Connie Smith Just For What I Am (5-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Connie Smith: Just For What I Am (5-CD Deluxe Box Set)
First-ever reissue of the majority of these classic Connie Smith recordings! More than a dozen previously unissued recordings written by classic country songwriters such as Dallas Frazier, Kris Kristofferson, Mel Tillis and Don Gibson! Includes all the recordings from the years that fans and Connie Smith herself call her strongest. Upbeat hard country, searing heartbreak ballads, sacred songs, and even some
Connie Smith takes on pop of the day. Her duet albums with Dallas Frazier and Nat Stuckey are included.
Connie Smith belongs in the top tier of all country singers. Or, as Dolly Parton once said, 'There's only three real female singers: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, and Connie Smith. The rest of us are only pretending.' What earned her the respect of her peers and sales that number in the millions Clarity. Emotion. Sheer power. And some of the era's greatest songs.
This 5-CD set includes all of Connie Smith's recordings from February 1968 through November 1972. It follows Bear Family's 'Born To Sing' set that comprised all of Connie Smith's RCA recordings from 1964 until '67. Included here are enduring hits like Run Away Little Tears, Just One Time, Where Is My Castle and If It Ain't Love (Let's Leave It Alone), as well as How Great Thou Art, one of the most requested of all Connie Smith songs. And included in their entirety are prized Connie Smith LPs, including her duet collaborations with Nat Stuckey and Dallas Frazier and her modern sacred song collection
Come Along And Walk With Me.
This set also includes a book incorporating Barry Mazor's full-length exploration of the intersection of Connie Smith's music and life during these years, previously unseen photos from Connie Smith's own collection, and a detailed discography by Richard Weize.
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Interpret: Connie Smith
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Album titlle: Just For What I Am (5-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Genre Country
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Label Bear Family Records
- Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
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Artikelart Box set
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EAN: 4000127168146
- weight in Kg 2.4
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01 | Family Bible | Connie Smith |
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02 | The Last Letter | Connie Smith |
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03 | Heartbreak Avenue | Connie Smith |
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04 | Walk Through This World With Me | Connie Smith |
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05 | If The Whole World Stopped Lovin' | Connie Smith |
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06 | That's All This Old World Needs | Connie Smith |
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07 | I Love Charley Brown | Connie Smith |
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08 | There Are Some Things | Connie Smith |
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09 | The Sunshine Of My World | Connie Smith |
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10 | Run Away Little Tears | Connie Smith |
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11 | Let Me Help You Work It Out | Connie Smith |
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12 | Between Each Tear | Connie Smith |
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13 | Little Things | Connie Smith |
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14 | What Makes A Man Wander | Connie Smith |
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15 | The Hurt Goes On | Connie Smith |
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16 | What Would I Do Without You | Connie Smith |
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17 | The Deepening Snow | Connie Smith |
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18 | Natchilly Ain't No Good | Connie Smith |
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19 | To Chicago With Love | Connie Smith |
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20 | Just A Little Sunshine In The Rain | Connie Smith |
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21 | Gentle On My Mind | Connie Smith |
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22 | You Are Gone | Connie Smith |
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23 | Sundown Of My Mind | Connie Smith |
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24 | Only Mama That'll Walk The Line | Connie Smith |
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25 | A Lonely Woman | Connie Smith |
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26 | Blue Little Girl | Connie Smith |
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27 | Seattle | Connie Smith |
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01 | Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet | Connie Smith |
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02 | Today I Started Loving You Again | Connie Smith |
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03 | Sound Of Different Drums | Connie Smith |
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04 | Happy Street | Connie Smith |
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05 | Gotta Lotta Blues To Lose | Connie Smith |
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06 | You | Connie Smith |
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07 | Ribbon Of Darkness | Connie Smith |
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08 | You Don't Have Very Far To Go | Connie Smith |
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09 | Let It Be Me | Connie Smith |
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10 | I Got You | Connie Smith |
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11 | Rings Of Gold | Connie Smith |
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12 | Together Alone | Connie Smith |
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13 | Two Together | Connie Smith |
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14 | Yours Love | Connie Smith |
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15 | Stand Beside Me | Connie Smith |
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16 | Something Pretty | Connie Smith |
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17 | I'll Share My World With You | Connie Smith |
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18 | Even The Bad Times Are Good | Connie Smith |
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19 | Whispering Hope | Connie Smith |
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20 | Young Love | Connie Smith |
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21 | Back In Baby's Arms | Connie Smith |
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22 | The Wedding Cake | Connie Smith |
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23 | Long Black Limousine | Connie Smith |
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24 | Fool 1 | Connie Smith |
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25 | Too Many Rivers | Connie Smith |
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26 | I Can't Get Used To Being Lonely | Connie Smith |
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27 | Now | Connie Smith |
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28 | Gone Too Far | Connie Smith |
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29 | How Great Thou Art | Connie Smith |
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30 | The Call | Connie Smith |
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01 | You And Your Sweet Love | Connie Smith |
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02 | I'm So Glad | Connie Smith |
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03 | Sunday Morning | Connie Smith |
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04 | Daddy Sang Bass | Connie Smith |
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05 | Way Up On The Mountain | Connie Smith |
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06 | His Love Takes Care Of Me | Connie Smith |
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07 | He Turned The Water Into Wine | Connie Smith |
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08 | If God Is Dead (Who's That Living In My Soul) | Connie Smith |
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09 | God Will | Connie Smith |
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10 | Now Lord, What Can I Do For You | Connie Smith |
