The Bakersfield Sound : : Country Music Capital of the West, 1940-1974.

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"Due to a legal claim that was received just prior to the release date, eight songs have been removed from this collection. Unfortunately the book had already been printed and now incorrectly reflects the inclusion of tracks that have been taken off the set. The previously unreleased Tall versions of Merle Haggard's If I Had Left It Up To You and I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can have been deleted from Disc 5 (tracks 6-7), while the alternate take and false starts of the former song have also been removed from Disc 10 (tracks 7-9). Additionally, the demo recordings of Haggard performing I'm Not Looking For An Angel and Second Fiddle have been taken off of Disc 19 (tracks 10-11), as has his live performance of I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clasus (track 26). In order to keep the numbering of the remaining tracks consistent with the printed materials, a brief moment of silence has been inserted in the position of each track that was removed."--Bear Family Productions press release
Disc 1: The cotton picker's song (Lloyd Stalcup) -- Darlin' baby (Homer Pierce) -- Sunny Cal (Jack Bryant) -- Sunny California (Mary Sullivan) -- Home in the government camp (Wayne Dinwiddie) -- Get along down to town (the King Family) -- Home in San Antone (Lloyd Reading) -- Opening theme/Seven come eleven ; Get along home Cindy (Bob Willis & his Texas Playboys) -- Back in dear old Oklahoma (Elwin Cross & his Arizona Wranglers) -- Okie boogie (the Maddox Brothers and Rose) -- Reading your letter with tears in my eyes (Bob Manning) -- Lost highway (Leon Payne) -- Hittin' the trail (Tex Marshall & Bill Woods) -- When the leaves come tumbling down (Leo "Tex" Butler) -- Have I got a chance with you (Bill Woods & his Orange Blossom Playboys ; vocal by Cliff Crofford) -- Water baby blues (aka Water baby boogie) (the Maddox Brothers and Rose) -- (A pretty woman is a) deadly weapon ; I want you so (Terry Preston) -- Funny book (Herb Henson) -- Honey baby ; Your love was like hte weather (Jimmy Thomason) -- You made me love you (Hillbilly Barton) -- Ozark polka (Ebb Pilling & his Ozark Squirrel Shooters) -- A heart break ago (Bill Woods & his Orange Blossom Playboys ; vocal by Hillbilly Barton) -- A dear John letter (Fuzzy & Bonnie Owens) -- A dear John letter (Bill Woods & Rita Goodwin) -- Pusan (Billy Mize with Bill Woods & his Orange Blossom Playboys) -- Hank's song (Ferlin Husky) -- Dim lights, thick smoke (and loud, loud music) (Joe Maphis & Rose Lee) -- A dear John letter (Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky)
Disc 2: You better not do that (Tommy Collins) -- Ain't you had no bringin' up at all (Dallas Frazier) -- Louisiana swing (Bud Hobbs) -- When I hold you (Forrest Lee & Clete Stewart) -- Down on the corner of love (Buck Owens) -- Stepping stones (Dave Stogner & his Western Rhythmaires ; vocal by Al Brumley) -- Out of line (Herb Henson & Joyce Yours) -- When the saints go marching in (Semie Moseley) -- Take possession (Jean Shepard) -- It pays to advertise (the Farmer Boys) -- Why do I love you so (Wynn Stewart) -- Crazy mixed up kid (Tommy Duncan) -- Sad sad Saturday night (Johnny Taylor) -- I gotta know (Wanda Jackson) -- Who will buy the wine (Billy Mize) -- Baby I like your style (Al Coker with the Coker Family) -- Wherever you are (Louise Duncan) -- Bumble rumble (Sid Silver) -- I need her love (Andy Morris) -- I want you (Dusty Payne) -- Your every thing (I wish that she could be) (Fuzzy Owen) -- I never thought (Bonnie Blue Bell) -- What time tomorrow (Jan Howard) -- Drivin' away my blues (George Rich) -- Ask me no questions (Bill Woods) -- Beware of a stranger (Fuzzy Owen) -- Keep her off your mind (Skeets McDonald) -- Yes sir (Dave Stogner) -- Fun on the freeway (Harlan Howard) -- A night for love (Cliff Crofford) -- Someone to love (the Farmer Boys) -- Come back to me (Buck Owens)
