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Although the true "Ultimate Collection" of Gene's hits would include 37 tracks as he has had 37 top 40 hits, this CD issued by Hip-O does do a good job with cross-licensing from the labels he has recorded over the years in chronological order starting with 5 of his tracks from Capitol, unfortunately omitting many of his Capitol hits, especially these 2 tracks which would be truly essential for single disc cross-licensed compilations: "Farewell Party," and "You Could Know As Much About a Stranger," but the 5 Capitol tracks here are essential anyway which are "Love In The Hot Afternoon," "Pick The Wildwood Flower," "Where Love Begins," "Nothing Sure Looked Goodand "Paper Rosie" while the rest of his Capitol hits can be found on the "18 Greatest Hits" CD available here at Amazon. The rest of this disc follows his career from his years on MCA by duplicating all of the tracks on the MCA CD called "Greatest Hits" including such essentials as "Fourteen Carat Mind," his sole #1 hit, "You're Out Doing What I'm Here Doing Without," "This Dreams on Me," "Sometimes I Get Lucky and Forget," "Speak Softly (You're Talking To My Heart)" and others, making that disc unnecessary these days, plus "Got No Reason Now For Going Home" which is also from his MCA years not included on the MCA Greatest Hits album from 1986 but Curb did reissue it on their CD compilations previously as MCA and Curb do co-own the rights to the "Heartaches, Love and Stuff" album from 1984, which is the album "Got No Reason Now For Going Home" originally appeared on. The 1 MCA hit omitted is "Little By Little," which peaked at #33 in 1984, on the Little By Little album which is on CD and that CD is available right here at Amazon. The Epic years are represented here by "Cold Summer Day In Georgia," the shuffle "Memories To Burn," which peaked at #5 in 1986, "Everything I Used To Do," and "Everybody Needs a Hero," omitting "Carmen," which peaked at #32 in 1986. The final 3 tracks on this compilation are the 3 hits he had on Warner Bros., most notable in this bunch is "Don't Waste It On The Blues," a bluesy styled song that peaked at #5 in 1989. Buy this and "Eighteen Greatest Hits" and you'll have nearly all of his top 40 hits in just 2 purchases with great sound to boot. The liner note booklet on this compilation is very comprehensive making this a 5 star disc. Buy this and "Eighteen Greatest Hits" and you will have the bulk of his hits.
You forget our smooth Gene Watson sings. I remember reading somewhere that the worlds stops when Gene sings. It is so true. The song, "Love in the Hot Afternoon" is a classic country song.
This CD has the best of Gene Watson's songs. I was looking thru some old 8-track tapes and found one that I had of Gene Watson that I bought in 1980 when I saw one of his performances. I loved his music and had not heard him in years. Since I don't have anyway of playing 8-tracks now, I looked for a CD of his songs. I found this CD and it is GREAT! It has all the songs I remembered and loved, such as "BETWEEN THIS TIME AND THE NEXT TIME", "PAPER ROSIE", "MEMORIES TO BURN" and many more. I didn't realize how much I miss Gene Watson's singing until I bought this CD. I play it over and over!!
I was looking for a pretty complete collection of songs of Gene Watson. This is it. Am just sitting here listening to it for the first time and this will get a lot of play. I've missed Gene.
If the opening track ~ "LOVE IN THE HOT AFTERNOON", is any indication of what the remaining 22 selections have in-store for us, let her rip...Watson sang his way into our hearts from the mid '70s...and some of my favorites have showed up for a good time ~ "THIS DREAM'S ON ME"..."FOURTEEN CARAT MIND"..."YOU'RE OUT DOING WHAT I'M HERE DOING WITHOUT"..."GOT NO REASON FOR GOIN' HOME", and my personal all-time pick is "MEMORIES TO BURN"...whether ballads, down-home country or pure honky-tonk...his style will put a lump in your throat or a smile on your face.Total Time: 67:13 on 23 Tracks ~ Universal/Hip-O Records 088-112-730-2 ~ (2001)
A great cross-licensed compilation of Gene Watson classics, January 16, 2003
very good old time songs, September 5, 2005
