Rangers
Zlatá kolekce

  • Format: CD
  • Band: Rangers
  • Title: Zlatá kolekce
  • Band's Origin: CS
  • Style: Folk, compilation
  • Rating: 4/4/3
  • Release Year: 2015
  • Recording Year: 1968-1999
  • Production Year: 2015
  • Record Company: Supraphon
  • Item's Number: SU 6258-2
  • Color of the Label:
  • Edition:
  • Extras: digipak
  • EAN: 099925625825
  • Weight: 157 g
Grading
  • Visual: new
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  • Cover: new

Supraphon Release Information



Eighty tracks without one were selected for this truly “Zlatá kolekce” (Golden Collection)! The compiler Mirek Černý, who has been in close contact with the Rangers or Plavci (Swimmers) since the late sixties, has prepared an excellent compilation of songs from the period 1968 to 1999.

It is in many ways, especially in the seventies and eighties, a hit-by-hit selection. How else to describe the opening line-up of “Pole s bavlnou” (Fields with Cotton), “Zvedněte kotvy” (Lift the Anchors) or “Ta zem je tvá zem” (That Land is Your Land), followed by “Neplač malá” (Don’t Cry Little Girl), “Balíček karet” (Deck of Cards) and “Smutný psaní” (Sad Writing) with the follow-up “Modrý měsíc” (Blue Moon), “Nos pro trable” (Nose for Trouble), “Vina vína” (The Wine of Wine) or “Vysočina” (Highlands), “Poutník s kytarou” (Pilgrim with a Guitar) and “Inženýrská” (Engineering).

Pleasantly surprising from several sources is the licensed last CD, proof that under the onslaught of foreign artists the somewhat overheard nineties were not without excellent songs.

The Rangers had to deal with the tragic departures of Antonín Hájek and Milan Dufek, and the later segmentation into several parts, but this selection offers the best of that most classic period and cast. Very competent as instrumentalists, great for multi-part vocals, clearly recognizable as solo singers. With good judgment in taking songs from others, but also with excellent songwriting potential of their own. Actually uninterruptedly popular because sympathetically civil, melodic and with a gift for punctuating lyrics, both romantic and humorous. Messieurs Řihošek, Vančura and Veisser are the ones actively serving the longest, but also Tomášek or Kaleš are certainly not to be overheard.

The best of Rangers on 3CD: 79 great folk and country hits!

Tracklist



CD 1


1. Pole s bavlnou (Cotton Fields) – ℗ 1970 2:55
2. Zvedněte kotvy (Sloop John B.) – ℗ 1968 2:40
3. Ta zem je tvá zem (This Land Is Your Land) – ℗ 1969 2:14
4. Tulák (Frogg No. 2) – ℗ 1968 3:08
5. Oh, Shenandoah – ℗ 1968 1:53
6. Colorado – ℗ 1968 3:02
7. 900 mil (900 Miles) – Recorded 1969, ℗ 1970 2:15
8. Král silnic (King of the Road) – ℗ 1969 2:11
9. Kingston Town (Jamaica Farewell) – ℗ 1969 2:42
10. Neplač malá (Don’t Cry, Suzanne) – ℗ 1969 2:32
11. Balíček karet (Texas Ranger) – ℗ 1969 4:18
12. Smutný psaní (A Letter Edged in Black) – ℗ 1969 3:17
13. Otec a syn – ℗ 1970 3:56
14. O. K. (The Great Snowman) – ℗ 1970 2:30
15. Tvým snům zlým (Deep Blue Sea) – ℗ 1970 3:15
16. Rákosí (Water Is Wide) – ℗ 1970 3:08
17. Nápis křídou – ℗ 1970 2:18
18. 500 mil (Five Hundred Miles) – Recorded 1971, ℗ 1972 3:01
19. Vím, vím (Green, Green) – ℗ 1970 2:16
20. Láska je věc kouzelná (Love Is Kind, Love Is Wine) – Recorded 1971, ℗ 1972 2:22
21. Julianne – Recorded 1971, ℗ 1972 3:06
22. Modrý měsíc (Blue Moon of Kentucky) – Recorded 1971, ℗ 1972 1:39
23. Pojďte sem – Recorded 1971, ℗ 1972 2:28
24. Mám radost (I Take a lot of Pride in what I Am) – ℗ 1971 2:30
25. Prázdné nádraží – Recorded 1971, ℗ 1972 2:46
26. Nos pro trable (Nose for Trouble) – Recorded 1971, ℗ 1972 2:58
27. Vina vína (The Green Leaves of Summer) – Recorded 1971, ℗ 1972 3:00
28. O málo víc (Little bit of Happiness) – Recorded 1971, ℗ 1972 2:38

