VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1961

Bear Family's fine ongoing series of country chart hits year by year is not only an eye-opening history of country music's various trends and fashions, it also serves as a reminder of how a pop music genre builds, grows, and evolves while still retaining its commercial viability and audience, and given country's longstanding lip service to tradition, it serves as proof to the old axiom that the more things change, the more they stay the same. (allmusic.com)

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VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1961
(Bear Family Records 2011)

1. Marty Robbins / Don't Worry
2. Don Gibson / Sea Of Heartbreak
3. Patsy Cline / I Fall To Pieces
4. Billy Walker / Funny (How Time Slips Away)
5. Claude Gray / I'll Just Have A Cup Of Coffee (Then I'll Go)
6. Faron Young / Hello Walls
7. Bill Anderson / Po' Folks
8. Johnny Cash / Tennessee Flat Top Box
9. Wanda Jackson / Right Or Wrong
10. Buck Owens / Foolin' Around
11. Rusty & Doug Kershaw / Louisiana Man
12. Porter Wagoner / Your Old Love Letters
13. Jim Reeves / Losing Your Love
14. Bobby Edwards / You're The Reason
15. Jimmy Dean / Big Bad John
16. Claude King / Big River, Big Man
17. Roger Miller / When Two Worlds Collide
18. Leroy Van Dyke / Walk On By
19. George Jones / Tender Years
20. Moon Mullican / Ragged But Right
21. Buck Owens / Under The Influence Of Love
22. Marty Robbins / It's Your World
23. Webb Pierce / Sweet Lips
24. Patsy Cline / Crazy
25. Ray Price / Heart Over Mind
26. Rusty & Doug Kershaw / Diggy Liggy Lo
27. Wynn Stewart / Big, Big Love
28. Kitty Wells / Heartbreak USA
29. Claude Gray / My Ears Should Burn (When Fools Are Talked About)
30. Tex Ritter / I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven
31. Gloria Lambert / Each Time I Hear (Don't Worry)