Buck Owens - Act Naturally: 1953-64 (CD)

One of the all-time Country Music Hall of Fame greats finally gets the Bear Family treatment!'The birth of the legendary Bakersfield Sound! 'Includes Buck Owens' complete(!) recordings 1953-1964.Demos, singles, LPs, unreleased songs!All his history-making hits: Under Your Spell Again, Above And Beyond, Act Naturally, Love's Gonna Live Here and many, many more- plus the rarities that only Bear Family uncovers!Includes ultra-rare sessions featuring Buck Owens as a session musician in 1953-54!Two unreleased performances and 12 alternate takes!Guitar fans will want to hear legendary Don Rich evolve into one of the greatest Telecaster twangmeisters of all time! Includes Don Rich's solo items recorded for Buck Owens' albums. Hear Buck Owens and the band in session with legendary producer Ken Nelson!Before he died in 2006, Buck Owens had wanted Bear Family to chronicle his career as only we can. Now it has happened! This collection brings forth the Big Bang of Bakersfield country music. Bakersfield had a fertile country scene B. B. (before Buck Owens), but he put it on the map with an epochal string of Top Ten and no. 1 singles from 1959-1988, paving the way for fellow Bakersfielders Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens and Red Simpson. Gram Parsons, the Beatles, the Desert Rose Band, John Fogerty, Emmylou Harris, Dwight Yoakam, Keith Whitley, the Derailers, Trace Adkins, Garth Brooks and Brad Paisley all drank deeply from Buck Owens' rhinestoned chalice.Track Listing

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Down on the Corner of Love
2. It Don't Show on Me
3. The House Down the Block
4. Right After the Dance
5. Hot Dog
6. Rhythm and Booze
7. There Goes My Love
8. Sweethearts in Heaven
9. Honeysuckle
10. Country Girl (Leavin' Dirty Tracks)
11. You're Fer Me
12. Blue Love
13. Please Don't Take Her from Me
14. Three Dimension Love
15. Why Don't My Mommy Stay with My Daddy and Me
16. I'm Gonna Blow
17. I Found You Out
18. You're Just What the Doctor Ordered
19. Rightfully Mine
20. Goose Rock
21. Louisiana Swing
22. I'm Gonna Set You Free
23. Mean, Mean, Mean
24. Last Dance Tonight
25. Down on the Corner of Love
26. It Don't Show on Me
27. The House Down the Block
28. Right After the Dance
29. Blue Love
30. I Only Know That I Love You
31. Sweet Thing
32. I Know What It Means
33. Come Back
34. Walk the Floors
35. My Everlasting Love
36. Second Fiddle
37. I'll Take a Chance on Loving You
38. Tired of Livin'
39. Under Your Spell Again
40. I'll Give My Heart to You
41. I Gotta a Right to Know
42. Above and Beyond
43. Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)
44. Take Me Back Again
45. 'Til These Dreams Come True
46. Think It Over
47. Foolin' Around
48. Nobody's Fool But Yours
49. High As the Mountains
50. Loose Talk
51. Mental Cruelty
52. I Don't Believe I'll Fall in Love Today
53. Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
54. Let's Agree to Disagree
55. The Keeper of the Key
56. Lyin' Again
57. Heartaches for a Dime
58. Heartaches By the Number
59. The One You Slip Around with
60. The Key's in the Mailbox
61. I'll Catch You When You Fall
62. Save the Last Dance for Me
63. Under the Influence of Love
64. Nobody's Fool But Yours
65. Goin' Down to the River
66. Bad Bad Dream
67. Down on the Corner of Love
68. The House Down the Block
69. Fool Me Again
70. You're for Me
71. Blues for Life
72. The King of Fools
73. Bring It to Jesus
74. All the Way with Jesus
75. Mexican Polka
76. Country Polka
77. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
78. Storm of Love
79. One Way Love
80. Kickin' Our Hearts Around
81. Save the Last Dance for Me
82. King of Fools
83. I Can't Stop (My Lovin' You)
84. Act Naturally
85. Over and Over Again
86. My Heart Skips a Beat
87. There's Gonna Come a Day
88. Diggy Liggy Lo
89. Orange Blossom Special
90. Cotton Fields
91. Touch Me
92. Saw Mill
93. Sweethearts in Heaven
94. Sally Was a Good Old Girl
95. Release Me
96. Sweethearts in Heaven
97. We're the Talk of the Town
98. Back Street Affair
99. No Fool Like An Old Fool
100. Love's Gonna Live Here
101. Getting Used to Losing You
102. Smooth Sailin'
103. But I Do
104. If You Ain't Lovin' You Ain't Livin'
105. My Last Chance with You
106. Down, Down, Down
107. You Gotta Have a License
108. High on a Hilltop
109. It Tickles
110. Whatcha Gonna Do Now
111. I Always Get a Souvenir
112. There'll Be No Other
113. No Love Have I
114. Louisiana Man
115. Abilene
116. A Maiden's Prayer
117. Bud's Bounce
118. Ain't It Amazing Gracie
119. My Heart Skips a Beat
120. Together Again
121. Close Up the Honky Tonks (Remake)
122. Truck Drivin' Man
123. I Don't Hear You
124. Hello Trouble
125. A-11
126. Act Naturally
127. The One You Slip Around with
128. I Don't Believe I'll Fall in Love Today
129. Lyin' Again
130. Above and Beyond
131. Wham Bam
132. Gonna Have Love
133. Heartaches By the Number
134. Heartaches for a Dime
135. I'll Catch You When You Fall
136. The Key's in the Mailbox
137. Bring It to Jesus
138. All the Way with Jesus
139. All the Way with Jesus
140. The King of Fools
141. Memphis
142. Let the Sad Times Roll on
143. Streets of Laredo
144. The Band Keeps Playin' on
145. I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me)
146. Dang Me
147. Don't Let Her Know
148. This Ol' Heart
149. Understand Your Man
150. Buck's Polka
151. You're Welcome Anytime
152. Playboy
153. We're Gonna Let the Good Times Roll
154. I've Got a Tiger By the Tail
155. Cryin' Time
156. Trouble and Me
157. Fallin' for You
158. If You Fall Out of Love with Me
159. Save the Last Dance for Me