The Johnny Mann Singers – Ballads of The King | Golden Folk Hits

• The JOHNNY MANN SINGERS supplied backing vocals on hit records by Bobby Vee, Johnny Burnette, Gene McDaniels and Timi Yuro amongst others before making their own albums.
• Together on one CD for the first time all the tracks from their BALLADS OF THE KING that features songs sung by ELVIS and GOLDEN FOLK SONG HITS which brings together folk hits originally recorded by The Kingston Trio, The
Highwaymen, Burl Ives, Harry Belafonte and others.
• Added as bonus tracks are the A and B sides of a single on which THE JOHNNY MANN SINGERS were accompanied by SI ZENTNER ORCHESTRA and their own singles which coupled the ROY ORBISON song SUMMERSONG with MR. AND MRS. MILLIONAIRE.
• Multi GRAMMY Award winning writer, arranger, JOHNNY MANN is best remembered for his 1967 hit ‘Up Up And Away’, but he was an early signee at Liberty Records after writing and arranging music for several film studios.
• The twenty-eight tracks demonstrate the versatility of THE JOHNNY MANN SINGERS on a variety of ballads and up tempo numbers.
• The CD comes with full writer credits, catalogue numbers and release information along with a detailed history of JOHNNY MANN and various label scans, sleeves and press reviews.

Track Listing

1. SURRENDER
2. ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT
3. DON’T ASK ME WHY
4. LOVING YOU
5. I WANT YOU, I NEED YOU, I LOVE YOU
6. DON’T
7. IT’S NOW OR NEVER
8. LOVE ME TENDER
9. ANYWAY YOU WANT ME
10. AS LONG AS I HAVE YOU
11. ONE NIGHT
12. LOVE ME
13. COTTON FIELDS
14. SCARLET RIBBONS (For Her Hair)
15. GREEN FIELDS
16. WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE
17. SHENANDOAH
18. THE WRECK OF THE “JOHN B”
19. THE THREE BELLS (The Jimmy Brown Song)
20. BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE’S HAIR
21. THE BLUE TAIL FLY
22. TOM DOOLEY
23. THE BOLL WEEVIL SONG
24. MICHAEL
25. MISSISSIPPI MUD
26. CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO
27. SUMMERSONG
28. MR. AND MRS MILLIONAIRE