The Daddy of 'Em All

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Released July 1957 Release date July 1957 Label Hallmark Records		Artist Ernest Tubb Producer Paul Cohen Genres Country music, Honky-tonk
Recorded June 12–14, 1956, Music City Recording, Nashville, Tennessee Red and Ernie(1956) The Daddy of 'Em All(1957) The Daddy of 'Em All(1957) The Importance of Being Ernest(1959) Similar Ernest Tubb albums, Honky-tonk albums

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."

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