Guy Mitchell - The Very Best (2011)

To some listeners, the name Guy Mitchell evokes contempt as the singer whose pop-styled covers of "Singin' the Blues" and "Knee Deep in the Blues" cut the legs out from under Marty Robbins' country-styled original renditions. To others, Mitchell evokes the last period of America's innocence, the mid-'50s, when he periodically ascended the pop charts in the company of singers like Frankie Laine. Mitchell was all of those things and more, in some ways a trail-blazer he was the first major recording artist whose career was crafted in the studio, by a record company, and sold to the public by way of records and the radio, not concerts. He was the precursor to the late-'50s teen idols crafted by the industry as an alternative to the burgeoning success of rock & roll. In contrast to some of the younger male singing idols of that era, however, Mitchell had a genuinely good voice as his starting point in music.

Tracklist:

CD 1

1. Heartaches By The Number (2:42)
2. Singing The Blues (2:27)
3. My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You (2:53)
4. Knee Deep In The Blues (2:12)
5. Chick-A-Boom (2:43)
6. Feet Up (Pat Him On The Po-Po) (2:41)
7. Belle Belle My Liberty Belle (2:25)
8. Pretty Little Black Eyed Susie (2:34)
9. You're Just In Love ( With Rosemary Clooney ) (2:51)
10. She Wears Red Feathers (3:08)
11. My Truly Truly Fair (2:50)
12. There's Always A Room At Our House (2:44)
13. Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (2:58)
14. Sippin' Soda (2:29)
15. Crazy With Love (2:22)
16. A Dime And A Dollar (2:25)
17. Under A Rainbow ( And Over The Blues ) (2:18)
18. Sweetheart Of Yesterday (2:57)
19. Tell Us Where The Good Times Are ( With Mindy Carson ) (2:33)
20. Sweet Stuff (2:18)
21. The Lord Made A Peanut (2:38)
22. I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You (3:13)
23. Cloud Lucky Seven (2:29)
24. ( ' Cause I Love You ) That's A-Why ( With Mindy Carson ) (2:48)
25. My Heart Crys For You (2:47)

CD 2

1. Rock-A-Billy (2:15)
2. The Roving Kind (2:48)
3. Sparrow In The Treetop (3:15)
4. Unless (2:45)
5. Christoper Columbus (3:12)
6. Ninety Nine Years ( Dead Or Alive ) (2:50)
7. Too Late (2:41)
8. The Cuff Of My Shirt (2:41)
9. Day Of Jubilo (2:24)
10. Bob's Yer Uncle (2:37)
11. Butterfly Doll (2:19)
12. Look At That Girl (2:50)
13. ( I'm Walking Down ) A One Way Street (1:55)
14. Zoo Baby (2:47)
15. We Won't Live In A Castle (3:23)
16. Till We're Engaged (2:33)
17. Nobody Home (2:35)
18. Man Overboard (2:37)
19. Let Us Be Sweethearts Over Again (2:28)
20. In The Middle Of A Dark Dark Night (2:28)
21. If Ya Don't Like It Don't Knock It (2:30)
22. Hangin' Around (1:56)
23. Cure For The Blues (2:57)
24. Call Rosie On The Phone (2:29)
25. I Used To Yate (2:22)