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Carl Smith
"The Essential Carl Smith 1950-1956"
© Columbia Records
Year of Release: 1991
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track listing
Guilty Conscience
I Just Dropped In
To Say Goodbye
I Overlooked An Orchid
If Teardrops Were Pennies
Let's Live A Little
(When You Feel Like
You're In Love)
Don't Just Stand There
Let Old Mother Nature
Have Her Way
It's A Lovely
Lovely World
Are You Teasing Me
This Orchid
Means Goodbye
Hey Joe
Trademark
Just Wait Till I
fsGet You Alone
Dog Gone Baby
I'm In Love
Back Up Buddy
Go Boy Go
Loose Talk
Kisses Don't Lie
There She Goes
You Are The One
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Carl Smith
"The Essential Carl Smith 1950-1956"
Carl Smith -- Country singer -- his songs (on Columbia Records) were popular in the early 1950s. He had
4 number songs on the Country chart: "Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way" (1952; 6 weeks), "(When You
Feel Like You're In Love) Don't Just Stand There" (1952; 2 weeks), "Hey Joe" (1953; 1 week), "Loose
Talk" (1955; 7 weeks). With 30 Top Ten hits, he was also a drinking companion to Country legend Johnny Cash.
As I was growing up, I easily remembered Johnny Cash's music, listening to the old WMAQ Country format on Chicago
radio. I guess Country radio stations while growing up didn't play much Country music from the 1950s. This would
easily have featured Carl Smith, and other 1950s popular Country artists such as Hank Williams Sr. and Eddy Arnold.
(Of course, I would remember hearing Eddy Arnold's 1960s hits.) I discovered Carl Smith when researching the #1
Country songs from the 1940s on, and as popular as Carl Smith was, I never really knew his name, and his music.
To easily state Carl Smith's music was by listening to the 20-tracks of The Essential Carl Smith 1950-1956.
Columbia Records' Essential series has been classic, with the likes of Smith, Johnny Cash, and Marty Robbins.
Both Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins' Essentials have been 2-discs, but Smith's set was only one. Carl Smith's
music is easily compared to the early years of Eddy Arnold, and even Hank Williams Sr. Some (not many) were also
compared to the music of Tennessee Ernie Ford (especially the style of Ford's "Shotgun Boogie.") But definitely
the early styles of Eddy Arnold and Hank Sr. are easily defined in many of the 20 tracks on Smith's Essential.
There isn't a bad track on this compilation. The 4 #1's are all here. And other tracks maybe better than others.
Yet Carl Smith was a popular Country singer back in the early 1950s, and for some of the older Country fans, they all
easily remember his music being played on the radio. He was known as "Mister Country," and continued recording
into the 1970s on various record labels. He is also a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame (2003). He is the
father of Carlene Carter, who would become a Country singer herself, and accomplish a few #1 Country songs of her own.
Nowadays, he lives on his horse farm in Nashville, Tennessee. He is currently 82 years old, as of this writing.
Fans of Eddy Arnold and Hank Williams Sr. will enjoy the music of Carl Smith. On that note, if anyone had never
heard of him, nor his music (like myself), it's easy to listen to another popular Country artist as Arnold and Williams,
and as they are Hall of Famers, so is Carl Smith.
UPDATE: This review was created on January 10, 2010. On January 16, 2010, Carl Smith
passed away at the age of 82, from a stroke. His wife Goldie had died in 2005. He was survived by two sons, Carl Jr.,
and Larry Dean, and two daughters, Carlene and Lori Lynn.
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