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Tex Ritter: Have I Stayed Away Too Long (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)

4-CD box (LP-size) with 48-page book, 111 tracks. Playing time approx. 268 mns.

The four CDs that make up this collection contain what many feel is the best work Tex Ritter ever did. In nine recording sessions for Capitol Transcriptions over a period of two and a half years (1945-1947), Ritter mixed Western Swing and contemporary country songs with the traditional Cowboy ballads to which he was so closely identified to produce a wonderful compendium of West Coast country music of the era. 

Backed by such fine musicians and friends as Merle Travis, Johnny Bond, Wesley Tuttle, Margie Ann 'Fiddlin’ Kate' DeVere and Cliffie Stone, among many others, Tex Ritter achieves a relaxed performance seldom found in the high pressure sessions of commercial recording. As a bonus his 12 songs for World Transcriptions have been added.

 

Article properties: Tex Ritter: Have I Stayed Away Too Long (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Interpret: Tex Ritter

  • Album titlle: Have I Stayed Away Too Long (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode DI
  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart Box set

  • EAN: 4000127162397

  • weight in Kg 1.2
Ritter, Tex - Have I Stayed Away Too Long (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Have I Stayed Away Too Long (Opening Theme) Tex Ritter
02 You Will Have To Pay (For Your Yesterday) Tex Ritter
03 Green Grow The Lilacs Tex Ritter
04 San Antonio Rose Tex Ritter
05 I'm Gonna Leave You Like I Found You Tex Ritter
06 Long Time Gone Tex Ritter
07 It's Never Too Late Tex Ritter
08 How Was I To Know Tex Ritter
09 In Case You Change Your Mind Tex Ritter
10 Try Me On More Time Tex Ritter
11 Home On The Range Tex Ritter
12 Red River Valley Tex Ritter
13 I'm Gonna Leave You Like I Found You Tex Ritter
14 Down In The Valley Tex Ritter
15 Billy The Kid Tex Ritter
16 O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie Tex Ritter
17 Ridin' Ole Paint Tex Ritter
18 De Camptown Races Tex Ritter
19 Sam Bass Tex Ritter
20 Zebra Dun Tex Ritter
21 Trail To Mexico Tex Ritter
22 Whoopee Ti Yi Yo (Git Along Little Dogies) Tex Ritter
23 Casey Jones Tex Ritter
24 When The Work's All Done This Fall Tex Ritter
25 Up The Lazy River (instrumental) Tex Ritter
26 There'll Be Some Changes Made Tex Ritter
27 I've Found A New Baby (instrumental) Tex Ritter
Ritter, Tex - Have I Stayed Away Too Long (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 I Hang My Head And Cry Tex Ritter
02 Fort Worth Jail Tex Ritter
03 Too Late To Worry, Too Blue To Cry Tex Ritter
04 You Brought Sorrow To My Heart Tex Ritter
05 When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again Tex Ritter
06 Careless Darlin' Tex Ritter
07 Shame On You Tex Ritter
08 I Wish I Had Never Met Sunshine Tex Ritter
09 With Tears In My Eyes Tex Ritter
10 Detour Tex Ritter
11 One True Heart Tex Ritter
12 Brushy Mountain Tex Ritter
13 I'll Wait For You, Dear Tex Ritter
14 Poor Unwanted Heart Tex Ritter
15 Why Did It End This Way Tex Ritter
16 Tweedle O'Twill Tex Ritter
17 It's Been So Long Darling Tex Ritter
18 Walking The Floor Over You Tex Ritter
19 Too Little, Too Late Tex Ritter
20 My Darling Clementine Tex Ritter
21 Make Room In Your Heart For A Friend Tex Ritter
