Birth of a Legend: The Truly Complete Starday & Mercury Recordings 1954-1961
AlbumTracklist
CD 1
| 1 | No Money in This Deal | ||
| 2 | No Money in This Deal (alt) | ||
| 3 | For Sale or for Lease (take 1) | ||
| 4 | For Sale or for Lease (take 2) | ||
| 5 | Play It Cool Man - Play It Cool | ||
| 6 | You’re in My Heart | ||
| 7 | If You Were Mine | ||
| 8 | Wrong About You | ||
| 9 | You All Goodnight | ||
| 10 | Hold Everything | ||
| 11 | Hold Everything (alt) | ||
| 12 | Heartbroken Me | ||
| 13 | Heartbroken Me (2) | ||
| 14 | Let Him Know | ||
| 15 | My Sweet Imogene | ||
| 16 | What’s Wrong With You | ||
| 17 | What’s Wrong With You (alt) | ||
| 18 | Painless Heart | ||
| 19 | Still Hurtin’ | ||
| 20 | Settle Down | ||
| 21 | Dancing Mexican Boy | ||
| 22 | Mexican Boogie (Boogie Woogie Mexican Boy) | ||
| 23 | Why Baby Why | ||
| 24 | What Am I Worth | ||
| 25 | Seasons of My Heart | ||
| 26 | Seasons of My Heart (alt) | ||
| 27 | What Am I Worth (remake) | ||
| 28 | It’s OK | ||
| 29 | Your Heart | ||
| 30 | Dancing Mexican Boy (alt) | ||
| 31 | You Never Thought | ||
| 32 | I’m Ragged but I’m Right |
CD 2
| 1 | I’m Ragged but I’m Right (alt) | ||
| 2 | You Gotta Be My Baby (take 1) | ||
| 3 | You Gotta Be My Baby (take 2) | ||
| 4 | You Gotta Be My Baby (take 3) | ||
| 5 | I’ve Got Five Dollars and It’s Saturday Night | ||
| 6 | Run Boy | ||
| 7 | Heartbreak Hotel (short ending) | ||
| 8 | Yes I Know Why | ||
| 9 | ’Cause I Love You | ||
| 10 | You Gotta Be My Baby | ||
| 11 | Rock It | ||
| 12 | Rock It (alt) | ||
| 13 | How Come It | ||
| 14 | Boat of Life | ||
| 15 | Taggin’ Along | ||
| 16 | Yearning George Jones & Jeanette Hicks | ||
| 17 | Yearning (alt) George Jones & Jeanette Hicks | ||
| 18 | I’m With the Wrong One George Jones & Jeanette Hicks | ||
| 19 | Sweet Dreams | ||
| 20 | I Take the Chance George Jones & Jeanette Hicks | ||
| 21 | Any Old Time | ||
| 22 | Gonna Come Get You | ||
| 23 | Gonna Come Get You (alt) | ||
| 24 | Just One More | ||
| 25 | No Money in This Deal | ||
| 26 | I’m With the Wrong One (edit) George Jones & Jeanette Hicks | ||
| 27 | I’m With the Wrong One George Jones & Jeanette Hicks | ||
| 28 | You’re Running Wild | ||
| 29 | Singing the Blues | ||
| 30 | Wasted Words | ||
| 31 | One Woman Man | ||
| 32 | Before I Met You | ||
| 33 | Go Away With Me | ||
| 34 | Radio Spot 1, 1956 | ||
| 35 | Radio Spot 2, 1956 | ||
| 36 | Radio Spot 3, 1956 |
CD 3
| 1 | You’re Back Again George Jones & Hank Locklin | ||
| 2 | Don’t Stop the Music | ||
| 3 | (That’s) All I Want to Do | ||
| 4 | Uh, Uh, No | ||
| 5 | Uh, Uh, No (alt) | ||
| 6 | Cup of Loneliness | ||
| 7 | Cup of Loneliness (alt) | ||
| 8 | Please Take the Devil Out of Me | ||
| 9 | Giveaway Girl | ||
| 10 | Too Much Water | ||
| 11 | Flame in My Heart George Jones & Virginia Spurlock | ||
| 12 | No, No, Never | ||
| 13 | Don’t Do This to Me | ||
| 14 | Hearts in My Dreams | ||
| 15 | Tall Tall Trees | ||
| 16 | No Use to Cry | ||
| 17 | One Is a Lonely Number | ||
| 18 | That’s the Way I Feel | ||
| 19 | Frozen Heart | ||
| 20 | Never Been So Weary | ||
| 21 | Maybe Next Christmas | ||
| 22 | New Baby for Christmas | ||
| 23 | Wandering Soul | ||
| 24 | If You Want to Wear a Crown | ||
| 25 | Gotta Talk to Your Heart | ||
| 26 | Nothing Can Stop Me | ||
| 27 | I Always Wind Up Losing | ||
| 28 | Color of the Blues | ||
| 29 | Eskimo Pie | ||
| 30 | Maybe Little Baby | ||
| 31 | Rain Rain (Rain Keeps Fallin’) | ||
| 32 | (I Believe) The Good Old Bible | ||
| 33 | We’ll Understand It (Farther Along) |
CD 4
| 1 | I’m Gonna Burn Your Playhouse Down | ||
| 2 | Will the Circle Be Unbroken | ||
| 3 | Life to Go | ||
| 4 | Jesus Wants Me | ||
| 5 | My Lord Has Called Me | ||
| 6 | All by Yourself | ||
| 7 | Deep in the Heart of a Fool | ||
| 8 | Last Night George Jones & Bobbie Ellison | ||
