The Daddy of 'Em All explained

The Daddy of 'Em All
Type:studio
Artist:Ernest Tubb
Cover:Daddyofemall.jpg
Released:July 1957
Recorded:June 12–14, 1956
Studio:Music City Recording (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre:Country, honky tonk
Label:Decca
Producer:Paul Cohen
Prev Title:Red and Ernie
Prev Year:1956
Next Title:The Importance of Being Ernest
Next Year:1959

The Daddy of 'Em All is an album by American country singer Ernest Tubb, released in 1957.

Reception

In his AllMusic review, Bruce Eder called The Daddy of 'Em All "... one of the great honky tonk long-players of its era."

Track listing

  1. "You're Breaking My Heart" (H. H. Melka)
  2. "I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair" (Jimmie Davis, Bonnie Dodd, Charles Mitchell)
  3. "I Know My Baby Loves Me in Her Own Peculiar Way" (Riley Shepard, Don Canton)
  4. "Mississippi Gal" (Taylor McPeters, Daniel Cypert, Sam Nicols)
  5. "When a Soldier Knocks and Finds Nobody Home" (Ernest Tubb, Moon Mullican, Lou Wayne)
  6. "Daisy Mae" (Floyd Tillman)
  7. "I've Got the Blues for Mammy" (Hy Heath, William Daugherty)
  8. "This Troubled Friend of Mine" (Billy Hughes, Johnny Tyler)
  9. "I Knew the Moment I Lost You" (Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan)
  10. "You're the Only Good Thing" (Jack Toombs, Chuck Gregory)
  11. "My Hillbilly Baby" (Rex Griffin)
  12. "There's No Fool Like a Young Fool" (Bette Thomasson)

Personnel