This 4-CD set is an unsurpassed collection of the smooth ballads that capture the beauty, hardships, and romance of America’s Old West. The Sons of Pioneers are one of the United States' earliest Western singing groups. Known for their vocal performances, their musicianship, and their songwriting, they produced innovative recordings that have inspired many Western music performers and remained popular through the years. This collection offers the group’s most popular and memorable songs.

CONDITION: Gently Used
The collection is in excellent shape. (See scans above).

- 82-tracks featuring songs about cowboys and the old west.
- Selections are pulled mostly from the popular RCA albums the group issued in the 1960s.
- Comes with a 32-page listener’s guide with informative notes on the band and each song.

There are some memorable classics on this set: Ghost Riders in the Sky, Cool Water, The Red River Valley, Don’t Fence Me In, The Ballad of Davey Crockett, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, and our office favorite: Cigarettes, Whusky and Wild Wild Women - to name but a few.

Also features some rare tracks, like a segment of Hawaiian songs (which actually works with this vocal group), Religous Cowboy Hymns, and songs from famous film soundtracks. These additional tracks really make this box set a comprehensive anthology of this unique American singing group. (See complete tracklist below).

Very relaxing set. Pick this one up today to soothe the weary bones of the frontier cowboy in you... or someone you love.

Down Memory Trail with The Sons of the Pioneers
Reader's Digest - 2002
4 discs - 82 recordings

CD #1
1. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
2. San Antonio Rose
3. Cool Water
4. Mexicali Rose
5. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
6. (Ghost) Riders In the Sky
7. The Everlasting Hills of Oklahoma
8. I Still Do
9. Cigareetes, Whusky, and Wild, Wild Women
10. Blue Prairie
11. Room Full of Roses
12. Stars and Stripes on Two Jima
13. South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)
14. Love Me With All Your Heart
15. Maria Elena
16. You Belong To My Heart
17. My Adobe Hacienda
18. Spanish Eyes
19. Harbor Lights
20. Blue Hawaii

CD #2
1. Tiny Bubbles (Hua Li'l)
2. Beyond The Reef
3. Stars Above Hawaii
4. My Isle of Golden Dreams
5. How Great Thou Art
6. The Old Rugged Cross
7. Suddenly There's A Valley
8. I Believe
9. Lead Me Gently Home, Father
10. The Lord's Prayer
11. The Cattle Call
12. The Cowboy's Lament (The Streets Of Laredo)
13. A Cowboy Has To Sing
14. There's a Gold Mine in the Sky
15. Vaya Con Dios (May God Be With You)
16. The Last Round-Up
17. Don't Fence Me In
18. Moonlight on the Colorado
19. That Lucky Old Sun
20. Carolina In The Morning
21. Cowboy Camp Meetin'

CD #3
1. When It's Springtime in the Rockies
2. Home on the Range
3. The Red River Valley
4. Sweet Betsy from Pike
5. Be Honest with Me
6. Moonlight and Roses (Bring Mem'ries of You)
7. Wagon Wheels
8. Twilight on the Trail
9. When the Bloom Is on the Sage
10. Along The Sante Fe Trail
11. Pecos Bill (with Roy Rogers)
12. Jesse James
13. Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo (Git Along Little Dogies)
14. Along The Navajo Trail
15. The Strawberry Roan
16. Ragtime Cowboy Joe
17. Carry Me Back To the Lone Prairie
18. Cimarron (Roll On)
19. I Love You Truly
20. No One To Cry To

CD #4
1. Listen to the Mocking Bird
2. Teardrops in My Heart
3. Memories
4. Crazy Arms
5. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (with Bob Nolan)
6. El Paso
7. Bonaparte's Retreat
8. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)
9. Born To Lose
10. Mockin' Bird Hill
11. Yours (Quiereme Mucho)
12. Greenfields
13. Memories Are Made of This
14. It Happened in Monterey
15. My Heart Cries for You
16. High Noon
17. The Ballad of Davy Crockett
18. Cheyenne
19. The Searchers
20. Wagon Train
21. Maverick

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