Disc 3: I'm sorry too (Reuben Chapman with Coy Baker & his Band) -- Empty days and lonely nights (Don Thompson with Coy Baker & his Band) -- You're a luxury (Phil brown) -- Steady lovin' (unknown, possibly Skeets McDonald) -- I like that kind (Johnny Bond) -- Crazy moon (Henry Sharp) -- Pair of empty arms (Gene Martin with the Desert Stars) -- You'al come (Herb Henson) -- Letters have no arms (Lewis Talley) -- Second fiddle (Buck Owens) -- When (Billy Mize & Cliff Crofford) -- You can't take your love out of this boy (Billy Mize) -- I removed your ring (Billy Kaundart) -- Keep right on tryin' (Larry Bryant) -- Tired of livin' (Buck Owens) -- Cold hearted woman (Joe Hall) -- Stage coach (Owen Charles) -- If I could only tell you (Rip Goodman and Marcia) -- Our hearts (George Latta) -- Til these dreams come true (Buck Owens) -- Living up to my name (Billy and Cliff) -- Goose, pt. 1 (Don Markham & the Marksmen) -- Just for the children's sake (Bonnie Owens) -- My baby walks all over me (Wally Lewis) -- Playboy (Wynn Stewart) -- Someone's gonna get hurt (Al Brumley) -- Door of temptation (Jackie Kelley) -- Fiddlin' country style (Jelly Sanders) -- Loose talk (Buck Owens & Rose Maddox) -- What will I do (with all these memories) (Jimmy Patton) -- Loving you (on someone else's time) (Tommy Dee) -- Why tell me (Custer Bottoms & Jack and Jerry)
Disc 4: King of fools (Buck Owens) -- Scratch (the Marksmen) -- It's my turn to cry (Jerry Cornelius & the Golden Eagles) -- I can't stop lovin' ; I pretend (Wayne Morris) -- Truck drivin' man (Bill Woods) -- My last night in town (Billy Bledsoe) -- New home sweet home (Leon Hart) -- Crossing my fingers ; Foolish notions (Kenny Hays) -- On your wedding day (Georgia Lynn) -- Go where you wanta go (Tommy Lewis) -- Private party (Vancie Flowers) -- There's gonna come a day (Buck Owens) -- Why should I cry again (Anita Cross) -- Waggin' tongues (Bonnie Owens) -- Painting the town (Rollie Webber) -- Second fiddle ; Too old to hurt (Johnny Barnett) -- Skid row (Merle Haggard) -- Good-bye Mr. Blues (Bill Meyers) -- If you ain't lovin' you ain't livin' (Buck Owens) -- Tell me why (Bill Bledsoe) -- Put your arms around him (Bob Morris) -- Silver bells (Roy Nichols) -- Act naturally (live) (Buck Owens) -- Life in prison (Merle Haggard) -- My past is present ; Queen of snob hill (Bobby Durham) -- Tears in my beer (Vancie and Rita) -- Out of my mind (Rose Stassi)
Disc 5: Close up the honky tonks (Buck Owens) -- Slowly but surely (Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens) -- Working overtime (Bob Hortter) -- S.O.S. (Jim Whitlock) -- Fallin' for you (Buck Owens) -- If I had left it up to you ; I'm gonna break every heart I can (Tally Records version) ; I'm gonna break every heart I can (Capitol Records version) (Merle Haggard) -- I wish I hadn't called you (Tommy Duncan with Larry Thornton) -- Red wine (Jim Ward) -- More wine, more women, more song (Lewis Talley) -- I'll take a chance (Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens) -- I'm layin' it on the line (Don Rich with the Buckaroos) -- There never was a fool (Buck Owens) -- After you leave me (Doyle Holly with the Buckaroos) -- Just leave my world alone (Dee Mize (aka Buddy Mize)) -- Walking my fool (Billy Mize) -- (My friends are gonna be) strangers (Liz Anderson) -- If you can't bite don't growl (Tommy Collins) -- Alcohol and tears (Jeanie O'Neal) -- Home is where I hang my head (Bobby Durham) -- Jeannie with the light brown Cadillac (Red Simpson) -- Swinging doors (alternate take) (Merle Haggard) -- Roll out the red carpet (Kay Adams) -- Old standby (Dick Curless and Kay Adams) -- House of memories ; Tiger by the tal (live) (Buck Owens) -- Fool me again (Vicki Lester) -- The bad guy gets the girl (Ray Salter) -- Pappy was a clever man (Billy Mize) -- Correspondence course in love (Jeanie O'Neal)
