Golden Age of Country

Golden Age of Country

Includes two bonus CDs: "Hard to Find Hits"

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This collection brings together the most influential country and western artists from country music’s golden age

Pioneering artists combined traditional mountain music with new instruments and sounds – launching their songs onto the national scene. Enjoy this unique collection of country’s original hits and hit makers. This one-of-a-kind set is the most comprehensive country music collection ever devoted to the classic hits of the ’50s and ’60s.

Featuring artists like…

  • Johnny Cash
  • Patsy Cline
  • George Jones
  • Kitty Wells
  • Ray Price
  • Eddy Arnold
  • Tammy Wynette
  • Glen Campbell
  • Willie Nelson

Featured Songs

  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample I Walk The Line Johnny Cash 2:45 CD 7
Song Sample Crazy Patsy Cline 2:45 CD 1
Song Sample El Paso City Marty Robbins 4:41 CD 5
Song Sample Stand by Your Man Tammy Wynette 2:42 CD 5
Song Sample Hey, Good Lookin’ Hank Williams 2:57 CD 1
Song Sample Okie from Muskogee Merle Haggard 2:45 CD 7
Song Sample Crazy Arms Ray Price 2:35 CD 3
Song Sample Waltz across Texas Ernest Tubb 2:41 CD 1
Song Sample Galveston Glen Campbell 2:39 CD 8
Song Sample Mama Tried Merle Haggard 2:11 CD 8

Golden Age of Country: Waltz Across Texas

CD 1
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Hey, Good Lookin’ Hank Williams 2:57
Song Sample You Ain’t Woman Enough Loretta Lynn 2:14
Song Sample A Week in a County Jail Tom T. Hall 3:02
Song Sample White Lightning George Jones 2:48
Song Sample Walk On By Leroy Van Dyke 2:24
Song Sample Waltz across Texas Ernest Tubb 2:41
Song Sample Next in Line Conway Twitty 2:51
Song Sample King of the Road Roger Miller 2:26
Song Sample Crazy Patsy Cline 2:45
Song Sample Love’s Gonna Live Here Buck Owens 2:00
Song Sample Bye Bye Love The Everly Brothers 2:24
Song Sample In the Jailhouse Now Webb Pierce 2:06
Song Sample It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Kitty Wells 2:32
Song Sample Blue Moon of Kentucky Bill Monroe 2:09
Song Sample Mama Sang a Song Bill Anderson 3:28
Song Sample There Goes My Everything Jack Greene 2:35
CD 2
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Walkin’ After Midnight Patsy Cline 2:36
Song Sample There Stands the Glass Webb Pierce 2:25
Song Sample Ballad Of A Teenage Queen Johnny Cash 2:14
Song Sample Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ Loretta Lynn 2:10
Song Sample It’s Only Make Believe Conway Twitty 2:15
Song Sample Trouble’s Back In Town The Wilburn Brothers 2:13
Song Sample What Made Milwaukee Famous Jerry Lee Lewis 2:37
Song Sample Lovesick Blues Hank Williams 2:45
Song Sample Makin’ Believe Kitty Wells 2:55
Song Sample The Tennessee Waltz Patti Page 3:04
Song Sample My Special Angel Bobby Helms 2:59
Song Sample Tender Years George Jones 2:25
Song Sample Still Bill Anderson 2:49
Song Sample Three Hearts in a Triangle Roy Drusky 2:44
Song Sample Dang Me Roger Miller 1:53
Song Sample Rocky Top The Osborne Brothers 2:36

