1948-1959 [Box set]

Product Description:
The 5-star Reviews for this Set Showed that Flatt and Scruggs Are Far from Forgotten 25 Years after They Split Up. Here We have their Complete Mercury Recordings as Well as the Columbia Recordings from 1950-1959. Of Course, this Set Includes the Original Version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown, but It's No Exaggeration to Say that Every One of the 112 Tracks is a Gem. Titles Include Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Jimmie Brown the Newsboy, Tis Sweet to Be Remembered, Earl's Breakdown, Flint Hill Special, Dim Lights Thick Smoke, Foggy Mountain Chimes, and Six White Horses. Bluegrass Music Comes No Purer Or Finer. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

1948-1959,Flatt & Scruggs,Bear Family,Box Sets (Audio Only),Country,Pop

Average customer rating: This is the one! Best In Bluegrass.....EVER! 10 stars excellent music Majestic American Music ! Absolute must-have - A classic

1948-1959 Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs Manufacturer: Bear Family ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Country | Box Sets | Stores | Music Bluegrass | Country | Box Sets | Stores | Music Similar Items: 1959-1963 1964-1969, Plus Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1953-59 Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys At Carnegie Hall! ASIN: B000001AW7 Release Date: 1994-06-27

Tracks:

1. God Loves His Children
2. I'm Going To Make Heaven My Home
3. We'll Meet Again Sweetheart
4. My Cabin In Caroline
5. Baby Blue Eyes
6. Bouquet In Heaven
7. Down The Road
8. Why Don't You Tell Me So?
9. I'll Never Shed Another Tear
10. No Mother Or Dad
11. Is It Too Late Now!
12. Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Instr.)
13. I'll Be Going To Heaven Sometime
14. So Happy I'll Be
15. My Little Girl In Tennessee
16. I'll Never Love Another
17. Doin' My Time
18. Pike County Breakdown (Instr.)
19. Cora Is Gone
20. Preachin', Prayin', Singin' (No Fiddle/Mandolin)
21. Pain In My Heart
22. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
23. Back To The Cross
24. Farewell Blues
25. Old Salty Dog Blues
26. Take Me In A Lifeboat
27. Will The Roses Bloom (Where She Lies Sleeping)
28. I'll Just Pretend

Tracks:

1. Come Back Darling
2. I'm Head Over Heels In Love
3. I'm Waiting To Hear You Call Me Darling
4. The Old Home Town
5. I'll Stay Around
6. We Can't Be Darlings Anymore
7. Jimmie Brown, The Newsboy
8. Somehow Tonight
9. Don't Get Above My Raising
10. I'm Working On A Road
11. He Took Your Place
12. I've Lost You
13. 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered
14. I'm Gonna Settle Down
15. Earl's Breakdown
16. I'm Lonesome And Blue
17. Over The Hills To The Poorhouse
18. My Darling's Last Goodbye
19. Get In Line Brothers
20. Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go
21. Why Did You Wander?
22. Flint Hill Special (Instr.)
23. Thinking About You
24. If I Should Wander Back Tonight
25. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
26. Dear Old Dixie

Tracks:

1. Reunion In Heaven
2. Pray For The Boys
3. I'll Go Stepping Too
4. I'd Rather Be Alone
5. Foggy Mountain Chimes
6. Someone Took My Place With You
7. Mother Prays Loud In Her Sleep
8. That Old Book Of Mine
9. Your Love Is Like A Flower
10. Be Ready For Tomorrow May Never Come
11. Till The End Of The World Rolls Around
12. You're Not A Drop In The Bucket
13. Don't This Road Look Rough And Rocky
14. Foggy Mountain Special (Instr.)
15. You Can Feel It In Your Soul
16. Old Fashioned Preacher
17. Before I Met You
18. I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open
19. Randy Lynn Rag (Instr.)
20. On My Mind
21. Blue Ridge Cabin Home
22. Some Old Day
23. It Won't Be Long
24. No Mother In This World
25. Gone Home
26. Bubbling In My Soul
27. Joy Bells
28. What's Good For You

