Webb Pierce on Decca: Cross Country, Sands of Gold & The Wondering Boy — 3 LPs

A three-record run of Webb Pierce on Decca, spanning the singer's long tenure with the label from the original-issue 1950s pressing of The Wondering Boy (DL 8295) through the early-1960s LPs Cross Country (DL 4294) and Sands of Gold (DL 4486). The grouping captures Pierce at full stride — West Monroe, Louisiana's "singingest son," whose honky-tonk hits anchored Decca's country catalog for over a decade. The Cross Country jacket is a standout: Pierce in a gold-embroidered Nudie-style suit posed at the silver-dollar-and-tooled-leather interior of his famous custom convertible — one of Nashville's most photographed cars of the era, its dash inlaid with silver dollars and its upholstery hand-tooled in full floral leather.

All three albums from a single-owner collection, most acquired in the 1960s and 1970s. Records play; jackets show the honest wear of shelf-kept LPs of the period. Full track listings for all three albums are detailed in the Specifications section below.

CONDITION

Good overall. Records are playable. Jackets show age toning, edge and corner wear, and light surface soiling consistent with the era; a price notation appears in pencil on the Sands of Gold verso. From a single-owner collection with no unpleasant odors.

DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS

• Format: 12" Vinyl LP, 33⅓ RPM, Mono
• Quantity: 3 albums
• Label: Decca Records, Printed in U.S.A.

Webb Pierce — The Wondering Boy · Decca DL 8295

Side One

• 1. Wondering (Joe Werner)
• 2. There Stands the Glass (Russ Hull, Mary Jean Shurtz, Autry Gresham)
• 3. That's Me Without You (J.D. Miller)
• 4. Don't Throw Your Life Away (Billy Wallace, Webb Pierce)
• 5. Love, Love, Love (Ted Jarrett)
• 6. If You Were Me (And I Were You) (Webb Pierce, Frank Miller)

Side Two

• 1. Back Street Affair (Billy Wallace)
• 2. It's Been So Long (Autry Gresham)
• 3. Slowly (Webb Pierce, Tommy Hill)
• 4. That Heart Belongs to Me (Webb Pierce)
• 5. Yes I Know Why (Webb Pierce)
• 6. I'm Gonna Fall Out of Love with You (Martha Ellis Taylor, Randy Hughes)

Webb Pierce — Cross Country · Decca DL 4294

Side One

• 1. Heartaches by the Number (Harlan Howard)
• 2. You Are My Life (Webb Pierce, Louis Blackburn)
• 3. Waterloo (Marijohn Wilkins, John D. Loudermilk)
• 4. Cry, Cry, Darlin' (Jimmy Newman, J.D. Miller)
• 5. Free of the Blues (Webb Pierce, D.C. Mullins)
• 6. I'm Letting You Go (Webb Pierce, Drusky, Vanadore)

Side Two

• 1. Take Time (Marijohn Wilkins, Mel Tillis, Harry Hart)
• 2. Someday You'll Call My Name (Jean Branch, Eddie Hill)
• 3. Alla My Love (Jimmy Gately, Harold Donny)
• 4. Crazy Wild Desire (Mel Tillis, Webb Pierce)
• 5. I'm Fallin' in Love with You (Mel Tillis, Wayne Walker)
• 6. I Close My Eyes (Webb Pierce, Wayne P. Walker)

Webb Pierce — Sands of Gold · Decca DL 4486

Side One

• 1. Please Help Me, I'm Falling (Don Robertson, Hal Blair)
• 2. Sands of Gold (Webb Pierce, Cliff Parman, Hal Eddy)
• 3. Blue Mood (Art Demmas, Warner McPherson, Stanley Kincaid)
• 4. Don't Let Me Cross Over (Penny Jay)
• 5. Roses Are Red (My Love) (Al Byron, Paul Evans)
• 6. My Love for You (Warner Mack)

Side Two

• 1. Detroit City (Danny Dill, Mel Tillis)
• 2. Those Wonderful Years (Webb Pierce, Don Schroeder)
• 3. Nobody's Darlin' But Mine (Jimmie Davis)
• 4. If the Back Door Could Talk (Webb Pierce, Grady Martin)
• 5. True Love Never Dies (Webb Pierce)
• 6. The Smile of a Clown (Marijohn Wilkin, Fred Burch)