Golden Favorites (Ernest Tubb album)

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Golden Favorites
Ernest Tubb Golden Favorites.jpg
Studio album by
Released1961
Recorded1958–59
Studio Bradley Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Country, honky tonk
Label Decca
Producer Owen Bradley
Ernest Tubb chronology
All Time Hits
(1960)
Golden Favorites
(1961)
On Tour
(1962)

Golden Favorites is an album by American country music singer Ernest Tubb, released in 1961 (see 1961 in music). The songs are re-recordings of previous releases by Tubb.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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In his AllMusic review, George Bedard wrote of the album "These re-recordings of older material are well-done, but it would be better to have the originals." [1]

Track listing

  1. "I'll Get Along Somehow" (Ernest Tubb)
  2. "Slippin' Around" (Floyd Tillman)
  3. "Filipino Baby" (Billy Cox, Clarke Van Ness)
  4. "When the World Has Turned You Down" (Tubb)
  5. "Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)" (Peter De Rose, Billy Hill)
  6. "There's a Little Bit of Everything in Texas" (Tubb)
  7. "Walking the Floor Over You" (Tubb)
  8. "Driftwood on the River" (Bob Miller, John Klenner)
  9. "There's Nothing More to Say" (Tubb)
  10. "Rainbow at Midnight" (Lost John Miller)
  11. "I'll Always Be Glad to Take You Back" (Tubb)
  12. "Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello" (Tubb, Ernest Skinner)

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Bedard, George. "Golden Favorites > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved July 9, 2011.