The Singer, The Songwriter, 1966-1969 [Box set]

Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Forget Me
2. Funny, Familiar, Forgotten Feelings
3. Just to Hurt Me
4. Losing Your Love
5. Chance I Had to Take
See all 23 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2
1. You've Still Got a Place in My Heart
2. Everlovin' Never Changing Mind
3. Maiden's Prayer
4. Thing Called Sadness
5. What Now My Love
See all 25 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3
1. Set Me Free - Don Gibson, Dottie West
2. I'll Never Stand in Your Way - Don Gibson, Dottie West
3. Final Examination - Don Gibson, Dottie West
4. Sweet Dreams - Don Gibson, Dottie West
5. Solitary
See all 24 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4
1. Intro Country Style #151
2. Oh, Lonesome Me
3. I Can't Stop Loving You
4. Flip Flop and Bop
5. Set the Wedding
See all 40 tracks on this disc

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The Singer, The Songwriter, 1966-1969
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Don Gibson The Singer-The Songwriter 1966-1969: The Very Best of Both
 The Singer, The Songwriter, 1966-1969
Don Gibson
Manufacturer: Bear Family
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001Z5YXM
Release Date: 2004-04-19

Tracks:

  1. Forget Me
  2. Funny, Familiar, Forgotten Feelings
  3. Just to Hurt Me
  4. Losing Your Love
  5. Chance I Had to Take
  6. Run Along Blues
  7. No Doubt About It
  8. All My Love
  9. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
  10. Where Is Your Heart Tonight
  11. This Cold War With You
  12. We Live in Two Different Worlds
  13. It's a Sin
  14. (I'll Let My Heart Break) For a Little While
  15. Faded Love
  16. Ashes of Love
  17. They'll Never Take Her Love from Me
  18. What Locks the Door
  19. Headin' Down the Wrong Highway
  20. Good Morning, Dear
  21. It's a Long, Long Way to Georgia
  22. I Just Said Goodbye to My Dreams
  23. Low and Lonely

Tracks:

  1. You've Still Got a Place in My Heart
  2. Everlovin' Never Changing Mind
  3. Maiden's Prayer
  4. Thing Called Sadness
  5. What Now My Love
  6. Half a Man
  7. Thoughts
  8. I Walk Alone
  9. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
  10. Someday You'll Call My Name
  11. She's Looking Good
  12. Times Were Good
  13. Don't Rob Another Man's Castle
  14. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
  15. If My Heart Had Windows
  16. Ever Changing Mind
  17. You Can't Pick a Rose in December
  18. Til I Can't Take It Anymore - Don Gibson, Dottie West
  19. Let's Wait a Little Longer - Don Gibson, Dottie West
  20. Lovin' Season - Don Gibson, Dottie West
  21. How's the World Treating You - Don Gibson, Dottie West
  22. Rings of Gold - Don Gibson, Dottie West
  23. Sweet Memories - Don Gibson, Dottie West
  24. I Love You Because - Don Gibson, Dottie West
  25. When I Stop Dreaming - Don Gibson, Dottie West

Tracks:

  1. Set Me Free - Don Gibson, Dottie West
  2. I'll Never Stand in Your Way - Don Gibson, Dottie West
  3. Final Examination - Don Gibson, Dottie West
  4. Sweet Dreams - Don Gibson, Dottie West
  5. Solitary
  6. I Will Always
  7. Montego Bay
  8. Blue Darlin'
  9. Good Deal, Lucille
  10. Am I That Easy to Forget
  11. Oh, Lonesome Me
  12. One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)
  13. Bonaparte's Retreat
  14. Little Bitty Tear
  15. Here Comes My Baby Back Again
  16. Half as Much
  17. I Can't Stop Loving You
  18. Tennessee Waltz
  19. Almost Persuaded
  20. Four Walls
  21. I Found Someone New
  22. Snap Your Fingers
  23. There's a Story (Goin' 'Round) - Don Gibson, Dottie West
  24. Lock, Stock, And Teardrops - Don Gibson, Dottie West

Tracks:

  1. Intro Country Style #151
  2. Oh, Lonesome Me
  3. I Can't Stop Loving You
  4. Flip Flop and Bop
  5. Set the Wedding
  6. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
  7. Outro
  8. Intro Country Style #157
  9. Oh, Lonesome Me
  10. Take Me as I Am or Let Me Go
  11. Flip Flop and Bop
  12. Blue Blue Day
  13. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
  14. Outro
  15. Intro Country Style #177
  16. Give Myself a Party
  17. Look Who's Blue
  18. Comedy
  19. Sweet Temptation
  20. Where No One Stands Alone
  21. Outro
  22. Intro Country Style #188
  23. Blue Blue Day
  24. Heartbreak Avenue
  25. Lonesome Road
  26. Raggin' the Keys
  27. I'm Climbing Up the Mountain
  28. Outro
  29. Intro Country Style #232
  30. Blue Blue Day
  31. Heartbreak Avenue
  32. Flip Flop and Bop
  33. Oh, Lonesome Me
  34. Outro
  35. Intro Country Style #251
  36. Oh, Lonesome Me
  37. If I Can Stay Away Long Enough
  38. Am I That Easy to Forget
  39. Just One Time
  40. Outro

