Slim Whitman - EMI Country Masters: 50 Originals '1993

Tracks list

Tracklist:

Disc 1 

1. I'm Casting My Lasso Towards the Sky (02:32)
2. The Love Song of the Waterfall (02:56)
3. Indian Love Call (03:09)
4. Rose Marie (02:20)
5. Softly, As I Leave You (02:45)
6. Tumbling Tumbleweeds (03:03)
7. You Have My Heart (03:04)
8. Danny Boy (03:05)
9. I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do (02:18)
10. Lord Help Me Be As Thou (02:47)
11. China Doll (02:53)
12. When It's Springtime in the Rockies (02:36)
13. (There's a) Love Knot in My Lariat (02:42)
14. Riding the Range for Jesus (02:56)
15. Poor Little Angeline (02:10)
16. Cryin' for the Moon (02:18)
17. Serenade (Film 'Serenade') (02:21)
18. Many Times (02:19)
19. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen (02:57)
20. The First One to Find the Rainbow (01:59)
21. Secret Love (02:48)
22. Stairway to Heaven (02:51)
23. I'm a Fool (02:42)
24. Heartbreak Hill (02:38)
25. Too Late Now (02:46)

Disc 2 

1. My Wild Irish Rose (02:34)
2. You're the Only One (02:16)
3. Just Call Me Lonesome (02:49)
4. Annie Laurie (02:28)
5. The Bells That Broke My Heart (Stereo Mix) (02:47)
6. Sweeter Than the Flowers (03:31)
7. Happy Street (02:23)
8. Eileen (04:38)
9. When I Grow Too Old to Dream (02:36)
10. Tomorrow Never Comes (02:34)
11. I Wanna Go to Heaven (02:56)
12. Blue Canadian Rockies (02:51)
13. Yesterday's Roses (02:54)
14. I Climbed the Mountain (Stereo Version) (03:20)
15. I'll See You When (02:36)
16. Stranger On the Shore (02:52)
17. What's This World a-Comin' To (02:30)
18. Rockin' Alone (In an Old Rockin' Chair) (03:34)
19. Little Drops of Silver (02:54)
20. Another Tomorrow (03:02)
21. It's a Small World (02:03)
22. Mr Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man) (02:43)
23. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie (02:15)
24. As You Take a Walk Through My Mind (03:12)
25. Happy Anniversary (02:31)


 moreAs a child, Slim Whitman (born Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.) became
infatuated with music and learned to yodel listening to Montana Slim and Jimmie
Rodgers records. At age 17, he married 15-year-old Geraldine Crist, a preacher's
daughter. The newlyweds moved to a 40-acre farm south of Jacksonville, Florida,
where Whitman worked as a meat packer. While working in the plant, he suffered
an accident and lost two fingers on his left hand. After the accident, he began
working in a Tampa shipyard. During World War II, Whitman served in the U.S.
Navy, where he learned to play guitar. Following the war, he returned to the
shipyard and also joined a local minor-league baseball team, the Plant City
Berries. Whitman remained with the team through 1948, but then began building a
singing career at several Tampa radio stations, eventually creating a backup
band, the Variety Rhythm Boys.

Slim Whitman got his first big break after Colonel Tom Parker -- who was
managing Eddy Arnold at the time -- heard him singing on radio station WFLA.
Parker landed a contract with RCA for Whitman by the end of 1948. After
reluctantly complying with the label's request to change his first name to
"Slim," he released his first single, "I'm Casting My Lasso Towards the Sky" --
eventually to become his theme song. He made his national debut on the Mutual
Network's Smokey Mountain Hayride in the summer of 1949, and the following year
joined The Louisiana Hayride. Despite his national exposure, Whitman's career
wasn't making much of an impact, and he was forced to take a job as a part-time
mailman.

In the early '50s, he released a cover of Bob Nolan's "Love Song of the
Waterfall," which became his breakthrough hit, peaking at number ten on the
country charts; the follow-up single, "Indian Love Call," made him a star,
peaking at number two on the country charts and crossing over into the pop Top
Ten. Both sides of his next single -- "Keep It a Secret"/"My Heart Is Broken in
Three" -- were also major hits and he continued to have a string of Top Ten hits
into the mid-'50s. In 1955, his title song for the film Rose-Marie became a
smash on both sides of the Atlantic; following its success, Whitman joined the
Grand Ole Opry, and then went to Britain in 1956 as the first country singer to
play the London Palladium. Throughout the late '50s and early '60s, he had a
string of British hits, including "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," "Unchain My Heart,"
and "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen."

Although he was experiencing great success in the U.K., Whitman's career was in
neutral in the U.S. After 1954's "Singing Hills," he had only two Top 40 hits in
the course of a decade. In 1965, he bounced back into the country Top Ten with
"More Than Yesterday." For the next few years, he had a series of minor country
hits, including "Rainbows Are Back in Style" (1968), "Happy Street" (1968), and
"Tomorrow Never Comes" (1970). Throughout the early '70s, he continued to have
minor hits, but in 1974, he retired from active recording.

In 1979, Whitman filmed a television commercial to support Suffolk Marketing's
release of a collection of his greatest hits. On the strength of the
commercials, All My Best sold four million records and became the best-selling
television-marketed album in history. After its success, the label released Just
for You in 1980, and The Best in 1982. Between 1980 and 1984, Whitman had a
small run of minor hits, highlighted by 1980's number 15 hit "When." In the late
'80s, he returned to television-marketed albums, releasing Slim Whitman: Best
Loved Favorites in 1989 and 20 Precious Memories in 1991. During the '90s,
Whitman recorded infrequently but continued to tour successfully, particularly
in Europe and Australia. His final release, Twilight on the Trail, appeared in
2010, and he died three years later of heart failure. © Sandra Brennan



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