1. Runnin' Bare
2. Tiger in My Tank
3. Looking for More in 64
4. Truck Drivin' Cat With Nine Wives
5. Shaving Cream - Jim Nesbitt, Bell, Benny
6. Phone Call from the Devil
7. It's Great to Stay in the USA
8. I'm Yeller
9. Stranded
10. Please Mr. Kennedy
11. Husband in Law
12. You Better Watch Your Friends
13. These Modern Things
14. The Friendly Undertake
15. Clean the Slate in '68
16. I Love Those Old Nasty Cigarettes
17. Mother in Law
18. I'm a Married Man
19. The Horse Race
20. Livin' Offa Credit
The Best of Jim Nesbitt
- Audio CD: 0 pages (1999-01-08)
- Publisher: Lost Gold Records
- Label: Lost Gold Records
- Studio: Lost Gold Records
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- Sales Rank in Music: #176985
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Summary: MSG JAMES SPRADLEY, USA (RET) 2008-01-08
Comment: Jim Nesbitt was a South Carolina native who was born in Bishopville, SC and was living in Florence when he died on 3l November 2007. He would have been 76 years old the next day on December 31, 2007. He sings and plays my kind of country classic music and I have thoroughly enjoyed the two selections I ordered from you. The quality of the merchandise is excellent and your service is great.
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Summary: One Of The Funniest Of The Country Comics 2007-08-10
Comment: Country-oriented comedy has always been a mainstay of the genre, virtually right from the beginning with acts like Lonzo 'n Oscar, Homer & Jethro, June Carter (Cash) - in her younger days -Little Jimmy Dickens, Cousin Minnie Pearl, Sheb Wooley, and on and on.
But from 1961 to 1970 there were none better [on record anyway] than Jim Nesbitt, born December 1, 1931 in Bishopsville, South Carolina. This local disc jockey from WAGS focused on talking blues and narration, and more often than not zeroed in on politicians. When not in the recording studio or on radio he made guest appearances on a local TV show hosted by Slim Mims & His Dream Ranch Boys.
This compilation gives you 11 of his 13 charted Country singles, with the only omissions being Still Alive in '65 [# 34 in 1965] and Heck Of A Fix In '66 [# 38 in 1966], which were sequels to his 1964 # 7 Looking For More In '64. All of these were for the Chart label.
He actually started out with Dot Records in May 1961 with the # 11 Please Mr. Kennedy, done to the tune of The Ballad Of Davey Crockett. The flipside was The Horse Race. His only other Dot hit came two years later when Livin' Offa Credit reached # 28 in February 1963 b/w I'm A Married Man.
After moving over to Chart, and following Looking For More In '64, he had a # 20 that fall with Mother-In-Law, and in 1965 added three hits - the one mentioned above plus A Tiger In My Tank [# 15 in March] and The Friendly Undertaker [# 21 in October]. 1966 also produced three hits. In addition to the above-mentioned missing hit there was You Better Watch Your Friends [# 49 in January] and Stranded [# 60 in December b/w These Modern Things].
The only charter in 1967 was Husbands-In-Law [# 74 in June], and in 1968 Truck Drivin' Cat With Nine Wives topped out at # 63 in April. His fifth Top 20 then closed out his chart career in early 1970 when Runnin' Bare, a parody of Johnny Preston's Running Bear, peaked at # 20. The other six tracks [5 to 8 and 15 and 16] were all part of failed singles or were culled from LPs.
Some of the missing flipsides were also as good as the hits, particularly (Go On And) Cry Me A River [b/o Looking For More In '64] and I Want To Have My Operation On T.V. [a dig at all the medical shows on TV then and b/o Husbands-In-Law].
All but forgotten now, but well worth a listen as some of the lyrics are as appropriate today as they were back then. Only the names have changed.
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