Slim Whitman The Collection (2-LP)

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Slim Whitman: The Collection (2-LP)

(1989/EMI) 40 tracks

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Interpret: Slim Whitman
Album titlle: The Collection (2-LP)
Label EMI
Genre Country
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 0077779220717
weight in Kg 0.5

Whitman, Slim - The Collection (2-LP) LP 1
01	Rose Marie	Slim Whitman
02	My Blue Heaven	Slim Whitman
03	Bouquet Of Roses	Slim Whitman
04	Lorena	Slim Whitman
05	How Could I Not Love You	Slim Whitman
06	Take Me In Your Arms And Hold Me	Slim Whitman
07	When My Dreamboat Comes Home	Slim Whitman
08	I'd Trade All Of My Tomorrows	Slim Whitman
09	White Silver Sand	Slim Whitman
10	Nobody's Darlin' But Mine	Slim Whitman
11	Indian Love Call	Slim Whitman
12	I'm Walking Behind You	Slim Whitman
13	I'd Climb The Highest Mountain	Slim Whitman
14	Tell Me	Slim Whitman
15	Ride Away (With A Song In My Heart)	Slim Whitman
16	Little Green Valley	Slim Whitman
17	Born To Lose	Slim Whitman
18	At Mail Call Today	Slim Whitman
19	In The Valley Of The Moon	Slim Whitman
20	Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain	Slim Whitman

Whitman, Slim - The Collection (2-LP) LP 2
01	Marie Elena	Slim Whitman
02	Home (When Shadows Fall)	Slim Whitman
03	The Song Of The Old Waterwheel	Slim Whitman
04	Ages And Ages Ago	Slim Whitman
05	Each Night At Nine	Slim Whitman
06	Smoke Signals	Slim Whitman
07	Brahms Lullaby	Slim Whitman
08	I'll Never Stop Loving You	Slim Whitman
09	Never	Slim Whitman
10	Forty Shades Of Green	Slim Whitman
11	Among My Souvenirs	Slim Whitman
12	Careless Love	Slim Whitman
13	I Dreamed Of An Old Love Affair	Slim Whitman
14	A Travellin' Man	Slim Whitman
15	From Heaven To Heartache	Slim Whitman
16	Forever	Slim Whitman
17	I really Don't Want To Know	Slim Whitman
18	I'll Hold You In My Heart	Slim Whitman
19	Silver Threads Among The Gold	Slim Whitman
20	Happy Anniversary	Slim Whitman

Slim Whitman Ottis Dewey Whitman was born January 20, 1924 in Tampa, Florida. His was a... more

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"Slim Whitman"

Slim Whitman

Ottis Dewey Whitman was born January 20, 1924 in Tampa, Florida. His was a musical family, although in early years it looked more likely that it would be one of Whitman’s sisters (who sang in church) who would gravitate toward professional music. The tall, lanky Whitman was more interested in baseball, and his father, Ottis, Sr. had ideas that his son might be a major league pitcher. Slim learned to play guitar – left-handed because of an injury to his fretting hand -- and performed for shipmates during his three-year stint in the Navy during the war. On his discharge, he pursued a career in baseball for a time before deciding in 1948, with the enthusiastic support of his wife Jerry, whom he’d married in 1941, to take a stab at a music career.

In 1949, Whitman caught the ear of Colonel Tom Parker, then managing Eddy Arnold, who secured the young singer a contract with RCA Victor. The story has long been told that Whitman was dubbed “Slim” by RCA after he signed with that label in 1949, but a recently uncovered, ultra-rare, limited demo pressing from a few months prior to that proves that he was using the name Slim Whitman before he signed with RCA. At any rate, he recorded ten fascinating but commercially unsuccessful sides with the label over the next year, but was dropped in 1950 and was without a contract when he moved to Shreveport that year to become a regular on the Louisiana Hayride, one of the top weekly country music shows in the nation, a star-breaking rival to Nashville’s famous Grand Ole Opry.

Whitman worked as a postman during the day, and worked the Hayride in addition to his own early morning radio show on KWKH. His distinctive, soaring vocals soon made him one of the show’s most popular attractions; his sound was made even more distinctive when he teamed with guitarist Curly Herndon and, more importantly, steel guitarist Hoot Rains, whose ‘arrows’ behind Whitman’s vocals became a trademark. His rendition of Love Song Of The Waterfall, in particular, attracted widespread regional attention and soon Lew Chudd, who headed the growing West Coast-based independent Imperial Records, came calling and snatched the singer up.

Chudd could be a difficult man, but Whitman was fortunate to sign with him, because Chudd tended to leave his artists alone to find their own sound, choose their own songs; he’d be even more hands off with Whitman than with most, because Whitman wanted it that way and remained defiantly independent, defiantly his own man. Love Song Of The Waterfall became a hit in the spring of 1952, followed closely by Whitman’s telling revival of Indian Love Call. A string of hits followed, most notably the singer’s versions of two pop songs, Rose Marie and Secret Love. The hits slowed – at least domestically -- with the arrival of rock ‘n’ roll, but Whitman remained a popular artist, particularly overseas. Indeed, in 1956 and 1957 he successfully toured the UK and enjoyed major hits there with Rose Marie and I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen.

By 1960, when this set commences, Whitman had not had a domestic hit since Cattle Call in 1955. He remained a consistent seller for Imperial, more as an LP artist than a singles artist, but as the adult market increasingly gravitated toward the latter format he nevertheless scored a few hit singles during the period covered in this set.

When the recordings that open this set were made in May 1960, Whitman had been recording in Nashville for a half-decade, with a handful of sessions made elsewhere. Although he remained particularly close with Nashville stalwarts Harold and Owen Bradley and he recorded at Owen’s famous Quonset Hut studio, he had not and never would become a part of the scene. He eschewed insider politics and he remained steadfastly his own man, with his own sound.

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