1. I'm Not Coming Home Anymore
2. Never Again (Will I Knock on Your Door)
3. Calling You
4. Wealth Won't Save Your Soul
5. When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels
6. My Love for You (Has Turned to Hate)
7. I Don't Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes)
8. Pan American
9. Honky Tonkin'
10. (Last Night) I Heard You Crying in Your Sleep
11. Move It on Over
12. On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain
13. Fly Trouble - Hank Williams, Biggs, Bunny
14. My Sweet Love Ain't Around
15. Little Rootie Tootie - Hank Williams, Rose, Fred
16. Honky Tonkin'
17. I'll Be a Bachelor 'Til I Die
18. I'm a Long Gone Daddy
19. The Blues Come Around
20. Six More Miles (To the Graveyard)
21. I Saw the Light
22. A Mansion on the Hill
23. I Can't Get You off of My Mind
24. Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams, Friend, Cliff
25. Wedding Bells - Hank Williams, Boone, Claude
26. I've Just Told Mama Goodbye - Hank Williams, Kinsey, Curly
27. Mind Your Own Business
28. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
29. Lost Highway - Hank Williams, Payne, Leon
30. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)
31. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
32. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It - Hank Williams, Williams, Clarence
33. May You Never Be Alone
34. I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'
35. Long Gone Lonesome Blues
36. My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
37. Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)?
38. A House Without Love
39. Why Should We Try Anymore
40. They'll Never Take Her Love from Me - Hank Williams, Payne, Leon
41. Moanin' the Blues
42. Nobody's Lonesome for Me
43. Half as Much - Hank Williams, Williams, Curly
44. Let's Turn Back the Years
45. Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
46. Window Shopping - Hank Williams, Joseph, Marcel
47. Settin' the Woods on Fire - Hank Williams, Nelson, Ed G.
48. You Win Again
49. I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Hank Williams, Rose, Fred
50. I Could Never Be Ashamed of You
51. Kaw-Liga - Hank Williams, Rose, Fred
52. Your Cheatin' Heart
53. I Won't Be Home No More
54. Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams, Heath, Hy
55. Please Make up Your Mind
56. Ramblin' Man
57. House of Gold
58. With Tears in My Eyes - Hank Williams, Howard, Paul
59. Alone and Forsaken
60. Fool About You - Hank Williams, Hutchinson, Ralph C
61. I'm Free at Last - Hank Williams, Tubb, Ernest
62. Someday You'll Call My Name - Hank Williams, Hill, Eddie
63. I Can't Escape from You
64. Something Got a Hold of Me - Hank Williams, Carter, A.P.
65. Weary Blues from Waitin'
66. I Ain't Got Nothin' But Time
67. Angel of Death
68. There's No Room in My Heart for the Blues - Hank Williams, Rose, Fred
69. At the First Fall of Snow - Hank Williams, Rose, Lorene
70. The Log Train
71. All the Love I Ever Had
72. There's a Tear in My Beer
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This three-CD, 84-song indoctrination to The Basic Hank may not actually offer all of Hank's singles (it's missing most of his Luke the Drifter tunes, and his duets with Audrey), but it goes a long way to explain why Williams was country's first big legend and a superstar by 25. Smitten with the blue yodel of Jimmie Rodgers and the mountain whine of Roy Acuff, Williams gradually added a racy edge to brew his own style of honky-tonk. And with the good-natured wink of "Hey, Good Lookin," the Cajun spice of "Jambalaya," and the donkey's bray of "Honky Tonkin'," Williams shows that he could balance his melancholia with upbeat songs of joy. Whatever his subject matter, however, Hank's aim was always for the heart. As these songs attest, he rarely missed. In beautifully restored audio. --Alanna Nash
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- Audio CD: 0 pages (1991-07-01)
- Publisher: Mercury Nashville
- Label: Mercury Nashville
- Format: Box set
- Studio: Mercury Nashville
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 18 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #6025
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Summary: Fantastic! You Cannot Go Wrong With this set! 2007-11-14
Comment: Some of the greatest music ever by one of the greatest artists ever!!!
I won't do a lengthy review for you can find plenty of them here. The only drawback to this album is the first song is poor in sound quality. But, its from 1942 and isn't a professional recording, so what do you expect?
