton: Guitar
• Mel Foree: Composer
• Ray Hall: Mixing
• Buddy Harman: Drums, Tambourine
• Hoyt Hawkins: Vocals, Choir, Chorus
• Eddie Hill: Guitar
• Roy M. "Junior" Husky: Bass
• Tommy Jackson: Fiddle
• Hugh Jarrett: Vocals, Choir, Chorus
• Willie Jones: Composer
• Bob Jones: Mastering, Disc Dub
• Buddy Killen: Composer
• Douglas Kirkham: Drums
• Millie Kirkham: Choir, Chorus
• Glen Kolotkin: Mixing
• Don Law: Producer, A&R
• Ira Louvin: Composer
• Charlie Louvin: Composer
• Neal Matthews: Choir, Chorus
• Murray Nash: Producer, A&R
• Ernest Ernie Newton: Bass
• Louis Dean Nunley: Vocals, Choir, Chorus
• Clyde Otis: Composer
• Webb Pierce: Composer
• Jimmy Riddle: Harmonica
• Jerry Rivers: Fiddle
• Fred Rose: Composer
• Wesley Rose: Producer
• Steve Sholes: Producer, A&R
• Velma Smith: Guitar
• Leonard Sutton: Guitar
• Wayne Walker: Composer
• Mark Wilder: Research, Tape Research
• Marijohn Wilkin: Choir, Chorus
• Hank Williams: Composer
• Joe Zinkan: Bass
• Dorothy Ann Dillard: Vocals, Choir, Chorus
• Roy Huskey Jr.: Composer
• Stephen H. Sholes: Producer
• C. Walker: Composer
• J.C. "Cleo" Davis: Fiddle
• Culley Holt: Choir, Chorus
• Otto Kitsinger: Photography, Illustrations
• Bob Moore: Bass
• Jack Shook: Guitar
• Hugh Gordon Stoker: Choir, Chorus
• Henry Newton "Tommy" Vaden: Fiddle
• Luke Brandon: Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm)
• Troy M. Hatcher: Drums
• Summie L. Hendrick: Composer, Guitar (Steel)
• Autry Inman: Guitar, Leader
• Walter Lenk: Drums
• James "Jimmie" Selph: Guitar
• Troy Martin: Producer
• Marion Sumner: Fiddle, Guitar
• Ray C. Walker: Choir, Chorus
• Dave Rich: Composer
• Loren Otis Shook: Guitar
• Walter Garland: Guitar
• English P. Jr. "Jake" Tullock: Bass
• Dale Vinicur: Liner Notes, Biographical Information
• William Guilford Wright, Jr.: Vocals, Choir, Chorus
• Marvin H. Hughes: Piano
• Neal Matthews, Jr.: Vocals, Choir, Chorus
• Bruce Hailstalk: Research, Tape Research
• Hoffman Nienburg: Artwork, Art Direction
• Hoffmann Nienburg: Artwork
• R.A. Andreas: Photography, Illustrations
• Richard Weize: Producer, Reissue Producer, Research, Discographical Annotation, Tape Research, Discography, Biographical Information
• Gerd Weiler: Artwork
• D.C. Addis: Guitar
• P.C. Destazio: Bass
• Blackie Lunceford: Fiddle
• Hal D. Peeler: Guitar
• Joe de Priest: Photography, Illustrations
• Howard Sisk: Guitar, Vocals
• Pinky Tomlin: Composer
• Velma E. Williams Smith: Guitar
• W.S. Stevenson: Composer
• Tennessean: Photography, Illustrations
• Papa John Gordy: Piano
• James Barber: Fiddle
• Samuel Scott: Composer
• Tom A. LeMay: Composer
• Eugene Lockhart: Composer
• Mack David: Composer
• Vic McAlpin: Composer
• Ernest Seitz: Composer
• Kenny Sowder: Composer
• Fred Spielman: Composer
• Jack Toombs: Composer
• Cirino Colacrai: Composer
• Lee Emerson: Composer
• Ramona Vincent: Composer
• Bill Kirby: Bass
• Milton Scarborough: Accordion, Vocals
• Richard Baxter: Mixing
• Earl Hatch: Composer
• Sylke Lohmeyer: Artwork
• Harold Harper: Guitar
• Ned Costner: ?
• H.F. Davis: Banjo
• Velvedere "Doc" Whitmire: ?
• Jim Barber: Fiddle, Vocals
• Russell Lee "Rusty" Kershaw: Guitar
• Coy Poe: Composer
• Howard Osmond Jr. White: Guitar (Steel)
• Billy Roberts: ?