CD 2


1. Každý týden (Good Old Fashioned Music) – ℗ 1973 2:24
2. Orchidej (Today) – ℗ 1973 2:30
3. Divnej sen (A Strange Dream) – ℗ 1973 2:03
4. Alchymista (Walking in the Sunshine) – Recorded 1973, ℗ 1974 2:48
5. Vysočina – ℗ 1973 3:35
6. Jarní výlet (On the other Side) – ℗ 1973 1:57
7. Kopej hrob můj (Take My Hammer) – ℗ 1974 4:28
8. Dva na mostě (Wolverton Mountain) – ℗ 1974 2:58
9. Ve svých rukou mám (He’s Got the whole World in His Hands) – ℗ 1974 2:14
10. Křižník Bismarck (Sink the Bismarck) – ℗ 1974 3:01
11. Poutník s kytarou – ℗ 1975 3:21
12. Kouzelník (Teddy Bear Song) – Recorded 1976, ℗ 1977 3:05
13. Romance 16. léta (Lady Greensleeves) – ℗ 1976 3:02
14. Láska končí (Lovin’s over) – Recorded 1976, ℗ 1977 3:01
15. Jestli se chceš stát mou ženou (Gal, You Got a Job to Do) – Recorded 1976, ℗ 1977 2:40
16. Jarní láska – ℗ 1977 3:57
17. Krajina oblých kopců – ℗ 1980 3:47
18. Blues pátého koutu pokoje (Dixie Blues) – ℗ 1980 3:45
19. Trpasličí svatba – ℗ 1980 2:41
20. Nedávno byl jsem školák (I still Believe in Waltzes) – ℗ 1983 3:05
21. Inženýrská – ℗ 1983 3:02
22. Oči tvé lžou nejlíp (Old Flame) – Recorded 1983, ℗ 1984 2:51
23. Jirka a čert (The Devil Went down to Georgia) – Recorded 1983, ℗ 1984 3:36
24. Mám rád swing (Good Ol’ Girls) – Recorded 1983, ℗ 1984 2:47
25. Erb toulavého rodu (Boogie Grass Band) – Recorded 1983, ℗ 1984 2:29

CD 3


1. Slunovláska (Love or something like It) – ℗ 1992 2:38
2. Bílé útesy osudu (The Night they Drove Old Dixie down) – ℗ 1992 3:47
3. Novodobý Robinson (The Fields of Home) – ℗ 1992 3:50
4. Big Rock Candy Mountain – ℗ 1992 1:46
5. Jsi mým osudem (On the other Hand) – ℗ 1992 3:06
6. Poplujem dál (Diggin’ up Bones) – ℗ 1992 2:50
7. Neotálej (Twenty-one) – ℗ 1992 2:11
8. Svítá – ℗ 1992 3:36
9. Dostavník (Ride, Ride, Ride) – ℗ 1993 1:45
10. Dej, Bože můj (Last Farewell) – ℗ 1996 2:33
11. Mississippi (Mighty Mississippi) – ℗ 1993 2:33
12. Ví to každej, ví (California) – ℗ 1993 2:13
13. Když náš dědek pálí whisky (Corn Whiskey) – ℗ 1993 2:22
14. Náklaďák (Joe Magarac) – ℗ 1996 3:05
15. Je ze mě tulák (Ramblin’) – ℗ 1993 2:45
16. Ukolébavka pro Mary Anne (My Dear Mary Anne) – ℗ 1993 2:09
17. Zlomená růže (A Travellin’ Man) – ℗ 1993 2:25
18. Frajer Joe (Natural Man) – ℗ 1996 2:34
19. Už mám jen jedinej cent (My Last Gold Dollar Is Gone) – ℗ 1993 2:25
20. Stalo se v městě Langtry (Lily Langtry) – ℗ 1996 3:45
21. Už jsem si na to zvyk (It Don’t Mean a Thing) – ℗ 1999 1:50
22. Náhodou – ℗ 1999 3:02
23. Polosen zmoklého večera – ℗ 1999 4:11
24. Vždycky se ukáže ráno – ℗ 1999 3:32
25. Rio – ℗ 1999 2:28
26. Na konci milénia – ℗ 1999 3:58