Golden Age of Country: Crazy Arms

CD 3
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Singing the Blues Marty Robbins 2:27
Song Sample (When You Feel Like You’re in Love) Don’t Just Stand There Carl Smith 2:26
Song Sample If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time Lefty Frizzell 2:56
Song Sample Four Walls Jim Reeves 2:52
Song Sample That’s All Right Elvis Presley 1:58
Song Sample The Cattle Call Eddy Arnold 2:33
Song Sample The Three Bells (Les Trois Cloches) The Browns 2:53
Song Sample Waterloo Stonewall Jackson 2:30
Song Sample The End of the World Skeeter Davis 2:36
Song Sample I Can’t Stop Lovin’ You Don Gibson 2:38
Song Sample Crazy Arms Ray Price 2:35
Song Sample I’m Moving On Hank Snow 2:49
Song Sample The Caroll County Accident Porter Wagoner 2:51
Song Sample The Battle Of New Orleans Johnny Horton 2:33
Song Sample A Boy Named Sue Johnny Cash 3:47
Song Sample My Elusive Dreams David Houston & Tammy Wynette 2:54
CD 4
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Heartaches by the Number Ray Price 3:01
Song Sample Blue Suede Shoes Carl Perkins 2:18
Song Sample The Last Thing on My Mind Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton 2:36
Song Sample Once a Day Connie Smith 2:20
Song Sample Kaw-Liga Charlie Pride 3:10
Song Sample May the Bird of Paradise Fly up Your Nose Little Jimmy Dickens 2:26
Song Sample Slow Poke Pee Wee King 3:02
Song Sample This Ole House Stuart Hamblen 2:59
Song Sample Last Date Floyd Cramer 2:29
Song Sample Jackson Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash 2:45
Song Sample I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail Buck Owens 2:11
Song Sample Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line Waylon Jennings 2:24
Song Sample The Ballad of Jed Clampett Flatt and Scruggs 2:04
Song Sample D-I-V-O-R-C-E Tammy Wynette 2:59
Song Sample Pop a Top Jim Ed Brown 2:22
Song Sample Abilene George Hamilton IV 2:13

Golden Age of Country: Honky Tonk Man

CD 5
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley 2:11
Song Sample Pick Me Up on Your Way Down Charlie Walker 2:26
Song Sample He’ll Have to Go Jim Reeves 2:21
Song Sample Wolverton Mountain Claude King 3:00
Song Sample Big Bad John Jimmy Dean 3:01
Song Sample Charlie’s Shoes Billy Walker 2:17
Song Sample Flowers on the Wall The Statler Brothers 2:21
Song Sample Skip a Rope Henson Cargill 2:37
Song Sample Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger Charlie Pride 2:24
Song Sample Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash 2:44
Song Sample Oh Lonesome Me Don Gibson 2:33
Song Sample El Paso City Marty Robbins 4:41
Song Sample Detroit City Bobby Bare 2:48
Song Sample Make the World Go Away Eddy Arnold 2:40
Song Sample Don’t Let Me Cross Over Carl Butler 2:57
Song Sample Stand by Your Man Tammy Wynette 2:42
CD 6
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Wake Up Little Susie The Everly Brothers 2:00
Song Sample Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On Jerry Lee Lewis 2:55
Song Sample Oh, Baby Mine (I Get So Lonely) Johnny & Jack 1:58
Song Sample City Lights Ray Price 3:01
Song Sample Saginaw, Michigan Lefty Frizzell 3:04
Song Sample Please Help Me, I’m Falling Hank Locklin 2:25
Song Sample Green, Green Grass Of Home Porter Wagoner 2:25
Song Sample Don’t Touch Me Jeannie Seely 3:16
Song Sample Honky Tonk Man Johnny Horton 2:14
Song Sample Daddy Sang Bass Johnny Cash 2:22
Song Sample Walk through This World with Me George Jones 2:18
Song Sample Almost Persuaded David Houston 2:56
Song Sample I’ve Been Everywhere Hank Snow 2:35
Song Sample My Heart Skips A Beat Buck Owens 2:26
Song Sample Hey Joe! Carl Smith 2:30
Song Sample I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know The Davis Sisters 2:59

