Statler Brothers - Gold
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Artist: Statler BrothersEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Music Label: Mercury Nashville
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Flowers on the Wall
- Ruthless
- You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith Too
- Bed of Rose's
- Do You Remember These?
- The Class of '57
- Woman Without a Home
- Susan When She Tried
- I'll Go to My Grave Loving You
- Your Picture in the Paper
- Thank God I've Got You
- I Was There
- Silver Medals and Sweet Memories
- Some I Wrote
- Do You Know You Are My Sunshine?
- Who Am I to Say?
- The Official Historian on Shirley Jean Berrell
- Nothing as Original as You
- (I'll Even Love You) Better Than I Did Then
- Charlotte's Web
- Don't Forget Yourself
- Don't Wait on Me
- Years Ago
- You'll Be Back (Every Night in My Dreams)
- Child of the Fifties
- Oh Baby Mine (I Get So Lonely)
- Guilty
- Elizabeth
- Atlanta Blue
- One Takes the Blame
- My Only Love
- Hello Mary Lou
- Too Much on My Heart
- Sweeter and Sweeter
- Count on Me
- Only You (And You Alone)
- Forever
- I'll Be the One
- The Best I Know How
- Am I Crazy?
- Let's Get Started If We're Gonna Break My Heart
- More Than a Name on a Wall
Free Music Notes for Gold
Free Music Review: Strong Overview of a Legendary Group
Hit: 5 Stars
The Statler Brothers racked up fifty-nine country hits between 1965 and 1989. Forty-two of those have been collected for this warmly remastered set that clearly displays the Staunton, Virginia quartet's humor, pet themes, and tent-revival dramatic gifts.
The original line-up - baritone Phillip Balsley, tenor Lew DeWitt, bass singer Harold Reid, and his brother, lead vocalist Don Reid - brought innovative shades of Southern gospel to secular country music. Further, the 1965 Columbia smash ("Flowers on the Wall") established their trademark ability to mask personal desperation with rueful offhand humor.
Teamed with producer/guitar ace Jerry Kennedy at Mercury Records in 1970, the Statler's created their finest work. The best tunes were written by the Reid brothers, whose creative method was remarkably simple. They transformed lists of nostalgic observations ("Do You Remember These?"), romantic declarations ("Nothing As Original As You," "Thank God I've Got You"), and lost loves ("The Official Historian on Shirley Jean Berrell") into compassionate two and three minute playlets. Indeed, their true masterpiece ("Class of `57") masterfully incorporates poignant wit with human tragedy.
When Jimmy Fortune replaced the ailing DeWitt in 1983, he contributed fresh, irony-free material, penning tender romantic odes ("Elizabeth," "My Only Love") that resulted in the group's highest charting hits ("Too Much on My Heart"). Even on these Adult Contemporary-style offerings, the group pleads with down-home gospel conviction and palpable emotion.
This compilation is not as thorough as Mercury's 1994 three-disc set. Subsequently, some early favorites ("Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott")were dropped in favor of comparatively mediocre cover tunes ("Hello Mary Lou," "Only You"). In addition, there are no samples of the band's comedic alter-ego Lester "Roadhog" Moran & the Cadillac Cowboys. Yet, most will deem this two-disc version a satisfying first step into the Statler's enduringly entertaining catalog.
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