Sold Date: March 8, 2014
Start Date: February 7, 2014
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1981 The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Country Music LP Set First Issue All LPs are MINT Never Played in Sleeves., includes book with facts about each song and artist and a time line look at Country Music from the 1920s to 1980s.  Box has wear to the surface and edges.  Eight LPs & a total of 143 songs.
Songs Include:  1920s Album 1, Side 1: 1.   "Sallie Gooden" — A.C. "Eck" Robertson  2.  "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" – Fiddlin' John Carson  3.  "Going Down the Lee Highway" – Grayson and Whitter  4.  "Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel" – Uncle Dave Macon and his Fruit Jar Drinkers  5.  "The Prisoner’s Song" – Vernon Dalhart  6.  "Goodbye Sweet Liza Jane" – Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers  7.  "Wreck of the Old 97" – Vernon Dalhart  8.  "Soldier’s Joy" – Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers  9.  "Where We'll Never Grow Old" – Smith's Sacred Singers 
1920s Album 1, Side 2: 1.  "Shannon Waltz" – East Texas Serenaders  2.  "Birmingham Jail" – Darby and Tarlton  3.  "Lady Gay" – Buell Kazee  4.  "The Fatal Wedding" – Bradley Kincaid  5.  "When the Work's All Done This Fall" – Carl T. Sprague  6.  "The Titanic" – Ernest Stoneman  7.  "Wildwood Flower" – Carter Family  8.  "Daddy and Home" – Jimmie Rodgers  9.  "Waiting For a Train" – Jimmie Rodgers The 1930s Southeast 
1930s Southeast Album 2, Side 3: 1.  "Mocking Bird" – Arthur Smith  2.  "Ragged But Right – Riley Puckett  3.  "Black Jack David" – Cliff Carlisle and His Buckle Busters  4.  "Pretty Polly" – Coon Creek Girls  5.  "Twenty One Years" – Mac and Bob  6.  "She's My Curly Headed Baby" – Callahan Brothers  7.  "The East Bound Train" – Blue Sky Boys  8.  "Brown's Ferry Blues" – Delmore Brothers  9.  "What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul" – Monroe Brothers 
1930s Southeast Album 2, Side 4: 1.  "Orange Blossom Special" – Rouse Brothers  2.  "Old Shep" – Red Foley  3.  "I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail" – Karl and Harty  4.  "Remember Me (When the Candle Lights Are Gleaming)" – Lulu Belle and Scotty  5.  "Maple on the Hill" – J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers  6.  "The Last Letter" – Rex Griffin  7.  "Great Speckled Bird" – Roy Acuff and His Crazy Tennesseans  8.  "The Precious Jewel" - Roy Acuff and His Smokey Mountain Boys  9.  "Can the Circle Be Unbroken" – Carter Family 
1930s Southwest Album 3, Side 5: 1.  "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine – Gene Autry and Jimmy Long  2.  "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" – Sons of the Pioneers  3.  "Cool Water" – Sons of the Pioneers  4.  "I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart" – Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers  5.  "My Swiss Moonlight Lullaby" – Montana Slim  6.  "Texas Plains" – Stuart Hamblen and His Covered Wagon Jubilee  7.  "My Mary" – W. Lee O’Daniel and his Light Crust Doughboys with Leon Huff  8.  "Deep Elem Blues" – Shelton Brothers  9.  "Nobody's Darlin' But Mine" – Jimmie Davis 
1930s Southwest Album 3, Side 6: 1.  "Under the Double Eagle" – Bill 'Cowboy Rambler' Boyd and his Cowboy Ramblers  2.  "St. Louis Blues" – Milton Brown and his Brownies  3.  "Steel Guitar Rag" – Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys  4.  "Le Valse De Gueydan" – Leo Soileau and His Three Aces  5.  "Do Re Mi" – Woody Guthrie  6.  "Jesus Hold My Hand" – The Chuck Wagon Gang  7.  "It Makes No Difference Now" – Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers  8.  "New San Antonio Rose" – Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys  9.  "You are My Sunshine" – Gene Autry 1941-1953 
1941-1953 (Part 1) Album 4, Side 7: 1.  "Walking the Floor Over You" – Ernest Tubb  2.  "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" – Wiley and Gene  3.  "Born to Lose" – Ted Daffan’s Texans  4.  "There’s a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere – Elton Britt  5.  "Pistol Packin’ Mama" – Al Dexter and His Troopers  6.  "Have I Stayed Away Too Long?" – Tex Ritter and His Texans  7.  "Teardrops Falling in the Snow" – Molly O'Day and the Cumberland Mountain Folks  8.  "Oklahoma Hills" – Jack Guthrie and His Oklahomans  9.  "Dust on the Bible" – Bailes Brothers 
1941-1953 (Part 1) Album 4, Side 8: "Wabash Cannonball" – Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys  "I am a Pilgrim" – Merle Travis  "Rye Whiskey" – Tex Ritter  "The Cattle Call" – Eddy Arnold  "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" – Tex Williams and His Western Caravan  "What About You?" – Johnny and Jack and Their Tennessee Mountain Boys  "Take an Ol' Cold Tater (and Wait)" – Little Jimmy Dickens  "Philadelphia Lawyer" – Maddox Brothers and Rose  "Peace in the Valley" – Red Foley 
