We had so many requests to do a Carl Smith box, and once we started on it, we understood why. Carl Smith is the forgotten country superstar from the 1950s. All told, he had 40 charted hits, five of them getting to number 1. That's more than Hank and Lefty; in fact, Carl Smith ranks just behind Webb Pierce, Eddy Arnold, and Hank Snow as the major country hitmaker of the Fifties and early Sixties, made between 1950 and 1959. He didn't have a gimmick. He just found great songs, and sang them in a sincere and heartfelt way.
This set includes all of his recordings from the Fifties. Hank Williams gave him a couple of songs to get him started, and Carl went on to record some great early compositions by Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, like Hey Joe and Back Up Buddy, as well as the original versions of I Overlooked An Orchid, Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way, There She Goes, Let's Live A Little, and Loose Talk. He was the first to take the Louvins' 'Are You Teasing Me' into the charts. All told, there are 143 songs here.
Track Listing
Disc 1:
- Guilty Conscience
- I Just Dropped In To Say Goodbye
- My Lonely Heart's Runnin' Wild
- Washing My Dreams In Tears
- I Overlooked An Orchid
- This Side Of Heaven
- I Won't Be At Home
- Mr. Moon
- If Teardrops Were Pennies
- There's Nothing As Sweet As My Baby
- Let's Live A Little
- Me And My Broken Heart
- Don't Just Stand There
- Please Come Back Home
- There'll Never Be Another Mary
- Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way
- The Little Girl In My Home Town
- Are You Teasing Me
- That's The Kind Of Love I'm Looking For
- The Nail-Scarred Hand
- We Shall Meet Some Day
- How About You
- The Blood That Stained The Old Rugged Cross
- Gethsemane
- Softly And Tenderly
- Amazing Grace
- I'll be List'ning
- Our Honeymoon
- Sing Her A Love Song
- Lovin' Is Livin'
- I Want To Take My Baby Home With Me
- Trademark
- This Orchid Means Goodbye
- Just Wait 'Til I Get You Alone
- Do I Like It'
- Darlin' Am I The One
- Hey Joe!
- If You Tried As Hard To Love Me
- Love Oh Crazy Love (& JUNE CARTER)
- Time's A Wastin' (& JUNE CARTER)
- No Second Chance
- Satisfaction Guaranteed
- The House That Love Built
- Who'll Buy My Heartaches
- Oh, No
- What Am I Going To Do With You
- Dog-Gone It, Baby, I'm In Love
- If I Could Hold Back The Dawn
- Back Up Buddy
- Look What Thought's Done To Me
- Go, Boy, Go
- More Than Anything Else In The World
- If You Saw Her Through My Eyes
- No I Don't Believe I Will
- Loose Talk
- Time Changes Everything
- Baby I'm Ready
- Kisses Don't Lie
- Wait A Little Longer Please, Jesus
- Works Of The Lord
- Answers
- My Dream Of The Old Rugged Cross
- I Just Don't Care Any More
- Oh Stop !
- There's A Bottle Where She Used To Be
- Wicked Lies
- Old Lonesome Times
- I've Changed
- There She Goes
- Come Back To Me
- Don't Tease Me
- If You Do Dear
- I Feel Like Cryin'
- You're Free To Go
- Outlaw
- Snowdeer
- Doorstep To Heaven
- You Are The One
- If You Want It, I've Got It
- Before I Met You
- Mr. Moon (alt)
- San Antonio Rose
- Live And Let Live
- You Are My Sunshine
- Steel Guitar Rag
- This World Is Not My Home
- Standing On The Promises
- Old Camp Meeting Days
- When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
- You Can't Hurt Me Anymore
- That's The Way I Like You Best
- I Won't Be Mad, I'll Be Glad
- That's What You Think
- Pass Me Not
- Glory Land Way
- Anywhere Is Home
- When They Ring Them Golden Bells
- No Trespassing
- Try To Take It Like Man
- Mr. Lost
- Happy Street
- Why, Why
- Emotions
- You're So Easy To Love
- You're Name Is Beautiful
- Dry Your Darling's Eyes
- The Best Years Of Your Life
- Slowly
- More And More
- Night Train To Memphis
- Honky Tonk Man
- Hang Your Head In Shame
- I Love You A Thousand Ways
- Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes
- We're Not Going Steady Anymore
- Guess I've Been Around Too Long
- Goodnight Mister Sun
- Walking The Slow Walk
- A Love Was Born
- It's All My Heartache
- Lonely Girl
- I'll Kiss The Past Goodbye
- Be Good To Her
- Ten Thousand Drums
- The Tall, Tall Gentleman
- I'll Walk With You
- Tomorrow Night
- Make The Waterwheel Roll
- Past
- I Betcha My Heart I Love You
- It's A Lovely, Lovely World
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