22 Sweethearts Or Strangers Tex Ritter
23 Live And Let Live Tex Ritter
24 It Makes No Difference Now Tex Ritter
25 Please Don't Leave Me Tex Ritter
26 I Dreamed That My Daddy Come Home Tex Ritter
27 I'll Just Kiss Your Picture Goodnight Tex Ritter
28 In Your Life There's No Room For Me Tex Ritter
29 Forget Me Not Tex Ritter
30 When You Leave Don't Slam The Door Tex Ritter
31 Teach Me To Forget Tex Ritter
Ritter, Tex - Have I Stayed Away Too Long (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Tears Of Regret Tex Ritter
02 The Sweetest Love Of All Tex Ritter
03 Across The Miles To You Tex Ritter
04 Cold Hands, Warm Heart Tex Ritter
05 This Lonely World Tex Ritter
06 As Long As I Live Tex Ritter
07 I Was Wrong Tex Ritter
08 The First Rose Tex Ritter
09 Don't Blame It All On Me Tex Ritter
10 Tho' I've Tried (I Can't Forget You) Tex Ritter
11 Never Mind My Tears Tex Ritter
12 Gotta Have Some Lovin' Tex Ritter
13 I Know It Now Tex Ritter
14 Time Alone Will Tell Tex Ritter
15 Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) Tex Ritter
16 Snowflakes Tex Ritter
17 Let's Forget Tex Ritter
18 Wave To Me My Lady Tex Ritter
19 Silver Spurs, Purple Sage, Eyes Of Blue Tex Ritter
20 I Don't Care Who Knows It ('cause It's True) Tex Ritter
21 I Can't Go On This Way Tex Ritter
22 Another Unmailed Letter Tex Ritter
23 When You Cry (You Cry Alone) Tex Ritter
24 You Can't Conceal A Broken Heart Tex Ritter
25 Gotta Make Up For Lost Time Tex Ritter
26 Trouble Hangin' Round My Door Tex Ritter
27 Shadow On My Heart Tex Ritter
28 You Can't Break My Heart Tex Ritter
29 Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt Tex Ritter
Ritter, Tex - Have I Stayed Away Too Long (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 Born To Be Blue Tex Ritter
02 I Learned My Lesson Too Late Tex Ritter
03 Move It On Over Tex Ritter
04 You've Got To Come And Get Me Tex Ritter
05 Honey Chile Tex Ritter
06 I'm Beginning To Believe In You Tex Ritter
07 You Drove Me To Another's Arms (And Now...) Tex Ritter
08 Never Mind My Tears Tex Ritter
09 I've Had Enough Of Your Two-Timin' (You've..) Tex Ritter
10 Billy Boy Tex Ritter
11 Cowboy Jack Tex Ritter
12 Have I Stayed Away Too Long (closing theme) Tex Ritter
13 (Take Me Back To My) Boots And Saddle Tex Ritter
14 Lonely River Tex Ritter
15 I'm An Old Cowhand Tex Ritter
16 Dear John Tex Ritter
17 Oklahoma Hills Tex Ritter
18 My Adobe Hacienda Tex Ritter
19 Blue Shadows On The Trail Tex Ritter
20 Blue Canadian Rockies Tex Ritter
21 Dallas Darling Tex Ritter
22 The Riddle Song Tex Ritter
23 Love You Big As Texas Tex Ritter
24 Cherokee Waltz Tex Ritter
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Have I Stayed Away Too Long

 It can be argued that there has never been a medium as important to the development and spread of a genre of music as radio was to country music. Beginning in the earliest stages of radio's development, country music, or 'hillbilly' as it was called in the twenties and thirties, was a staple of programming for most stations away from the large metropolitan areas. In the early days, the music came from local bands and singers performing live. In 1922, a talent manager complained "Everybody wants to get on the air. Everyone who can twang or pick or scrape a string, every person who can touch or pound a keyboard, and anyone at all who is not tongue-tied has become possessed with the idea that he must get on the radio."

