CCD 285 THE EARLY CLASSIC RECORDINGS OF JIMMY WAKELY (22 tracks) = F

YOU'RE THE SWEETEST ROSE IN TEXAS/I DON'T WANT YOUR SYMPATHY/MOON OVER MONTANA/ ANOTHER FOOL STEPS IN/EVERYONE KNEW IT BUT ME/SOMEBODY'S ROSE/WHERE THE MOON PLAYS PEEKABOO/ SWEETHEARTS ON PARADE/ FOR THE SAKE OF DAYS GONE BY/ARE YOU ASHAMED/TELLIN' MY TROUBLES TO MY OLD GUITAR/TRY TO UNDERSTAND/I'M GONNA MARRY MARY/TOO MANY SWEETHEARTS/I DON'T CARE/ BLUE BONNET BLUES/WHEN A SPECK IN THE SKY IS A BLUEBIRD/ON THE STRINGS OF MY LONESOME GUITAR/SILENT NIGHT/THE FIRST NOWELL (The First Noel)/IF SANTA CLAUS COULD BRING YOU BACK TO ME/CHRISTMAS POLKA.

Jimmy Wakely's biggest years in country music are reproduced here in this album (1946 - 1951). He was an excellent singer of cowboy songs, country ballads and western swing. He could have recorded a lot more, but he wasn't as much interested in a recording career as he was in his film career. He made over 70 movies. In the 1950s he started his own Shasta label.

More information about Jimmy Wakely is available from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wakely