Johnny Bond - Love Song In 32 Bars: The Johnny Bond Collection 1941-60 (CD)

Details: Johnny Bond was a country singer, guitarist and songwriter, born in Oklahoma, who also appeared in more than 40 western movies during the later heyday of the genre in the 1940s and into the '50s, and during the '50s hosted a country music TV show with Tex Ritter. Based in Hollywood rather than Nashville, and with a style that encompassed elements of western swing and talking blues, as well as old-school "cowboy country", as he recorded in earlier years with his Red River Valley Boys, who initially included Jimmy Wakely and Spade Cooley, he adapted his approach towards rockabilly in the late '50s, and had a notable pop hit with "Hot Rod Lincoln" in 1960. This 56-track 2-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides from his releases during this era on the Okeh, Conqueror, Columbia, 20th Century Fox and Republic labels, plus some Standard Transcription recordings. It features all his pop and country chart entries from these years, including the Top 10 country hits "Divorce Me C.O.D.", "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed", "The Daughter Of Jole Blon", "Oklahoma Waltz", "Love Song In 32 Bars" and "Sick, Sober And Sorry", plus his Top 30 pop hit "Hot Rod Lincoln". He was a versatile and extrovert artist and this collection is an entertaining showcase for his particular brand of country.

Tracklist:

1. I'm Gonna Be Long Gone
2. Baby You're Through Foolin' Me
3. The Road Is Way Too Long
4. How Low Do The Blues Want To Go
5. You Don't Care
6. Der Fuehrer's Face
7. Love Gone Cold
8. One More Tear
9. Stars Of The Midnight Range
10. Heading Down The Wrong Highway
11. Baby You Gotta' Quit That Noise
12. Rainbow At Midnight
13. Divorce Me C.O.D.
14. So Round So Firm So Fully Packed
15. Don't Look Now (Your Broken Heart Is Showing)
16. Daughter Of Jole Blon
17. Smoke Smoke Smoke (That Cigarette)
18. I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size
19. Oklahoma Waltz
20. Bartender's Blues
21. Cimarron
22. Tennessee Saturday Night
23. Till The End Of The World
24. Petal From A Faded Rose
25. Tennessee Kentucky And Alabam'
26. Love Song In 32 Bars
27. Cherokee Waltz
28. Mean Mama Boogie
29. Barrel House Bessie
30. Cream Of Kentucky
31. Set 'Em Up Joe
32. Sick Sober And Sorry
33. Keep Your Cotton Pickin' Hands Off My Gal
34. In Old New Mexico
35. I Found You Out
36. Man Behind The Throttle
37. I Went To Your Wedding
38. Number Nine Blues
39. Let Me Go Devil
40. Anybody's Baby
41. Peace Be Still
42. Sweet Mama Tree Top Tall
43. Ten Little Bottles
44. Stealin'
45. Louisiana Swing
46. Livin' It Up
47. Six Of One Half A Dozen Of The Other
48. The Little Rock And Roll
49. Laughing Back The Heartaches
50. Lay It On The Line
51. All I Can Do Is Cry
52. That's Just What I'll Do
53. Long Tall Shadow
54. Hot Rod Lincoln
55. Five Minute Love Affair
56. The Way A Star Is Born