Disc 6: Apartment #9 (Bobby Austin) -- Open up your heart (Buck Owens) -- A good job--huntin' and fishin' (Dick Curless) -- Goin' thru the motions (Gary S. Paxton) -- I'm actin' like my old self again (Red Simpson) -- Little pink mack (Kay Adams) -- The dumb thing (Doyle Holly) -- Someone told my story (Merle Haggard) -- Diesel smoke, dangerous curves (Red Simpson) -- Queen for a day (Barbara Mandrell) -- I guess you're finally satisfied (Ronnie Sessions) -- Mixed up mess of a heart (Merle Haggard) -- A lifetime of love (Joe and Rose Lee Maphis) -- I'm so mad at me (Del and Sue Smart) -- Drink up and be somebody (Merle Haggard) -- You'll never miss the water (til the well runs dry) (the Buckaroos) -- The first thing I think of (Bob Morris) -- Only the strong can survive (Fay Hardin) -- You don't have very far to go (Merle Haggard) -- I'm not looking for an angel (Bobby Austin) -- Chicken pickin' (the Buckaroos) -- A foolish notion (Doyle Holly with the Buckaroos) -- I made the prison band (Merle Haggard) -- 50 year waltz (Oscar Whittington) -- Love that just won't stop (Del and Sue Smart) -- Hangin' on (the Gosdin Brothers) -- Who do you go to (Suzi Arden) -- There never was a fool (Ronnie Sessions) -- Where does the good times go (Merle Haggard) -- Pickin' and guitin' (Joe Maphis) -- Country girl courtship (Rose Lee Maphis) -- I'd rather be hurt by you (Wayne Wilson)
Disc 7: The heartaches have just started (Buck Owens) -- Fingerlickin' (Gene Moses) -- I'm goin' crazy (Al Brumley) -- Don't leave me cryin' (Bill Handy with Jelly Sanders Combo) -- Walking in my sleep crying over you (Leo Stephens) -- It's over (Tom Rose) -- Let the world keep on a turnin' (Buck Owens & Buddy Alan) -- Too many bridges to cross over (Merle Haggard) -- Too young to grow old over you (Dean Sanford) -- Calling all lovers (Tommy Wiggins) -- Buckshot (Larry Daniels and the Buckshots) -- Lead me on (Bonnie Owens) -- I'm out of my mind (Leon Copeland) -- Buckaroo (Clarence White) -- Vaccination for the blues (the Sanland Brothers) -- You put my world back together (Red Simpson) -- Hammin' it up (the Strangers) -- Lucy Clowers (Bob Ross) -- (I used to live) the life of Riley (Ronnie Sessions) -- Married man (Barbara Cheatwood) -- Make it rain (Billy Mize) -- Mention my name (Cliff Crofford) -- Sam's place (live) (Buck Owens) -- California cotton fields (Merle Haggard) -- Not going back to Jackson (Rodney Lay) -- I want to live in your house (Glenda Blackwell) -- Pitty pitty patter (Tom Tall) -- My old used to be (Judy Hall) -- Love is me (Ira Allen) -- Mistakes I've made (Faye Hardin) -- Pumpkin center (Harold Cox & the Sooners) -- Tears of joy (are a-croppin' out on me) (Jerry Dallas) -- Devil river (Stan Farlow)