As the novelty of radio began to wear off, the listeners became more discerning and programmers more sophisticated. Only the best and most talented of the local entertainers were able to stay on the air because the advertisers listened to their audience and refused to support the less talented. Then in the mid-twenties, a couple of phonograph record companies tried a daring experiment: sending producers into the South to record some of the local 'hillbilly' singers and string bands in hopes of building a market with the hillbilly folks. The immediate result was a series of sectional, or regional, hit records, as well as the emergence of country music's first superstar, Jimmie Rodgers. The long-term effect was to create a demand for the services of the more popular hillbilly performers on the stations in the larger markets causing a shortage of quality talent for local programs on stations in the smaller markets.

The obvious solution for the smaller stations was the least satisfying in the beginning; that was playing recorded music, the commercial 78rpm records. The initial problem was that the surface noise was such that the listener was instantly aware he was listening to a recording. But that was only a problem when the station was actually able to obtain a record to play. In the 1920s and 1930s, the record companies refused to license their records for broadcast. Their fear was if the audience could get it for free, they would not be so interested in buying the record, or, as the jukebox became the biggest outlet for records during the war years, wouldn't spend the money to listen to it. Many record dealers however, quickly realized that just the opposite was true. Airplay was the best method of promotion; in fact, in many towns and cities, local record dealers would give a radio station recent records, and occasionally, even pay the announcers to play them. They believed it was a legitimate form of advertising. As the record companies began to realize that airplay actually boosted sales, they generally ignored the fact that a particular station was programming using their records; but, if asked for permission, the record companies nearly always refused.

Beginning in 1922, Western Electric set out to develop a sound system for motion pictures that would fill a theater with synchronized sound. At its 1869 inception, the company provided parts and models for inventors, and, by 1881, just prior to joining the Bell System (which became AT&T in 1899), Western Electric was the largest electrical manufacturer in the United States. In the early 20th century, when a handful of companies assembled scientific researchers to expand their innovative capacities, Western Electric did so in a big way. The research branch of Western Electric's engineering department became Bell Laboratories, the greatest private research organization in the world. By 1924, Western Electric had developed a large-disc, integrated recording system and was researching sound-on-film technology. They were ready to sell to Hollywood its large-disc system to synchronize sound to film for the early 'talkies.' Western Electric and Warner Bros. formed a joint venture, the Vitaphone Corporation, to experiment in the production and exhibition of sound motion pictures.

When the optical sound-on-film process replaced the transcription disc as the standard for sound films, which it did in a few short months, some entrepreneurs felt there was a future for such transcriptions in radio. The fidelity of the transcription discs was far superior to 78rpm records—much less surface noise. Radio networks were in their infancy, and programs could be sent on these discs to stations in all parts of the country to be played at the optimum time for their individual market. NBC, among the networks, was a long time holdout in allowing its stations to reschedule broadcast times by using discs, feeling that it destroyed the integrity of the network.

The slower speed (33 1/3rpm) technology—developed by Western Electric—was first licensed by the World Broadcasting Service in 1929. By 1935, three other major transcription services were in business using the same technology, supplying programming to 350 radio stations around the country. Standard Radio Library, RCA/NBC Thesaurus, the C.P. MacGregor service, as well as World, were providing a basic library of radio shows complete in themselves (ready for local commercials) and a library of musical selections, along with a license to play them on the air. In addition, periodic issues of new discs and replacements would be provided. Also included was a continuity script written around the musical selections included in the library, and formed into individual shows. Some were three time a week, 15-minutes each; some are 30-minute 'across the board' (called 'strip' today) shows; some were for Sunday only, and some for a particular time slot. One library was all any one station would generally need. With one library, by using the continuity scripts provided, and using more than one staff announcer, as many as twenty to twenty-five different shows a week were available to any station. In the early 1930s, some stations began experimenting with the 'disc jockey' format using the transcriptions, but it would be the late 1940s before it became a common programming format. These libraries did not 'belong' to a radio station; they were leased for as long as the station paid the proper fees. The turntables used were large enough to accommodate the 16-inch discs, and they were dual speed.

