Al Bowlly was one of the first British artists who could seriously be called a pop idol he was a crooner in the heyday of the dance band era of the 30s, whose effortless romantic vocals made him a true superstar of his era. In a career spanning less than 15 years before he was killed in a London air raid in 1941, he made almost 1000 recordings, and made the successful shift in the mid-30s to conquer the US market as well. There is still an enormous amount of interest in Bowllys work among nostalgia buffs of all ages, fuelled by TV documentaries.
This 100-track 4-CD anthology brings not only some of his biggest hits but also some of his lesser-known material than has not been over-represented on previous collections, and will be an excellent medium for those discovering his work for the first time to achieve an entertaining overview of his matchless style and talent, and covering his recording career, from his first recordings in 1927 to one made a couple of weeks before his death in April 1941.
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| Track |
Title |
Artist |
| 1 |
I’m Coming, Virginia |
Al Bowly |
| 2 |
Dear Little Gadabout |
Al Bowly |
| 3 |
If I Had You |
Al Bowly |
| 4 |
Little Love Song |
Al Bowly |
| 5 |
Can’t We Be Friends? |
Al Bowly |
| 6 |
Shout For Happiness |
Al Bowly |
| 7 |
Lady of Spain |
Al Bowly |
| 8 |
Lazy Day |
Al Bowly |
| 9 |
Goodnight Sweetheart |
Al Bowly |
| 10 |
Hang Out the Stars In Indiana |
Al Bowly |
| 11 |
Heartaches |
Al Bowly |
| 12 |
Were You Sincere? |
Al Bowly |
| 13 |
I’m Thru With Love |
Al Bowly |
| 14 |
Yes Yes (My Baby Said Yes) |
Al Bowly |
| 15 |
Got a Date With an Angel |
Al Bowly |
| 16 |
Guilty |
Al Bowly |
| 17 |
Hold My Hand |
Al Bowly |
| 18 |
One Little Quarrel |
Al Bowly |
| 19 |
Minnie the Moocher |
Al Bowly |
| 20 |
Moon |
Al Bowly |
| 21 |
If Anything Happened To You |
Al Bowly |
| 22 |
By the Fireside |
Al Bowly |
| 23 |
She Didn’t Say Yes |
Al Bowly |
| 24 |
Rain On the Roof |
Al Bowly |
| 25 |
Lovable |
Al Bowly |
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| Title |
Track |
Artist |
| 1 |
Love, You Funny Thing |
Al Bowly |
| 2 |
Every Day’s a Lucky Day |
Al Bowly |
| 3 |
You’re My Everything |
Al Bowly |
| 4 |
I’ll Do My Best To Make You Happy |
Al Bowly |
| 5 |
Old Man of the Mountain |
Al Bowly |
| 6 |
Love is the Sweetest Thing |
Al Bowly |
| 7 |
You Just You |
Al Bowly |
| 8 |
Let’s Put Out the Lights (and Go To Sleep) |
Al Bowly |
| 9 |
Junk Man Blues |
Al Bowly |
| 10 |
My Woman |
Al Bowly |
| 11 |
I’ll Never Be the Same |
Al Bowly |
| 12 |
Please |
Al Bowly |
| 13 |
Hustlin’ and Bustlin’ For Baby |
Al Bowly |
| 14 |
Goodnight, But Not Goodbye |
Al Bowly |
| 15 |
Maria, My Own |
Al Bowly |
| 16 |
Couple of Fools in Love |
Al Bowly |
| 17 |
Shadow Waltz |
Al Bowly |
| 18 |
Learn to Croon |
Al Bowly |
| 19 |
Blue Prelude |
Al Bowly |
| 20 |
It’s Bad for Me |
Al Bowly |
| 21 |
Trouble in Paradise |
Al Bowly |
| 22 |
Night and Day |
Al Bowly |
| 23 |
Day You Came Along |
Al Bowly |
| 24 |
I’m Misunderstood |
Al Bowly |
| 25 |
Lover Come Back To Me |
Al Bowly |
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| Disc 3 |
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| Track |
Title |
Artist |
| 1 |
Brother, Can You Space a Dime? |
Al Bowly |
| 2 |
Close Your Eyes |
Al Bowly |
| 3 |
Louisiana Hayride |
Al Bowly |
| 4 |
Lullaby in Blue |
Al Bowly |
| 5 |
Faint Harmony |
Al Bowly |
| 6 |
Vamp Till Ready |
Al Bowly |
| 7 |
Wagon Wheels |
Al Bowly |
| 8 |
One Morning in May |
Al Bowly |
| 9 |
You Oughta Be in Pictures |
Al Bowly |
| 10 |
Little Dutch Mill |
Al Bowly |
| 11 |
Very Thought of You |
Al Bowly |
| 12 |
Ending With a Kiss |
Al Bowly |
| 13 |
I Love You Truly |
Al Bowly |
| 14 |
Riptide |
Al Bowly |
| 15 |
Its All Forgotten Now |
Al Bowly |
| 16 |
I’ll String Along With You |
Al Bowly |
| 17 |
With My Eyes Wide Open I’m Dreaming |
Al Bowly |
| 18 |
What a Little Moonlight Can Do |
Al Bowly |
| 19 |
As Long As I Live |
Al Bowly |
| 20 |
I’ve Had My Moments |
Al Bowly |
| 21 |
Love in Bloom |
Al Bowly |
| 22 |
Isle of Capri |
Al Bowly |
| 23 |
Judy |
Al Bowly |
| 24 |
Sweet and Lovely |
Al Bowly |
| 25 |
Blue Moon |
Al Bowly |
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| Disc 4 |
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| Track |
Title |
Artist |
| 1 |
Easy To Love |
Al Bowly |
| 2 |
My Melancholy Baby |
Al Bowly |
| 3 |
I Double Dare You |
Al Bowly |
| 4 |
Little Drummer Boy |
Al Bowly |
| 5 |
You’re a Sweetheart |
Al Bowly |
| 6 |
Ti-Pi-Tin |
