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Title: Love Song In 32 Bars: The Johnny Bond Collection 1941-60
Artist: Johnny Bond
Label: Acrobat
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046345624
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2023-01-20
Number of Discs: 2

Johnny Bond was a country singer, guitarist and songwriter, born in Oklahoma, who also appeared in more than 40 western movies during the later heyday of the genre in the 1940s and into the '50s, and during the '50s hosted a country music TV show with Tex Ritter. Based in Hollywood rather than Nashville, and with a style that encompassed elements of western swing and talking blues, as well as old-school "cowboy country", as he recorded in earlier years with his Red River Valley Boys, who initially included Jimmy Wakely and Spade Cooley, he adapted his approach towards rockabilly in the late '50s, and had a notable pop hit with "Hot Rod Lincoln" in 1960. This 56-track 2-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides from his releases during this era on the Okeh, Conqueror, Columbia, 20th Century Fox and Republic labels, plus some Standard Transcription recordings. It features all his pop and country chart entries from these years, including the Top 10 country hits "Divorce Me C.O.D.", "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed", "The Daughter Of Jole Blon", "Oklahoma Waltz", "Love Song In 32 Bars" and "Sick, Sober And Sorry", plus his Top 30 pop hit "Hot Rod Lincoln". He was a versatile and extrovert artist and this collection is an entertaining showcase for his particular brand of country.

Tracks:
1.1 I'm Gonna Be Long Gone
1.2 Baby, You're Through Foolin' Me
1.3 The Road Is Way Too Long
1.4 How Low Do The Blues Want To Go
1.5 You Don't Care
1.6 Der Fuehrer's Face
1.7 Love Gone Cold
1.8 One More Tear
1.9 Stars Of The Midnight Range
1.10 Heading Down The Wrong Highway
1.11 Baby You Gotta' Quit That Noise
1.12 Rainbow At Midnight
1.13 Divorce Me C.O.D.
1.14 So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed
1.15 Don't Look Now (Your Broken Heart Is Showing)
1.16 Daughter Of Jole Blon
1.17 Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)
1.18 I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size
1.19 Oklahoma Waltz
1.20 Bartender's Blues
1.21 Cimarron
1.22 Tennessee Saturday Night
1.23 Till The End Of The World
1.24 Petal From A Faded Rose
1.25 Tennessee, Kentucky And Alabam'
1.26 Love Song In 32 Bars
1.27 Cherokee Waltz
2.1 Mean Mama Boogie
2.2 Barrel House Bessie
2.3 Cream Of Kentucky
2.4 Set 'Em Up Joe
2.5 Sick Sober And Sorry
2.6 Keep Your Cotton Pickin' Hands Off My Gal
2.7 In Old New Mexico
2.8 I Found You Out
2.9 Man Behind The Throttle
2.10 I Went To Your Wedding
2.11 Number Nine Blues
2.12 Let Me Go, Devil
2.13 Anybody's Baby
2.14 Peace Be Still
2.15 Sweet Mama Tree Top Tall
2.16 Ten Little Bottles
2.17 Stealin'
2.18 Louisiana Swing
2.19 Livin' It Up
2.20 Six Of One Half A Dozen Of The Other
2.21 The Little Rock And Roll
2.22 Laughing Back The Heartaches
2.23 Lay It On The Line
2.24 All I Can Do Is Cry
2.25 That's Just What I'll Do
2.26 Long Tall Shadow
2.27 Hot Rod Lincoln
2.28 Five Minute Love Affair
2.29 The Way A Star Is Born