Design Album Discography, Part 5:The country series was the analogue of the pop series in almost every way. Find some really
obscure records that current stars recorded before they were anybody (and usually much to their
embarassment), and couple them with some country-like songs from unknown studio artists. Then mix
and match these songs in different combinations so that you can get a bunch of album issues out of the
same material. Moreover, release the same albums on different labels with different cover slicks, and
maybe people won't notice and they'll buy the same album twice (even reissue the same album on the
same label with a different cover slick!).
What else is there to say? I guess only that despite their best efforts to put out throw-away junk records,
a few of these are actually sought after by completist collectors. Go figure.
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The 600 Country series initially used both the full color and the black and white mono Design label. Stereo counterparts used the Stereo Spectrum label |
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Later, the series switched to the red labels, as did other Design series. By late 1967, the mono issues were abandoned in favor of compatible stereo, as with the rest of the industry. |
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Early issues in the series used a generic back that listed the first several albums in the series. Later, with the shift to the red label, the jacket back was changed to a generic country back with a photo collage. Some of the earlier albums were reissued later with the red label and a redesigned cover. |
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DLP-600 Country Series: | |
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DLP/SDLP-601 - Country and Western Stars: Greatest Country and Western Music - Various
Artists [1962] Reissued in the late 1960s with a different cover and the artists names as a title. Little
Miss Heartache - Carl Belew/Just Bumming Around - Jimmy Dean/Picking Sweethearts - Jimmy
Dean/Water Boy Blues - Maddox Brothers & Rose/Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down - Maddox Brothers
& Rose//Walking After Midnight - Patsy Cline/Ain't No Wheels On This Ship - Patsy Cline/The Letter You
Promised To Write - Ferlin Husky/Flowers Speak Louder Than Words - Ferlin Husky/Send Me The
Pillow You Dream On - Carl Belew
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DLP/SDLP-602 - Original Country & Western Stars: T. Texas Tyler - T. Texas Tyler
[1962] Kiss
Me Like Crazy/Ten-Ten-Tennessee Line/That's What You Mean To Me/A Million Tear Drops/Tattler's
Wagon//River Girl/Pretender/Nothing At All/Just Out Of Reach/Golden Wrist Watch
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DLP/SDLP-603 - Original Country and Western Stars: Hank Locklin - Hank Locklin
[1962]
Queen Of Hearts/Mysteries Of Life/Paper face/Send Me The Pillow You Dream On/I'm Lonely
Darling//Come Share The Sunshine With Me/No One Is Sweeter Than You/A Year Of Time/Let Me Be
The One/Born To Ramble
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DLP/SDLP-604 Country & Western Stars: Wynn Stewart & Webb Pierce - Wynn
Stewart/Webb
Pierce [1962] Big City - Wynn Stewart/Falling For You - Wynn Stewart/Couples Only - Wynn
Stewart/Playboy - Wynn Stewart/Wishful Thinking - Wynn Stewart//Jilted Love - Webb Pierce/Heebie
Jeebie Blues - Webb Pierce/Jinx In Love - Webb Pierce/High Geared Daddy - Webb Pierce/I've Loved
You Forever It Seems - Webb Pierce
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DLP/SDLP-605 - Country & Western Stars: Country & Western Music - Various Artists
[1962]
Forgotten Heartaches - Ferlin Husky/Wise Guys - Ferlin Husky/Three Cigarettes In An Ash Tray - Patsy
Cline/Polynesian Baby - Bobby Austin/Under The Spell Of Love - Johnny & Joanie Mosby//Paper Love
Affair - Jimmy Dean/New Step It Up And Go - Maddox Brothers & Rose/You've Been Talking In Your
Sleep - Maddox Brothers & Rose/I Gotta Go Get My Baby - Marvin Rainwater/Daddy's Glad You Came
Home - Marvin Rainwater
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DLP/SDLP-606 - Country & Western Stars: Country & Western Music, Volume II - Various
Artists [1962] A Friend Of Mine - Ferlin Husky/Cross Eyed Gals From The Ozarks - Ferlin Husky/Be
Honest With Me - Billy Brown/Still Going Steady - Johnny & Joanie Mosby/I Wish I Could Fall In Love
Again - Jan Howard//Many Dreams Ago - Jan Howard/Sweet Darling - Jimmy Dean/Above And Beyond
The Call Of Love - Wynn Stewart/Korea's Mountain Northland - Marvin Rainwater/Painted Gold - Marvin
Rainwater
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DLP/SDLP-607 - Country & Western Stars: Country & Western Music, Volume III - Various
Artists [1963] Deck Of Cards - T. Texas Tyler/My Old Hound Dog - Stuart Hamblen/Let Me Know -
Slim Willet/Hot Rod Race - Charlie Ryan/I Can't Run Away - Frankie Miller//Beer Drinkin' Blues - Rocky