Tracks:

1. No Doubt About It
2. Who Will Sing For Me
3. Give Mother My Crown
4. Six White Horses
5. Shuckin' The Corn
6. I'll Take The Blame (Previously Unissued)
7. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
8. A Hundred Years From Now
9. Give Me The Flowers While I'm Living
10. Is There Room For Me
11. I'll Take The Blame
12. Let Those Brown Eyes Smile At Me
13. I'll Never Shed Another Tear
14. I Won't Be Hanging Around
15. I Don't Care Anymore
16. Big Black Train
17. Mama's And Daddy's Little Girl
18. Crying Alone
19. A Million Years In Glory
20. Heaven
21. Building On Sand
22. Jesus Savior Pilot Me
23. Crying My Heart Out Over You
24. Ground Speed
25. Who Knows Right From Wrong
26. Iron Curtain
27. Cabin On The Hill
28. Someone You Have Forgotten
29. Foggy Mountain Rock (Instr.)
30. You Put Me On My Feet (When You Took Her Off My Hands)

Album Details

The 5-star Reviews for this Set Showed that Flatt and Scruggs Are Far from Forgotten 25 Years after They Split Up. Here We have their Complete Mercury Recordings as Well as the Columbia Recordings from 1950-1959. Of Course, this Set Includes the Original Version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown, but It's No Exaggeration to Say that Every One of the 112 Tracks is a Gem. Titles Include Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Jimmie Brown the Newsboy, Tis Sweet to Be Remembered, Earl's Breakdown, Flint Hill Special, Dim Lights Thick Smoke, Foggy Mountain Chimes, and Six White Horses. Bluegrass Music Comes No Purer Or Finer.

Customer Reviews:

This is the one!.......2006-03-02

It doesn't get any better! The best Bluegrass band ever at it's peak! You get both great eras. Before Josh Graves and after Josh Graves. Josh joins them and plays the best Bluegrass dobro of his career on these cuts. They still had that great sing songy driving beat that they lost later in their Country/Folk era. And, of course, the early days. Absolutely pure Blugrass at it's best! I've been listening to Bluegrass since the 50's. Take my word for it, this one is a must!

Best In Bluegrass.....EVER!.......2005-12-31

This is a great boxset containing music from one of the best bluegrass band EVER! If you love bluegrass, this is gonna be great. All recordings are greatly remastered and in a great audio sound! If you still have any doubt there's a wonderful booklet filled with old pics from TV shows and other appearances. What are you waiting for? Buy it now, you won't regret! :)

10 stars excellent music.......2002-12-07

anyone familiar with this cd pkg will willingly tell you how great it is...F&S during those late 40s/early 50s yrs were one of the best bands of all time...anyone who buys this cd will never regret it....anyone who would've bought it and then regretted it would never have bought it in the first place

Majestic American Music !.......2002-06-28

If you like Bluegrass , Country Gospel or Traditional Country music , you'll love this 4 cd boxset . It contains all the recordings Flatt & Scruggs made for Mercury Records , and Columbia Records between 1948 - 1959 ( probably the peak years for this band who are widely regarded as one of the finest exponents of Bluegrass music ) . There are far too many highlights to mention , all I will say is that there is not one dud amongst the 112 tracks featured in this boxset ( many of which have become Bluegrass standards ) , and that you'll be amazed by the speed and dexterity of the playing by this incredible band .

As usual Bear Family Records have done a marvelous job with the sound ( credit must go to Rebecca Everett for the fantastic mastering ) , they've also provided a booklet packed with information and stunning photographs of the band .

Why waste your time and money duplicating these tracks by hunting down single Flatt & Scruggs cd's when you have the cream of the crop right here , and this really is some of the finest music America has given the world , and it deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the works of Duke Ellington , Louis Armstrong , Hank Williams , Frank Sinatra , Bob Dylan etc ............ I can't recommend it highly enough !

