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ORIGINAL 1951 Stanley Brothers Songbook
"Favorite Songs and Picture Album / as featured by / The Stanley Brothers / your Radio Friends"
16 pages, plus color cover / 8.25" x 5.375"

Complete, and generally in very good condition, but there is some print-through from opposing pages, and the staples have given way, so there are loose pages.

[Description below is from Ivor Trueman's website at http://www.clinchmountainecho.co.uk/archive/songbook.php]:

This 'Folio' features rare pictures of the CMB line-up, with Bobby Sumner (fiddle), Charlie Cline (bass) and Bobby Osborne (mandolin). In Gary Reid's essential The Music Of The Stanley Brothers book he says that Bobby Osborne only played with the band for about six weeks, before being inducted into the Marines and the Korean war. This places this 'Folio' in the latter part of 1951 following on from Carter's stint with Bill Monroe.

Lyrics are included to: True Lover's Warning (aka Tragic Love), That Happy Night, I'm Better Off Now That You're Gone, Lonesome For You (aka Lonesome And Blue), Our Last Goodbye, Come Back To The Valley, I'll Meet You In Church Sunday Morning, I Hear My Savior Calling, In Heaven We'll Never Grow Old, Midnight Storm, The Heart You Stole Away (aka This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up Sweetheart)), The Wild And Reckless Hobo and My Sinful Past.

The song selection for this 'Folio' is also quite interesting - although the Stanleys were still signed to Columbia at the time, none of the songs were recorded for that label. Some of them did however get cut for Mercury:- Our Last Goodbye & This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up Sweetheart) (Aug. 1953); and Lonesome And Blue, I Hear My Savior Calling, Tragic Love & Bill Monroe's I Hear My Savior Calling (Apr. 1955). Other's were recorded later with That Happy Night resurfacing on Starday 406 (1958), I'll Meet You In Church Sunday Morning on Hymns And Sacred Songs (1959), In Heaven We'll Never Grow Old on Starday SEP-123 (1960), My Sinful Past on Old Time Camp Meeting (1961) and Wild And Reckless Hobo on John's Country Quartet (1964/5). Two songs were only recorded later still by Ralph Stanley with I'm Better Off Now That You're Gone appearing on his Brand New Country Songs LP and Midnight Storm on the Hills Of Home album. That just leaves Come Back To The Valley which is credited to Carter in the songbook, but doesn't appear to have been recorded by the Stanley Brothers. It is however featured on the Lee Allen - Songs Of Love And Tragedy LP, which featured backing by the CMB's and it's registered on the BMI Music Publishing site as composed by Lee Allen. You can also find this song on youtube.

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But... on request I can email interested parties a PDF of the whole songbook...