A Little Bitty Tear: The Nashville Years 1961-1965 [Box set]

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Album Description
5 CD box subtitled - The Nashville Years 1961-1965, 145-track set from Bear Family documents with beautiful booklet and scintillating sound Burl's complete recordings between 1961 and 1965, includes hit singles 'A Little Bitty Tear', 'Funny Way Of Laughin', 'Call Me Mr. In-Between' and more. Collectors' Choice Music. Standard jewel cases housed in a thick LP-size box. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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A Little Bitty Tear: The Nashville Years 1961-1965
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Troubadour Extraodinaire!
  • My Opinion Of Burl Ives
  • A pretty good disc, but there's only one!
  • Beware of the negative reviews!
  • This collection represents Burl Ives at his very best!
 A Little Bitty Tear: The Nashville Years 1961-1965
Burl Ives
Manufacturer: Bear Family
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001B0D
Release Date: 1994-03-15

Tracks:

  1. A Little Bitty Tear
  2. The Long Black Veil
  3. Shanghied
  4. The Almighty Dollar Bill
  5. Forty Hour Week
  6. Royal Telephone
  7. Delia
  8. Oh, My Side
  9. Lenora, Let Your Hair Hang Down
  10. Mocking Bird Hill
  11. I Walk The Line
  12. Drink To Me Only WIth Thine Eyes
  13. Mama Don't Want No Peas, No Rice
  14. Empty Saddles
  15. The Oregon Trail
  16. Home On the Range
  17. When The Bloom Is On The Sage
  18. My Adobe Hacienda
  19. Cowboy's Dream
  20. Mexicali Rose
  21. The Last Roundup
  22. O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
  23. Jingle, Jangle, Jingle
  24. Cool Water
  25. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
  26. Holding Hands For Joe
  27. Sixteen Fathoms Down
  28. What You Gonna Do Leroy

Tracks:

  1. Brooklyn Bridge
  2. Poor Little Jimmie
  3. Thumbin' Johnny Brown
  4. Funny Way Of Laughin'
  5. That's All I Can Remember
  6. Ninety Nine
  7. Call Me Mr. In-Between
  8. I Ain't Comin' Home Tonight
  9. How Do You Fall Out Of Love
  10. In Foggy Old London
  11. Mother Wouldn't Do That
  12. Bring Them In
  13. Let The Lower Lights Be Burning
  14. Beulah Land
  15. Standing On The Promises
  16. Fairest Lord Jesus
  17. We're Marching To Zion
  18. Sunshine In My Soul
  19. Blessed Assurance
  20. Leaning On the Everlasting Arms
  21. Where He Leads Me
  22. Will There Be Any Stars
  23. When They Ring Those Golden Bells
  24. The Same Old Hurt
  25. Wishin' She Was Here (Instead Of Me)
  26. Busted
  27. Poor Boy In A Rich Man's Town

Tracks:

  1. Mary Ann Regrets
  2. Billy Bayou
  3. The Moon Is High
  4. Green Turtle
  5. Bury The Bottle With Me
  6. The Blizzard
  7. It Comes And Goes
  8. I'm The Boss
  9. The Same Old Hurt (Remake)
  10. Curry Road
  11. The Deepening Show
  12. She Didn't Let The Ink Dry On The Paper
  13. The Late Movie
  14. Home, James
  15. Man About Town
  16. She Called Me Baby
  17. My Chicken Run Way To the Bush
  18. Baby Come Home To Me
  19. Roses And Orchids
  20. Lynching Party
  21. A Hundred Twenty Miles From Nowhere
  22. Two-Car Garage
  23. I Found My Best Friend In The Dog Pound
  24. I'll Hit It With A Stick
  25. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  26. Some Folks
  27. I'll Walk Away Smilling
  28. There Goes Another Pal Of Mine
  29. This Is Your Day
  30. This Is All I Ask

Tracks:

  1. Lower Forty
  2. Four Intials On A Tree
  3. Someone Hangin' Round You All The Time
  4. Beautiful Annabel Lee
  5. Hobo Jungle
  6. Strong As A Moutain
  7. Can't You Hear Me
  8. Cherry Blossom Song
  9. What I Want (I Can Never Have)
  10. Can Angels Fly Over The Rockies?
  11. The Legend Of The T.
  12. Kentucky Turkey Buzzard
  13. The Funny Little Show
  14. Hard Luck And Misery
  15. Pearly Shells
  16. What Little Tears Are Made Of
  17. Short On Love
  18. Who Done It?
  19. Two Of The Usual
  20. Tell Me
  21. Among My Souvenirs
  22. Gather Hollow
  23. I Ain't Missing Nobody
  24. Catfisy Bill
  25. Time To Bum Again
  26. Born For Trouble
  27. Unemployment Check
  28. The Atlantic Coastal Line
  29. Don't Let Love Die
  30. How Deep Is The Ocean
  31. Gater Hollow

Tracks:

  1. Okeechobee Ocean
  2. My Melancholy Baby
  3. Jealous
  4. My Gal Sal
  5. By The Light OF The Silvery Moon
  6. For Me And My Gal
  7. Red Sails In The Sunset
  8. Make Believe
  9. Oh How I Miss you Tonight
  10. You Know You Belong To Somebody Else
  11. Down In The Okefenokee
  12. (I Hear You) Call My Name
  13. Mister make-Up Man
  14. River Boy
  15. Drifting And Dreaming
  16. Beyond The Reef
  17. My Isle Of Golden Dreams
  18. Now Is The Hour
  19. Sweet Leilani
  20. Moon Of Manakoora
  21. Song Of The Islands
  22. Keep Your Eyes On The Hands
  23. Hawaiian Bells
  24. Little Brown Girl
  25. On The Beach Of Waikiki
  26. Aloha Qe
  27. Thirty Thousand Feet Over Denver
  28. Betsy, The Cow

Album Description

Folk-pop singer and actor. Best known songs include "A Little Bitty Tear" (1962), "Funny Way Of Laughin'" (1962), and "Call Me Mr. In-Between" (1962). Unviersal. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Troubadour Extraodinaire!.......2006-02-07

Burl Ives! . . . even the sound of his name is like a melodie . . . evoking memories of folk songs and ballads and stories in song as told by the honeyed-tinged voice of this balladeer.

The "Nashville" years to my mind became his "best years" . . . not only was Burl in the best delivery, but the songwriters of then "Nashville" were also the best ever . . . no one since has topped the excellence of the "country ballad and song" since.

This collection is truly a treasure and one to be relished picking through again and again. Each track will bring you joy to experience each time you play it and listen to it . . and you will often and for years to come.

Today's singers and songwriters of Nashville would do well to listen also . . and to learn from thre Master and the Masters who's art brought about these musica; tracks and gems. These songs will be around long after most of today's "flash in the pan" musical celebs are gone and forgotten. A talent like that of Burl Ives is and will remain an American treasure.

Thank you Burl Ives for all of the music and smiles (and the "little bitty tears") that you have brought to our lives with your talent. You are missed these days . . . but yet you remain present in these recordings . . . and for this we can be eternally grateful! :)

4 out of 5 stars My Opinion Of Burl Ives.......2001-05-26

I became familiar with a BurlIves song back in the '70's and although I am not a perticular fan of the man as a singer I am still rather partial to the song "A Little Bitty Tear Let Me Down". When I first heard it, I had just gone through a rocky ending of a bad relatinship, and the words just seemed to say a lot of the things I was too inarticulate to put into words. Maybe, if I could have said what he said in that in that song, I could have salvaged a relationship that still haunts me as a dismal failure. Burls' songs are obviously mant to appeal to a wide audience and I am sure that if you give all of them a fair chance you will be somewhat surprised (and maybe even delighted) aat the things you hear. Above all, please try to remember that Burl Ives was an actor, not a singer. But he was still able to put forth a lot of entertainment as a singer also. (AT LEAST TO SOME OF US)

4 out of 5 stars A pretty good disc, but there's only one!.......2000-05-13

The reviews posted for this album are a bit confusing, so I'll begin with this brief disclaimer: Little Bitty Tear is a single disc, with 10 tracks, on the MCA label. It is an AAD recording, totally dependent on original analog recordings as its source material. Perhaps some of the negative comments on sound quality are due to that.

So far as the songs, Little Bitty Tear offers Burl Ives at his maudlin best. The top cuts are the title tune and Funny Way of Laughing, both soft country tear jerkers that stay oddly touching, despite their somewhat dated sound. The album also includes interesting renditions of Blue Tail Fly, Polly Wolly Doodle and Waltzing Matilda.

Burl Ives' singular voice and peculiar delivery appeal to a very select group of fans. If you are one of those, you will find this album very satisfying. However, if you are only familiar with the featured hits, the rest of the album will likely not have much impact.

Either way, this is a respectable little collection at a very good price. Well worth the investment.

5 out of 5 stars Beware of the negative reviews!.......2000-04-21

Somewhere along the line, two different releases are getting mixed up here. I was a little shocked to see Bear Family's commitment to excellence questioned, but it turns out the negative reviews you see below refer to a single CD release that has nothing to do with the box set. Please keep that in mind when considering this purchase. Bear Family will rarely let you down.

5 out of 5 stars This collection represents Burl Ives at his very best!.......1999-12-27

The music within this collection is nothing short of remarkable. All the recordings on this 5 CD set have been remastered to ensure the best quality recordings. This set is the formost Burl Ives collection on the market today. It contains his classic renditions of "Little Bitty Tear", "Mary Ann Regrets", "Pearly Shells", "The Blizzard", "My gal Sal", "Jingle Jangle Jingle". The price in this case indicates the quality and quantity of rare recordings contained in the set. This is an excellent box set that will be a favorite of yours for years to come.

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