Absolute must-have - A classic.......1998-05-02

This is the sound that everyone that picks bluegrass wants to achieve. If you like bluegrass music and can only buy one box set - this is it. You'll also be surprised at how many of these songs you already know and love - but couldn't find on CD anywhere else.

Average customer rating: This is the one! Best In Bluegrass.....EVER! 10 stars excellent music Majestic American Music ! Absolute must-have - A classic

1948-1959 Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs Manufacturer: Bear Family ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Country | Box Sets | Stores | Music Bluegrass | Country | Box Sets | Stores | Music Bluegrass | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Contemporary Folk | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Folk | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: 1959-1963 1964-1969, Plus Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1953-59 Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys At Carnegie Hall! ASIN: B00000AS0N Release Date: 1991-02-22

Tracks:

1. God Loves His Children
2. I'm Going To Make Heaven My Home
3. We'll Meet Again Sweetheart
4. My Cabin In Caroline
5. Baby Blue Eyes
6. Bouquet In Heaven
7. Down The Road
8. Why Don't You Tell Me So?
9. I'll Never Shed Another Tear
10. No Mother Or Dad
11. Is It Too Late Now!
12. Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Instr.)
13. I'll Be Going To Heaven Sometime
14. So Happy I'll Be
15. My Little Girl In Tennessee
16. I'll Never Love Another
17. Doin' My Time
18. Pike County Breakdown (Instr.)
19. Cora Is Gone
20. Preachin', Prayin', Singin' (No Fiddle/Mandolin)
21. Pain In My Heart
22. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
23. Back To The Cross
24. Farewell Blues
25. Old Salty Dog Blues
26. Take Me In A Lifeboat
27. Will The Roses Bloom (Where She Lies Sleeping)
28. I'll Just Pretend

Tracks:

1. Come Back Darling
2. I'm Head Over Heels In Love
3. I'm Waiting To Hear You Call Me Darling
4. The Old Home Town
5. I'll Stay Around
6. We Can't Be Darlings Anymore
7. Jimmie Brown, The Newsboy
8. Somehow Tonight
9. Don't Get Above My Raising
10. I'm Working On A Road
11. He Took Your Place
12. I've Lost You
13. 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered
14. I'm Gonna Settle Down
15. Earl's Breakdown
16. I'm Lonesome And Blue
17. Over The Hills To The Poorhouse
18. My Darling's Last Goodbye
19. Get In Line Brothers
20. Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go
21. Why Did You Wander?
22. Flint Hill Special (Instr.)
23. Thinking About You
24. If I Should Wander Back Tonight
25. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
26. Dear Old Dixie

Tracks:

1. Reunion In Heaven
2. Pray For The Boys
3. I'll Go Stepping Too
4. I'd Rather Be Alone
5. Foggy Mountain Chimes
6. Someone Took My Place With You
7. Mother Prays Loud In Her Sleep
8. That Old Book Of Mine
9. Your Love Is Like A Flower
10. Be Ready For Tomorrow May Never Come
11. Till The End Of The World Rolls Around
12. You're Not A Drop In The Bucket
13. Don't This Road Look Rough And Rocky
14. Foggy Mountain Special (Instr.)
15. You Can Feel It In Your Soul
16. Old Fashioned Preacher
17. Before I Met You
18. I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open
19. Randy Lynn Rag (Instr.)
20. On My Mind
21. Blue Ridge Cabin Home
22. Some Old Day
23. It Won't Be Long
24. No Mother In This World
25. Gone Home
26. Bubbling In My Soul
27. Joy Bells
28. What's Good For You

Tracks:

