- Format: CD
- Label: Ace
- Genre: Blues, Soul, Funk
For the first time anywhere, all 22 of Red Sovine’s Billboard Country chart hits for Starday and Gusto Records of Nashville, Tennessee (plus two bonus 1960s remakes of his 1950s biggies, ‘Little Rosa’ and ‘Why Baby Why’).• Known in the UK chiefly for his # 1 Pop hit, the truckin’ tearjerker ‘Teddy Bear’, Sovine was a regular US country chart maker - where ‘Teddy Bear’ was not his biggest, or even his second biggest, hit - from the 1950s through to the early 1980s . This compilation kicks off with the first of his 60s hits ‘Dream House For Sale’ and ends with the two records that were released and charted after his untimely death in April 1980. The CD also includes several of Red’s other famous recitations like ‘Giddyup Go’, ‘Phantom 309’ and ‘Little Joe’, as well as his cover of Eric Clapton’s ‘Lay Down Sally’ and numerous honky tonk classics like ‘Tell Maude I Slipped’ and ‘I Didn’t Jump The Fence’. Surprises aplenty are guaranteed for those who only know Sovine by his sole UK hit.
Track listing:1. I DIDN’T JUMP THE FENCE2. LOSER MAKIN’ GOOD3. FREIGHTLINER FEVER4. CLASS OF 49 5. DREAM HOUSE FOR SALE 6. IN YOUR HEART7. LONG NIGHT 8. LITTLE ROSA9. I KNOW YOU’RE MARRIED (BUT I LOVE YOU STILL)10. NORMALLY NORMA LOVES ME 11. PHANTOM 30912. WHY BABY WHY 13. TELL MAUDE I SLIPPED 14. GIDDY-UP GO 15. WHO AM I 16. LAY DOWN SALLY17. DADDY 18. WOMAN BEHIND THE MAN BEHIND THE WHEEL19. LITTLE JOE20. THE DAYS OF ME AND YOU 21. LAST GOODBYE 22. JUST GETTIN’ BY 23. IT’LL COME BACK 24. TEDDY BEAR
