Best Country Songs

REWahoo said:
Country, not western...

Soggy Bottom Boys - I'm A Man Of Constant Sorrow - YouTube
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I always liked this version...Joan Baez's version is done in a hippie/folk style, not country...

JOAN BAEZ ~ Man Of Constant Sorrow ~ - YouTube

No one is 100% positive about the origins of this song. The general belief is that "Man Of Constant Sorrow" is a traditional American folk song first recorded by Dick Burnett, a partially blind fiddler from Kentucky. The song was originally recorded by Burnett as "Farewell Song" printed in a Richard Burnett songbook in 1913.
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W2R said:
Aw, gee! How far is that from something like Connie Francis in this top forties tune:

Who's Sorry Now? by Connie Francis (Lyrics) - YouTube

I understand and sympathize if you really don't like it. But I'd just hate for someone who loves music as much as you obviously do, to miss out on a whole genre possibly because of some preconceptions.
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Thanks for posting this one. I think it is a cover of a generation earlier version, from the 20s. Anyway, I remember slow dancing to this in junior high. Oh man, I wish slow dancing were 1/10 as much fun now as it was then! Only thing better was Eartha Kitt's Santa Baby, Mickey and Sylvia's Love is Strange, or maybe Les and Mary, Vaya Con Dios.

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Thanks for posting this one. I think it is a cover of a generation earlier version, from the 20s. Anyway, I remember slow dancing to this in junior high. Oh man, I wish slow dancing were 1/10 as much fun now as it was then! Only thing better was Eartha Kitt's Santa Baby, Mickey and Sylvia's Love is Strange, or maybe Les and Mary, Vaya Con Dios.

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Mickey and Sylvia's "Love is Strange" came out in 1957, only one year before Connie Francis sang "Who's Sorry Now" in 1958. What great classics came out during those years. :)

I was just 9-10 years old in 1957-58, but knew every word of both these songs from listening to them on the radio.

The other two songs you mention apparently came out in 1953, but I knew them just as well. I'm not sure why, since I would have only been 5 when they came out. Maybe they were still popular.
 
W2R said:
Mickey and Sylvia's "Love is Strange" came out in 1957, only one year before Connie Francis sang "Who's Sorry Now" in 1958. What great classics came out during those years. :)

I was just 9-10 years old in 1957-58, but knew every word of both these songs from listening to them on the radio.

The other two songs you mention apparently came out in 1953, but I knew them just as well. I'm not sure why, since I would have only been 5 when they came out. Maybe they were still popular.
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They both stayed popular for years- in fact Eartha Kitt's Santa Baby became a christmas classic. "Santa Baby, a 54 convertible too, light blue, I'll wait up for you, so hurry down the chimney tonight..."

Looking around your tube, I realize that I also know may songs from my parents' youths. Their parties often featured dancing and group singing, and I know plenty of songs from the 30s through the WW2 years and after. Know the words even. I even know old radio ads and jingles from my early childhood-"Duz Does Everything". I even know who is Deanna Durbin. :)

One cannot but be a child of his era, and mine was too hard to really spend much time listening to these old sentimental songs- but they really are very beautiful. And if I had a woman who could get into romance I could get there with her. And no, I am not talking about sex. Don't need sentiment for that.

Nat King Cole - Autumn Leaves (lyrics) - YouTube

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I'm not much of a country pop fan, and I never knew what this word featured in the song meant until I saw this video on CMT at a local Legion. This song is cute and bouncy and unashamedly irreverent. Just my style. :D

Men of the forum, enjoy the show. :cool:

You go girls!

Trace Adkins - Honky Tonk Badonkadonk - YouTube
 
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