1. No Doubt About It
2. Who Will Sing For Me
3. Give Mother My Crown
4. Six White Horses
5. Shuckin' The Corn
6. I'll Take The Blame (Previously Unissued)
7. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
8. A Hundred Years From Now
9. Give Me The Flowers While I'm Living
10. Is There Room For Me
11. I'll Take The Blame
12. Let Those Brown Eyes Smile At Me
13. I'll Never Shed Another Tear
14. I Won't Be Hanging Around
15. I Don't Care Anymore
16. Big Black Train
17. Mama's And Daddy's Little Girl
18. Crying Alone
19. A Million Years In Glory
20. Heaven
21. Building On Sand
22. Jesus Savior Pilot Me
23. Crying My Heart Out Over You
24. Ground Speed
25. Who Knows Right From Wrong
26. Iron Curtain
27. Cabin On The Hill
28. Someone You Have Forgotten
29. Foggy Mountain Rock (Instr.)
30. You Put Me On My Feet (When You Took Her Off My Hands)

Album Details

The 5-star Reviews for this Set Showed that Flatt and Scruggs Are Far from Forgotten 25 Years after They Split Up. Here We have their Complete Mercury Recordings as Well as the Columbia Recordings from 1950-1959. Of Course, this Set Includes the Original Version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown, but It's No Exaggeration to Say that Every One of the 112 Tracks is a Gem. Titles Include Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Jimmie Brown the Newsboy, Tis Sweet to Be Remembered, Earl's Breakdown, Flint Hill Special, Dim Lights Thick Smoke, Foggy Mountain Chimes, and Six White Horses. Bluegrass Music Comes No Purer Or Finer.

Customer Reviews:

This is the one!.......2006-03-02

It doesn't get any better! The best Bluegrass band ever at it's peak! You get both great eras. Before Josh Graves and after Josh Graves. Josh joins them and plays the best Bluegrass dobro of his career on these cuts. They still had that great sing songy driving beat that they lost later in their Country/Folk era. And, of course, the early days. Absolutely pure Blugrass at it's best! I've been listening to Bluegrass since the 50's. Take my word for it, this one is a must!

Best In Bluegrass.....EVER!.......2005-12-31

This is a great boxset containing music from one of the best bluegrass band EVER! If you love bluegrass, this is gonna be great. All recordings are greatly remastered and in a great audio sound! If you still have any doubt there's a wonderful booklet filled with old pics from TV shows and other appearances. What are you waiting for? Buy it now, you won't regret! :)

10 stars excellent music.......2002-12-07

anyone familiar with this cd pkg will willingly tell you how great it is...F&S during those late 40s/early 50s yrs were one of the best bands of all time...anyone who buys this cd will never regret it....anyone who would've bought it and then regretted it would never have bought it in the first place

Majestic American Music !.......2002-06-28

If you like Bluegrass , Country Gospel or Traditional Country music , you'll love this 4 cd boxset . It contains all the recordings Flatt & Scruggs made for Mercury Records , and Columbia Records between 1948 - 1959 ( probably the peak years for this band who are widely regarded as one of the finest exponents of Bluegrass music ) . There are far too many highlights to mention , all I will say is that there is not one dud amongst the 112 tracks featured in this boxset ( many of which have become Bluegrass standards ) , and that you'll be amazed by the speed and dexterity of the playing by this incredible band .

As usual Bear Family Records have done a marvelous job with the sound ( credit must go to Rebecca Everett for the fantastic mastering ) , they've also provided a booklet packed with information and stunning photographs of the band .

Why waste your time and money duplicating these tracks by hunting down single Flatt & Scruggs cd's when you have the cream of the crop right here , and this really is some of the finest music America has given the world , and it deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the works of Duke Ellington , Louis Armstrong , Hank Williams , Frank Sinatra , Bob Dylan etc ............ I can't recommend it highly enough !

Absolute must-have - A classic.......1998-05-02

This is the sound that everyone that picks bluegrass wants to achieve. If you like bluegrass music and can only buy one box set - this is it. You'll also be surprised at how many of these songs you already know and love - but couldn't find on CD anywhere else.

