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Truck Stop Sweethearts & C.B. Savages: The Plantation Records Story 1968-1981
Truck Stop Sweethearts & C.B. Savages: The Plantation Records Story 1968-1981
UPC: 5060767440803
Format: CD (2 disc)
Release Date: Nov 27, 2020
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Shelby Singleton, the former head of Mercury Records and Smash Records, and firmly established as a record industry maverick, started Plantation Records in 1968, with the idea of making it a dedicated country label, but given Singleton's idiosyncratic nature, it ended up featuring plenty of pure novelty releases, too. Plantation had four million-selling singles during its run between 1968 and 1981, Jeannie C. Riley's feisty and sassy "Harper Valley P.T.A.," Harlow Wilcox's guitar instrumental "Groovy Grubworm," Terry Nelson and C Company's controversial "Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley," and Rod Hart's odd gay truckers' anthem "C.B. Savage," all of which are included in this fascinating two-disc, 50-track set, along with dozens of other rare gems that combine to tell the Plantation Records story. It amounts to a sort of goofy alternative universe to the one that was operating in Nashville during this time, a sort of lost history, if you will, and a fun and endearing testament to the delightfully skewed vision of Shelby Singleton. ~ Steve Leggett
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Big Fanny
2 - Harper Valley P.T.A.
3 - (I Wanna Be) A Truck Driver's Sweetheart
4 - (Just) Blow in His Ear
5 - There Never Was a Time
6 - Big Man
7 - Color Him Father
8 - Groovy Grubworm
9 - Guilt Box
10 - Before the Next Teardrop Falls
11 - It Takes All Kinds of People
12 - Ballad of Archie Who?
13 - Country Girl
14 - Bad Case of the Blues
15 - Put a Little Loving on Me
16 - Service
17 - Cripple Cricket
18 - Sold to the Highest Bidder
19 - Remember Bethlehem
20 - Oh, Singer
21 - Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley
22 - Blackland Farmer
23 - Hello, I'm Johnny Credit
24 - Roses and Thorns
25 - Reconsider Me
Disc 2:
1 - I Honky Tonked All the Way Home
2 - Dallas
3 - Sweetheart
4 - I've Never Been This Far Before
5 - Hippie From Mississippi
6 - Thinkin' on You
7 - Good Lord Giveth (And Uncle Sam Taketh Away)
8 - Border City Call Girl
9 - These Arms You Push Away
10 - I've Got Leaving on My Mind
11 - One Night Gone
12 - C.B.Savage
13 - Orange Blossom Special
14 - Alligator Man
15 - Blueberry Hill
16 - 'T' for Texas
17 - Come on In
18 - Memphis Sun
19 - Widow Jones
20 - Sugar Bee
21 - Last Farewell
22 - Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You
23 - No Aces
24 - On the Inside
25 - Don't We Belong in Love
1 - Big Fanny
2 - Harper Valley P.T.A.
3 - (I Wanna Be) A Truck Driver's Sweetheart
4 - (Just) Blow in His Ear
5 - There Never Was a Time
6 - Big Man
7 - Color Him Father
8 - Groovy Grubworm
9 - Guilt Box
10 - Before the Next Teardrop Falls
11 - It Takes All Kinds of People
12 - Ballad of Archie Who?
13 - Country Girl
14 - Bad Case of the Blues
15 - Put a Little Loving on Me
16 - Service
17 - Cripple Cricket
18 - Sold to the Highest Bidder
19 - Remember Bethlehem
20 - Oh, Singer
21 - Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley
22 - Blackland Farmer
23 - Hello, I'm Johnny Credit
24 - Roses and Thorns
25 - Reconsider Me
Disc 2:
1 - I Honky Tonked All the Way Home
2 - Dallas
3 - Sweetheart
4 - I've Never Been This Far Before
5 - Hippie From Mississippi
6 - Thinkin' on You
7 - Good Lord Giveth (And Uncle Sam Taketh Away)
8 - Border City Call Girl
9 - These Arms You Push Away
10 - I've Got Leaving on My Mind
11 - One Night Gone
12 - C.B.Savage
13 - Orange Blossom Special
14 - Alligator Man
15 - Blueberry Hill
16 - 'T' for Texas
17 - Come on In
18 - Memphis Sun
19 - Widow Jones
20 - Sugar Bee
21 - Last Farewell
22 - Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You
23 - No Aces
24 - On the Inside
25 - Don't We Belong in Love