1. When Payday Rolls Around
2. Love Song of the Waterfall
3. Chant of the Wanderer
4. Sagebrush Symphony - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Glenn
5. West Is in My Soul
6. A Cowboy Has to Sing
7. Ridin' Home
8. Springtime on the Range - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Tim
9. Cool Water
10. Cajon Stomp - The Sons of the Pioneers, Farr, Hugh & Karl
11. A Touch of God's Hand
12. The Timber Trail - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Tim
13. There's a Rainbow Over the Range - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Tim
14. The Boss Is Hangin' Out a Rainbow
15. Yippi Yi Your Troubles Away - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Glenn
16. Trail Herdin' Cowboy
17. Trail Dreamin'
18. New Frontier - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Tim
19. He's Gone, He's Gone up the Trail - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Tim
20. Lord, You Made the Cowboy Happy
21. The Texas Crapshooter - The Sons of the Pioneers, Farr, Hugh
22. So Long to the Red River Valley - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Glenn
23. Blue Prairie
24. Hold That Critter Down
25. The Howlin' Pup - The Sons of the Pioneers, Farr, Karl
26. When the Prairie Sun Climbs Out of the Way - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Glenn
27. One More Ride
28. Blow, Wind, Blow - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Glenn
29. Open Range Ahead
30. Song of the Bandit
31. Following the Sun All Day
32. Whisperin' Wind - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Tim
33. By a Campfire on the Trail - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Tim
34. Happy Cowboy
35. Over the Santa Fe Trail - The Sons of the Pioneers, Spencer, Tim
36. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo - The Sons of the Pioneers, Traditional
37. Tumbleweed Trail
38. Wending My Way to Wyoming
39. Kelly Waltz - The Sons of the Pioneers, Farr, Hugh
40. Down Along the Sleepy Rio Grande - The Sons of the Pioneers, Rogers, Roy [1]
41. When the Moon Comes over Sun Valley - The Sons of the Pioneers, Rogers, Roy [1]
42. I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen - The Sons of the Pioneers, Traditional
The Essential Collection ( The Sons of The Pioneers)
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2003-03-04)
- Publisher: Varese Sarabande
- Label: Varese Sarabande
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Studio: Varese Sarabande
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 6 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #4489
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: GREAT RECORDING -- BRINGS BACK FOND MEMORIES 2008-08-16
Comment: I was lucky enough to live during the era of the COWBOY and COWBOY music. This collection of the Sons of the Pioneers bring back many happy memories. It has a lot of the songs I remember. If you like the Sons of the Pioneers you will love this recording of their most popular songs.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: A must have for little cowboys & cowgirls 2008-04-04
Comment: I don't have much to add to the other reviews. This is great music for children and adults. The fast songs help me with house cleaning.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Outstanding collection of classic Western music 2004-12-28
Comment: Though this doesn't cover the entire Sons' career, it captures them in the full-flower of their post-Roy Rogers line-up, after founding member had returned to the group. At the time the Sons' were a 5-piece with the vocal trio of Spencer, Bob Nolan and Lloyd Perryman backed by Pat Brady on bass, Hugh Farr on fiddle and Karl Farr on guitar. All three of the instrumentalists also added vocals.
The group was well-served by the compositions of Nolan, including numerous Western standards like "Cool Water." In addition to their trademark harmonies and yodeling, the band also cut the occasional instrumental, such as the hard-swinging "Cajon Stomp" and the hot fiddle tune "The Texas Crapshooter." Forty-two finely-remastered tunes on two discs may be an oversized helping for a few, but for fans of Western song, this is an outstanding value. Those wishing a broader overview (with less detail on this particular Sons' line-up) might look at Hip-O's single-disc "Ultimate Collection," which includes earlier highpoints like "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and "Bluebonnet Girl."
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: One of the Best 2004-10-22
Comment: I have a lot of cassettes by the Pioneeers, some dating back to when Leonard Slye wasn't Roy Rogers yet; they are all special to me. I've read the other reviewers' comments and I agree wholeheartedly with the positive comments about this CD. I'm especially happy about one song in particular, "He's Gone, He's Gone Up the Trail", originally done by Pat Brady and Gabby Hayes (yes,Gabby Hayes) in a Roy Rogers movie. This is a real collector's item.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Amazing stuff 2004-10-08
Comment: This music has made a really deep impression on me; it's pure, simple, honest and...historic---it preserves a sound, a vocal and instrumental style and a world view which I'm afraid is just about dead in 2004. A real pity. In fact, it's tragic.
So get this set and experience it! It's vintage PIONEERS, at the height of their fabulous art. The bare essentials---vocal trio, bass, 2 guitars and the astounding fiddling of Hugh Farr (who famous conductor Leopold Stokowski called one of the 2 greatest living violinists during the 1940's!)
Bob Nolan's "Song of the Bandit" is like a mythical American folkloric ballad--that third verse, when the bandit comes to the girl in her dream, complete with angels and a winged horse gliding down the moonbeams---whoa!! And yet, the tune is upbeat and energetic--not at all what you would expect from the lyrics.
"So Long to the Red River Valley" is another beauty---the haunting yodeling in the final verse, with Hugh's fiddle gently wailing away---it's true ART!
"Trail Herdin' Cowboy" is another rare gem---with more amazing fiddlin' from Mr. Farr, paricularly at the very end, when the voices go into what sounds like an extended "Amen" cadence.
"Whispherin' Wind" resembles a 19th-Century "parlor" Waltz tune--rather simplistic--yet the Pioneers arrangement and performance transform it into something remarkably elegant and touching.
This performance of Bob Nolan's masterpiece "Cool Water" is MUCH better than the later ones I've heard; the RCA version included on the "Cigareets & Whusky" cd is rushed and almost sounds like they were bored with it; this version, even though it ends a bit abruptly, really captures that mythical quality which we associate with the Old West, as man interacts with nature.
AND FINALLY----"Ridin' Home"---for me, the ultimate in the Pioneer's art---profoundly beautiful, the absolute essence of the romantic spirit of the Old West (unfortunately THIS TRACK is marred by some pretty harsh crackling from the old acetate master recording---but GOD, it's still so lovely!)
Wonderful music, beatifully preserved and re-mastered.
Incidentally, I am a "classical" (symphonic) conductor by profession, but this 2-cd set has given me some of the most satisfying musical enjoyment of the past 10 years.
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The Essential Collection ( The Sons of The Pioneers)
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