(Mercury SMX-7108) 1970
This is a Japanese compilation from circa 1970 which came in a gatefold sleeve and featured a lyric sheet as part of the gatefold design. Most of the tracks are taken from the Hard Times and Country Pickin' And Singin' albums, which also provides the source material for the sleeve artwork.
This seems to be one of the rarer Japanese LP compilations...
As with some of the other Mercury compilations, Little Maggie gets to appear owing to it being included on the Mercury subsidiary 'Country Oldies But Goodies' (Smash LP 27016) LP, which was licensed during the brief tie-up between the Mercury and Starday labels.
Nowadays of course, all the tracks are probably best found on the Complete Mercury Recordings 2xCD set.
If anyone is able to shed light on the different Red / Blue label print please get in touch via the Contact page!
For a far more detailed breakdown and background to these sessions, check Gary B. Reid's The Music Of The Stanley Brothers book. For page references, see the Original Release entries.
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Guitar: |
Banjo: |
Fiddle: |
Mandolin: |
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Lead Guitar: |
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A-1 |
Orange Blossom Special |
02:29 |
05 Apr 1955 |
Mercury 70663 | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Ralph 'Joe' Meadows |
Jim Williams |
Bill Lowe |
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Ervin T. Rouse |
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A-2 |
Blue Moon Of Kentucky |
02:15 |
29 Aug 1954 |
Mercury 70453 | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Ralph 'Joe' Meadows |
Bill Lowe |
Lightning Chance |
Charlie Cline |
Bill Monroe |
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A-3 |
I Long To See The Old Folks |
03:06 |
25 Nov 1953 |
Mercury 70340 | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Ralph Mayo |
Jim Williams |
John Shuffler |
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C. Stanley |
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A-4 |
Little Maggie |
02:44 |
?? May 1960 |
Starday 522 | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Ralph Mayo |
James Austin 'Audie' Webster |
Curley Lambert |
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R. Stanley / C. Stanley |
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A-5 |
Who Will Call You Sweetheart |
02:56 |
16 Jul 1956 |
Country Pickin' & Singin' | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Chubby Anthony / Ralph Mayo |
Curley Lambert |
Doug Morris |
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C. Stanley / Bill Monroe |
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A-6 |
Nobody's Love Is Like Mine |
02:29 |
30 May 1954 |
Mercury 70789 | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Ralph 'Joe' Meadows |
Jim Williams |
Lightning Chance |
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C. Stanley |
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A-7 |
Dickenson County Breakdown |
02:16 |
25 Nov 1953 |
Mercury 70437 | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Ralph Mayo |
Jim Williams |
John Shuffler |
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R. Stanley |
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B-1 |
Daybreak In Dixie |
02:00 |
15 Nov 1957 |
Hard Times | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Benny Martin / Howard Forrester |
Bill Napier |
Curley Lambert |
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Bill Napier |
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B-2 |
Angel Band |
02:18 |
19 Dec 1955 |
Country Pickin' & Singin' | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Art Stamper |
Curley Lambert |
Bill Lowe |
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Jefferson Hascall / William B. Bradbury |
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B-3 |
Memories Of Mother |
02:23 |
30 May 1954 |
Mercury 70400 | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Ralph 'Joe' Meadows |
Jim Williams |
Lightning Chance |
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C. Stanley |
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B-4 |
Harbor Of Love |
02:20 |
29 Aug 1954 |
Mercury 70483 | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Ralph 'Joe' Meadows |
Bill Lowe |
Lightning Chance |
Charlie Cline |
C. Stanley |
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B-5 |
The Cry From The Cross |
02:53 |
16 Jul 1956 |
Mercury 71135 | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Chubby Anthony / Ralph Mayo |
Curley Lambert |
Doug Morris |
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Johnnie Masters |
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B-6 |
The Flood |
03:10 |
1 Feb 1957 |
Mercury 71064 | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Chubby Anthony |
George Shuffler |
Red Malone |
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C. Stanley / R. Stanley |
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B-7 |
Clinch Mountain Blues |
02:04 |
19 Dec 1955 |
Country Pickin And Singin' | Carter Stanley |
Ralph Stanley |
Art Stamper |
Curley Lambert |
Bill Lowe |
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Leslie Keith |