Best of Floyd Tillman

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Amazingly, there are "comprehensive" country music references that somehow ignore one of honky-tonk's great pioneers, Oklahoma-born Floyd Tillman. Tillman's 1930s Decca recordings were wonderful examples of vibrant Western swing, but his greatest commercial triumphs came after he signed with Columbia in 1946. This superb 24-song collection focuses on his benchmark Columbia work, which retained the loose feel of his swing sides while morphing into an earthier honky-tonk style that was fused with a pop crooner's sensibility. Tillman's vocal style has been a major influence on many important country singers: his leisurely, relaxed phrasing paved the way for folks like Willie Nelson and his agile, swooping note bends can surely be heard in the work of Lefty Frizzell. What's more, Tillman owns a number of significant songwriting credits, including country cornerstones such as the beautiful "I Love You So Much It Hurts" and "Slipping Around," which is generally thought to be the genre's first cheatin' song. His baritone voice was gruff in nature, yet Tillman instilled it with an odd sort of gracefulness that allowed him to be quite a moving ballad singer. --Marc Greilsamer

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Average customer rating: A true patriarch Overlooked treasure Floyd's Songs in Floyd's voice Gone but not forgotten! OOOO-----WEEEE

Best of Floyd Tillman Floyd Tillman Manufacturer: Collector's Choice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Honky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Essential Carl Smith (1950-1956) The Essential Ray Price (1951-1962) Specialty Profiles The Complete Capitol Hits of Faron Young Look What Thoughts Will Do ASIN: B00000IITA Release Date: 1999-04-20

Tracks:

1. Drivin' Nails In My Coffin
2. Go Out And Find Somebody New
3. Some Other World
4. I'm Leaving This Old World Someday
5. Gotta Have Somethin'
6. You Made Me Live, Love And Die
7. Please Don't Pass Me By
8. I'll Take What I Can Get
9. I Love You So Much It Hurts
10. Slipping Around
11. This Cold War With You
12. I'll Never Slip Around Again
13. I Gotta Have My Baby Back
14. It Had To Be That Way
15. I Almost Lost My Mind
16. Just As Long As I Have You
17. I Don't Care Anymore
18. I'm Falling For You
19. Each Night At Nine
20. I Love You Just As You Are
21. I'll Still Be Loving You
22. Just One More Time
23. Call On Me (And I'll Be There)
24. Let's Make Memories Tonight

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1. Drivin' Nails In My Coffin
2. Go Out And Find Someone New
3. Some Other World
4. I'm Leaving This Old World Today
5. Gotta Have Somethin'
6. You Made Me Live, Love And Die
7. Please Don't Pass Me By
8. I'll Take What I Can Get
9. I Love You So Much It Hurts
10. Slipping Around
11. This Cold War With You
12. I'll Never Slip Around Again
13. I Gotta Have My Baby Back
14. It Had To Be That Way
15. I Almost Lost My Mind
16. Just As Long As I Have You
17. I Don't Care Anymore
18. I'm Falling For You
19. Each Night At Nine
20. I Love You Just The Way You Are
21. I'll Still Be Loving You
22. Just One More Time
23. Call On Me (And I'll Be There)
24. Let's Make Memories Tonight


Format: CD

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Amazingly, there are "comprehensive" country music references that somehow ignore one of honky-tonk's great pioneers, Oklahoma-born Floyd Tillman. Tillman's 1930s Decca recordings were wonderful examples of vibrant Western swing, but his greatest commercial triumphs came after he signed with Columbia in 1946. This superb 24-song collection focuses on his benchmark Columbia work, which retained the loose feel of his swing sides while morphing into an earthier honky-tonk style that was fused with a pop crooner's sensibility. Tillman's vocal style has been a major influence on many important country singers: his leisurely, relaxed phrasing paved the way for folks like Willie Nelson and his agile, swooping note bends can surely be heard in the work of Lefty Frizzell. What's more, Tillman owns a number of significant songwriting credits, including country cornerstones such as the beautiful "I Love You So Much It Hurts" and "Slipping Around," which is generally thought to be the genre's first cheatin' song. His baritone voice was gruff in nature, yet Tillman instilled it with an odd sort of gracefulness that allowed him to be quite a moving ballad singer. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

A true patriarch.......2006-01-16

Here's a great CD of one of the true fathers of Country Music; maybe not in the same vein as Jimmie or Hank, but this collection will knock your socks off. I dont care what anyone says....one listen to this library of material and you'll realize that this is where the Willie Nelson "sound" originated. No, Floyd doesn't have the nasal voice or the inability to stay on beat, but the sound and material is the foundation for everything Willie would make famous later. 24 numbers here, including the famous "Drivin' Nails in my Coffin". If you're into Faith & Tim Hill or Kenny G. Chesney, steer clear of this album....this is the real deal.