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11 | Well, It's All Right | Connie Smith |
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12 | Crumbs From The Table | Connie Smith |
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13 | Did You Let Your Light Shine | Connie Smith |
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14 | I Never Once Stopped Loving You | Connie Smith |
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15 | The Sun Shines Down On Me | Connie Smith |
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16 | (I'm So) Afraid Of Losing You Again | Connie Smith |
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17 | Thank You For Loving Me | Connie Smith |
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18 | This Precious Love (We Know) | Connie Smith |
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19 | I Love You More And More Everyday | Connie Smith |
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20 | I'll Fly Away | Connie Smith |
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21 | Think I'll Go Somewhere (And Cry Myself To Sl | Connie Smith |
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22 | If My Heart Had Windows | Connie Smith |
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23 | Alone With You | Connie Smith |
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24 | Love Has A Mind Of Its Own | Connie Smith |
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25 | Louisiana Man | Connie Smith |
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26 | There's Something Lonely In This House | Connie Smith |
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27 | Clinging To A Saving Hand | Connie Smith |
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28 | Too Good To Be True | Connie Smith |
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29 | Where Is My Castle | Connie Smith |
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30 | Before I'm Over You | Connie Smith |
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31 | Hello Darlin' | Connie Smith |
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32 | I Don't Want Your Memories (I Just Want You) | Connie Smith |
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01 | I Can't Believe That You've Stopped Loving Me | Connie Smith |
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02 | If We Want Love To Last | Connie Smith |
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03 | Jesus Take A Hold | Connie Smith |
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04 | Darling Days | Connie Smith |
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05 | I'm So Used To Loving You | Connie Smith |
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06 | I Love You More And More Every Day | Connie Smith |
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07 | When A House Is Not A Home | Connie Smith |
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08 | My Heart Was The Last One To Know | Connie Smith |
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09 | I Don't Want To Be With You | Connie Smith |
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10 | Don't Walk Away | Connie Smith |
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11 | Just One Time | Connie Smith |
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12 | One More Time | Connie Smith |
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13 | If You Were Mine To Lose | Connie Smith |
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14 | Sweet Memory | Connie Smith |
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15 | Amazing Grace | Connie Smith |
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16 | He Is My Everything | Connie Smith |
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17 | Wait For The Light To Shine | Connie Smith |
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18 | As Long As We've Got Each Other | Connie Smith |
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19 | Too Much To Gain To Lose | Connie Smith |
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20 | Come Along And Walk With Me | Connie Smith |
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21 | Don't Let Me Walk Too Far From Calvary | Connie Smith |
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22 | I'd Still Want To Serve Him Today | Connie Smith |
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23 | The Bridge Of Love | Connie Smith |
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24 | Crumbs From The Table | Connie Smith |
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25 | (In The Valley) He Restored My Soul | Connie Smith |
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26 | Plenty Of Time | Connie Smith |
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27 | The Street Where The Lonely Walk | Connie Smith |
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28 | He Touched Me | Connie Smith |
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29 | Take Me Back | Connie Smith |
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30 | I'm Sorry If My Love Got In Your Way | Connie Smith |
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31 | Blue, Blue Day | Connie Smith |
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Smith, Connie - Just For What I Am (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 5 | ||||
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01 | If I Could Just Get Over You | Connie Smith |
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02 | How Sweet It Is | Connie Smith |
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03 | I Know You're Going Away | Connie Smith |
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04 | Love Is The Look You're Looking For | Connie Smith |
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05 | Ain't We Havin' Us A Good Time | Connie Smith |
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06 | Just For What I Am | Connie Smith |
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07 | If God Is Dead (Who's That Living In My Soul) | Connie Smith |
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08 | Way Up On The Mountain | Connie Smith |
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09 | You're Getting' Heavy On My Mind | Connie Smith |
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10 | Don't Tell Him That I'm Still Crying | Connie Smith |
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11 | The Laying On Of Hands | Connie Smith |
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12 | Everything's Found A Home With Me (But You) | Connie Smith |
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13 | If That Ain't Strong Enough | Connie Smith |
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14 | If It Ain't Love (Let's Leave It Alone) | Connie Smith |
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15 | For Goodness Sake, It's Love | Connie Smith |
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16 | My Ecstasy | Connie Smith |
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17 | Bringin' It Home | Connie Smith |
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18 | Living Without You (Is Too Much To Live With) | Connie Smith |
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19 | Dream Painter | Connie Smith |
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20 | Here Comes My Baby | Connie Smith |
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21 | Just A Little Bit Of You | Connie Smith |
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22 | Turn Your Radio On | Connie Smith |
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23 | If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry | Connie Smith |
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24 | I Ain't Never | Connie Smith |
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25 | What Ain't To Be, Just Might Happen | Connie Smith |
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26 | All The Praises | Connie Smith |
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27 | He's All I Got | Connie Smith |
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28 | Country Girl | Connie Smith |
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29 | Until My Dreams Come True | Connie Smith |
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30 | Someone To Give My Love To | Connie Smith |
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31 | Weldon Myrick: Connie's Song | Connie Smith |
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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. ....
Connie Smith Born To Sing
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