This is a fairly comprehensive overview of the first decade and more of her career

Born in Missouri in 1925, Sue Thompson was performing at the age of seven, but it was not until after working at a defence plant in WWII and having a daughter in a failed marriage that she started singing professionally at the end of the 1940s. She met and married bandleader Dude Martin and made her first records with him in 1950, going on to develop a solo career in the early 1950s, although it took the best part of a decade to make an impact on the charts, having her first hit with 'Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)' in 1961, her youthful image defying the fact that she was 36 years old by then. This 59 track 2-CD collection features the A and B sides of her singles on the Mercury, Decca, Columbia and Hickory labels from these years, and the tracks from her albums 'Meet Sue Thompson' and 'Two Of A Kind' not otherwise released on singles. It includes releases with Dude Martin's Round-Up Gang and Hank Penny, whom she married after divorcing Martin. It features her Top 5 US hits 'Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)' and 'Norman' and her other chart entries from these years 'Two Of A Kind', 'If The Boy Only Knew', 'Have A Good Time' and 'James (Hold The Ladder Steady)'. She was a highly versatile performer, equally at home with the country-flavoured material where she started her career and to which she gravitated in later years, and the teen-styled pop with which she enjoyed her success, and this a fairly comprehensive overview of the first decade and more of her career.

Track Listing

• Angels Cry
• If You Want Some Lovin'
• What've You Got (That Makes Me Love You)
• You're Gettin' A Good Thing When You Get Me
• (I Was) Just Walkin' Out The Door
• I'll Hate Myself In The Morning
• I Think I'll Eat A Tadpole
• Junior's A Big Boy Now
• You're An Angel On The Outside (A Devil On The Inside)
• You Belong To Me
• Last Night I Heard Somebody Cry
• Red Hot Henrietta Brown
• How Many Tears (Make An Ocean)
• If You Should Change (Your Mind) 
• Take Care, My Love
• The Things I Might Have Been
• Say It With Your Heart
• You And Me
• I Long To Tell You
• I'm Not That Kind Of A Girl
• Donna Wanna
• Gee But I Hate To Go Home Alone
• Walkin' In The Snow
• Come A Little Bit Closer
• Your Mommie And Your Daddy
• Day Dreaming
• Walkin' To Missouri
• Red Hot Henrietta Brown
• Say Something Nice To Me

• Angel, Angel
• Throwin' Kisses
• Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)
• Nine Little Teardrops
• Norman
• Never Love Again
• Two Of A Kind
• It Has To Be
• Have A Good Time
• If The Boy Only Knew
• James (Hold The Ladder Steady)
• My Hero
• Willie Can
• Too Much In Love
• Oh, Lonesome Me
• Tonight (Could Be The Night)
• Love Me To Pieces
• ('Til) I Kissed You
• Give Myself A Party
• If You Don't Somebody Else Will
• Mama, Don't Cry At My Wedding
• He's Back
• I Can't Stop Loving You
• Bonaparte's Retreat
• Jealous Heart
• That's Just Too Much
• Afraid
• Big Daddy
• I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
• Sob Sister

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR

Run Time: 142 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/03/24

UPC: 824046351229