1941-1953 (Part 2) Album 5, Side 9: 1.  "Eight More Miles to Louisville" – Grandpa Jones  2.  "Filipino Baby" – Cowboy Copas  3.  "Kentucky" – Blue Sky Boys  4.  "New Pretty Blonde (Jole Blonde)" – Moon Mullican and His Showboys  5.  "Bandera Waltz" – Slim Whitman  6.  "I'm Moving On" – Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys  7.  "I Love You Because" – Leon Payne  8.  "Tennessee Waltz" – Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys (featuring Redd Stewart)  9.  "The Tramp on the Street" – Molly O'Day with the Cumberland Mountain Folks 
1941-1953 (Part 2) Album 5, Side 10: 1.  "Satisfied" – Martha Carson  2.  "Slipping Around" – Floyd Tillman  3.  "I Love You a Thousand Ways" – Lefty Frizzell  4.  "Darlin' Am I the One?" – Carl Smith  5.  "The Wild Side of Life" – Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys  6.  "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" – Kitty Wells  7.  "Thirty Pieces of Silver" – Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper  8.  "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" – Hank Williams and His Drifting Cowboys  9.  "Lovesick Blues" – Hank Williams and His Drifting Cowboys 
1953-1963 Album 6, Side 11: 1.  "There Stands the Glass" – Webb Pierce  2.  "I Walk the Line" – Johnny Cash  3.  "Sixteen Tons" – Tennessee Ernie Ford  4.  "Down in the Willow Garden" – Everly Brothers  5.  "Country Gentleman" – Chet Atkins  6.  "He’ll Have to Go" – Jim Reeves  7.   "Crazy Arms" – Ray Price  8.  "Fraulein" – Bobby Helms  9.  "City Lights" – Ray Price 
1953-1963 Album 6, Side 12: 1.  "When I Stop Dreaming" – Louvin Brothers  2.  "The Battle of New Orleans" – Johnny Horton  3.  "Long Black Veil" – Lefty Frizzell  4.  "El Paso" – Marty Robbins  5.  "Knoxville Girl" – Louvin Brothers  6.  "Louisiana Man" – Rusty and Doug  7.  "Faded Love" – Patsy Cline  8.  "Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)" – Buck Owens  9.  "We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds" – George Jones and Melba Montgomery 
Bluegrass Album 7, Side 13: 1.  "Muleskinner Blues" – Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys  2.  "It’s Mighty Dark to Travel" – Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys  3.  "Earl's Breakdown" – Flatt and Scruggs  4.  "The Lonesome River" – The Stanley Brothers  5.  "Dreaming of a Little Cabin" – Mac Wiseman  6.  "Are You Missing Me" – Jim & Jesse and The Virginia Boys  7.  "Rocky Top" – Osborne Brothers  8.  "Mary Dear" – Bill Clifton and His Dixie Mountain Boys  9.  "I'm Using My Bible for a Roadmap" - Reno and Smiley 
Bluegrass Album 7, Side 14: 1.  "John Henry" – Lilly Brothers  2.  "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" – Hylo Brown  3.  "Sunny Side of the Mountain" – Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys  4.  "Jerusalem Ridge" – Kenny Baker  5.  "Black Mountain Rag" – Doc Watson  6.  "The Legend of the Rebel Soldier" – Charlie Moore and The Dixie Partners  7.  "Four Strong Winds" – Cliff Waldron and the New Shades of Grass  8.  "Two Little Boys" – The Country Gentlemen  9.  "Bottom of the Glass" – The Seldom Scene 
1963-1975 Album 8, Side 15: 1.  "Six Days on the Road" – Dave Dudley  2.  "Detroit City" – Bobby Bare  3.  "Green, Green Grass of Home" – Porter Wagoner  4.  "King of the Road" – Roger Miller  5.  "Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone?" – Charley Pride  6.  "Homecoming" – Tom T. Hall  7.  "Coat of Many Colors" – Dolly Parton  8.  "Hungry Eyes" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers  9.  "Mama Tried" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers 
1963-1975 Album 8, Side 16: 1.  "Waltz Across Texas" – Ernest Tubb  2.  "Coal Miner's Daughter" – Loretta Lynn  3.  "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" – Tammy Wynette  4.  "The Grand Tour" – George Jones  5.  "It Was Always So Easy (To Find an Unhappy Woman)" – Moe Bandy  6.  "Sin City" – Flying Burrito Brothers  7.  "Funny How Time Slips Away" – Willie Nelson  8.  "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" – Willie Nelson 
Over the next several months we will be listing an estate of over 2,000 LPs & 45RPM records.  These are one owner records from a former employee of Columbia House Records in Terre Haute, IN.  Many are still sealed straight from the factory, all are in clean and near perfect condition, lots of SUPER rare finds keep watching for more listings.  From a clean and smoke free estate home. 
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