Al Bowly |
| 7 |
Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm |
Al Bowly |
| 8 |
Little Lady Make Believe |
Al Bowly |
| 9 |
Music, Maestro, Please |
Al Bowly |
| 10 |
You Couldn’t Be Cuter |
Al Bowly |
| 11 |
Now it Can Be Told |
Al Bowly |
| 12 |
On the Sentimental Side |
Al Bowly |
| 13 |
Heart and Soul |
Al Bowly |
| 14 |
Penny Serenade |
Al Bowly |
| 15 |
While a Cigarette Was Burning |
Al Bowly |
| 16 |
My Own |
Al Bowly |
| 17 |
Summer’s End |
Al Bowly |
| 18 |
What Do You Know About Love? |
Al Bowly |
| 19 |
Dark Eyes |
Al Bowly |
| 20 |
Dinner For One Please James |
Al Bowly |
| 21 |
Waves of the Ocean Are Whispering Goodnight |
Al Bowly |
| 22 |
Over the Rainbow |
Al Bowly |
| 23 |
Dreaming |
Al Bowly |
| 24 |
It Was a Lover and His Lass |
Al Bowly |
| 25 |
Nicky the Greek (Has Gone) |
Al Bowly |
The aim of the collection is simply to provide an entertaining and representative cross-section of his work through what was probably the core creative period of his career, as well as being the material which was the most influential on his contemporaries and the generation of country stars who followed. Jimmie Davis was one of the artists that bridged the gap between the rural country blues and hillbilly music of the 30s and the commercial country and western styles of the 1950s. We hope this collection is a fitting tribute to the contribution he made to the genre.
| Disc 1 |
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| Track |
Title |
Artist |
| 1 |
Out Of Town Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 2 |
Home Town Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 3 |
She's A Hum Hum Dinger |
Jimmie Davis |
| 4 |
Arabella Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 5 |
Bearcat Mama From Horner's Corner |
Jimmie Davis |
| 6 |
Penitentiary Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 7 |
A Woman's Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 8 |
Lonely Hobo |
Jimmie Davis |
| 9 |
Davis Limited |
Jimmie Davis |
| 10 |
She's A Hum Hum Dinger (From Dingersville) |
Jimmie Davis |
| 11 |
She Left A Runnin' Like A Sewing Machine |
Jimmie Davis |
| 12 |
Midnight Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 13 |
Market House Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 14 |
Get On Board Aunt Susan |
Jimmie Davis |
| 15 |
Pea Pickin' Papa |
Jimmie Davis |
| 16 |
There's Evil In Ye Children |
Jimmie Davis |
| 17 |
1982 Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 18 |
High Behind Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 19 |
Red Nightgown Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 20 |
Davis' Salty Dog |
Jimmie Davis |
| 21 |
Saturday Night Stroll |
Jimmie Davis |
| 22 |
Sewing Machine Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 23 |
The Shotgun Wedding |
Jimmie Davis |
| 24 |
Tomcat And Pussy Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 25 |
Organ Grinder Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 26 |
Rockin' Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
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| Disc 2 |
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| Track |
Title |
Artist |
| 1 |
Wampus Kitty Mama |
Jimmie Davis |
| 2 |
Keyhole In The Door |
Jimmie Davis |
| 3 |
Alimony Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 4 |
Easy Rider Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 5 |
Good Time Papa Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 6 |
Shirt Tail Blues |
Jimmie Davis |
| 7 |
Nobody's Darlin' But Mine |
Jimmie Davis |
| 8 |
When A Boy From The Mountain |
Jimmie Davis |
| 9 |
In My Cabin Tonight |
Jimmie Davis |
| 10 |
Ridin' Down The Arizona Trail |
Jimmie Davis |
| 11 |
That's Why I'm Nobody's Darling |
Jimmie Davis |
| 12 |
Do You Ever Think Of Me |
Jimmie Davis |
| 13 |
Sweet Lorene |
Jimmie Davis |
| 14 |
Pi-Rootin' Around |
Jimmie Davis |
| 15 |
Just A Girl That Men Forget |
Jimmie Davis |
| 16 |
Goodbye Old Booze |
Jimmie Davis |
| 17 |
Down At End Of Memory Lane |
Jimmie Davis |
| 18 |
The Last Letter |
Jimmie Davis |
| 19 |
You Are My Sunshine |
Jimmie Davis |
| 20 |
Old Timer (with Charles Mitchell's Orchestra) |
Jimmie Davis |
| 21 |
My Mary |
Jimmie Davis |
| 22 |
Prisoner's Song |
Jimmie Davis |
| 23 |
I Hung My Head And Cried |
Jimmie Davis |
| 24 |
There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder |
Jimmie Davis |
| 25 |
Bang Bang |
Jimmie Davis |
| 26 |
I'm Gonna Write Myself A Letter |
Jimmie Davis |
| 27 |
I Just Dropped In To Say Goodbye |
Jimmie Davis |