Bill Ford/I Wished A Thousand Times - Ferlin Husky/I Gotta Go Get My Baby - Carl Belew/Mama Says
It's Naughty - Maddox Brothers & Rose/I Dreamed You Were Here Last Night - Frankie Miller
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DLP/SDLP-608 - Country and Western Stars: Country & Western Music, Volume IV - Various
Artists [1963] Ace In The Hole - Stuart Hamblen/Remember Me - T.Texas Tyler/Don't Let The Stars
Get In Your Eyes - Slim Willet/Chicken House Boogie - Charlie Ryan/I Don't Know - Frankie
Miller//Aggrivatin' Woman - Rocky Bill Ford/Never Again - Ferlin Husky/Just Out Of Reach - Carl
Belew/Shimmy Shakin' Daddy - Maddox Brothers & Rose/Every Time I'm Kissing You - Carl Belew
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DLP/SDLP-609 - Country & Western Stars: Country & Western Music, Volume V - Various
Artists [1963] Hot Rod Lincoln - Charlie Ryan/Careless Love - T. Texas Tyler/Blue Bonnets In Her
Golden Hair - Stuart Hamblen/Tell Me Now - Slim Willet/I Don't Know What To Tell My Heart - Frankie
Miller//Crying Heart Blues - Ferlin Husky/You're The Only Good Thing - Carl Belew/If You Don't Believe
I'm Leaving - Ferlin Husky/Hangover Blues - Maddox Brothers & Rose/If I'd Known Then What I Know
Now - Carl Belew
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DLP/SDLP-610 - Story of a Broken Heart By Johnny Cash - Various Artists [1963] Mean
Eyed
Cat - Johnny Cash/Story Of A Broken Heart - Johnny Cash/Luther's Boogie - Johnny Cash/Get Rhythm -
Johnny Cash/I Can See An Angel - Frank Simon//Honky Tonk Merry Go Round - Frank Simon/Weeping
Willow - Jan Howard/I've Got My Pride - Jan Howard/Castle Of Love - Bobby Austin/Wall Of Loneliness -
Bobby Austin
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DLP/SDLP-611 - Tennessee - Various Artists [1963] Includes songs by Carl Perkins,
Carl Belew, Huelyn Duvall, and Frank Simon.
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DLP/SDLP-612 - Melodies of the Plains - Rex Allen [Sr.]
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DLP/SDLP-613 - Hootenanny: A Bluegrass Special - John Duffy & Country Gentlemen
[196?] Nine Pound Hammer/Pallet On The Floor/East Virginia Blues/Eddie On The Freeway/500
Miles/Knoxville Girl/Red Wing/Nearer My God To Thee/Katie Dear/You Left Me Alone
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DLP/SDLP-614
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DLP/SDLP-615 - Praise the Lord - Various Artists [196?] He Set Me Free - Maddox
Brothers &
Rose/I'd Rather Have Jesus - Maddox Brothers & Rose/Praise The Lord - T. Texas Tyler/The Old
Country Church - T. Texas Tyler/ Since I Gave My Heart To Jesus - T. Texas Tyler/A Wonderful Time
Up There - Wally Fowler/Victory Thru Jesus - Wally Fowler/From The Crib To The Cross - Eddie Dean
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DLP/SDLP-616 - You Must Have That Pure Religion - Various Artists
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DLP/SDLP-617 - I Can't Stand to Be Alone - Various Artists
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DLP/SDLP-618 - Here Comes the Bride - Various Artists
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DLP/SDLP-619 - Country and Western Jamboree - Various Artists [196?] Back Home In
Indiana - Floyd Cramer/Breaking Hearts - Carl Belew/Come On In - Stewart Family/Heartaches For A
Dime - Wynn Stewart/If Your Conscience Can't Stop You - Jan Howard//Fireman's And Engineer's Ball -
T. Texas Tyler/Time To Cry - Johnny Sea/The Key - David Houston/Heart Of Stone - Ferlin Husky/Mean
Mean Son Of A Gun - Johnny Horton
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DLP/SDLP-620 - Country Music Hall of Fame - Various Artists
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DLP/SDLP-621 - Gene Pitney & Melba Montgomery - Gene Pitney & Melba Montgomery
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DLP/SDLP-622 - Home on the Strange - Billy Strange [196?] With Speedy West on steel
guitar. Ridin' Down The Canyon/When Payday Rolls Around/Cool Water/Tumbling Tumbleweeds/Take
Me Back To My Boots And Saddle//Home On The Range/Beside The Rio Grande/A Cowboy Has To
Sing/El Rancho Grande/Deep In The Heart Of Texas
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DLP/SDLP-623
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DLP/SDLP-624
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DLP/SDLP-625
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DLP/SDLP-626 - Jan Howard, Patsy Cline, Maddox Bros. & Rose - Various Artists
[1964]
Reissue of Design 193; same as International Award 241. In Care Of The Blues - Patsy Cline/Hungry
For Love - Patsy Cline/I Don't Wanna - Patsy Cline/I Wish I Could Fall In Love Again - Jan Howard/Many
Dreams Ago - Jan Howard//Weeping Willow - Jan Howard/I've Got My Pride - Jan Howard/Philadelphia
