Slim Willet – Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes – 2CD

Slim Willet was a country singer, guitarist songwriter and disc jockey from Texas, born in 1919, who started performing and recording in the late ‘40s while still continuing to work on radio in Abilene. Among his more mainstream country songs, he specialised in writing material that celebrated the macho aspects of the Texas oil industry, which was  a major feature of his region of Texas. Quite separately from that, he was famous for writing and recording the song “Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes” , with which he had a country No. 1 and which was a pop No. 1 for Perry Como. This 53-track 2-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides of his singles on the Star Talent, Slim Willet, 4-Star, Decca and Edmoral labels during these years, plus those on his own Winston label. Among those were all the titles from his album “Texas Oil Patch Songs”. It naturally includes his No. 1 country hit and landmark composition “Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes”. It features recordings as Slim Willet with The Blue Sage Boys, Slim Willet with the Brush Cutters, Slim Willet with His Hired Hands and Slim Willet and his Big State Jamboree Gang, along with later recording with Jimmy Seal & Dash Crofts. This set captures most of his key recordings before his premature demise from a heart attack in 1966 at the age of 46 and admirably showcases his distinctive style of country music.

CD1:
Slim Willet: 1. I'm Going Strong -   2. I'm A Tool Pusher From Snyder -   Slim Willet With The Blue Sage Boys: 3. A Cold Can Of Beer -   4. I Call You Stingy -   5. Nobody Loves A Fat Man -   6. Give Me The Kind Of Love (That You Wold Like To Receive) -   Slim Willet: 7. My Story's Sadder Than Yourn  -   8. When We Grow Old -   9. The Fight -   10. Four-Hand Blues -   Slim Willet With The Brush Cutters: 11. Hadacol Corners -   12. Don't Let The Stars (Get In Your Eyes) -   Slim Willet With His Hired Hands: 13. Let Me Know -   14. My Love Song To You -   15. Live While You're Young (Dream While You're Old) -   16. The Red Rose -   17. It's Hard To Love Just One -   Slim Willet And His Big State Jamboree Gang: 18. Don't Laugh At Me Now -   Slim Willet With The Brush Cutters: 19. Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes (Instrumental) -   Slim Willet And His Big State Jamboree Gang: 20. Leave Me Alone Now -   Slim Willet With His Hired Hands: 21. Come Sundown -   22. I Might Confess -   23. If Winter Comes -   24. Do As I Do -   25. Don't Waste Your Heart -   Slim Willet And His Big State Jamboree Gang: 26. Love Me Baby

CD2:
Slim Willet And His Big State Jamboree Gang: 1. When Lovers Go By -   2. Mata Hari -  3. Tell Me Now -   4. Tall Men -   5. I’ve Been A Wonderin’ -   Slim Willet: 6. Don't Be Afraid Of The Moonlight - Telli W. Mils (The Fat Cat): 7. Ain’t Goin’ Home -   Slim Willet: 8. Pandemonium -   9. Crazy Crazy (Over You) -   Telli W. Mils: 10. Sneaky Pete -   11. Boom Town Man -   Slim Willet: 12. Tool Pusher (On A Rotary Rig) -   13. Rig Movin' Man -   14. Oil Patch Girls -   15. El Paso Gas -   16. Offshore Drilling Rig -   17. Johnny Don't Drill Anymore -   18. Drill Bit Honky Tonk -   19. Morning Tower -   20. Haywire Jones -   21. Roughneck -   22. Smell That Sweet Perfume -   23. Blue Eagles -   24. Everything Is Shakin' Fine -   25. Big Money -   26. I Don't Cry -   27. Moonlight And Stardust -