Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius
"Antholog"
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October 06 - 12, 2024
Year of Release: 2000
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Born Believer
Don't Bother To Knock
Fall Softly Snow
Fools
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
I Don't Want To Have To Marry You
If It Ain't Love By Now
If The World Ran Out Of Love Tonight
I'll Never Be Free
I'm Leaving It All Up To You
I've Rode With The Best
Lying In Love With You
Morning Comes Too Early
One Man Woman One Woman Man
Saying Hello Saying I Love You Saying Goodbye
The Bedroom
There's Always A Goodbye
What 'Cha Doin' After Midnight Baby
You Don't Bring Me Flowers
You're The Part Of Me
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Jim Ed Brown was a member of the family group, The Browns (consisting of himself and his two sisters). Their biggest
hit was "The Three Bells," a #1 hit in 1959. From 1955 to 1965, the family trio recorded together. In 1967,
Jim Ed Brown pursued a solo career. Throughout the mid 1970s he would continue recording on his own. In 1976 he teamed
up with Helen Cornelius, and continued as a duo until 1981. At the start of his solo career, he had his own TV show,
which introduced a future Country star, Crystal Gayle. Brown and Cornelius; biggest hit reached #1, the song " I Don't
Want To Have To Marry You." Their other hits are compiled in this week's review, Anthology, covering the years
1976 to 1978.
"Born Believer" was a hit in 1977, asit begins this compilation, and this song they includes the group
Jordinares (who had recorded with Elvis Presley). It's sound is old-fashioned Country. "Don't Bother To Knock"
was another hit in 1979, with it's Pop and Country sound. "Fall Softly Snow" is a very nice Country-sounding
song, from 1977. "Fools" (1979) was written by another Country artist who would have a few hits of his own in
the 1970s, Johnny Duncan ("Thinkin' Of A Rendezvous," "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better," "She Can Put Her Shoes
Under My Bed Anytime." "Fools" has that definite Country sound, heard throughout the 1970s decade (old-fashioned).
The classic "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" has been recorded by many. Jim Ed and Helen put their own
spin on it (1976), Country style. Their most famous hit follows, the #1, "I Don't Want To Have To Marry You."
(1976) It's a classic, and if you were around during the time of this hit, and 1970s Country, you most likely would
remember this hit being heard on AM and Country stations.
"If It Ain't Love By Now" (1977) continues that good old-fashioned Country for Jim Ed and Helen. More of that
is heard on the next track as well, "If The World Ran Out Of Love Tonight," (1978), as this one you can't help but
think that George Jones and Tammy Wynette may have recorded this one. It has that George and Tammy style. Also from
1978, is "I'll Never Be Free," a song that has a great Country sound, and it's another song that George and Tammy
could have covered. "I'm Leaving It All Up To You" (1976) was also covered by many, especially male and female duos
(Dale & Grace, Donny & Marie Osmond) - Jim Ed & Helen gets added to that list. "I've Rode With The Best" is a solo
song by Jim Ed Brown, from 1976. It's Country sound is very familar to that of a Waylon Jennings song. "Lying In Love
With You" (1976) is another good Country duet by Jim Ed and Helen. Likewise (from 1976), "Morning Comes To
Early," having a nice Pop and Country sound. If the song "One Man Woman One Woman Man" (1976), it was written
by Paul Anka, a duet by Anka and Odia Coates. It's another good Country duet for Jim Ed and Helen. The George and Tammy
sound gets the next track, "Saying Hello Saying I LOve You Saying Goodbye," another hit for them, in 1976.
"The Bedroom" (1976) is also a George and Tammy sounding tune.
Two solo songs by Helen Cornelius, "There's Always A Goodbye" and "What 'Cha Doin' After Midnight Baby"
(both from 1976) also proves that she can have good songs by herself, just as Jim Ed Brown did. Both songs combines both
Pop and Country. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (the Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand hit; 1976) - as they both
do quite a very good cover of the Neil and Barbra hit, and their voices do have a resemblence to the original. Ending
the compilation is another Jim Ed Brown solo song from 1976, "You're The Part Of Me." And speaking of Neil Diamond,
if you look at the Anthology album cover, Jim Ed Brown kinda looks like between Neil Diamond and a young Revered
Jim Bakker. Thoughts?
The Anthology of Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius is a great introduction of their songs recorded together. They
recorded 6 albums together, from 1976 to 2007. The #1 "I Don't Want To Have To Marry You" is their most best
remembered hit. Yet this compilation does show how they sang together very well, and being compared to George Jones and
Tammy Wynette of the other famous male and female Country duets, from the 1970s. Jim Ed Brown had many syndicated radio
shows in his lifetime. He passed away in 2015, from lung cancer, age 81. Helen Cornelius is still with us, at age 83.
Aside from the albums recorded with Jim Ed Brown, she only recorded one solo album of her own in 1985. She toured with
the Statler Brothers after Jim Ed Brown. and performed in the show Annie Get Your Gun. In 1988, she reunited with
Jim Ed Brown for a nationwide tour. In the 1990s she opened Nashville South In Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and performed there
with a house band. In the early 2000s she performed a regular gig at the Jim Stafford Theater in Branson, Missouri.
Recently, she is an active participant in the Country's Family Reunion series, aired on RFD-TV.
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