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Viewers highest rated albums from the Discography:

No.	Title:	Score
1	Cry From The Cross	5.00
2	Classic Stanley	5.00
3	Live In Japan	4.92
4	The Stanley Sound Around The World	4.91
5	Poor Rambler: His Complete King and Gusto Recordings	4.91
6	Live At The Smithsonian Institution	4.91
7	A Man And His Music	4.89
8	1971 - 1973	4.85
9	Something Old, Something New	4.82
10	The Stanley Sound Today	4.78

No.	Title:	Score
1	The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1953 - 1958 & 1959	5.00
2	The Definitive Collection (1947 - 1966)	5.00
3	The Stanley Brothers And The Clinch Mountain Boys	4.93
4	The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1949-52	4.93
5	The King Years, 1961-1965	4.92
6	The Early Starday/King Years, 1958-1961	4.92
7	Mountain Song Favorites	4.92
8	On Radio	4.91
9	Folk Festival	4.82
10	Riding That New River Train	4.82

CMB Birthdays this month:

06 Dec 1936 - Jack Cooke. Born 'Vernon Crawford Cooke' in Dorchester, Wise, Virginia.

07 Dec 1955 - Sammy Adkins.

07 Dec 1931 - Bobby Osborne. Hyden, Kentucky.

16 Dec 1923 - Jay Hughes. St. Paul, Virginia.

17 Dec 1935 - Bill Napier. Born 'Billy Edward Napier' in Wise, Virginia.

20 Dec 1935 - Chubby Anthony. Born 'Donald Lee Anthony' in Lincolnton, North Carolina.

25 Dec 1919 - Curly Seckler. Born 'John Ray Sechler' in China Grove, North Carolina.

30 Dec 1933 - Melvin Goins. Born 'Melvin Glen Goins' in Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia.

30 Dec 1943 - Claude 'Buddy' Moore. Born Claude Moore in Pike, Kentucky.

31 Dec 1934 - Ralph 'Joe' Meadows. Born 'Ralph Joe Meadows' in Basin, Wyoming County, West Virginia.

In Memoriam:

01 Dec 1966 - Carter Stanley. Bristol, Virginia.

01 Dec 2009 - Ralph 'Hank' Smith. West Liberty, Kentucky.

02 Dec 2009 - Jack Cooke. Norton, Virginia.

15 Dec 1990 - Henry Dockery. South Carolina.

27 Dec 2013 - Al Elliott. Kingsport, Tennessee.

27 Dec 2017 - Curly Seckler. Nashville, Tennessee.

28 Dec 1977 - Leslie Keith. Tucson, Pima, Arizona.

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The Stanley Brothers - The Stanley Brothers

(Columbia Harmony HL-7291) Apr 1961

This was the first album to appear featuring material from The Stanley Brothers years at Columbia. Apart from A Life Of Sorrow, all the tracks had previously been released on singles.

The 'Harmony' label was a budget imprint of Columbia, that specialised in reissued material.^[1]

All 22 of the songs The Stanley Brothers recorded for Columbia can now be found on The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers CD.

For detailed information on these songs / sessions, check Gary B. Reid's The Music Of The Stanley Brothers book, pages 23-30, 32-33, and 36-38.

Track:	Title:		Time:	Date:		Original Release:
A-1	The White Dove		03:12	01 Mar 1949		Columbia 20577
	C. Stanley
	Ld Vcl - Gtr	Tn Vcl - Bjo	Hi Bt Vcl - Mnd	Fid	Bs
	Carter Stanley	Ralph Stanley	Darrell 'Pee Wee' Lambert	Robert 'Bobby' Sumner	James 'Jay' hughes
A-2	We'll Be Sweethearts In Heaven		02:37	20 Nov 1949		Columbia 20735
	C. Stanley
	Ld Vcl - Gtr	Tn Vcl - Bjo	Mnd	Fid	Bs
	Carter Stanley	Ralph Stanley	Darrell 'Pee Wee' Lambert	Les Woodie	Ernest 'Ernie' Newton
A-3	I Love No One But You		02:36	20 Nov 1949		Columbia 20697
	C. Stanley
	Ld Vcl - Gtr	Tn Vcl - Bjo	Mnd	Fid	Bs
	Carter Stanley	Ralph Stanley	Darrell 'Pee Wee' Lambert	Les Woodie	Ernest 'Ernie' Newton
A-4	The Drunkard's Hell		02:36	20 Nov 1949		Columbia 20735
	C. Stanley
	Ld Vcl - Gtr	Tn Vcl - Bjo	Hi Bt Vcl - Mnd	Fid	Bs
	Carter Stanley	Ralph Stanley	Darrell 'Pee Wee' Lambert	Les Woodie	Ernest 'Ernie' Newton
A-5	The Lonesome River		02:43	03 Nov 1950		Columbia 20816
	C. Stanley
	Ld Vcl - Gtr	Tn Vcl - Bjo	Hi Bt Vcl - Mnd	Fid	Bs
	Carter Stanley	Ralph Stanley	Darrell 'Pee Wee' Lambert	Les Woodie	Ernest 'Ernie' Newton
B-1	Pretty Polly		02:49	03 Nov 1950		Columbia 20770
	P.D.
	Gtr	Ld Vcl - Bjo	Mnd	Fid	Bs
	Carter Stanley	Ralph Stanley	Darrell 'Pee Wee' Lambert	Les Woodie	Ernest 'Ernie' Newton
B-2	A Life Of Sorrow		02:42	11 Apr 1952		The Stanley Brothers
	C. Stanley
	Ld Vcl - Gtr	Tn Vcl - Bjo	Fid	Bt Vcl - Bs
	Carter Stanley	Ralph Stanley	Art Wooten	George Shuffler
B-3	Sweetest Love		02:21	11 Apr 1952		Columbia 20953
	C. Stanley
	Ld Vcl - Gtr	Tn Vcl - Bjo	Fid	Bs
	Carter Stanley	Ralph Stanley	Art Wooten	George Shuffler
B-4	Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet		02:48	01 Mar 1949		Columbia 20577
	M.E. Baumgardner
	Ld Vcl - Gtr	Tn Vcl - Bjo	Mnd	Fid	Bs
	Carter Stanley	Ralph Stanley	Darrell 'Pee Wee' Lambert	Robert 'Bobby' Sumner	James 'Jay' hughes
B-5	A Vision Of Mother		02:58	01 Mar 1949		Columbia 20647
	C. Stanley
	Ld Vcl - Gtr	Tn Vcl - Bjo	Hi Bt Vcl - Mnd	Fid	Bs
	Carter Stanley	Ralph Stanley	Darrell 'Pee Wee' Lambert	Robert 'Bobby' Sumner	James 'Jay' hughes