Disc 8: Mama tried (live) (Merle Haggard) -- Stealin' corn (the Strangers) -- Forive and forget (Truitt Cunningham) -- Cryin' time (Buck Owens and Susan Raye) -- Bring back my peace of mind (Buck Owens) -- Cowboy convention (the Sanland Brothers) -- Guitar pickin' man (Don Rich with the Buckaroos) -- Your heart turned left (and I was on the right) (Don Rich) -- A whole lot of somethin' (Buddy Alan) -- I'm a good loser (Merle Haggard) -- California on my mind (Bobby Wayne & the Strangers) -- Reno lament (Buck Owens) -- Your tender loving care (the Hagers) -- There is no easy way (Henry Sharpe) -- Because you can't be mine (Lewis Talley) -- She don't care now (Mike Beagles) -- Night life is my weakness (Dave Price) -- Daddy Frank (the guitar man) (Merle Haggard) -- Heartbreak mountain (Sharon Haley) -- Never ending song of love (Mayf Nutter) -- Cinderella (Tony Booth) -- I'm a truck (Red Simpson) -- Mr. Conscience (Johnny Campbell) -- How dark is my journey (Vancie Flowers) -- Bring it on down to my house (Merle Haggard) -- Number one heel (Kenni Huskey) -- Today's tomorrow's yesterday (Sonny Anglin) -- I'm tired of your understanding ways (Merle Haggard) -- I bought the shoes (the just walked out on me) (Kenny Vernon)
Disc 9: Arms full of empty (Buck Owens) -- Love sure feels good in my heart (Susan Raye) -- Streets of Bakersfield (Homer Joy) -- I know an ending when it comes (Merle Haggard) -- Something's wrong (Buck Owens) -- Young widow Brown (Doyle Singer with the Buckaroos) -- Cheater's ground (Tide Cartwright) -- I laid back down (Blackjack Duran) -- This troubled mind of mine (Arlo Guthrie) -- The emptiest arms in the world (Merle Haggard) -- Beer drinkers of America unite (Kenny Johnson with the Country Mile) -- Sweethearts in heaven (Buck Owens & Susan Raye) -- Mountain of fortune and fame (Laurel Lee) -- Bill Woods from Bakersfield (Red Simpson) -- Good ole country sound (Thad Tillotson) -- If you can't feel it (it ain't there) (Freddie Hart) -- Foolish man (Carlyle Graham) -- The Lord rested on Sunday (Kay Austin) -- Every time I hear the fiddle play (Cliff Crofford) -- Holding things together (Merle Haggard) -- I'm the bartender's best friend (David Frizzell) -- I ain't hangin' round (LaWanda Lindsey) -- Going back to Oklahoma (Toby Keeney) -- That little glass of milk (Walt Pascoe) -- Betty Jane (Roger Spanke) -- Antique in my closet (Sandy Thomas) -- Do you believe in me (Dennis Payne) -- Teach me how to love (Debi Hawkins) -- Mirrors don't lie (Merle Haggard) -- A different kind of sad (Tony Booth)
Disc 10: Recorded live at "Toys for Tots," Bakersfield Civic Auditorium, December 1973. Y'all come/Tall dark stranger (live) (Buck Owens) ; Lonesome 7-7203 (live) (Tony Booth) ; Fishin' on the Mississippi (live) (Buddy Alan) ; L.A. International Airport (live) (Susan Raye) ; Johnny B. Goode (live) (Buck Owens, the Buckaroos & OMAC Artists) -- Recorded for Tally Records, 1964/1965. Number one heel (take 14) (Bonnie Owens) ; If I had left it up to you (take 4 with false starts) ; If I had left it up to you (false starts) (2 versions) (Merle Haggard) -- Merle Haggard demos, recorded 1961. I'm not looking for an angel (Merle Haggard) ; Second fiddle (Merle Haggard and possibly Johnny Barnett) -- Demos recorded 1963. Strange ; Tears in my beer (Vancie Flowers & Rita Lane) -- Demos recorded 1966-1970. Misery ; The name of the game is heartaches (Billy Mize) ; I'd be a good time Charlie ; Fit for a king (Red Simpson) -- Live radio broadcasts. Which one is to blame (Johnny Barnett) ; Release me (Junior Stonebarger with Jelly Sanders Band) ; My ears should burn (when fools are talked about) (Fuzzy Owen with Bill Woods' Band) ; Truck drivin' man (Bill Woods with Don Rich) ; Be serious Ann (Tommy Collins) ; Christmas time's a comin' (Joe & Rose Lee Maphis) ; Blue Christmas (Lewis Talley) ; Lonely Christmas call (Louise Lovett) ; I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus (Merle Haggard)
Numerous performers including Bill Woods, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, and Billy Mize.

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