Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Little Bitty Tear
2. Long Black Veil
3. Shanghied
4. Almighty Dollar Bill
5. Forty Hour Week
6. Royal Telephone
7. Delia
8. Oh, My Side
9. Lenora, Let Your Hair Hang Down
10. Mocking Bird Hill
11. I Walk the Line
12. Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
13. Mama Don't Want No Peas 'N' Rice 'N' Coconut Oil
14. Empty Saddles
15. Oregon Trail
16. Home on the Range
17. When the Bloom Is on the Sage
18. My Adobe Hacienda
19. Cowboy's Dream
20. Mexicali Rose
21. Last Roundup
22. O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
23. (I Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle
24. Cool Water
25. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
26. Holding Hands for Joe
27. Sixteen Fathoms Down
28. What You Gonna Do Leroy

Disc 2:

1. Brooklyn Bridge
2. Poor Little Jimmie
3. Thumbin' Johnny Brown
4. Funny Way of Laughin'
5. That's All I Can Remember
6. Ninety Nine
7. Call Me Mr. In-Between
8. I Ain't Comin' Home Tonight
9. How Do You Fall Out of Love
10. In Foggy Old London
11. Mother Wouldn't Do That
12. Bring Them In
13. Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
14. Beulah Land
15. Standing on the Promises
16. Fairest Lord Jesus
17. We're Marching to Zion
18. Sunshine in My Soul
19. Blessed Assurance
20. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
21. Where He Leads Me
22. Will There Be Any Stairs
23. When They Ring Those Golden Bells
24. Same Old Hurt
25. Wishin' She Was Here (Instead of Me)
26. Busted
27. Poor Boy in a Rich Man's Town

Disc 3:

1. Mary Ann Regrets
2. Billy Bayou
3. Moon Is High
4. Green Turtle
5. Bury the Bottle With Me
6. Blizzard
7. It Comes and Goes
8. I'm the Boss
9. Same Old Hurt [Remake]
10. Curry Road
11. Deepening Snow
12. She Didn't Let the Ink Dry on the Paper
13. Late Movie
14. Home, James
15. Man About Town
16. She Called Me Baby
17. My Chicken Run Way to the Bush
18. Baby Come Home to Me
19. Roses and Orchids
20. Lynching Party
21. Hundred Twenty Miles from Nowhere
22. Two-Car Garage
23. I Found My Best Friend in the Dog Pound
24. I'll Hit It With a Stick
25. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
26. Some Folks
27. I'll Walk Away Smiling
28. There Goes Another Pal of Mine
29. This Is Your Day
30. This Is All I Ask

Disc 4:

1. Lower Forty
2. Four Initials on a Tree
3. Someone Hangin' Round You All the Time
4. Beautiful Annabel Lee
5. Hobo Jungle
6. Strong as a Mountain
7. Can't You Hear Me?
8. Cherry Blossom Song
9. What I Want (I Can Never Have)
10. Can Angels Fly Over the Rockies?
11. Legend of the T.
12. Kentucky Turkey Buzzard
13. Funny Little Show
14. Hard Luck and Misery
15. Pearly Shells
16. What Little Tears Are Made Of
17. Short on Love
18. Who Done It?
19. Two of the Usual
20. Tell Me
21. Among My Souvenirs
22. Gater Hollow
23. I Ain't Missing Nobody
24. Catfish Bill
25. Time to Bum Again
26. Born for Trouble
27. Unemployment Check
28. Atlantic Coastal Line
29. Don't Let Love Die
30. How Deep Is the Ocean?
31. Gater Hollow

Disc 5:

1. Okeechobee Ocean
2. My Melancholy Baby
3. Jealous
4. My Gal Sal
5. By the Light of the Silvery Moon
6. For Me and My Gal
7. Red Sails in the Sunset
8. Make Believe
9. Oh, How I Miss You Tonight
10. You Know You Belong to Somebody Else
11. Down in the Okefenokee
12. (I Hear You) Call My Name
13. Mister Make-Up Man
14. River Boy
15. Drifiting and Dreaming
16. Beyond the Reef
17. My Isle of Golden Dreams
18. Now Is the Hour
19. Sweet Leilani
20. Moon of Manakoora
21. Song of the Islands
22. Keep Your Eyes on the Hands
23. Hawaiian Bells
24. Little Brown Girl
25. On the Beach of Waikiki
26. Aloha Oe
27. Thirty Thousand Feet Over Denver
28. Betsy, The Cow

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #390646 in Music
• Released on: 1994-03-15
• Format: Box set

Album Description
Folk-pop singer and actor. Best known songs include "A Little Bitty Tear" (1962), "Funny Way Of Laughin'" (1962), and "Call Me Mr. In-Between" (1962). Unviersal. 2005.

Customer Reviews

A pretty good disc, but there's only one!
The reviews posted for this album are a bit confusing, so I'll begin with this brief disclaimer: Little Bitty Tear is a single disc, with 10 tracks, on the MCA label. It is an AAD recording, totally dependent on original analog recordings as its source material. Perhaps some of the negative comments on sound quality are due to that.

So far as the songs, Little Bitty Tear offers Burl Ives at his maudlin best. The top cuts are the title tune and Funny Way of Laughing, both soft country tear jerkers that stay oddly touching, despite their somewhat dated sound. The album also includes interesting renditions of Blue Tail Fly, Polly Wolly Doodle and Waltzing Matilda.

Burl Ives' singular voice and peculiar delivery appeal to a very select group of fans. If you are one of those, you will find this album very satisfying. However, if you are only familiar with the featured hits, the rest of the album will likely not have much impact.

Either way, this is a respectable little collection at a very good price. Well worth the investment.

This collection represents Burl Ives at his very best!
The music within this collection is nothing short of remarkable. All the recordings on this 5 CD set have been remastered to ensure the best quality recordings. This set is the formost Burl Ives collection on the market today. It contains his classic renditions of "Little Bitty Tear", "Mary Ann Regrets", "Pearly Shells", "The Blizzard", "My gal Sal", "Jingle Jangle Jingle". The price in this case indicates the quality and quantity of rare recordings contained in the set. This is an excellent box set that will be a favorite of yours for years to come.

Troubadour Extraodinaire!
Burl Ives! . . . even the sound of his name is like a melodie . . . evoking memories of folk songs and ballads and stories in song as told by the honeyed-tinged voice of this balladeer.

The "Nashville" years to my mind became his "best years" . . . not only was Burl in the best delivery, but the songwriters of then "Nashville" were also the best ever . . . no one since has topped the excellence of the "country ballad and song" since.

This collection is truly a treasure and one to be relished picking through again and again. Each track will bring you joy to experience each time you play it and listen to it . . and you will often and for years to come.

Today's singers and songwriters of Nashville would do well to listen also . . and to learn from thre Master and the Masters who's art brought about these musica; tracks and gems. These songs will be around long after most of today's "flash in the pan" musical celebs are gone and forgotten. A talent like that of Burl Ives is and will remain an American treasure.

Thank you Burl Ives for all of the music and smiles (and the "little bitty tears") that you have brought to our lives with your talent. You are missed these days . . . but yet you remain present in these recordings . . . and for this we can be eternally grateful! :)