Album Details

4-CD-BOX and Book. This Third Don Gibson Boxed Set Covers the Period from 1966 to 1969, the Final Years of his RCA Victor Contract. Includes all the Groundbreaking Late Sixties Lps, 'all My Love,' 'the King of Country Soul,' 'more Country Soul,' 'all Time Country Gold,' and the Fabulous Duets with Dottie West. All the Hits from this Period Are Featured, Including Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings, Rings of Gold, and There's a Story, Together with Some Previously Unreleased Recordings.the 40-page Book Includes an Essay by Stuart Colman, who Conducted the Last Interview with Gibson, as Well as Rare Photos from the Gibson Family Archives, and a Complete Discography by Richard Weize.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Don Gibson The Singer-The Songwriter 1966-1969: The Very Best of Both.......2006-11-01

I asked myself "Why am I spending this much money for a CD??" I thought I must be absolutely crazy. Well, I received it in the mail yesterday, and I no longer think I'm crazy. It is soooooooo good. I have a lot of these songs on LPs (yes, from way back when!!) but I'm getting in to this modern world (I'm afraid very late) and I wanted them on CD, and I thought this CD would be good to have. I only wish that I'd bought it years ago, if it were available. Don Gibson was my favorite singer and still is. I had a few CDs already and I play them constantly. He was originally from Shelby NC and I was from Gastonia, about 20 miles away, and I remember him from those very early years. He was only a few years older than I. It had been hard to find CDs by him until someone suggested I go on Amazon looking for them. I guess The Bear Family produced this box set. I had never heard of them before I read another review of one of their products. Thank you so much, Bear Family. The writings about Don are invaluable to me, especially since he mentioned being at a movie theater in Gastonia. (Just think, I might have sat in that same seat.) I've always wondered about his life back then. I had heard about his involvement with alcohol early on in his career, but not the drugs. Well, I have mixed emotions here: If he was on drugs/alcohol when he recorded these songs, and that's what I get from the story, then I can certainly overlook that. Not that I'm condoning them, I certainly am not. I am very uplifted and happy that he cleaned himself up. My father was an alcoholic and I grew up in a hellish home, but I don't know that Don ever sang better, before or after. And perhaps his addictions, and overcoming them, helped him in a way he couldn't have been helped otherwise. My father never overcame his alcoholism until the day he died at age 72 in 1985. I still believe that he made it to heaven because he was a good man otherwise, when he wasn't drinking. I think Don may be up there as well. Maybe they know each other by now. And maybe they both can say "Vickie loved me".
Oh but I'm getting away from my review. I've heard that alcohol and drugs can improve a person's singing voice and I don't know if that is true, but they certainly didn't hurt Don's voice as far as I can tell. I think he just got better with age. Now I can't wait to get the other box sets from '49-'60 and from '60('61?)-'66. Alas, since I am old and existing on retirement and social security, I have to wait until I can save up the money, but I will be pinching my pennies until they scream and holler. I hope they will be equally as good as this one.
The book was an unexpected joy. The photos are glorious, however, the only thing I can complain about would be that the studio musicians weren't identified on the pictures as was the other performers in the back of the book. My memory escapes me a lot and so I can't put names to them.
Well, CD #4 was a pleasant surprise. I just had to hear the very first track of it to realize that I heard those programs back then. I was living in Newport, RI at the time and my husband was away in Europe with the US Navy and those radio shows was about the only source I had for country music of any kind except from my little 45 rpm records, and I, being still very young (summer of 1958), didn't have very many, however, I had some by Don Gibson and they are still stored here at my house somewhere. Country music back then seemed to bring me closer to my husband, and something in common, while he was away on long lonely cruises with the Navy. All else I had to help with the loneliness was our brand new baby, born while he was away and whom he didn't see for 6 months.
Thank you again Bear Family and to the one who did the last interview with Don. It was wonderful. I could just hear him telling the stories. And I can understand where he got a lot of his inspiration/ideas to write his songs. From true heartbreak at times. I've heard that only a person who has experienced it can write about it.
I just recently found out that Don has passed away (when I looked him up on the internet), and I am so sad about that. My heart goes out to his wife of 36 years. God Bless You, Bobbi. I am sure you made those 36 years a much better life for him. I think that he didn't write so many sad songs after that.
My husband and I have been married for 50+ years and we've survived a lot as well. 25 years of Navy life and a year and a half of it during the Vietnam war. He was there in 1967 and 1968. And that's when I got a lot of my Don Gibson albums. The ones I'm trying to find on CD now. And a lot of those are on these CDs in this box set. They bring back such memories to me.
Thanks so much to Amazon for allowing an old woman to ramble on with this, my very glowing review of this box set. It is next to perfect. Well I did give it 5 stars and would have given it 9 and 9/10s if you'd allow me. And the other tenth is for not identifying the studio musicians above their pictures.
I recommend it to ANYONE who EVER heard of Don Gibson and his music. And even to those who didn't. You might just like some of it if not all of it.
The Singer, The Songwriter, 1966-1969
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		The Singer, The Songwriter, 1966-1969
    Don Gibson
    Manufacturer: Bear Family
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
    Nashville SoundNashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Country | Box Sets | Stores | Music
    ASIN: B000294RYY
    Release Date: 2004-06-22

