Your Shopping Cart: 0 item - $ 0.00.
home | log in | sign up | shopping cart
 
 
 


- Click to listen.
1 Mountain of Love  
2 Livin' in a House Full of Love  
3 Almost Persuaded  
4 A Loser's Cathedral  
5 With One Exception  
6 My Elusive Dreams  
7 You Mean the World to Me  
8 Have a Little Faith  
9 Already It's Heaven  
10 Where Love Used to Live  
11 My Woman's Good to Me  
12 I'm Down to My Last "I Love You"  
13 Baby Baby (I Know You're a Lady)  
14 I Do My Swinging at Home  
15 Wonders of the Wine  
16 After Closing Time  
17 A Woman Always Knows  
18 Nashville  
19 Maiden's Prayer  
20 Soft, Sweet and Warm  
21 Good Things  
22 She's All Woman  
23 I Love You, I Love You  
24 Can't You Feel It  

Title: The Best Of David Houston [Collectors' Choice]
Artist: David Houston

Collectors' Choice Music's 1999 collection The Best of David Houston is easily the most comprehensive collection of Houston's work yet assembled. Spanning 24 tracks over the course of one disc, this contains all of his country Top Ten hits for Epic, from "Mountain of Love" in 1963 to "Can't You Feel It" in 1974. No other collection comes close to the scope of this set, which is a little bit of a mixed blessing because, frankly, Houston's soaring falsetto can be a bit much to take over the course of 24 tracks, particularly when so many of the songs have the same slow tempo and the same gentle production. There are brilliant moments, of course, when Billy Sherrill's sweeping production and Houston's voice perfectly mesh, and those are the big hits, "Mountain of Love," "Almost Persuaded," "My Elusive Dreams," and "Livin' in a House Full of Love" among them. No matter how alluring they are in small doses, they can seem a little samey -- and Houston's voice can seem a little mannered -- when taken in one long sitting like this. Then again, the length of this collection does give room to songs that switch up the tempo a little or give Houston a chance to stretch his voice, as he does on "After Closing Time" when he builds on Jerry Lee Lewis' trademark delivery to great effect. So, even if this collection offers nearly too much to digest at once, it does offer more variety than other Houston collections -- which, after all, tend to recycle the same handful of songs -- and it's also easily the best and most thorough single-disc collection to ever be assembled on David Houston and will likely remain the standard by which all other Houston comps are judged. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

ON SALE! $ 15.98 $ 11.18 buy

Catalog #: WWCCM00942
UPC: 617742009422

 

Hag: Concepts, Live & The Strangers -- The Capitol Recordings 1968-1976
- Merle Haggard
ON SALE!
$ 199.98 $ 139.98 buy

Act Naturally: The Buck Owens Recordings 1953-1964
- Buck Owens
ON SALE!
$ 159.98 $ 127.98 buy

King Of The Hillbillies, Vol. 1: The First 100 Commercial
- Roy Acuff
ON SALE!
$ 29.98 $ 24.98 buy
 
HELP DESK | ABOUT | CONTACT | PRIVACY | SECURITY | LINKS

Become an Affiliate

© 2010 Collectors' Choice Music. All Rights Reserved.