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That price might seem steep if you ever had the good fortune to attend a Louisiana Hayride show at the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana; after all, it only cost 60 cents for adults (30 for kids) to be at THE place for country music on a Saturday night. But this is a most luxurious set: 20 CDs in an LP-sized box plus a beautiful 224-page hardcover book. Among the 561 tracks packed in here: studio-recorded commercial discs including classic hits, live tracks including previously unknown recordings of Hank Williams and "as live" studio-recorded transcriptions of Kitty Wells, Johnnie and Jack, Hank Williams and Curley Williams. This will be the gift of a lifetime to a country-music fan you love (yourself, perhaps?); along with a whole lotta swaggering songs by Elvis Presley ("That’s All Right," "Blue Moon of Kentucky," "Baby Let’s Play House," "Don’t Be Cruel," "Hearts of Stone," "Little Mama," "Shake Rattle and Roll" and many more), you’ll hear "Hey Porter," "So Doggone Lonesome," "Big River," "Luther Played the Boogie" Johnny Cash, "The Singing Waterfall" Kitty Wells, "Little Cabin Home on the Hill" Johnnie and Jack, "Dear Brother" Kitty Wells, Johnnie Wright & Hank Williams, "No Not Now" Curley Williams & Hank Williams, "I Don’t Care," "I’ve Loved You Forever It Seems" Webb Pierce, "Tis Sweet to Be Remembered" Mac Wiseman, "She Knows Why" Claude King, "Indiana Love Call" Slim Whitman, "Mexican Joe" Jim Reeves, "Looking Back to See" Browns, "Mind You Own Business," "Jambalaya," "I’m a Long Gone Daddy" Hank Williams, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" Red Sovine, "Irma" T Texas Tyler, "Sweet Dreams," "The Good Lord Must Have Sent You" Faron Young, "I’m Throwing Rice," "Cattle Call" Eddy Arnold, "The Land Just over the Stars" Maddox Brothers & Rose, "Honky Tonk Man" Johnny Horton, "You Gotta Be My Baby" George Jones, "You Are the One" Carl Smith, "You Are My Sunshine" Jimmie Davis, "Gone" Felin Husky…more than 1500 minutes of country-music treasures! Bear Family.