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WILLIE NELSON
Nashville Was The Roughest
8CD-Boxset & 72-page Hardcover Book
BCD 15831- HK

Before anyone called him an Outlaw, Willie Nelson tried to play the game in Nashville. In 1964, he recorded a few sessions for Monument, then accepted Chet Atkins’s invitation to join RCA. He stayed eight years at RCA, years riddled with ups and downs, but years that helped shape the Willie Nelson we came to know. Atkins tried everything from Nashville Sound extravaganzas to intimate sessions with two guitars and a bass. There was a live album at Fort Worth’s Panther Hall, plus an LP with backing from Ernest Tubb’s Texas Troubadours. There were small hits, but nothing really worked. Toward the end of his tenure at RCA, Willie created two concept albums: ‘Texas In My Soul’, a tribute to his home state and ‘Yesterday’s Wine’, now viewed as a landmark but barely noticed at the time. At his final session, he tried another concept, defined by its title song, Phases, Stages Circle And Cycles. He didn’t finish the idea at RCA, but would pick up the idea two years hence at Atlantic Records.
The seeds of his future were planted at RCA, and this collection, assembling the complete Monument sessions from 1964 and the complete RCA sessions from 1964 to 1972. provide the definitive look at his evolutionary - if bumpy - road. It contains a 72-page (LP-sized) book with a biography by Rich Kienzle, a discography, along with rare and many previously unpublished photos.

CD 1: King Of A Lonely Castle - (There’ll Be) Someone Waiting For You - To Make A Long Story Short - I Never Cared For You - You Left Me A Long, Long Time Ago - I Feel That Old Feeling - King Of A Lonely Castle - Pretty Paper - What A Merry Christmas This Could Be - Healing Hands Of Time - Talk To Me - Whisky Walzer - Little Darling - Permanently Lonely - Healing Hands Of Time - Ashamed - She’s Not For You - Are You Sure - Night Life - Mr. Record Man - Healing Hands Of Time - Funny How Time Slips Away - My Own Peculiar Way - One Day At A Time - It Should Be Easier Now - Darkness On The Face Of The Earth - Buddy - Hello Walls - So Much To Do - Within Your Crowd
CD 2: Did I Ever Love You - And So Will You My Love - I Just Can’t Let You Say Goodbye - Down To Our Last Goodbye - Fraulein - I Love You Because - I’d Trade All Of My Tomorrows (For Just One Yesterday) - Making Believe - Home In San Antone - Don’t You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me) - Columbus Stockade Blues - Seasons Of My Heart - Heartaches By The Number - Go On Home - My Window Faces The South - San Antonio Rose - I’m Still Not Over You - San Antonio Rose - Columbus Stockade Blues - He Sits At My Table - A Wonderful Yesterday - The Party’s Over - One In A Row - Make Way For A Better Man - Did I Ever Love You - And So Will You My Love - I Just Can’t Let You Say Goodbye - Down To Our Last Goodbye - A Wonderful Yesterday - The Party’s Over - One In A Row - Make Way For A Better Man
CD 3: Have I Stayed Away Too Long - Some Other World - If It’s Wrong To Love You - Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? - You Made Me Live, Love And Die - Born To Lose - What Now My Love - Lovin’ Lies - Teach Me To Forget - Tender Years - A Mansion On The Hill - Something To Think About - Blackjack County Chain - Don’t Say Love Or Nothing - You Ought To Hear Me Cry - I Don’t Feel Anything - Hold Me Tighter - I’ll Stay Around - A Moment Isn’t Very Long - The Ghost - No Tomorrow In Sight - There Goes A Man - Go Away - Once Alone - The End Of Understanding - To Make A Long Story Short (She’s Gone) - Suffer In Silence - Truth Number One - When I Don’t Have You
CD 4: Someday You’ll Call My Name - Wild Memories - December Day - Pages - Little Things - Good Times - She’s Still Gone - Sweet Memories - Johnny One Time - Jimmy’s Road - Bring Me Sunshine - I Let My Mind Wander - I Just Don’t Understand - I Just Dropped By - The Local Memory - Natural To Be Gone - Love Has A Mind Of Its Own - I’ll Walk Alone - It Will Come To Pass - My Own Peculiar Way - The Message - That’s All - Any Old Arms Won’t Do - Johnny One Time - Jimmy’s Road - Bring Me Sunshine - Bloody Merry Morning - Pins And Needles (In My Heart) - Everybody’s Talkin’
CD 5: Crazy Arms - I Gotta Get Drunk - Wabash Cannon Ball - One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) - Who Do I Know In Dallas - Both Sides Now - It Could Be Said That Way - Once More With Feeling - Following Me Around - Minstrel Man - Where Do You Stand? - When We Live Again - If You Could See What’s Going Through My Mind - Happiness Lives Next Door - I’ve Seen That Look On Me (A Thousand Times) - I Don’t Feel Anything - Laying My Burdens Down - How Long Have You Been There - Senses - Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down - What Can You Do To Me Now? - The Losers Song - Fire And Rain - I Can Cry Again - I’m A Memory - That’s Why I Love Her So - If You Could See What’s Going Through My Mind - The Losers Song
CD 6: Yours Love - Kneel At The Feet Of Jesus - Today I Started Loving You Again - I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - Will You Remember? - Wonderful Future - Wake Me When It’s Over - Help Me Make It Through The Night - Rainy Day Blues - If You Really Loved Me - The Words Don’t Fit The Picture - What Do You Want Me To Do? - Stay Away From Lonely Places - Good Hearted Woman - Home Is Where You’re Happy - My Kind Of Girl - I’d Rather You Didn’t Love Me - Undo The Right - One Step Beyond - I Want A Girl - Country Willie - You Left A Long, Long Time Ago - London - A Moment Isn’t Very Long - Who’ll Buy Me Memories - No Love Around - Come On Home - Mountain Dew
CD 7: Dallas - San Antonio - Streets Of Laredo - Who Put All My Ex’s In Texas - The Hill Country Theme - Waltz Across Texas - Travis Letter - Remember The Alamo - Texas In My Soul - There’s A Little Bit Of Everything In Texas - Beautiful Texas - Medley: Where’s The Show/Let Me Be A Man - In God’s Eyes - Family Bible - It’s Not For Me To Understand - Medley: These Are Difficult Times/Remember The Good Times - Summer Of Roses - December Day - Yesterday’s Wine - Me And Paul - Goin’ Home - Phases, Stages, Circles, Cycles And Scenes - Pretend I Never Happened - Sister’s Coming Home - Down At The Corner Beer Joint - I’m Falling In Love Again - Chet’s Tune - Poor Old Ugly Gladys Jones
CD 8: Introduction - Bo Powell / Willie Introduces Band - Medley: Mr. Record Man/Hello Walls/One Day At A Time - Medley: The Last Letter/Half A Man - I Never Cared For You - Yesterday - Touch Me - Something To Think About - I Just Can’t Let You Say Goodbye - How Long Is Forever - Night Life - Medley: Opportunity To Cry/Permanently Lonely - My Own Peculiar Way - I Love You Because - I’m Still Not Over You - There’ll Be No Teardrops Tonight