Overlooked treasure.......2004-09-29

From the other reviews, I have learned more than 99.9% of people still alive care to know about Floyd Tillman. (Those Canadian winters are very cold I guess). Notably his songs were recorded by more mainstream artists also in the 1950s. (I hope he got his royalties.) One special song was "I Almost Lost My Mind" recorded by Ivory Joe Hunter and Pat Boone, just to name two. The orchestration on that song still resonates today. Floyd was a talent.

Floyd's Songs in Floyd's voice.......2004-01-17

Floyd's music is a unqiue thing. It isn't just the songs, it's the singer writer immediacy of his rendations of his songs that makes all these songs his own forever which is why you must make this CD yours too.

I think a lot of attention belongs on the great songs that Floyd wrote that became Honky Tonk Standards in the 1940s and 1950s and most were still around in the music in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. In fact, with a fairly decent collection of Western Swing or Country records, particularly by stars who understand Floyd's importance like Willie Nelson, Mr. Haggard, Hank Thompson, and Ray Price you might have most or even all of these songs and think you don't need this.

Floyd was one of the most interesting singers I have ever heard. He has a certain lisp like way of slowing down the words and suggesting and sustaining them in a style that I think is really unique. There is something about the way he sings his songs that transforms them into a personal statement of his own, even if you have heard them a 1000 times by someone else who is formally a great singer that you love like Willie or Haggard.

I can't forget a tape of demos he made in the 1980s that was so interesting or his appearance on the stage at Austin City Limits (because if you know what Floyd looked like, you might notice him out sitting up front in a number of their shows). There are still songs so electric and right that he did that I perform them straight from those performances without having to find the words and music.

Beyond that, this is the real thing. This was Honky Tonk music before it had a name. This comes out of a different place than the prewar nashville music. This comes of the explosion of Western Swing during the war and after. Money in pockets, jobs, and no more dust bowl. None of that Southern Baptist dry state BS, from Texas to California, even in old dry Oklahoma, the wine and liquor flow, the gals have money in their pockets from being Rosie the riverter and can dump their man, and lure another out at the bar, and everybody is thrown together into new cities like LA, Houston, Dallas, Tulsa and OK City, and this is the music that comes out, from one of its greatest writers and artists.

Gone but not forgotten!.......2003-09-13

It was sad to hear that Floyd Tillman passed away just recently in August of 2003 at age 89. He was one of the legendary songwriters in Country Music, from "Slipping Around" to "I Love You So Much It Hurts Me". This compilation should be in every serious Country Music Collection. Ol' Flyod for sure was not the greatest vocalist in the world, but it is always good to have those great songs in the original version of the person who wrote them. The CD is well-done, with extensive information regarding the career of Floyd Tillman, one more reason to add this to your collection.

OOOO-----WEEEE.......2002-05-01

Classic honky tonk music from a seminal artist. All of his best known songs he recorded for Columbia Records in the 1940's. You can't go wrong with this set. Terrific notes and song info. This is another on of those releases that if you don't own, your collection is not complete.

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Jealous Heart: Various Country Artists of the 1940s (...And 1930s, Too!) Happy Perryman and His Happy-Go-Lucky Mountaineers , Callahan Brothers , Homer Callahan , Hank Penny and His Radio Cowboys , Al Dexter and His Troopers , Curley Williams and His Georgia Peach Pickers , Floyd Tillman , Bob Atcher & Bonnie Blue Eyes , Jesse Ashlock , and The Rambling Rogue Manufacturer: Binge Discs / Cattle Compact ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000PBG28I

Product Description

Various Country Artists Of The 1940s (...and 1930s, too!) - Jealous Heart 24 songs. Song list: HAPPY PERRYMAN: JEALOUS HEART/THERE'S A PALACE DOWN IN DALLAS/CALLAHAN BROTHERS: SHE'S MY CULRY HEADED BABY NO.3/HOMER CALLAHAN: T.B. BLUES No.2/HANK PENNY: RED HOT PAPA/STEEL GUITAR HULA (Inst.)/AL DEXTER: JELLY ROLL SPECIAL/MAYBE, BABY IT'S ME/CURLEY WILLIAMS: SOUTHERN BELLE (From Nashville, Tennessee)/LEAVE ME ALONE WITH THE BLUES/FLOYD TILLMAN: DRIVIN' NAILS IN MY COFFIN/SOME OTHER WORLD/BOB ATCHER & BONNIE BLUE EYES: YOU'RE MY DARLING/PENNSYLVANIA PAL (& RANDALL ATCHER)/JESSE ASHLOCK: STILL WATER RUNS THE DEEPEST/THERE'S NO TIME LIKE TODAY/JIMMIE LAWSON: I JUST CAN'T FORGIVE YOU ANYMORE/I'LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN/THE RAMBLING ROGUE: TENDER HEARTED SUE/YOU'RE ONLY IN MY ARMS (To Cry On My Shoulder)/ROY ACUFF: UNLOVED AND UNCLAIMED/WRITE ME SWEETHEART (# 1)/TED DAFFAN: I'M A FOOL TO CARE/PUT YOUR LITTLE ARMS AROUND ME.

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