Golden Age of Country: The Wild Side of Life

CD 7
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Sixteen Tons Tennessee Ernie Ford 2:38
Song Sample The Wild Side Of Life Hank Thompson 2:45
Song Sample You Win Again Jerry Lee Lewis 2:57
Song Sample The Race Is On George Jones 2:08
Song Sample Wichita Lineman Glen Campbell 3:05
Song Sample It’s Such a Pretty World Today Wynn Stewart 2:33
Song Sample Slipping Around Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely 2:14
Song Sample I Walk The Line Johnny Cash 2:45
Song Sample Young Love Sonny James 2:30
Song Sample Okie from Muskogee Merle Haggard 2:45
Song Sample Wings of a Dove Ferlin Husky 2:19
Song Sample Hello Walls Faron Young 2:24
Song Sample We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds George Jones and Melba Montgomery 2:42
Song Sample I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby The Louvin Brothers 2:08
Song Sample Indian Love Call Slim Whitman 3:10
Song Sample Don’t Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes Skeets McDonald 2:46

Golden Age of Country: Hillbilly Heaven

CD 8
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Mama Tried Merle Haggard 2:11
Song Sample I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven Tex Ritter 3:10
Song Sample Funny How Time Slips Away Willie Nelson 3:03
Song Sample My Baby’s Gone The Louvin Brothers 2:45
Song Sample Shotgun Boogie Tennessee Ernie Ford 2:37
Song Sample Squaws Along The Yukon Hank Thompson 2:30
Song Sample Girl On The Billboard Del Reeves 2:43
Song Sample She Thinks I Still Care George Jones 2:51
Song Sample Galveston Glen Campbell 2:39
Song Sample A Dear John Letter Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky 2:32
Song Sample Alone with You Faron Young 2:00
Song Sample You Better Not Do That Tommy Collins 2:29
Song Sample Gone Ferlin Husky 2:24
Song Sample Old Rivers Walter Brennan 2:48
Song Sample Right Or Wrong Wanda Jackson 2:39
Song Sample You’re the Only World I Know Sonny James 2:13

Golden Age of Country: Hard to Find Hits

CD 9
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Thanks a Lot Ernest Tubb 2:33
Song Sample I Ain’t Never Webb Pierce 1:55
Song Sample Lonesome 7-7203 Hawkshaw Hawkins 2:44
Song Sample I’m a Honky-Tonk Girl Loretta Lynn 2:17
Song Sample From a Jack to a King Ned Miller 2:11
Song Sample Laura (What’s He Got That I Ain’t Got?) Leon Ashley 2:36
Song Sample Hello Vietnam Johnny Wright 3:08
Song Sample You’re the Reason Bobby Edwards 2:40
Song Sample Statue of a Fool Jack Greene 2:53
Song Sample The Bridge Washed Out Warner Mack 2:19
Song Sample For Loving You Bill Anderson & Jan Howard 2:46
Song Sample Why Baby Why Red Sovine & Webb Pierce 2:33
Song Sample Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy Red Foley 2:47
Song Sample A Little Bitty Tear Burl Ives 2:05
Song Sample Six Days on the Road Sawyer Brown 2:54
CD 10
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Alabama Cowboy Copas 2:20
Song Sample Fraulein Bobby Helms 2:53
Song Sample Gonna Find Me a Bluebird Marvin Rainwater 2:33
Song Sample Wishful Thinking Wynn Stewart 2:46
Song Sample It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin’ Johnny Tillotson 2:50
Song Sample Talk Back Trembling Lips Ernest Ashworth 2:36
Song Sample Let’s Think about Living Bob Luman 2:04
Song Sample Yes, Mrs. Peters Roy Drusky & Priscilla Peters 2:36
Song Sample A Fallen Star Jimmy C. Newman 2:17
Song Sample I Found My Girl in the USA Jimmie Skinner 3:00
Song Sample That’s My Pa Sheb Wooley 2:26
Song Sample There’s a Big Wheel Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper 2:19
Song Sample Giddyup Go Red Sovine & Webb Pierce 3:55
Song Sample No Help Wanted The Carlisles 2:28
Song Sample Put It Off until Tomorrow Bill Phillips 2:35

