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Old Shep | 
 enlarge | Artist: Walter Brennan
Label: Mca Special Products
Category: Music
Buy New: $6.98
New (22) Used (9) from $1.48
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 5598
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 008811210328
EAN: 0008811210328
ASIN: B00001T3IH
Release Date: May 16, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Old Shep - Walter Brennan, Foley, Red | | • | Life Gets Tee-Jus, Don't It - Walter Brennan, Robison , Carson J | | • | Shiftin' Whisperin' Sands, Pt. 1 - Walter Brennan, Jack, C | | • | Shiftin' Whisperin' Sands, Pt. 2 - Walter Brennan, Jack, C | | • | Back to the Farm - Walter Brennan, Vaughn, Billy | | • | I Believe - Walter Brennan, Drake, Ervin | | • | Six Feet Away - Walter Brennan, Capehart, Jerry N | | • | Tribute to a Dog - Walter Brennan, Vaughn, Billy | | • | Dutchman's Gold - Walter Brennan, Capehart, Jerry N | | • | Suppertime - Walter Brennan, Stanphill, Ira F. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Love Walter Brennan September 13, 2008
If you like Walter Brennan and those nostalgic songs, this is for you. Real down home country stories put to music.
Great ole' music! February 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Always enjoyed Walter Brennen in Movies and The Real McCoys. Remember my parents playing his albums when i was a kid and liked them then. I bought this for my step-dad who is 92 and in the nursing home, i thought it might be something good for him to listen to.
Great! January 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Came on time in great condition. Walter was great to watch and listen back in the day.
 Beloved Character Actor Had Success With Records Too August 23, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
When seemingly everyone else in the movie and television business decided to try their luck at cutting records in the early 1960s [Patty Duke, Johnny Crawford, Shelley Fabares, etc. etc.], this grizzled old veteran character actor, whose first film was in 1924, and who was then playing Grandpa on The Real McCoys, figured he might just as well join the club. Not singing, of course, but narrating stories set to music.
His first shot came in 1960 at age 66 for the Dot label when Dutchman's Gold [track 9], the story of a tragic miner, was released billed to Walter Brennan with Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra. Emulating an earlier success by Vaughn [1955's The Shifting, Whispering Sands with narration by Ken Nordine, and which Walter does here at tracks 3 and 4], this reached a quite respectable # 30 that June. The B-side was the comical Back To The Farm [track 5].
When nothing else turned out by Dot could repeat that success, he next turned up at Liberty, releasing the marvelously whimsical Old Rivers, the story of a farmer, his mule, and a young friend, soared to the # 2 Adult Contemporary, # 3 Country, and # 5 Billboard Pop Hot 100 spots in May of 1962 with the backing of The Johnny Mann Singers. The flip was a story about America's first astronaut, The Epic Ride Of John H. Glenn.
Two more Liberty hits followed that year, both again backed by Mann, with Houdini just making the Hot 100 at # 100 in August b/w The Old Kelly Place, and then his version of the Bill Anderson Country smash, Mama Sang A Song, which peaked at # 14 Adult Contemporary and # 38 Hot 100 in November b/w Who Will Take Gramma?
It's too bad that only one of his hits and its B-side appears in this album because, while Old Rivers is also fairly easy to locate, you simply cannot find Mama Sang A Song or Houdini anywhere in CD format, never mind the other flipsides. At least I can't.
As for the other contents here, he also does a fabulous job on each, but especially on Old Shep and the Carson Robison 1948 hit Life Gets Tee-Jus, Don't It. There are, unfortunately, no liner notes, which is a shame. It's not as if there wasn't reams of material associated with his long career [he died in September 1974 at age 80] with which to compose a few paltry paragraphs.
WALTER BRENNAN May 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A MUST HAVE FOR FOR THOSE WHO LIKE EASY COUNTRY. A VOICE AND MUSIC FROM THE PAST. OLD SHEP WAS HIS AWARD WINING RECORD ALONG WITH HIS THREE ACADEMY AWARDS. AS USUAL AMAZON CAME THROUGH WITH THE RIGHT PRICE AND FAST DELIVERY. YOUR SERVICE IS "ALMOST" AS ENJOYABLE AS THE CD IS.
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