Although Billy Strange is perhaps best remembered as an integral member of The Wrecking Crew, his name synonymous with men like Phil Spector and Brian Wilson, there was more to him than his guitar-for-hire heroics of the 60s and 70s. An established recording artist in his own right, with a discography which stretched back to the early 1950s, he was also a highly regarded Country singer with a distinctive baritone voice and a bona-fidé Rockabilly legend, an inductee into the "Rockabilly Hall Of Fame". This compilation traces Billy's story from his early Hillbilly and Honky-Tonk recordings, through to his emergence in the early 60s in The Wrecking Crew. Disc One comprises virtually all his singles between 1952-62. Disc Two features a number of sessionman/sideman appearances, alongside a killer 45rpm issued under a pseudonym, and a pair of almost unfeasibly rare and collectable LPs, included herein in their entirety.
17 You're the Only Good Thing (That's Happened to Me)
18 I Gotta Be Gittin' Home
19 Let Me in There, Baby
20 My Buddy's Girl
21 Say You're Mine, Porcupine
22 Big Man
23 It Wasn't Much of a Town
24 Sadness Done Come
25 Where Your Arms Used to Be
26 Long Steel Road
27 Soft Chains of Love
28 Life of Pretend
29 I'll Remember April
30 Mooncussers
31 Johnny Shiloh
32 Day By Day
- Disc 2 -
1 Tennessee Ernie Ford & Ella Mae Morse - I'm Hog-Tied Over You
2 Moon Mullican - Ooglie Ooglie Oogie (The Tokyo Boogie)
3 Jim Malloy & His Range Riders - When Payday Rolls Around
4 Jim Malloy & His Range Riders - Ridin' Down the Canyon
5 Jim Malloy & His Range Riders - Pistol Packin' Mama
6 Jim Malloy & His Range Riders - Cool Water
7 Jim Malloy & His Range Riders - Tumbling Tumbleweeds
8 Jim Malloy & His Range Riders - Deep in the Heart of Texas
9 Jim Malloy & His Range Riders - Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle
10 Jim Malloy & His Range Riders - Home on the Range
11 Jim Malloy & His Range Riders - Beside the Rio Grande
12 Jim Malloy & His Range Riders - a Cowboy Has to Sing
13 Jim Malloy & His Range Riders - Red River Valley
14 Jim Malloy & His Range Riders - El Rancho Grande
15 Sweetpea Johnson - Crawdad Scene
16 Sweetpea Johnson - How Come My Dog Don't Growl at You
17 Jeanne & Janie - Long Week-End
18 Barbara Dane - Mama Don't Allow No Twistin'
19 The Fencemen - Sunday Stranger
20 The Fencemen - Sour Grapes
21 The Avalanches - Avalanche
22 The Avalanches - Baby It's Cold Outside
23 Billy Strange - Walk Right in
24 Billy Strange - Blowin' in the Wind
25 Billy Strange - Wabash Cannonball
26 Billy Strange - 16 Tons
27 Billy Strange - Silver Threads and Golden Needles
28 Billy Strange - Battle of New Orleans
29 Billy Strange - Green Green
30 Billy Strange - Tom Dooley
31 Billy Strange - Wildwood Flower
32 Billy Strange - If I Had a Hammer
33 Billy Strange - Stranger in Your Town
34 Billy Strange - Cotton Fields
Although Billy Strange is perhaps best remembered as an integral member of The Wrecking Crew, his name synonymous with men like Phil Spector and Brian Wilson, there was more to him than his guitar-for-hire heroics of the 60s and 70s. An established recording artist in his own right, with a discography which stretched back to the early 1950s, he was also a highly regarded Country singer with a distinctive baritone voice and a bona-fidé Rockabilly legend, an inductee into the "Rockabilly Hall Of Fame". This compilation traces Billy's story from his early Hillbilly and Honky-Tonk recordings, through to his emergence in the early 60s in The Wrecking Crew. Disc One comprises virtually all his singles between 1952-62. Disc Two features a number of sessionman/sideman appearances, alongside a killer 45rpm issued under a pseudonym, and a pair of almost unfeasibly rare and collectable LPs, included herein in their entirety.