Golden Age of Country: Sing Me Back Home

CD 11
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample A Girl I Used To Know George Jones 2:43
Song Sample Sing Me Back Home Merle Haggard 2:51
Song Sample Looking At The World Through A Windshield Del Reeves 2:25
Song Sample It’s the Little Things Sonny James 2:58
Song Sample Gentle on My Mind Glen Campbell 2:59
Song Sample The New Green Light Hank Thompson 2:10
Song Sample I Love You Because Leon Payne 2:45
Song Sample It Tickles Tommy Collins 2:30
Song Sample So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed Merle Travis 3:02
Song Sample Mule Train Tennessee Ernie Ford 3:05
Song Sample Country Girl Faron Young 2:35
Song Sample You’re Running Wild The Louvin Brothers 2:18
Song Sample Second Fiddle (To An Old Guitar) Jean Shepard 2:15
Song Sample Secret Love Slim Whitman 2:48
Song Sample Ode to Billie Joe Bobbie Gentry 4:13
CD 12
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was On The Right) George Jones 2:16
Song Sample The Bottle Let Me Down Merle Haggard 2:50
Song Sample In the Middle of a Heartache Wanda Jackson 2:35
Song Sample Behind A Tear Sonny James 2:05
Song Sample Rub-A-Dub-Dub Hank Thompson 2:15
Song Sample Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) Tex Williams 2:56
Song Sample When I Stop Dreaming The Louvin Brothers 2:32
Song Sample The Ballad Of Davey Crockett Tennessee Ernie Ford 2:55
Song Sample Rose-Marie Slim Whitman 2:21
Song Sample Country Music Is Here To Stay Simon Crum 3:10
Song Sample Touch Me Willie Nelson 2:15
Song Sample By the Time I Get to Phoenix Glen Campbell 2:45
Song Sample Honey Bobby Goldsboro 2:59
Song Sample Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young Faron Young 2:19
Song Sample Release Me Jimmy Heap 2:43

Golden Age of Country: Ring of Fire

CD 13
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample The Ways to Love a Man Tammy Wynette 2:29
Song Sample Don’t Be Angry Stonewall Jackson 3:01
Song Sample I Love You a Thousand Ways Lefty Frizzell 2:47
Song Sample I Don’t Hurt Anymore Hank Snow 2:58
Song Sample There’s Been a Change in Me Eddy Arnold 2:17
Song Sample Just Someone I Used to Know Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton 2:24
Song Sample I Want You, I Need You, I Love You Elvis Presley 2:42
Song Sample Poison Love Johnny & Jack 2:23
Song Sample Ring of Fire Johnny Cash 2:39
Song Sample A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation) Marty Robbins 2:31
Song Sample Sea of Heartbreak Don Gibson 2:33
Song Sample Mexican Joe Jim Reeves 2:39
Song Sample The First Thing Ev’ry Morning (And the Last Thing Ev’ry Night) Jimmy Dean 2:11
Song Sample Then and Only Then Connie Smith 2:26
Song Sample (I’m So) Afraid of Losing You Again Charley Pride 3:49
CD 14
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Cross the Brazos at Waco Billy Walker 2:53
Song Sample Devil Woman Marty Robbins 2:52
Song Sample Misery Loves Company Porter Wagoner 2:37
Song Sample What’s He Doing in My World Eddy Arnold 2:11
Song Sample Singing My Song Tammy Wynette 2:24
Song Sample Four Strong Winds Bobby Bare 2:47
Song Sample Gotta Travel On Billy Grammer 2:30
Song Sample Mom and Dad’s Waltz Lefty Frizzell 3:05
Song Sample Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way Carl Smith 2:51
Song Sample The Same Ole Me Ray Price 2:46
Song Sample It Ain’t Me, Babe Johnny Cash & June Carter 3:06
Song Sample Would You Hold It Against Me Dottie West 2:41
Song Sample I Forgot to Remember to Forget Elvis Presley 2:30
Song Sample Yakety Axe Chet Atkins 2:03
Song Sample I Guess I’m Crazy Jim Reeves 2:27