WAYNE NEWTON featuring THE NEWTON BROTHERS
The Real Thing (1954 - 1963)
BCD 16675 AH

Wayne Newton IS Mister Las Vegas.
He understands the city and what it takes to play there. He has seen it grow from a Mob hideaway in the desert to middle America's No.1 recreation spot, and he has played a role in that transition. No one - since the end of Sinatra’s Rat Pack - has been more popular there. But it has been a long, long way for Wayne Newton from the hills of Virginia to the rough, wooden floorboards of a hay wagon, parked outside a grocery store in Phoenix, Arizona, to the glitzy neon lights of the Las Vegas strip.
This compact disc compiles all of the early Wayne Newton and Newton Brothers records for Ranger, ABC, George, Lama and Capitol, from 1954-1963. It’s a unique retrospective of all the 45 rpm releases before and including his 1963 break through, Danke Schoen. It also includes many rare, unreleased songs that were recently discovered, including Wayne’s very first three demos from 1954, featuring his brother, Jerry! From early hillbilly, doo wop, and rockabilly, to standards, ballads and hits, Wayne Newton and the Newton Brothers covered all styles of music in their first decade. Then, in 1962, Wayne met a kindred spirit, pop star Bobby Darin (Mack The Knife, Beyond The Sea, etc.) and Darin began producing him. Their first hit was Bert Kaempfert’s Danke Schoen (featured here) and from that point there was no looking back.
The CD includes Bear Family's usual extensive liner notes and visuals. It is a 'must have' for the many Newton fans all over the world. Hear for yourself how Wayne Newton transformed himself from a hillbilly wannabe to 'The Midnight Idol,' 'Mr. Entertainment' and 'Mr. Las Vegas.'
This generously full 32 track CD is indeed 'The Real Thing.'

Out Arizona Way - They Don't Know Nothin' At All - Rascal Boogie (demo) - If The Easter Bunny Knew The Fun He'd Have On Xmas - Rascal Boogie - I'm Sad, Blue And Lonesome - Baby, Baby, Baby - I'm Too Young To Fall In Love With You - Rock 'n' Roll Lullabye - Careless Love - I'm No Good Without You - Start At The Bottom - I Spy - Bird Watcher's Ball - The Real Thing - The Little White Cloud That Cried - Calorie Date - You're Much Too Lovely To Cry - The Wild Irish Rose - I Want To Mean Everything To You - Little Jukebox - I Was Born When You Kissed Me - I Still Love You - What Does She Do With Him? - The Little White Cloud That Cried (overdubbed) - Heart - So Long Lucy - Better Now Than Later - Shirl Girl - Someone's Ahead Of You - Dream Baby - Danke Schoen