Tommy Sands - Down By Bendy's Lane - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

From the people who brought you 'Hillbillies In Hell'... Blood, Sweat and Tears. 32 timeless tales of clanging Hammers and pounding Shovels - from wry, dry working-stiff diatribes to bare-chested exclamations - Birth / Work / Death maps the human work experience from anger to joy, poverty to riches. From the muck-crusted mines to late-night jukeboxes - backwoods outsiders and Nashville icons alike waxed odes to the entwined necessities of Work and Money, Status and Competition, Survival and Servitude. Harrowing laments of dank deaths underground, fevered hymns to Mammon, snide ripostes to debt-bondage and exuberant celebrations of family and sustenance. Most originally waxed on private press labels and distributed in tiny amounts, these town criers and tavern-bound troubadours sing of golden highways, slothful byways, factory-floor drudgery and fallow, heartbreaking fields. Years in the making - 'Birth / Work / Death' presents calloused anthems and bloody ballads from dusty LPs and long forgotten 45s. All for your lunch-hour listening pleasure. Album Tracks 1. Bill Carter - By the Sweat of My Brow 2. Bobby Barnett - Workin' Man 3. Tex Ritter - the Workingman's Prayer 4. Mr. Connie Dycus - Dark As a Dungeon 5. Dave Dudley - Workin' Hands 6. Eddie Noack - Cotton Mill 7. The Westport Kids - You Kain't Take It with You 8. Arlie Duff - Money Hungry 9. Tex Williams - Money 10. Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons '65 11. Charlie Gore - Black Diamond 12. Howard Vokes - the Miner 13. The Wray Brothers - Down in the Mine 14. George Davis - Little Lump of Coal 15. Doc Williams - Don't Want to Work 16. David Hiser - on Strike 17. Buddy Durham - Sixteen Tons 18. Sunshine Boys Quartet - Checking Up on My Payments 19. Slim Willet - Come Sundown 20. Dewitt Lee - Poor Man 21. Rusty Dunn with Wayne Roberts & the Countrymen - Production

Tommy Sands was initially a country singer and guitarist who made his first records in the early '50s when he was a young teenager and was InchdiscoveredInch by Col. Tom Parker, but shot to fame when he appeared in an episode of InchKraft Television TheaterInch in 1957 as 'The Singin' Idol' performing InchTeen-Age CrushInch which was his debut No. 2 US hit. His teen idol looks also brought him a screen career, and he married Nancy Sinatra, although his divorce from her in 1965 seemed to stop his career in it's tracks. This great-value 58-track 2-CD set comprises the A and B of his early releases on the Freedom and RCA labels, and his singles for Capitol through to 1961, as well as his duets with Annette Funicello from the Disney movie InchThe Parent TrapInch released on Buena Vista. It features all his ten career chart entries, including the No. 2 InchTeen-Age CrushInch, and the Top 30 hits InchGoing SteadyInch, InchSing, Boy, SingInch and InchThe Old Oaken BucketInch, his biggest UK hit. It's a comprehensive trawl across the decade which comprised the core of his career as a recording artist. Album Tracks 1. Love Pains 2. Syrup Soppin' Blues 3. Love Pains 4. Transfer 5. Roses Speak Louder Than Words 6. Spanish Coquita 7. Life Is So Lonesome 8. A Dime and a Dollar 9. Never Let Me Go 10. I Know About the Bees 11. Don't Drop It 12. A Place for Girls Like You 13. Hankerin' 14. Don't You Know I Love You' 15. Something's Bound to Go Wrong 16. Kissin' Ain't No Fun 17. Teen-Age Crush 18. Hep Dee Hootie (Cutie Wootie) 19. My Love Song 20. Ring-A-Ding-Ding 21. Goin' Steady 22. Ring My Phone 23. Let Me Be Loved 24. Fantastically Foolish 25. Man, Like Wow! 26. A Swingin' Romance 27. Sing Boy Sing 28. Crazy 'Cause I Love You 29. Teen-Age Doll 1. Hawaiian Rock 2. After the Senior Prom 3. Big Date 4. Blue Ribbon

Album Tracks 1. Like the First Time It's Chrismas Time 2. Down By the Lagan Side 3. The Bushes of Jerusalem 4. Whiter Shade of Pale 5. Hearts of Love 6. A Christmas Childhood/A Call to Hope 7. Welcome Here Kind Stranger 8. Raglan Road 9. Slainte Mhaith/The Cat in the Attic 10. Let Me Be Your Island 11. The Mixed Marriage 12. Matt Hyland 13. Slan Abhaile