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Open Up Your Heart: The Buck Owens & the Buckaroos Recordings 1965-1968

Open Up Your Heart: The Buck Owens & the Buckaroos Recordings 1965-1968

UPC: 4000127168559

Format: CD (7 disc)

Release Date: Mar 11, 2011

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Personnel: Buck Owens (vocals, guitar, electric guitar); Donald "Don Rich" Eugen Ulrich (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, National guitar, gut-string guitar, fiddle); Buddy Alan Owens, Susan Raye (vocals); Albert "Al Bruno" Bruneau (guitar, National guitar); Jelly Sanders (guitar, fiddle); Doyle Floyd Hendricks, Billy Sampson, Ivy J. "Jimmy" Bryant, Bert Dodson, Jacky Wayne Wilson, Jimmy Eugene Seals, Red Simpson (guitar); James Burton (electric guitar); Tom Brumley (steel guitar); Assa Drori, James Getzoff, William Kurasch, Fiddlin' Kate Warren, Albert Steinberg, Murray Adler, Lou Klass, Henry Roth, Hixon Boranian, Chuck Andell, Sidney Sharp, Israel Baker, Arnold Belnick, Billy Armstrong, Billy Wright (violin); Walter Rower, Jeffrey Solow (cello); Earl Poole Ball (piano, celesta, harpsichord); Glen D. Hardin (piano); Jerry Wiggins (drums, tambourine, bells); Willie Cantu (drums, tambourine); Donald Frost (percussion).
Audio Mixer: Bill Inglot.
Recording information: Bakersfield, CA (01/03/1967-01/04/1967); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (01/03/1967-01/04/1967); Bakersfield, CA (01/03/1968-01/05/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (01/03/1968-01/05/1968); Bakersfield, CA (01/05/1967); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (01/05/1967); Bakersfield, CA (01/08/1968-01/10/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (01/08/1968-01/10/1968); Bakersfield, CA (02/14/1966-02/15/1966); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (02/14/1966-02/15/1966); Bakersfield, CA (02/27/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (02/27/1968); Bakersfield, CA (03/25/1965-03/26/1965); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (03/25/1965-03/26/1965); Bakersfield, CA (04/06/1966); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (04/06/1966); Bakersfield, CA (04/24/1967); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (04/24/1967); Bakersfield, CA (05/04/1965-05/05/1965); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (05/04/1965-05/05/1965); Bakersfield, CA (05/27/1968-05/28/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (05/27/1968-05/28/1968); Bakersfield, CA (06/01/1965); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (06/01/1965); Bakersfield, CA (06/06/1967-06/08/1967); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (06/06/1967-06/08/1967); Bakersfield, CA (06/10/1964); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (06/10/1964); Bakersfield, CA (06/17/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (06/17/1968); Bakersfield, CA (06/18/1968-06/20/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (06/18/1968-06/20/1968); Bakersfield, CA (06/1967); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (06/1967); Bakersfield, CA (07/21/1965-07/22/1965); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (07/21/1965-07/22/1965); Bakersfield, CA (08/06/1968-08/07/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (08/06/1968-08/07/1968); Bakersfield, CA (08/23/1965-08/25/1965); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (08/23/1965-08/25/1965); Bakersfield, CA (08/28/1967-08/29/1967); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (08/28/1967-08/29/1967); Bakersfield, CA (09/03/1968-09/04/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (09/03/1968-09/04/1968); Bakersfield, CA (10/08/1968-10/10/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (10/08/1968-10/10/1968); Bakersfield, CA (11/07/1966-11/09/1966); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (11/07/1966-11/09/1966); Bakersfield, CA (11/08/1965-11/10/1965); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (11/08/1965-11/10/1965); Bakersfield, CA (12/04/1968-12/06/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (12/04/1968-12/06/1968); Bakersfield, CA (12/05/1967-12/07/1967); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA (12/05/1967-12/07/1967).