Lawyer - Maddox Brothers & Rose/No One Is Sweeter Than You - Maddox Brothers & Rose/I Wish I
Was A Single Girl Again - Maddox Brothers & Rose
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DLP/SDLP-627 - Kings of the Steel Guitar - Various Artists [1965] Reissue of Design
196. Oriental Twist - Pete Wade/Orange Blossom Special - Leon McAuliff/Columbus Stockade - Leon
McAuliff/Sweetnin' - Herb Remington/Yes, He's Gone - Herb Remington//A Light Touch - Herb
Remington/Big Dance at the Windmill Greasin' - Herb Remington/Hilo March - Jenks Carmen/Kahila
March - Jenks Carmen/Hillbilly Hula - Jenks Carmen
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DLP/SDLP-628 - Country Chartbusters - Various Artists [1965] Same as
Design 197. Hot Dog - Buck Owens/My Pillow - Roger Miller/Big City - Wynn
Stewart/Falling For You - Wynn Stewart/Couples Only - Wynn Stewart//Wishful Thinking - Wynn
Stewart/Uncommonly - Ott Stephens/Each Time You Cross My Mind - Ott Stephens/You Got Troubles -
Ott Stephens/Snow White Cloud - Ott Stephens
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DLP/SDLP-629 - George Jones & Gene Pitney - George Jones/Gene Pitney [1965]
Maybe
Little Baby/You Are The One/Sweet Dreams/Any Old Time//Cradle Of My Arms/Please Come Back To
Me Baby/I'll Find You/I'm Going Back To My Love
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DLP/SDLP-630
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DLP/SDLP-631
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DLP/SDLP-632
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DLP/SDLP-633
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DLP/SDLP-634 - The Nashville Sound - Various Artists [1966] A Stranger In My Arms -
Patsy Cline/Dear God - Patsy Cline/Too Much To Lose - Carl Belew/A Wasted Love Affair - Carl
Belew/At My Expense - Rocky Bill Ford//I Always Lose - Hank Locklin/It's So Hard To Say I Love You -
Hank Locklin/Road To Heaven - Ferlin Husky/Holy Not A Holiday - Ferlin Husky/Since You've Gone -
Rocky Bill Ford
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DLP/SDLP-635 - America's Favorite Country & Western Stars - Various Artists [1967]
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DLP/SDLP-636 - Mr. Country Fiddler - Scotty Stoneman [1967]
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DLP/SDLP-637 - More Country & Western Favorites! - Various Artists [1967] Hidin' Out -
Patsy
Cline/Alone At A Table For Two - Hank Locklin/Just Another face - Ferlin Husky/Move Over - Carl
Belew/Drifting Apart - Rocky Bill Ford//Cry Not For Me - Patsy Cline/Could You - Hank Locklin/Irma -
Ferlin Husky/I'm Gonna Stay Awake Tonight (To Keep From Dreaming) - Carl Belew/Watchin' The Clock
And Grievin' - Rocky Bill Ford
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DLP/SDLP-638 - Country and Western Bonanza - Various Artists [1967] Come Share
The Sunshine With Me - Hank Locklin/Goose Pimples - Wilburn Brothers/I Watched You Walk Away -
Del Reeves/Here Comes The Bride - Bobby Austin/Tender Years - Bobby Bare//Stumpy Joe - Hank
Locklin/Way Down Under Blues - Wilburn Brothers/So Lonesome And Blue - Del Reeves/My Book Of
Memories - Bobby Austin/You're Just Imagination - Faron Young
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DLP/SDLP-639 - The Wilburn Brothers! - Wilburn Brothers [1967]
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At approximately this point, mono issues are discontinued.
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SDLP-640 - The World of Country Music - Various Artists [1967] The stereo version of
this record is electronically rechanneled. The Battle Of Vietnam - Hal Willis/Daylight Losing Time - Larry
Steele/My Old Hound Dog - Stuart Hamblen/Flowers For The Master's Bouquet - Maddox Brothers &
Rose/Hard Luck And Misery - Johnny & Joanie Mosby//Oklahoma Hills - T. Texas Tyler/The Pillow That
Whispers - Del Reeves/Greenback Dollar - Glen Campbell/If You See My Baby - Wynn Stewart/Cry Cry
Darling - Jimmy Newman
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SDLP-641 - Country Style - Various Artists [1967] Artists include Patsy Cline, Jimmy
Dean, Lonzo & Oscar, and others.
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SDLP-642
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SDLP-643 - Assorted Giants of Country Music - Various Artists
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SDLP-644 - Sunday Morning at Our House - Various Artists [196?] Just A Closer Walk
With Thee - Patsy Cline/He Will Do For You - Patsy Cline/Are You Treating Your Neighbor (As Yourself)
- Hank Locklin/Little Community Church - Stewart family/Dear God - Stewart family/(others)
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SDLP-645 - Country Banjo - Bill Emerson [1969?]
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SDLP-646 - Celebrated Voices of Nashville, Tennessee - Various Artists [1969?]
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