Golden Age of Country: Don’t Worry

CD 15
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Blue Blue Day Don Gibson 1:56
Song Sample Loose Talk Carl Smith 2:32
Song Sample Understand Your Man Johnny Cash 2:43
Song Sample North to Alaska Johnny Horton 2:51
Song Sample Distant Drums Jim Reeves 2:53
Song Sample Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad Tammy Wynette 2:03
Song Sample Baby, Baby (I Know You’re a Lady) David Houston 2:20
Song Sample I Wanna Play House with You Eddy Arnold 2:13
Song Sample A Satisfied Mind Porter Wagoner 2:50
Song Sample I Want to Be with You Always Lefty Frizzell 3:05
Song Sample Send Me the Pillow You Dream On Hank Locklin 2:32
Song Sample Don’t Be Cruel Elvis Presley 2:04
Song Sample All I Have to Offer You (Is Me) Charley Pride 3:03
Song Sample Don’t Worry Marty Robbins 3:16
Song Sample (Now and Then, There’s) A Fool Such As I Elvis Presley 2:38
CD 16
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Billy Bayou Jim Reeves 2:07
Song Sample Life to Go Stonewall Jackson 2:30
Song Sample The Rhumba Boogie Hank Snow 2:51
Song Sample The Cold Hard Facts of Life Porter Wagoner 3:15
Song Sample Take Me to Your World Tammy Wynette 2:53
Song Sample The Hurtin’s All Over Connie Smith 2:52
Song Sample Begging to You Marty Robbins 2:31
Song Sample A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed Little Jimmy Dickens 2:48
Song Sample (How Much Is) That Hound Dog in the Window Homer & Jethro 2:45
Song Sample Always Late (With Your Kisses) Lefty Frizzell 3:07
Song Sample Don’t Elvis Presley 2:51
Song Sample My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You Ray Price 2:37
Song Sample Don’t Take Your Guns to Town Johnny Cash 3:03
Song Sample I Take the Chance The Browns 2:44
Song Sample I Want to Go with You Eddy Arnold 2:42

Golden Age of Country: Heartbreak U.S.A.

CD 17
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Chug-A-Lug Roger Miller 2:06
Song Sample Fist City Loretta Lynn 2:15
Song Sample Darling, You Know I Wouldn’t Lie Conway Twitty 2:35
Song Sample She’s Got You (Live) Patsy Cline 3:02
Song Sample I Get The Fever Bill Anderson 2:21
Song Sample If A Woman Answers (Hang Up The Phone) Leroy Van Dyke 2:23
Song Sample Truck Drivin’ Son-Of-A-Gun Dave Dudley 2:13
Song Sample The Window Up Above George Jones 2:35
Song Sample Roll Muddy River The Wilburn Brothers 2:15
Song Sample Why Don’t You Love Me Hank Williams 2:26
Song Sample One By One Kitty Wells w/ Red Foley 2:58
Song Sample Too Old To Cut The Mustard The Carlisles 2:19
Song Sample Love, Love, Love Webb Pierce 2:52
Song Sample Goodnight Irene Ernest Tubb & Red Foley 3:02
Song Sample All the Time Jack Greene 2:43
CD 18
  Song Title Artist Time
Song Sample Jambalaya (On The Bayou) Hank Williams 2:56
Song Sample Birmingham Bounce Red Foley 3:03
Song Sample Looking Back To See Justin Tubb w/ Goldie Hill 2:21
Song Sample I Fall To Pieces Patsy Cline 2:50
Song Sample The Image Of Me Conway Twitty 2:56
Song Sample Woman Of The World (Leave My World Alone) Loretta Lynn 2:56
Song Sample I’ll Just Have A Cup Of Coffee (Then I’ll Go) Claude Gray 2:13
Song Sample Ballad Of Forty Dollars Tom T. Hall 3:01
Song Sample She Still Comes Around (To Love What’s Left Of Me) Jerry Lee Lewis 2:29
Song Sample Another Roy Drusky 2:43
Song Sample Crying In The Chapel Rex Allen 3:06
Song Sample 8 X 10 Bill Anderson 2:48
Song Sample Engine Engine #9 Roger Miller 2:20
Song Sample Heartbreak U.S.A. Kitty Wells 2:40
Song Sample Slowly Webb Pierce 2:34

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