Illustrators: Gary Wallington; R.A. Andreas; Rolene Brumley; Buck Owens.
Photographers: Gary Wallington; R.A. Andreas; Rolene Brumley; Buck Owens.
Look closely at the cover credit on Bear Family's second Buck Owens box, Open Up Your Heart: the subtitle makes clear this is "The Buck Owens & the Buckaroos Recordings 1965-1968," which means this seven-disc set is not limited to recordings where Buck sings lead. Everything the Buckaroos made without Buck is here along with all of his studio sessions from those four years, and that's a ton of music: a total of 12 albums released under Buck's name, along with several cuts that would appear on 1969's Tall Dark Stranger, plus the six LPs the Buckaroos cut during that time and a handful of alternate takes capped off by session tapes that eat up the bulk of the set's seventh disc. That's 249 tracks cut over a scant four years, the massive output proof of the huge popularity of Buck Owens & the Buckaroos in the late `60s. During this period most of Buck's LPs reached the top of the country charts -- if not, they came close, never dipping below number five -- and so did most of his singles, with "Before You Go," "Buckaroo," "Only You (Can Break My Heart)," "Open Up Your Heart," "Think of Me," "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line," "Sam's Place," "Where Does the Good Times Go," "Your Tender Loving Care," and "How Long Will My Baby Be Gone" all reaching number one. When a formula is working so well there's no incentive to change, so Owens & the Buckaroos didn't, choosing to build their brand in other areas, notably those Buckaroos solo albums but also putting a Bakersfield stamp on two Christmas albums and two gospel albums (one not seeing release until 1970), while also cutting two instrumental albums of his own and two live albums, neither of which are here because they're outside of the studio-specific scope of this set. Such strict adherence to formula means there is a lot of virtuosity but not much variety on Open Up Your Heart, particularly when compared to the restless exploration Merle Haggard displayed on his Capitol recordings during the same era. Basically, Buck & the Buckaroos locked into a high gear and never shifted, churning out music of a consistently high quality that only veers off track toward the end, when fuzz guitars are introduced into "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass." Apart from that, this is clean, crisp Bakersfield country performed by the band that did it best, the only flaw being that it's a little bit much to take in an extended sitting. So, don't listen to all seven discs of Open Up Your Heart at once -- sample liberally, a disc at a time, and Buck & the Buckaroos still sound singular instead of sounding a little samey. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tracks:

Disc 1:
1 - Before You Go
2 - Getting Used to Loving You
3 - (I Want) No One But You
4 - Number One Heel
5 - Raz-Ma-Taz Polka
6 - I Betcha Didn't Know
7 - No Fool Like an Old Fool
8 - If You Want a Love
9 - Charlie Brown
10 - Steel Guitar Rag
11 - Gonna Roll Out the Red Carpet
12 - Only You (Can Break My Heart)
13 - Country Rag
14 - Bile 'Em Cabbage Down
15 - Hangin' On to What I Got
16 - Someone with No One to Love
17 - Buckaroo
18 - Faded Love
19 - Blue Christmas Tree
20 - Because It's Christmas Time
21 - All I Want for Christmas is You
22 - Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy (Daddy Looked a Lot Like Him)
23 - Christmas Ain't Christmas
24 - Christmas Time's A-Comin'
25 - It's Christmas Time for Everyone But Me