Average customer rating: difficult to assess a life all in one place

Stefan Wolpe: Remembering the Dancemaster - Early Piece (1925) / Passacaglia (1936) / Zemach Suite (1939) / Studies, Part I (1944-1951) / Two Studies for Piano, Part II (1948) / Form for Piano (1959) / Form IV (1969) - Katharina Wolpe, Piano Manufacturer: Largo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Passacaglias | Variations | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000IKKT Release Date: 1995-03-14

Customer Reviews:

difficult to assess a life all in one place.......2005-04-01

I found the playing here very personal, and introspective,not aggressive with the tempo when it needed it to propell the music forward; it is easy to examine Wolpe's piano solo music in retrospect, far more difficult gazing from different periods in time. I still prefer David Tudor's impassioned,clear,powerful reading of the :Passacaglia:.It is simply correct in every respect,not only the obvious (tempo,dynamics) but finding the emotive state of the work,something few actually find. This, the Tudor reading--if you can find it on an old Everest Vinyl I beleive is the label. Geoffrey Madge begins the :Passacaglia: too slowly as Ms.Wolpe trying to seize upon some "mystery"or darkness or perspective of musical space. I beleive there was/are such sensibilities here, 1936 was a paradigm a dark passage for all,and the lumbering measured trek through each variation,each intervallic renderings makes the work far more heavier, again a metaphor for the times.So you need to enliven and electrify this situation as Tudor admirably did.(Tudor had given performances of this work many times in New York City in the Fifties) Wolpe had lived in Palestine in the Thirties prior to coming to New York to live out his years.
Ms.Wolpe here has a wonderful sense of the lyricism of this music as in the beautiful "Early Piece" from 1925,You can sense even there all was not right with the human spirit, that it was trounced once or twice. Likewise the :Zemach Suite: also has similar gruffy features, edgee for the times despite its more light spirit, or relatively lighter character frames of fugues,Jubilations. It is really not until the mid-Forties where the dodecaphonic language imparts itself on Wolpe's sensibility,where he worked and laboured at it almost like sketch-work in preparation for something to come. The piano pieces here are in fact "Studies" (1944-1951) and 1948. He also wrote other :Studies: on intervallic rows of his choosing,that were not really intended to be performed live in a concert venue. They have however. Not till the two "Forms" for Piano one from 1959 another 1969 do we in fact get the mature Wolpe at the height of his creative sensibility now. Ms.Wolpe is much better here,where she senses the breakthru of concept,a freedom actually to write whatever one wishes now that a powerful language, a voice has been discovered. The 'Form' from 1959 is threadbare,onward moving, and if you miss this momentum you might as well give up on the piece for it is, this music is unforgiving if you do not find the right emotive posture, sure the correct pulse metronome indication but then play with a balance of aggressiveness and lyricism. Madge, seems to bring some desolation here to "Form 4 (1969) as Ms. Wolpe and for Madge to the 'Battle Piece', another problematical work.

Average customer rating:

Line Renaud 1948-1959 Line Renaud Manufacturer: EMI Pathé Marconi ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000S1C0IQ

Product Description

20 tracks:MA CABANE AU CANADA,OU VAS-TU BASILE, ETOILES DES NEIGES, TIRE L'AIGUILLE, MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES, MA P'TITE FOLIE, LE BAL AUX BALEARES, LE CHIEN DANS LA VITRINE, PRINTEMPS D'ALSACE, TON MARIAGE, TANGO DE L'ELEPHANT,QUAND MADELON, MISTER BANJO, RELAX-AY-VOO (WITH DEAN MARTIN), PAM-POU-DE, LES ENCHAINES, QUE SERA SERA, MON COEUR AU PORTUGAL, BUONA SERA, UN AMOUR D'ETE.

Average customer rating:

Flatt & Scruggs 1948-1959 Flatt & Scruggs Manufacturer: Navarre Corporation/ ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002B5PRA Release Date: 2002-09-25

Music Album:

1. 20 Country Favorites
2. 30 Harmonica Classics
3. Adults Only [Explicit Lyrics]
4. Ain't No Perfect Diamond
5. All the Gold in California
6. Always Wanting More (Breathless) [CD-single]
7. Being Human
8. Best Of Scooter Lee Dance Music
9. Blood Donor/Radio Ham [Import] [Soundtrack]
10. Blood on the Saddle [Box set]

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