Its cool to hear Ol' Hank moanin from 1942. The rest of the tracks are of very good quality especially when you consider they come from the late 40's and early 50's. The music is fantastic! If you like Hank Williams this is a must have! It is my all time favorite CD set. I hope someday to get the complete collection CD set, but till then this CD set will more than do. If you like Hank Williams, Country Music, Oldies or are curious about Hank's music you cannot go wrong by buying this CD. Its well worth the money. Buy it! You will not regret it! 3 Cd's of Ol' Hank moanin his blues and Honky Tonkin his way into history!
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Summary: Picks Up Where 40 Greatest Hits Leaves Off 2007-08-08
Comment: This 84-track 3-CD set from PolyDor/PolyGram picks up where the 2-CD set, Hank Williams 40 Greatest Hits, leaves off, giving us the charted singles overlooked in that set and most of the B-sides. The large [vinyl LP-size] box contains a 20-page book which provides a complete discography of the contents and 16 pages of background information written by Colin Escott of Showtime Music in Toronto.
Sprinkled throughout are photographs of the legend and his entourage and family, taken at varying stages of his young life [he was just 29 when he died], including one taken in the 1930s as he sang on the streets of Montgomery, Alabama. Another vintage shot shows him with Little Jimmy Dickens, Roy Acuff, Red Foley, and Jimmy Riddle, and there are a couple of not very flattering pictures, one of which shows him "Blotto in Toronto in 1952.". There are also numerous poster reproductions.
But it's the music, of course, that is the star of this set, including four releases [A- and B-sides] for the Stirling label in 1947 [tracks 2 to 9 on disc 1] and one prevously unreleased Stirling cut [track 1]. None of those charted, but when he moved to MGM in 1947 things began to happen very quickly.
That August Move It On Over rose to # 4 b/w Last Night I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep, and while the follow-up On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain b/w Fly Trouble failed to chart, few among his subsequent releases suffered the same fate. In July 1948 an MGM re-release of Honky Tonkin' made it to # 14 b/w I'll Be A Bachelor Til I Die, followed almost immediately by I'm A Long Gone Daddy which topped out at # 6 b/w The Blues Come Around.
1949 was, however, THE breakthrough year with no less than eight hit singles, starting off with the blockbuster Lovesick Blues. It not only made it to # 1, but stayed there for an incredible SIXTEEN weeks, spending 42 weeks on the charts in all, amd also crossed over to the pop charts, hitting # 24. Even the flipside did well, with Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door) peaking at # 6 Country. A month or so later Wedding Bells reached # 2 [kept from the # 1 by Lovesick Blues] b/w I've Just Told Mama Goodbye, and in September Mind Your Own Business made it to # 5 b/w the now-classic There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight [later a pop hit for Tony Bennett].
In October he had another double-sided hit when You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave} reached # 4 and its B-side, the haunting Lost Highway, made it to # 12. He then closed out a very successful year with My Bucket's Got A Hole In It which climbed to # 2 [Ricky Nelson would later have a pop hit with a jumped-up version], b/w another now-classic, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.
From there to his untimely death, brought on by bouts with alcohol, Hank would chalk up another 21 hit singles, many of them double-sided and among them the monster hits Long Gone Lonesome Blues [8 weeks at # 1], Why Don't You Love Me? [10 weeks at # 1], Hey, Good Lookin' [8 weeks at # 1], and Jambalaya (On The Bayou) which spent 14 weeks at # 1 and also made it to # 20 pop in late 1952.
Ironically, just climbing the charts when he died on January 1, 1953, was the eerily prophetic I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, which also became a # 1. Posthumous hits included Kaw-Liga [13 weeks at # 1] and its flipside, Your Cheatin' Heart [6 weeks at # 1], and Take These Chains From My Heart [4 weeks at # 1]. All this is documented in the accompanying book.
In 1989 Hank returned to the charts when an over-dubbed version with son Hank Jr. of There's a Tear In My Beer made it to # 7. The version in disc 3 is a previously-unreleased cut. Just a magnificent set all around for one of the 20th Century's greatest artists. Most highly recommended.
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Summary: Damage 2007-03-08
Comment: The total package was good,but the first track on disk 1 is damaged. The disk also has surface damage. I am lucky that it is only on the first track on the first disk.
I am happy with the total package.
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Summary: Relive the glory years. 2007-02-12
Comment: If you want to relive the glory years of country music, start here. This CD has all the Hank songs you could ever want and then some. Plus, it is much cheaper than the box set.
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Summary: Hank did it this way..... 2006-12-27
Comment: If you want to have one Hank Williams CD to complete your music collection, this is the cd to own.
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