Skeeter Davis - The Essential Skeeter Davis
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Artist: Skeeter DavisEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-03-28
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
- Set Him Free
- Am I That Easy To Forget
- The One You Slip Around With
- (I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too
- No, Never
- My Last Date (With You)
- Optimistic
- The End Of The World
- Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now
- Where I Ought To Be
- I Can't Stay Mad At You
- I'm Saving My Love
- Silver Threads And Golden Needles
- Mine Is A Lonely Life
- Let Me Get Close To You
- Fuel To The Flame
- What Does It Take (To Keep A Man Like You Satisfied)
- I'm A Lover (Not A Fighter)
- Bus Fare To Kentucky
Free Music Notes for The Essential Skeeter Davis
Free Music Review: What Is The Hall Of Fame Waiting For?
Hit: 5 Stars
If anyone was ever in doubt that the Country Music Hall Of Fame is a euphemism for "Old Boy's Club" they need only look at the list of inductees since it was formed in 1961. To date, as far as I can determine, there are 105 in the Hall, both performers and non-performers, and of that total just 15 are women, or 14.3 %! Just 12 of that total were performers. Now, considering the fantastic female Country artists over the decades, that is simply ridiculous.
The performers honored so far are Mother Maybelle and Sara Carter, admitted as part of "The Original Carter Family," Patsy Cline, Minnie Pearl, Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Montana, Brenda Lee, Cindy Walker, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris. In fact, unril Emmylou was inducted as part of the class of 2008, Dolly was the last female to be admitted, that coming in 1999.
Sound cases could be made for the admission of many many more, among them The Judds, Dottie West, Tanya Tucker, Connie Smith, Sammi Smith, Jean Shepard, Linda Rondstadt, Anne Murray, Barbara and Louise Mandrell, Crystal Gayle, and Donna Fargo. But none more so than Mary Frances Penick, better known as Skeeter Davis.
From her first in 1953 - (I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know - # 1 C&W for EIGHT weeks and # 18 Pop late that summer) as part of The Davis Sisters with friend Betty Jack Davis (killed in an August 2, 1953 car crash that also seriously injured Skeeter, even as their song was climbing the charts) - to her last in 1976 (I Love Us - # 60 Country that fall), she racked up 41 hit Country singles, 20 of which were Top 20, had thirteen cross over to the Billboard Pop Top/Hot 100 or the "bubble under" charts, five Adult Contemporary (AC) hits, and even had one make the R&B listings (The End Of The World - # 1 AC/# 2 Country and Hot 100/# 4 R&B in the spring of 1963).
Here you get 15 of those hits, with only tracks 4, 6 (which was the uncharted flip of track 5), 14 and 15 not being among her 41 hits. With the insert you get a partial discography of the contents along with seven pages of background notes written by noted music critic and author (Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records & the Birth of Rock & Roll) Colin Escott and a couple of nice photos of Skeeter.
Regarding one of the tracks, producer Paul Williams says "The song, I'm Saving My Love, has a slight drop-out on the left channel about three quarters of the way through. This is evident on the original multi-track, and on the original vinyl pressings of both the single and album. Unfortunately, it is not possible to repair the problem, even with today's restoration technology. Given its Top 10 success, it is essential to feature the song on this release." That was written in March 1995. Perhaps new technology will be able to correct the problem at some time in the future.
Even with those four non-hits (I would have replaced them with Lost To A Geisha Girl, her 1958 # 15 Country answer song to Hank Locklin's Geisha Girl), The Hand You're Holding Now - # 11 Country spring 1961, He Says The Same Things To Me - # 17 Country/# 47 Hot 100 early 1964, and There's A Fool Born Every Minute - # 16 Country summer 1968), this is still one of the best Skeeter Davis compilations around.
To paraphrase one of her hits, the message to the Hall Of Fame is What Does It Take (To Satisfy The Old Boy's Club?).
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