Jean Shepard - Dear John Letter:the Singles Collection 1953-62 AEC Music plus recordings leading his own

plus recordings leading his own trios

translating the classic songs from films and Broadway shows into a string of hits

What they played proved that it was possible for younger musicians to recreate music heard originally on the scratchy old pre-WW2 78-rpm records

In fact they had too many hits for us to be able to include all of them in this great-value 48-track 2-CD collection

"pour Sans Souci" and "pour le nouveau Palais"

Jean Shepard - Dear John Letter:the Singles Collection 1953-62 AEC Music plus recordings leading his ownThe US country charts were for many years in the post war era the exclusive domain of male artists and it was not until Kitty Wells in 1952, soon followed by Jean Shepard in 1953, that a female artist topped the country charts. Specialising in songs redolent with the familiar country themes, especially for female artists during those times, of relationships, lost love, betrayal and heartache, and having had her first hit at No. 1 with "A Dear John