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The Cajun Country Music of a Louisiana Man

The Cajun Country Music of a Louisiana Man
Jimmy C. Newman

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Track Listing

  1. Cry, Cry Darling
  2. Day Dreamin'
  3. Blue Darlin'
  4. Let Me Stay in Your Arms
  5. God Was So Good
  6. I Thought I'd Never Fall in Love Again
  7. Seasons of My Heart
  8. Falling Star
  9. Come Back to Me
  10. Last Night
  11. Everybody's Dying for Love
  12. Alligator Man
  13. Bayou Talk
  14. DJ for a Day
  15. City of the Angels
  16. Back in Circulation
  17. Artificial Rose
  18. Back Pocket Money
  19. Dropping Out of Sight
  20. Louisiana Saturday Night
  21. Blue Lonely Winter
  22. Born to Love You
  23. Thibodeaux and His Cajun Band
  24. Louisiana Man

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #321867 in Music
  • Released on: 2001-02-27
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Format: Import

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1960's Decca Recordings4
A member of the Grand Ole Opry for well over 40 years. Jimmy C Newman has had a long string of hits. This collection features the many hits Jimmy had with Decca records. "DJ for a Day" from 1963 was a song by a then unknown by the name of Tom T. Hall. This is the best single collection you will find on Jimmy C. Newman. The "C" stands for cajun. Good Collection!!!

A fine selection from one of Nashville's great also-rans4
A strong selection of Louisiana country hero Jimmy "C" Newman's hits from the late '50s and '60s, many laced with Cajun-style fiddles and a long Louisiana drawl. Newman worked in obscurity for about a decade before his breakthrough in the mid-1950s; his early hits were musically strong and fairly rough hewn; it's pretty remarkable, though -- and something of a testimony to the former power of regional fan bases -- that a guy with such a pronounced lisp could have done so well on the charts. On his mid-50s singles for the Dot label, Newman's slurred "s" and "st" almost constantly; although by the time he signed to Decca in '61, he'd smoothed his impediment out, along with some of the rougher, more honkytonk edges in his music. This is a pretty nice collection of a well-known Nashville second-stringer; Newman never topped the charts, but he snuck into the Top Ten consistently throughout his career.

The only downside of this disc is that none of his material on MGM (from 1958-60) is included, so there's an unfortunate gap of a few years... (Did he have a lisp then, too... or not??) Overall, though, this is a good collection for fans of hard country as well as the rootsier side of the Nashville Sound.

I hear Jimmy Newman on XM radio and want to order his CD's!5
I was listening to XM radio and heard the song, Aligator Man. I found out that this is old Cajun with old country added, sung by Jimmy Newman. I just love the sound, and now I am fixin' to place my order! Thank you, Amazon, for having it in stock!