| 9 | Now Tell Me (take 1) George Jones & Bobbie Ellison | ||
| 10 | Now Tell Me (take 2) George Jones & Bobbie Ellison | ||
| 11 | Now Tell Me (take 3) George Jones & Bobbie Ellison | ||
| 12 | Now Tell Me (take 4) George Jones & Bobbie Ellison | ||
| 13 | Treasure of Love | ||
| 14 | White Lightnin’ | ||
| 15 | Long Time to Forget | ||
| 16 | If I Don’t Love You (Grits Ain’t Groceries) | ||
| 17 | Stay on Board | ||
| 18 | The Likes of You | ||
| 19 | There’s Gonna Be One | ||
| 20 | Into My Arms Again | ||
| 21 | Who Shot Sam | ||
| 22 | Mr. Fool | ||
| 23 | Candy Hearts (undubbed) | ||
| 24 | Candy Hearts | ||
| 25 | Have Mercy on Me | ||
| 26 | If You Believe | ||
| 27 | Big Harlan Taylor | ||
| 28 | Someone Sweet to Love | ||
| 29 | Everything Ain’t Right | ||
| 30 | Relief Is Just a Swallow Away | ||
| 31 | Money to Burn | ||
| 32 | Time Lock | ||
| 33 | Talk to Me Lonesome Heart |
CD 5
| 1 | Your Old Standby | ||
| 2 | Watcha Gonna Do | ||
| 3 | Accidentally on Purpose | ||
| 4 | Vitamins L-O-V-E | ||
| 5 | The Last Town I Painted | ||
| 6 | Revenooer Man | ||
| 7 | Sparkling Brown Eyes | ||
| 8 | The First One | ||
| 9 | You Better Treat Your Man Right | ||
| 10 | Out of Control | ||
| 11 | Glad to Let Her Go | ||
| 12 | You’re Still on My Mind | ||
| 13 | Just Little Boy Blue | ||
| 14 | Tarnished Angel | ||
| 15 | Slave Lover | ||
| 16 | Why Baby Why | ||
| 17 | Poor Man’s Riches | ||
| 18 | Heartaches by the Number | ||
| 19 | I Love You Because | ||
| 20 | Oh Lonesome Me | ||
| 21 | (I’ll Be There) If You Ever Want Me | ||
| 22 | If You’ve Got the Money (I’ve Got the Time) | ||
| 23 | I Walk the Line | ||
| 24 | It’s Been So Long | ||
| 25 | Just One More | ||
| 26 | You Gotta Be My Baby | ||
| 27 | Life to Go | ||
| 28 | Settin’ the Woods on Fire | ||
| 29 | Window Shopping | ||
| 30 | Howlin’ at the Moon | ||
| 31 | There’ll Be No Teardrops Tonight | ||
| 32 | Hey Good Lookin’ | ||
| 33 | Half as Much |
CD 6
| 1 | Nobody’s Lonesome for Me | ||
| 2 | Cold, Cold Heart | ||
| 3 | Why Don’t You Love Me | ||
| 4 | Honky Tonkin’ | ||
| 5 | Jambalaya (On the Bayou) | ||
| 6 | I Can’t Help It | ||
| 7 | Family Bible | ||
| 8 | The Window Up Above | ||
| 9 | I Wouldn’t Know About That | ||
| 10 | With Half a Heart | ||
| 11 | Aching Breaking Heart | ||
| 12 | Battle of Love | ||
| 13 | Tender Years | ||
| 14 | When My Heart Hurts No More | ||
| 15 | Did I Ever Tell You George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 16 | Not Even Friends George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 17 | I Want to Be Where You’re Gonna Be George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 18 | Waltz of the Angels George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 19 | Are You Mine George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 20 | One Excuse Is as Good as Another George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 21 | Yearning George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 22 | Looking Back to See George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 23 | One by One George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 24 | If You Don’t Somebody Else Will George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 25 | When Two Worlds Collide George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 26 | Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes) George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 27 | Talk About Lovin’ George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 28 | I Don’t Hear You George Jones & Margie Singleton | ||
| 29 | Why Baby Why (edited version) | ||
| 30 | Seasons of My Heart (remake) | ||
| 31 | Heartbreak Hotel (long edit) | ||
| 32 | Let Me Be Your Salty Dog Arlie Duff | ||
| 33 | Back to the Country Arlie Duff |