    Tracks:

    1. Forget Me
    2. Funny, Familiar, Forgotten Feelings
    3. Just to Hurt Me
    4. Losing Your Love
    5. Chance I Had to Take
    6. Run Along Blues
    7. No Doubt About It
    8. All My Love
    9. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
    10. Where Is Your Heart Tonight
    11. This Cold War With You
    12. We Live in Two Different Worlds
    13. It's a Sin
    14. (I'll Let My Heart Break) For a Little While
    15. Faded Love
    16. Ashes of Love
    17. They'll Never Take Her Love from Me
    18. What Locks the Door
    19. Headin' Down the Wrong Highway
    20. Good Morning, Dear
    21. It's a Long, Long Way to Georgia
    22. I Just Said Goodbye to My Dreams
    23. Low and Lonely

    Tracks:

    1. You've Still Got a Place in My Heart
    2. Everlovin' Never Changing Mind
    3. Maiden's Prayer
    4. Thing Called Sadness
    5. What Now My Love
    6. Half a Man
    7. Thoughts
    8. I Walk Alone
    9. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
    10. Someday You'll Call My Name
    11. She's Looking Good
    12. Times Were Good
    13. Don't Rob Another Man's Castle
    14. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
    15. If My Heart Had Windows
    16. Ever Changing Mind
    17. You Can't Pick a Rose in December
    18. Til I Can't Take It Anymore - Don Gibson, Dottie West
    19. Let's Wait a Little Longer - Don Gibson, Dottie West
    20. Lovin' Season - Don Gibson, Dottie West
    21. How's the World Treating You - Don Gibson, Dottie West
    22. Rings of Gold - Don Gibson, Dottie West
    23. Sweet Memories - Don Gibson, Dottie West
    24. I Love You Because - Don Gibson, Dottie West
    25. When I Stop Dreaming - Don Gibson, Dottie West

    Tracks:

    1. Set Me Free - Don Gibson, Dottie West
    2. I'll Never Stand in Your Way - Don Gibson, Dottie West
    3. Final Examination - Don Gibson, Dottie West
    4. Sweet Dreams - Don Gibson, Dottie West
    5. Solitary
    6. I Will Always
    7. Montego Bay
    8. Blue Darlin'
    9. Good Deal, Lucille
    10. Am I That Easy to Forget
    11. Oh, Lonesome Me
    12. One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)
    13. Bonaparte's Retreat
    14. Little Bitty Tear
    15. Here Comes My Baby Back Again
    16. Half as Much
    17. I Can't Stop Loving You
    18. Tennessee Waltz
    19. Almost Persuaded
    20. Four Walls
    21. I Found Someone New
    22. Snap Your Fingers
    23. There's a Story (Goin' 'Round) - Don Gibson, Dottie West
    24. Lock, Stock, And Teardrops - Don Gibson, Dottie West

    Tracks:

    1. Intro Country Style #151
    2. Oh, Lonesome Me
    3. I Can't Stop Loving You
    4. Flip Flop and Bop
    5. Set the Wedding
    6. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
    7. Outro
    8. Intro Country Style #157
    9. Oh, Lonesome Me
    10. Take Me as I Am or Let Me Go
    11. Flip Flop and Bop
    12. Blue Blue Day
    13. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
    14. Outro
    15. Intro Country Style #177
    16. Give Myself a Party
    17. Look Who's Blue
    18. Comedy
    19. Sweet Temptation
    20. Where No One Stands Alone
    21. Outro
    22. Intro Country Style #188
    23. Blue Blue Day
    24. Heartbreak Avenue
    25. Lonesome Road
    26. Raggin' the Keys
    27. I'm Climbing Up the Mountain
    28. Outro
    29. Intro Country Style #232
    30. Blue Blue Day
    31. Heartbreak Avenue
    32. Flip Flop and Bop
    33. Oh, Lonesome Me
    34. Outro
    35. Intro Country Style #251
    36. Oh, Lonesome Me
    37. If I Can Stay Away Long Enough
    38. Am I That Easy to Forget
    39. Just One Time
    40. Outro

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