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BCD 17302 - Margie Singleton - Pledging My Love




Jukebox Pearls is Bear Family's series focusing on the unsung female country singers of the '50s and '60s, but Margie Singleton's volume, Pledging My Love, doesn't play particularly country. A collection of sides she recorded for Mercury between 1960 and 1964, this does indeed have duets with Faron Young and a nice version of "Walk on By," but Singleton's sound is a little bit too sweet to be considered pure country. She's a precise singer, lacking grit but never attempting to conjure some dirt, either. She was happy singing pop covers -- she did a nice version of Jerry Butler's "He Will Break Your Heart" (best known as "He Don't Love You," here called "She Will Break Your Heart") -- and, notably, she sang a version of Joe Meek's "Telstar" called "Magic Star," a move that certainly didn't read country. Nevertheless, Singleton did record with Faron and George Jones, and she wrote some of her own material long before this was commonplace, especially among female country singers, and her Louisiana background was distinctly country. Pledging My Love, on the other hand, sounds like '60s crossover pop -- two steps removed from Patsy Cline, music determined to appeal to a broad audience; music that has a hint of Hollywood peeking around the corners of its Nashville gloss. This slickness is part of its appeal but over the course of 30 tracks, it can get a little cloying, no matter how well it's performed. The most interesting elements of the collection are the songs that play to either extreme: the country duets and the pure pop sides, both redolent of the sound of AM radio in the early '60s, or perhaps a jukebox in a diner somewhere in middle America.




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   1. Margie Singleton - Chained To A Promise                 [02:08]
   2. Margie Singleton - Forget Me Not                        [02:23]
   3. Margie Singleton - Living In The Danger Zone            [02:15]
   4. Margie Singleton - Her Image Keeps Getting In The Way   [02:28]
   5. Margie Singleton - I Don't Have To Look Pretty (To Stay Home And Cry)[02:32]
   6. Margie Singleton - I Knew I Would See Him Again         [02:28]
   7. Margie Singleton - It's Too Much (3rd Vocal)            [02:47]
   8. Margie Singleton - How Lonely She Must Be               [02:29]
   9. Margie Singleton - There You Go                         [02:32]
  10. Margie Singleton - Sincerely Your Friend                [02:38]
  11. Margie Singleton - Poor Man's Roses                     [02:26]
  12. Margie Singleton - Your Old Love Letters                [02:45]
  13. Margie Singleton - Pledging My Love                     [02:08]
  14. Margie Singleton - I'll Just Walk On By                 [02:25]
  15. Margie Singleton - I Don't Want You This Way            [02:43]
  16. Margie Singleton - No Thanks, I Just Had One (& Faron Young)[02:26]
  17. Margie Singleton - Magic Star (Telstar)                 [01:53]
  18. Margie Singleton - Walkin' Back To Happiness            [02:24]
  19. Margie Singleton - Don't Be Good To Me                  [02:20]
  20. Margie Singleton - Another Woman's Man, Another Man's Woman (& Faron Young)[02:20]
  21. Margie Singleton - The Cypress Tree                     [02:31]
  22. Margie Singleton - Only Your Shadow Knows               [02:40]
  23. Margie Singleton - Burnt Fingers                        [02:19]
  24. Margie Singleton - How Do You Celebrate Goodbye         [02:23]
  25. Margie Singleton - Are You Ever Too Young               [02:21]
  26. Margie Singleton - She Will Break Your Heart            [02:51]
  27. Margie Singleton - Voices Of Love                       [01:50]
  28. Margie Singleton - Destination Love                     [02:43]
  29. Margie Singleton - Toss A Pebble In The Water           [02:22]
  30. Margie Singleton - I Don't Have To Look Pretty (To Stay Home And Cry) (Single Vocal) (Bonus)[02:31]

Playing Time.........: 01:13:18
Total Size...........: 167,80 MB



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