Ferlin Husky - The Hit Singles and More 1952-1962 - Featuring Terry Preston and Simon Crum

JASMINE RECORDS

£10.49

Cat. no: JASMCD3763
Format: CD
Barcode: 604988376326
Release Date: 29th January 2021
Genre: Country

This 31-track set presents a unique career overview of the versatile, velvet-voiced Ferlin Husky and includes all his early hits, as both Terry Preston and Simon Crum.

A handful or so of these sides are impossible to find elsewhere on CD, making this a must-have for fans. Ferlin Husky pursued three separate singing careers. He is of course readily known as the smooth Country-Pop singer who topped the C&W charts with ‘A Dear John Letter’, ‘Gone’ and ‘Wings Of A Dove’, in a hit-studded career which yielded him fifty chart records between 1953-75.

But before that he was known as Honky-Tonk singer Terry Preston, while during his “Glory Years” he would also frequently morph into Hillbilly hayseed Simon Crum, his hugely-popular alter-ego who would register hits of “his own”, like ‘Cuzz Yore So Sweet’, ‘A Hillbilly’s Deck Of Cards’ and ‘Country Music Is Here To Stay’.

Tracks: Time (As Terry Preston) / Hank’s Song / A Dear John Letter (With Jean Shepard) / Forgive Me John (With Jean Shepard) / I Wouldn’t Treat A Dog Like You’re Treatin’ Me / The Drunken Driver / I Feel Better All Over / Little Tom / Cuzz Yore So Sweet (As Simon Crum) / I’ll Baby Sit With You / A Hillbilly’s Deck Of Cards (As Simon Crum) / Sinful Secret / Bop Cat Bop (As Simon Crum) / Gone / A Fallen Star / Prize Possession / This Moment Of Love / What’cha Doin’ After School / Wang Dang Doo / I Will / Country Music Is Here To Stay (As Simon Crum) / My Reason For Livin’ / Draggin’ The River / Black Sheep / Wings Of A Dove / Enormity In Motion (As Simon Crum) / Willow Tree / The Waltz You Saved For Me / Somebody Save Me / Stand Up / It Was You