It is not chronicled evenhandedly, though. Was the first (and, to date, only) to attempt a serious, multi-label overview of ' lengthy career, and while it has a few flaws, it nevertheless is indeed essential as an overview of his prolific work, tracing his hits from 1955's 'Why Baby Why' to 1989's wonderful 'The King Is Gone (And So Are You).' That means there's nothing from his MCA records here, but that's not a major problem, since his peak ended when he left Epic, and that entire peak is chronicled here. When Epic/Legacy released the double-disc in 1994, he had recorded for no less than six labels - in chronological order: Starday, Mercury, United Artists, Musicor, Epic, MCA (since then, he's added two more labels: Elektra and BNA/RCA) - over the course of four decades, a discographical nightmare if there ever was one. If any artist cried out for a cross-licensed, multi-label retrospective, it was.
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