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Tracklist
Ritter, Tex - Have I Stayed Away Too Long (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Have I Stayed Away Too Long (Opening Theme)
02 You Will Have To Pay (For Your Yesterday)
03 Green Grow The Lilacs
04 San Antonio Rose
05 I'm Gonna Leave You Like I Found You
06 Long Time Gone
07 It's Never Too Late
08 How Was I To Know
09 In Case You Change Your Mind
10 Try Me On More Time
11 Home On The Range
12 Red River Valley
13 I'm Gonna Leave You Like I Found You
14 Down In The Valley
15 Billy The Kid
16 O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
17 Ridin' Ole Paint
18 De Camptown Races
19 Sam Bass
20 Zebra Dun
21 Trail To Mexico
22 Whoopee Ti Yi Yo (Git Along Little Dogies)
23 Casey Jones
24 When The Work's All Done This Fall
25 Up The Lazy River (instrumental)
26 There'll Be Some Changes Made
27 I've Found A New Baby (instrumental)
Ritter, Tex - Have I Stayed Away Too Long (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 I Hang My Head And Cry
02 Fort Worth Jail
03 Too Late To Worry, Too Blue To Cry
04 You Brought Sorrow To My Heart
05 When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
06 Careless Darlin'
07 Shame On You
08 I Wish I Had Never Met Sunshine
09 With Tears In My Eyes
10 Detour
11 One True Heart
12 Brushy Mountain
13 I'll Wait For You, Dear
14 Poor Unwanted Heart
15 Why Did It End This Way
16 Tweedle O'Twill
17 It's Been So Long Darling
18 Walking The Floor Over You
19 Too Little, Too Late
20 My Darling Clementine
21 Make Room In Your Heart For A Friend
22 Sweethearts Or Strangers
23 Live And Let Live
24 It Makes No Difference Now
25 Please Don't Leave Me
26 I Dreamed That My Daddy Come Home
27 I'll Just Kiss Your Picture Goodnight
28 In Your Life There's No Room For Me
29 Forget Me Not
30 When You Leave Don't Slam The Door
31 Teach Me To Forget
Ritter, Tex - Have I Stayed Away Too Long (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Tears Of Regret
02 The Sweetest Love Of All
03 Across The Miles To You
04 Cold Hands, Warm Heart
05 This Lonely World
06 As Long As I Live
07 I Was Wrong
08 The First Rose
09 Don't Blame It All On Me
10 Tho' I've Tried (I Can't Forget You)
11 Never Mind My Tears
12 Gotta Have Some Lovin'
13 I Know It Now
14 Time Alone Will Tell
15 Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)
16 Snowflakes
17 Let's Forget
18 Wave To Me My Lady
19 Silver Spurs, Purple Sage, Eyes Of Blue
20 I Don't Care Who Knows It ('cause It's True)
21 I Can't Go On This Way
22 Another Unmailed Letter
23 When You Cry (You Cry Alone)
24 You Can't Conceal A Broken Heart
25 Gotta Make Up For Lost Time
26 Trouble Hangin' Round My Door
27 Shadow On My Heart
28 You Can't Break My Heart
29 Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt
Ritter, Tex - Have I Stayed Away Too Long (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 Born To Be Blue
02 I Learned My Lesson Too Late
03 Move It On Over
04 You've Got To Come And Get Me
05 Honey Chile
06 I'm Beginning To Believe In You
07 You Drove Me To Another's Arms (And Now...)
08 Never Mind My Tears
09 I've Had Enough Of Your Two-Timin' (You've..)
10 Billy Boy
11 Cowboy Jack
12 Have I Stayed Away Too Long (closing theme)
13 (Take Me Back To My) Boots And Saddle
14 Lonely River
15 I'm An Old Cowhand
16 Dear John
17 Oklahoma Hills
18 My Adobe Hacienda
19 Blue Shadows On The Trail
20 Blue Canadian Rockies
21 Dallas Darling
22 The Riddle Song
23 Love You Big As Texas
24 Cherokee Waltz