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Connie Smith: Joy To The World - Expanded Edition (CD)

(Real Gone Music) 11 tracks - with 12-page booklet containing great photos and the whole story.

Reissue of the original 1975 Columbia album, featuring The Jordanaires and the cream of Nashville's studio musicians, plus a bonus track duet with Willie Nelson from 1986.

What do Keith Richards, Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson, and the late George Jones all have in common? All have counted themselves as fervent fans of Connie Smith. A true singer’s singer, Connie has entertained fans for over fifty years with her singular blend of country-and-western, gospel, and pop.

Along the way, she’s earned thirty charting albums and three Number Ones, twenty top ten Billboard Country singles, eleven Grammy Award nominations, and inductions to both The Grand Ole Opry and The Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1975, Connie recorded her only full-length Christmas album, Joy to the World, for Columbia Records. This rootsy holiday celebration featured Connie, The Jordanaires, and a cast of “Nashville cats”—the city’s finest session musicians—breathing new life into traditional melodies and spiritual favorites.

Shockingly, this classic slice of seasonal Americana has never been released on CD…until now. Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records’ expanded edition of Joy to the World premieres the original album on CD and adds one rare bonus track for a vivid and festive portrait of Connie Smith’s Christmas classics. Connie wraps her rich voice around a selection of songs that have stood the test of time for centuries, among them “The First Noel, “O Come All Ye Faithful,” and the stirring “Joy to the World,” as well as spirituals “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “Sweet Little Jesus Boy.”

 As a special bonus, Connie’s duet with fellow legend Willie Nelson on “Silent Night, Holy Night” has been included. Maria Triana has remastered at Sony’s Battery Studios, and The Second Disc’s Joe Marchese has written new liner notes…and as a special Christmas treat, Connie Smith herself has penned a new introduction to this reissue! Rousing and reverent, Joy to the World is a moving, homespun, and timeless treat from one of country music’s most enduring and powerful voices.

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  • Interpret: Connie Smith

  • Album titlle: Joy To The World - Expanded Edition (CD)

  • Genre Christmas

  • Label Real Gone Music

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Smith, Connie - Joy To The World - Expanded Edition (CD) CD 1
01 What Child Is This Connie Smith
02 O Holy Night Connie Smith
03 Go Tell It On The Mountain Connie Smith
04 The First Noel Connie Smith
05 The Little Drummer Boy Connie Smith
06 Sweet Little Jesus Boy Connie Smith
07 Away In A Manger/Silent Night Connie Smith
08 Joy To The World Connie Smith
09 O Come All Ye Faithful Connie Smith
10 While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks Connie Smith
11 Silent Night, Holy Night (& Willie Nelson, Bonus Track) Connie Smith
Connie Smith "There's only three real female singers: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt,... more
"Connie Smith"

Connie Smith

"There's only three real female singers: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, and Connie Smith. The rest of us are only pretending."

Dolly Parton

 

There are singers and there are stars. Connie Smith is a singer ...by common consensus one of the great voices of country music... but the star's mantle sits uneasily upon her. The gregariousness and easy laugh just barely mask the innate shyness. The first prerequisite of stardom is that you must never tire of talking about yourself, but it doesn't come easily to Connie Smith. She is a natural born singer, but not a natural born entertainer. Her life revolves around music, but more so around her children and grandchildren. It's family portraits that line her living room, not onstage shots or award plaques.

Comparisons don't mean much, but it sometimes seems more than coincidental that Connie began recording within a year or so of Patsy Cline's death. After a ten-year struggle, Patsy had become the best pure singer in country music. Her death left a void, one that Connie Smith seemed to fill overnight. Connie's first record, released when she was just twenty-two, was remarkably mature and fully realized. Her voice was so musical and so free of artifice that there was almost universal assent that the next great one had arrived.

