20 of Hank Williams' greatest hits.
Format:
Audio disc
Title:
20 of Hank Williams' greatest hits.
Other title(s):
Twenty of Hank Williams' greatest hits
Hank Williams' greatest hits
Greatest hits
Publication:
New York, New York : Mercury Records, [1997]
Physical Description:
1 audio disc (52 min., 28 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Country songs.
Title from disc label.
Previously released recordings.
Program notes by Jerry Rivers (1 folded sheet) inserted in container.
Contents:
Your cheatin' heart (2:41) -- Move it on over (2:42) -- I'm so lonesome I could cry (2:45) -- Ramblin' man (3:00) -- My heart would know (2:24) -- Kaw-liga (2:33) -- Cold, cold heart (2:42) -- Lovesick blues (2:42) -- Honky tonk blues (2:10) -- Honky tonkin' (2:42) -- There'll be no teardrops tonight (2:46) -- Jambalaya (on the bayou) (2:51) -- Hey good lookin' (2:53) -- Window shopping (2:31) -- I can't help it (if I'm still in love with you) (2:22) -- Half as much (2:41) -- Why don't you love me (2:22) -- You win again (2:34) -- Baby, we're really in love (2:31) -- Take these chains from my heart (2:36).
Summary:
After 27 years in print as 24 Greatest Hits, Mercury kindly reduced it to 20 Greatest Hits. It's still excellent value, and it's still sobering to realize that Hank recorded just 66 songs during his lifetime, almost all of them essential. Here are those that serve as a working definition of country music, and as an admonition to artists who try to get too wordy or try to lose themselves in minor keys. "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Honky-Tonk Blues," "Cold, Cold Heart," "Lovesick Blues," "You Win Again," "I Can't Help It," "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," and the rest. Fifty years later, they still have the power to move, and the power to shape modern country music