26 - Here Comes Santa Claus Again
27 - Blue Christmas Lights
28 - Santa's Gonna Come in a Stagecoach
29 - Christmas Morning
30 - Jingle Bells
31 - We Split the Blanket
32 - He Don't Deserve You Anymore
33 - Sam's Place
34 - Heart of Glass
35 - (I'll Love You) Forever and Ever
36 - I'm Layin' It on the Line
Disc 2:
1 - Waitin' in Your Welfare Line
2 - That's What I'm Like Without You
3 - There Never Was a Fool
4 - In the Palm of Your Hand
5 - After You Leave Me [Remake]
6 - A Devil Like Me (Needs an Angel Like You)
7 - Cinderella
8 - I'll Got to Church Again with Momma
9 - Pray Every Day
10 - Love's Gonna Live Here
11 - Together Again
12 - Act Naturally
13 - I've Got a Tiger by the Tail
14 - My Heart Skips a Beat
15 - I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me)
16 - Foolin' Around
17 - Before You Go
18 - Second Fiddle
19 - Under Your Spell Again
20 - Don't Let Her Know
21 - Together Again
22 - Only You (Can Break My Heart)
23 - When Jesus Calls All His Children In
24 - It Was with Love
25 - Would You Be Ready
26 - Eternal Vacation
27 - Jesus Saved Me
28 - Where Would I Be Without Jesus
29 - Dust on Mother's Bible
30 - Satan's Gotta Get Along Without Me
31 - Tom Cattin' [Remake]
32 - Cajun Fiddle [Remake]
33 - You Made a Monkey Out of Me
34 - Congratulations, You're Absolutely Right
35 - You, You, Only You
Disc 3:
1 - Where Does the Good Times Go
2 - Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You
3 - Cadillac Lane
4 - House of Memories
5 - Think of Me
6 - No More Me and You
7 - Where Does the Good Times Go
8 - Open Up Your Heart
9 - Way That I Love You
10 - Rocks in My Head
11 - Only You and You Alone
12 - Don't Ever Tell Me Goodbye
13 - What a Liar I Am
14 - Your Tender Loving Care
15 - Song and Dance
16 - If I Had You Back Again
17 - Way That I Love You
18 - I'll Be Swingin' Too
19 - It Takes a Lot of Tenderness (It Takes a Lot of You for Me)
20 - Round Hole Guitar
21 - You'll Never Miss the Water (Till the Well Runs Dry)
22 - Something to Remember You By
23 - Happy-Go-Lucky Guitar
24 - Tumwater Breakdown
25 - Neosho Waltz
26 - Steel Guitar Polka
27 - Happy Son of a Gun
28 - Seven Come Eleven
29 - Out of My Mind
30 - I'm Gonna Live It Up
31 - If I Knew
32 - Everybody Needs Somebody
33 - I've Got It Bad for You
34 - You Left Her Lonely Too Long
35 - That's How I Measure My Love for You
Disc 4:
1 - Heartbreak Mountain
2 - It Takes People Like You (To Make People Like Me)
3 - Kern County Breakdown
4 - My Baby's Comin' Home
5 - Chicken Pickin'
6 - Free and Easy
7 - Tom's Waltz
8 - Buckersfield Breakdown
9 - Love's Gonna Come A-Knockin'
10 - I'm A-Comin' Back Home to You
11 - Apple Jack
12 - Foolish Notion
13 - Night Time Is Cry Time
14 - How Long Will My Baby Be Gone
15 - Swingin' Doors
16 - Long, Long Ago
17 - Sing a Happy Song
18 - Let the World Keep on a Turnin'
19 - Girl on Sugar Pie Lane
20 - We Were Made for Each Other
21 - Happy Times Are Here Again
22 - Sweet Rosie Jones
23 - Heartaches Have Just Started
24 - You Mother's Prayer
25 - That Sunday Feeling
26 - Hurtin' Like I've Never Hurt Before
27 - You'll Never Miss the Water (Till the Well Runs Dry)
28 - There's Gotta Be Some Changes Made
29 - If I Had Three Wishes
30 - Hello California
31 - Highway Man
32 - I Can't Stop My Loving You
33 - Chapparal
34 - You Bring Out the Best in Me
Disc 5:
1 - I'm Coming Back Home to Stay
2 - Waltz of the Roses
3 - Pedal Patter
4 - Down On the Bayou
5 - Pretty Girl
6 - Sad Is The Lonely
7 - Rattle Traps
8 - Leave Me Something to Remeber You By
9 - That's All Right with Me (If It's All Right with You)