The rags to riches story, played up in the liner notes to Connie's first album, is no less true for being oft-repeated. Constance June Meador was born on August 14, 1941 in Elkhart, Indiana, near Chicago. Her parents, Hobart and Wilma Meador, were from West Virginia, and returned there when Connie was five months old, moving on to Dungannon, Ohio. Hobart Meador was an alcoholic, abusive to the family, and Wilma divorced him when Connie was seven. Wilma eventually married a man named Tom Clark, and Connie only saw her father twice after that. He died in 1962. "There were five of us," Connie remembered, "and my stepfather had eight children. He and my mom had two kids, one stillborn, so at one point there was fourteen kids in the house. I was in the middle. There were six younger than me, and the rest were older. They needed to watch the little ones, see they didn't get hurt, watch the big ones, see they didn't get into trouble. If someone came to the house, I'd bring them a glass of water and a chair to make sure I'd get noticed."

Country music was the soundtrack to Connie Smith's life. "My real daddy's favorite singer was Ernest Tubb," she says, "and my mom's was Eddy Arnold. The first song I remember learning was 'You Are My Sunshine.' My dad played 'Til The End Of The World' over and over. My stepfather played mandolin, and he had a brother who played fiddle, and another brother who played guitar. They'd play square dances. We'd listen to the Opry when we could pick it up. My favorites were the Louvin Brothers." Connie discovered that she was distantly related on her mother's side to a vintage bluegrass act, the Lilly Brothers, but that realization didn't come until years later. "I remember when I was five saying I was going to sing on the Grand Ole Opry," she said, "but I was so bashful, I couldn't bear for people to hear me sing. Around that time, we were moving, and we had a big ol' overstuffed chair out in the yard they hadn't moved yet. I was sitting in that chair singing. I looked up and saw them watching me, and I ran off and cried."

Connie seems to have been the only fifteen year-old wholly unaffected by Elvis and the rock 'n' roll upheaval. Maybe her life had so little in common with the 'Honey, I'm home' Fifties sitcom world. The shoes she wore to graduation were bought with money taken up in a class collection. Friends were hard to keep. "We moved a lot," she says. The idea of performing music took hold after an aborted prom: "My sister had a prom dress that I was going to wear, but it had been stolen. I said, 'I don't want to go to that ol' prom anyway,' so I went to the square dance. A boy I knew from high school was leading the band, and they were singing and playing up there, and I'd never sung with music, but they invited me up. I sang 'My Happiness.' The band was waiting on me, and I was waiting on them, and the timing just kinda went. It got so bad, everybody had to quit dancing. But I made three dollars. My first paying gig."

Doc and Chickie Williams, stars of WWVA's World's Original Jamboree in Wheeling, West Virginia, were the first name act to visit her neighborhood, but Opry star Martha Carson was the first to leave a deep impression. "I got the feeling," Connie told Eddie Stubbs, "that if she'd jumped off the stage and headed down the street, everyone would have followed her like the Pied Piper." Country music couldn't always be heard on local radio, so when Connie is quizzed on her influences, she'll surprise you with names like Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. "It's like reading a book," she told Dan Cooper. "You eat the meat and leave the bones. You pick whatever you like. Whatever fits you. I love the way Jean Shepard hits a note solid on, true as a bell. With Sarah Vaughan it's finesse. And then Mahalia Jackson, the freedom. If she's in the middle of a word and needs a breath, she'll take a breath."

In 1959, Connie graduated from Salem-Liberty High School in Lower Salem, Ohio. ....

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Tracklist
Smith, Connie - Joy To The World - Expanded Edition (CD) CD 1
01 What Child Is This
02 O Holy Night
03 Go Tell It On The Mountain
04 The First Noel
05 The Little Drummer Boy
06 Sweet Little Jesus Boy
07 Away In A Manger/Silent Night
08 Joy To The World
09 O Come All Ye Faithful
10 While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
11 Silent Night, Holy Night (& Willie Nelson, Bonus Track)