This Is Jean Shepard

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This Is Jean Shepard
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Compilation album by
ReleasedSeptember 1959
RecordedSeptember 30, 1952 – December 28, 1956
Genre Country, Bakersfield sound
Label Capitol
Producer Ken Nelson
Jean Shepard chronology
Lonesome Love
(1958)
This Is Jean Shepard
(1959)
Got You on My Mind
(1961)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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This Is Jean Shepard is the debut compilation album by American country artist Jean Shepard. The album was released in September 1959 on Capitol Records and was produced by Ken Nelson. The album included a series of Shepard's hits between 1953 and 1957.

Contents

Background and content

This Is Jean Shepard consisted of twelve tracks of material Shepard had released either as singles or as B-sides for the Capitol label. The album's material comes from eight separate recording sessions. The first recording session began in September 1952 and two separate sessions in 1952. This is followed by three recording sessions that took place in 1955 and then two that took place in 1956. This Is Jean Shepard contained two of Shepard's Top 10 hits from 1955, which were "A Satisfied Mind" and "Beautiful Lies". It also included Shepard's debut single entitled "Crying Steel Guitar Waltz". It also features her 1956 singles "I Learned It All from You" and "You're Calling Me Sweetheart Again". Dan Cooper praised Shepard's vocal ability, stating, "One of her earlier LPs is strong on her voice and steel-friendly West Coast production. It includes her spry, proto-feminist "Two Whoops and a Holler." [1] It also includes other well-known songs by Shepard such as "Act Like a Married Man" and "I'd Rather Die Young".

Release

This Is Jean Shepard was released in September 1959 on the Capitol label. The album did not spawn any singles upon its release and did not chart any lists by Billboard Magazine . The album was originally issued on a 12-inch LP record and contained six songs on each side of the record. [2] The singles that were initially released prior to the album were "Crying Steel Guitar Waltz", "Beautiful Lies", "A Satisfied Mind", "I Learned It All from You", "The Other Woman", and "Act Like a Married Man". The album received four and a half out of five stars by Allmusic's Dan Cooper, who called Shepard's vocals on the release "strong". [1] The album has not been reissued on compact disc since its original release in 1959.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "A Satisfied Mind" – (Red Hayes, Jack Rhodes)
  2. "Two Whoops and a Holler" – (Joe Franklin)
  3. "I'd Rather Die Young" – (Beasley Smith, Billy Vaughn, Randy Wood)
  4. "Why Did You Wait" – (Betty Westergard, Clyde Wilson)
  5. "The Other Woman" – (Beverly Small)
  6. "Act Like a Married Man" – (Jim Odom)
Side two
  1. "Beautiful Lies" – (Rhodes)
  2. "You're Calling Me Sweetheart Again" – (Gertrude Cox, Rhodes)
  3. "Under Suspicion" – (Ira Kosloff, Ben Raleigh)
  4. "Crying Steel Guitar Waltz" – (Susan Heather, Dolly Long, Shorty Long)
  5. "My Wedding Ring" – (Rhodes)
  6. "I Learned It All from You" – (Tommy Collins)

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Cooper, Dan. "This Is Jean Shepard > Overview". Allmusic . Retrieved 26 February 2010.
  2. "This Is Jean Shepard by Jean Shepard". Rate Your Music . Retrieved 26 February 2010.