10 - Wait a Little Longer, Please Jesus
11 - Hello Happiness, Goodbye Loneliness
12 - Don't Let True Love Slip Away
13 - Great Judgement Day
14 - Sally, Mary and Jerry
15 - In God I Trust
16 - Buckaroo Polka
17 - All I Want for Christmas Is My Daddy
18 - Christmas Shopping
19 - One of Everything You Got
20 - Good Old Fashioned Country Christmas
21 - Jolly Christmas Polka
22 - Let the World Keep on a Turnin'
23 - I'll Love You Forever and Ever
24 - A Very Merry Christmas
25 - Christmas Time Is Near
26 - Tomorrow Is Christmas Day
27 - Christmas Schottische
28 - Home on Christmas Day
29 - Merry Christmas from Our House to Yours
30 - It's Not What You Give
31 - You Let Me Down
32 - Woman Truck Drivin' Fool
33 - I Got a Letter from Home
34 - Pitty Pitty Patter
35 - I'm Goin' Back Home Where I Belong
Disc 6:
1 - Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
2 - Tracy's Waltz
3 - Runnin' Short
4 - Louisiana Waltz
5 - Saturday Night
6 - Spanish Moonlight
7 - Too Many Chiefs (Not Enough Indians)
8 - Guitar Fandango
9 - Things I Saw at the Fountain on the Plaza When I Was Visiting Rome or Amore
10 - Gaucho Came Riding
11 - Mexican Jumping Bean
12 - Turkish Holiday
13 - I've Got You on My Mind Again
14 - I Wanna Be Wild and Free
15 - Where Has Our Love Gone?
16 - I Ain't a Gonna Be Treated This a Way
17 - Darlin' You Can Depend on Me
18 - Jesus, Jesus, Hold Me
19 - Sing That Kind of Song
20 - Love Is Me
21 - Hurry, Come Running Back to Me
22 - Alabama, Louisiana, or Maybe Tennessee
23 - Greensleeves
24 - Gathering Dust
25 - Price I'll Have to Pay
26 - Aw Heck
27 - Keep On Your Keepin' On
28 - Bad Luck and Bad Weather
29 - Anywhere U.S.A.
30 - Tim-Buck-Too
31 - Georgia Peach
32 - Highland Fling
33 - Moonlight on the Desert
34 - March of the McGregor
35 - Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass
36 - We're Gonna Get Together
Disc 7:
1 - White Satin Bed
2 - In the Middle of a Teardrop
3 - You Can't Make Notin' Out of That But Love
4 - I Would Do Anything for You
5 - Maybe If I Close My Eyes (It Will Go Away)
6 - Across This Town and Gone
7 - Where Does the Good Times Go [Take 9]
8 - Where Does the Good Times Go [Take 8b]
9 - How Long Will My Baby Be Gone [Take 5A]
10 - How Long Will My Baby Be Gone [Take 9A]
11 - That's All Right with Me (If It's All Right with You) [Take 6]
12 - Darlin' You Can Depend on Me [Take 2]
13 - Cadillac Lane [Take 1]
14 - Cadillac Lane [Take 2]
15 - Cadillac Lane [Take 3]
16 - Cadillac Lane [Take 4]
17 - Cadillac Lane [Take 5]
18 - Cadillac Lane [Take 6]
19 - Cadillac Lane [Take 7]
20 - Cadillac Lane [Take 8]
21 - Cadillac Lane [Take 9]
22 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 1]
23 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 2]
24 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 3]
25 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 4]
26 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 5]
27 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 6]
28 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 7]
29 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 8]
30 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 9]
31 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 10]
32 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 11]
33 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 12]
34 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 13]
35 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 14]
36 - Happy Son of a Gun [Take 15]
37 - Toys for Tots [Take 3]
38 - Toys for Tots [Take 6]