The collection is a nicely representative overview of his output and an entertaining showcase for his highly distinctive style of country music

As his name implies, Texas Jim Robertson was a native of the Lone Star State, but made his start singing on radio in his teens while based in North Carolina and he subsequently moved to New York with the NBC network, acting as well as singing on radio. He made his first recordings in 1939, with a break of three years between sessions while he served in the Pacific during WWII, Picking up his career on his discharge, he had a run of country hits in the post-war years. He was a singer in the old-school cowboy style, with much of his repertoire redolent of Texan and western imagery, although he recorded several songs with interesting wartime reference points. This 52-track 2-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from his releases on the Bluebird, Victor, RCA and MGM labels from this era, and features all his career chart entries, including the Top 10 country hits 'Filipino Baby', 'Rainbow At Midnight' and 'Signed Sealed, Delivered', and the Top 20 hit 'Slipping Around', the last coming in 1950, a few years before he moved from music to mainstream radio broadcasting in the 1950s. The collection comprises around half of the titles he released on singles during these years, so we trust it provides a nicely representative overview of his output, and it certainly offers an entertaining showcase for his highly distinctive and evocative style of country.

 

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Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Bouncin' Along
• I'm Gonna Throw My Lasso
• My Pony's Hair Turned Grey
• Purple Night On The Prairie
• Way Down In Texas
• I'll Be Back In A Year, Little Darlin'
• I'm Gonna Be Long Gone
• Birmingham Woman
• There's A Heart In The Heart Of The Rockies
• Home On The Range
• The Cowboy's Dream
• Oh Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
• In Texas For The Round-Up In The Spring
• Red River Valley
• Ridin' Old Paint
• The Texas Song
• When This War Is Over
• Sweet Baby (Come Back Where You Belong)
• Talk To The Boss In The Sky
• Last Page Of Mein Kampf
• Filipino Baby
• Rainbow At Midnight
• Land, Sky And Water
• A Home Of My Own
• It Takes A Long, Long Train With A Red Caboose

Disc 2:

• Pal In Palo Alto
• I Sure Got It From You
• Miner's Song
• Headin' Down The Wrong Highway
• Signed, Sealed And Delivered
• Lost Deep Down In The Bottom Of The Sea
• Mountain Rosalie
• In The Pines (The Longest Train I Ever Saw)
• Sad Heart
• Sundown In My Heart
• Slipping Around
• I Heard The Angels Weep
• Revenge
• I'm Back To Where I Started
• Rubber Knuckle Sam (Leader of the Washboard Band)
• One Kind Word
• Jaw, Jaw, Yap, Yap, Yap!
• If You've Got The Money, I've Got The Time
• Don't You Angel Me
• Wildcat Baby
• Deadly Weapon
• Gone Fishing
• Let Me In
• (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
• Beware
• I Promise To Love You
• Automatic Woman

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Country

Language: English

Run Time: 143 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 07/01/22

UPC: 824046343323