Plantation Gold (2009)

Product Summary Label: OMNI RECORDING CORP./CITY HALL UPC: 09316755892816 Release Date: 3/17/2009 Buy.com Sku: 210562746 Item#: M4JXXX Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. I Am The Grass - Dee Mullins ~ Various Artists 2. Big Fanny - Neil Ray ~ Various Artists 3. Beautiful Downtown Burbank - The Harper Valley P.T.a. ~ Various Artists 4. Loco Locust - Harlow Wilcox & The Oakies ~ Various Artists 5. Sold To The Highest Bidder - "Colonel" Tex Herring/Johnny Moore ~ Various Artists 6. Preacher and The Movie, The - Lawton Williams ~ Various Artists 7. Somebody's Gonna Plow Your Field - Becky Bluefield ~ Various Artists 8. Ballad of a Small Town Sheriff - Clark Bentley ~ Various Artists 9. Happy Valley C.I.A. - Ray "Wong" Riley ~ Various Artists 10. Changing of The Guard - Happy Shashan ~ Various Artists 11. Hello, I'm Johnny Credit - Johnny Credit ~ Various Artists 12. Howard Huges Is Alive and Well - Sonny Hall ~ Various Artists 13. I'm The Mail She's Waiting For - Chuck Wood ~ Various Artists 14. (I Want To Be) A Truck Driver's Sweetheart - Marcie Dickerson ~ Various Artists 15. Mom And Dad's Waltz - Tokyo Matsu ~ Various Artists 16. Baltimore Incident, The - George Kent ~ Various Artists 17. D.O.A.O.D - Jackie Burns ~ Various Artists 18. Please Mr.Johnson - Dewey Jones ~ Various Artists 19. Hippie From Mississipi!! - Rusty Adams ~ Various Artists 20. Just Blow In His Ear - David Wilkins ~ Various Artists 21. I Dig Dangling Participles - The Harper Valley P.T.a. ~ Various Artists 22. Honey (I Miss You Too) - Margaret Lewis ~ Various Artists 23. Long Black Veil - Bobby Jean/Marty Collins ~ Various Artists 24. School Bus, The - T. Tommy Cutrer ~ Various Artists 25. Good Lord Giveth and Uncle Sam Taketh Away, The - Webb Pierce ~ Various Artists 26. Folsom Prison Blues - Little Jimmy Dempsey ~ Various Artists 27. Orange Blossom Special - Tokyo Matsu ~ Various Artists 28. Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Let That Big Plane Carry You - Ben Story ~ Various Artists 2. Big Chief Tell 'Um Lies - Robin Cody ~ Various Artists 3. Wake Up America - "C" Company - (featuring Terry Nelson) ~ Various Artists 4. Groovy Grubworm - Harlow Wilcox & The Oakies ~ Various Artists 5. Color Him Father - Linda Martell ~ Various Artists 6. Put A Little Lovin' On Me - David Wilkins ~ Various Artists 7. Woman's World, A - Teresa Brewer ~ Various Artists 8. Cheating Line, The - Paul Martin ~ Various Artists 9. She Hates To Be Alone - David Wilkins ~ Various Artists 10. Fallen King - Tom Sawyer ~ Various Artists 11. Ain't that Bad About Mrs. Jones - Lawton Williams ~ Various Artists 12. Wheels of Freedom - Melvin Nash ~ Various Artists 13. Four On The Floor (And A Fifth Under The Seat) - Jim Foster ~ Various Artists 14. C.B. Savage - Rod Hart ~ Various Artists 15. Box 1000 Seagoville - Johnny Credit ~ Various Artists 16. Child of Poverty - Paul Martin ~ Various Artists 17. It's Not The Best Way To Live - James O'Gwynn ~ Various Artists 18. Ole Town Drunk - Clark Bentley ~ Various Artists 19. Loving Hands At Home - George Kent ~ Various Artists 20. Medic, The - Neil Ray ~ Various Artists 21. Best Fruit of The Family Tree, The - Tom Sawyer ~ Various Artists 22. Appleton - Webb Pierce ~ Various Artists 23. No Brass Band - Max Powell ~ Various Artists 24. Mrs. Cooper's Tea Party - Margaret Lewis ~ Various Artists 25. Irving - David Wilkins ~ Various Artists 26. Ballad of Morgan - Lawton Williams ~ Various Artists 27. I Walk The Line - Little Jimmy Dempsey ~ Various Artists 28. Unfinished Dream - The Harper Valley P.T.a. ~ Various Artists 29. Flag Draped Coffin - Tom Sawyer ~ Various Artists 30. Tree of Joy - Jeannie C. Riley ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Liner Note Author: Jason Odd. Shelby S. Singelton, Jr. founded the Plantation label in 1967 and ran the independent and its offshoot SSS until 1976, managing to score one massive hit in Jeannie C. Riley's "Harper Valley PTA" but generally churning out odd fodder for Southern jukeboxes and radio stations, most of which fell through the cracks until Omni Records issued this double-disc retrospective in 2009. Plantation Gold doesn't necessarily prove to be a treasure trove of unheralded gems, but it sure is a wonderful collection of period oddities, filled with songs about girls without tops, Vietnam refugees, hippies, dangling participles, truck drivers, jet planes, protesting preachers, C.B. radios, flag-draped coffins, and, of course, the PTA, all sung with gallons of echoes and set to jangling electric and rolling acoustics colored with fuzz guitars, wailing harmonicas, lush strings, horns, and sitars. Some of this is straight-up novelty -- whether it's the god-awful mock Chinese of Ray "Wong" Riley's "Happy Valley C.I.A." or the Johnny Cash parody "Hello, I'm Johnny Credit" -- and some of it is just impossible to classify, like Dee Mullins' creepy eco-friendly "I Am the Grass," the hazy wannabe protest of "C" Company's "Wake Up America," or the gay panic of Rod Hart's lisping "C.B. Savage." Part of the fun of Plantation Gold is trying to figure out who the audience was for each of these singles -- something that even applies to the few big names here, like Webb Pierce's fuzz-drenched anti-tax blues "The Good Lord Giveth and Uncle Sam Taketh Away" -- and one can surely find a handful of gems scattered throughout the generous 58 songs, but the real appeal of the set is that it functions as a time capsule of all that was forgotten about the '60s and '70s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Producer: Shelby S. Singleton, Jr. Engineer: Joe Venneri Musical Guests Terry Nelson   Technical Info Release Date : 03/17/2009 Original Release Date : 2009 Catalog ID : OMNI-124 Label : Omni Records Number of Discs : 2 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 09316755892816   Professional Reviews Record Collector (magazine) (p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "As the demands of radio forced country towards increasingly rigid and formulaic music, it was refreshing that Shelby and his ragbag of misfit signings were so determined not to play ball."    Related Videos Lost Highway: Willie Nelson