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Connie Smith: Just For What I Am (5-CD)

5-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 76-page hardcover book, 151 tracks. Playing time 408:56 minutes.

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
Album titlle: Just For What I Am (5-CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Price code EK
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart Box set
EAN: 4000127168146
weight in Kg 2.4

Smith, Connie - Just For What I Am (5-CD) Box set 1
01	Family Bible
02	The Last Letter
03	Heartbreak Avenue
04	Walk Through This World With Me
05	If The Whole World Stopped Lovin'
06	That's All This Old World Needs
07	I Love Charley Brown
08	There Are Some Things
09	The Sunshine Of My World
10	Run Away Little Tears
11	Let Me Help You Work It Out
12	Between Each Tear
13	Little Things
14	What Makes A Man Wander
15	The Hurt Goes On
16	What Would I Do Without You
17	The Deepening Snow
18	Natchilly Ain't No Good
19	To Chicago With Love
20	Just A Little Sunshine In The Rain
21	Gentle On My Mind
22	You Are Gone
23	Sundown Of My Mind
24	Only Mama That'll Walk The Line
25	A Lonely Woman
26	Blue Little Girl
27	Seattle

Smith, Connie - Just For What I Am (5-CD) Box set 2
01	Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet
02	Today I Started Loving You Again
03	Sound Of Different Drums
04	Happy Street
05	Gotta Lotta Blues To Lose
06	You
07	Ribbon Of Darkness
08	You Don't Have Very Far To Go
09	Let It Be Me
10	I Got You
11	Rings Of Gold
12	Together Alone
13	Two Together
14	Yours Love
15	Stand Beside Me
16	Something Pretty
17	I'll Share My World With You
18	Even The Bad Times Are Good
19	Whispering Hope
20	Young Love
21	Back In Baby's Arms
22	The Wedding Cake
23	Long Black Limousine
24	Fool 1
25	Too Many Rivers
26	I Can't Get Used To Being Lonely
27	Now
28	Gone Too Far
29	How Great Thou Art
30	The Call

Smith, Connie - Just For What I Am (5-CD) Box set 3
01	You And Your Sweet Love
02	I'm So Glad
03	Sunday Morning
04	Daddy Sang Bass
05	Way Up On The Mountain
06	His Love Takes Care Of Me
07	He Turned The Water Into Wine
08	If God Is Dead (Who's That Living In My Soul)
09	God Will
10	Now Lord, What Can I Do For You
11	Well, It's All Right
12	Crumbs From The Table
13	Did You Let Your Light Shine
14	I Never Once Stopped Loving You
15	The Sun Shines Down On Me
16	(I'm So) Afraid Of Losing You Again
17	Thank You For Loving Me
18	This Precious Love (We Know)
19	I Love You More And More Everyday
20	I'll Fly Away
21	Think I'll Go Somewhere (And Cry Myself To Sl
22	If My Heart Had Windows
23	Alone With You
24	Love Has A Mind Of Its Own
25	Louisiana Man
26	There's Something Lonely In This House
27	Clinging To A Saving Hand
28	Too Good To Be True
29	Where Is My Castle
30	Before I'm Over You
31	Hello Darlin'
32	I Don't Want Your Memories (I Just Want You)

Smith, Connie - Just For What I Am (5-CD) Box set 4
01	I Can't Believe That You've Stopped Loving Me
02	If We Want Love To Last
03	Jesus Take A Hold
04	Darling Days
05	I'm So Used To Loving You
06	I Love You More And More Every Day
07	When A House Is Not A Home
08	My Heart Was The Last One To Know
09	I Don't Want To Be With You
10	Don't Walk Away
11	Just One Time
12	One More Time
13	If You Were Mine To Lose
14	Sweet Memory
15	Amazing Grace
16	He Is My Everything
17	Wait For The Light To Shine
18	As Long As We've Got Each Other
19	Too Much To Gain To Lose
20	Come Along And Walk With Me
21	Don't Let Me Walk Too Far From Calvary
22	I'd Still Want To Serve Him Today
23	The Bridge Of Love
24	Crumbs From The Table
25	(In The Valley) He Restored My Soul
26	Plenty Of Time
27	The Street Where The Lonely Walk
28	He Touched Me
29	Take Me Back
30	I'm Sorry If My Love Got In Your Way
31	Blue, Blue Day

Smith, Connie - Just For What I Am (5-CD) Box set 5
01	If I Could Just Get Over You
02	How Sweet It Is
03	I Know You're Going Away
04	Love Is The Look You're Looking For
05	Ain't We Havin' Us A Good Time
06	Just For What I Am
07	If God Is Dead (Who's That Living In My Soul)
08	Way Up On The Mountain
09	You're Getting' Heavy On My Mind
10	Don't Tell Him That I'm Still Crying
11	The Laying On Of Hands
12	Everything's Found A Home With Me (But You)
13	If That Ain't Strong Enough
14	If It Ain't Love (Let's Leave It Alone)
15	For Goodness Sake, It's Love
16	My Ecstasy
17	Bringin' It Home
18	Living Without You (Is Too Much To Live With)
19	Dream Painter
20	Here Comes My Baby
21	Just A Little Bit Of You
22	Turn Your Radio On
23	If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry
24	I Ain't Never
25	What Ain't To Be, Just Might Happen
26	All The Praises
27	He's All I Got
28	Country Girl
29	Until My Dreams Come True
30	Someone To Give My Love To
31	Weldon Myrick: Connie's Song

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"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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Customer evaluation for "Just For What I Am (5-CD)"

From: Frankie Crawford On: 8 Nov 2016

Excellent

Fantastic Connie Smith Box Set

From: Redecker On: 13 Mar 2014

Die dicke Box im LP-Format liefert ausser den 5 CDs noch ein Hardcoverbuch mit Barry Mazors ausführlicher Darstellung vom Leben und Werk jener Jahre, eine Unmenge bisher unveröffentlichter Fotos aus Privatarchiven sowie eine detaillierte Diskografie von Richard Weize.
Good Times 4/12 Ulrich Schwartz