VA - 35!!! Years Of Bear Family Records (2010)

Bear Family Records came into being in the late summer of 1975. We want to celebrate the company's 35th anniversary with a very special release. A specially priced CD/book edition has been produced just for this event. Our friends in the music industry, musicians and songwriters, have written and recorded a collection of 'Bear' songs especially for our anniversary. These original recordings - 68 in all - are available exclusively on this LP-sized Bear Family boxed set. Especially interesting are the songs that deal not just with any old bear, but with our own Bear Family label - Jim Diamond: Bear Family; Deke Dickerson: Bear Family Talking Blues; Roland Heinrich: Sixteen Discs, and Kim Lenz: What I Crave. In the accompanying book, some of the world's leading music critics and experts pick their all-time favorite Bear Family releases. This CD boxed set is an unprecedented celebration because Bear Family is a record company without peer - and because a 35th anniversary only comes once every thirty-five years!

Tracklist:

CD 1
1. Truly Lover Trio - Bear The Pain (2:17)
2. Richard Bennett - Big Bear Jubilee (2:35)
3. Deke Dickerson - Bear Family Talkin' Blues (2:58)
4. Fatboy - Bear Moon (2:13)
5. Mike Sanchez - The Bear (3:10)
6. Spampinato Bros. - A Bear Is A Bear Is A Bear (3:14)
7. Little Rachel & The Rhythm Busters - Hey Big Bear! (2:43)
8. Ian Gomm & Jeb Loy Nichols - Running Bear (4:36)
9. Alexander Durefelt - Grizzly (4:58)
10. Jon Emery - Goldie Rocks And The Hillbilly Bears (5:20)
11. Bill Lloyd - Bear With Me (2:55)
12. Kim Lenz - What I Crave (2:12)
13. Nancy Apple - Bears In Them Woods (3:18)
14. Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders - Bear In Mind (3:26)
15. Kent Norberg - Last Polar Bear (4:12)
16. The Men - The Spiderbear (1:07)
17. B. B. & The Blues Shacks - The Bear Is Back (2:51)
18. Tom Stevens - Bear In The Woods (3:37)
19. Sprague Brothers - She's A Bearcat (3:01)
20. Louie Ortega - I Can't Bear To See Cry (3:32)
21. Southern Skyline - Steady With Teddy (3:43)
22. Elisabeth Cook - Teddy Bear (4:08)
23. Hermann Lammers Meyer - Little Teddy Bear (3:25)

CD 2
1. Bela B. - Running Bear (3:09)
2. The West Saugerties & Quail Club - Grizzly Bear (2:19)
3. Dave Schramm & The Five-One Jug Band - Bears (2:37)
4. Martin Belmont - Battersea Bears (2:17)
5. Hotel Rex - Tanz Bär tanz (2:18)
6. Sabrina Ascacibar - Ein Bär wie ein Mann (5:01)
7. Ladi Geisler - Baby Bear's Birthday (Bärchens Geburtstag) (4:25)
8. Crystalairs - Das Bärchenbaby Boris (3:33)
9. Gunter Gabriel - Schnapp Dir'n Bär (und lad ihn ein zu 5-Uhr Tee) (3:02)
10. Ulrich Tukur & die Rhythmus Boys - Kleiner Bär von Berlin (2:45)
11. Göth Alsmann - Ein kleiner Bär mit großen Ohren (2:38)
12. Amy Allison - Moonlight On The Mountains (3:51)
13. Cip Taylor - Bearly Makin' It (3:12)
14. Little Sparrow - The Hunted (A Bears Tale) (4:56)
15. Jim Diamond - Bear Family (2:08)
16. Hank Davis - Bearly Able (2:30)
17. George Hamilton IV - The Preacher And The Bear (2:57)
18. Ray Campi - Bear Me In Mind (2:02)
19. Roland Heinrich - The Ballad Of Papa Bear And Mr. Possum (3:46)
20. Johnny Bush - Beartooth (3:52)
21. The Siekers - Bears In Texas (3:17)
22. Riders In The Sky - Smokey The Bear (2:34)
23. Peter Cooper - Nashville Bear Scare (3:40)

CD 3
1. Roland Heinrich - Sixteen Discs (2:57)
2. Paul Burch - Ursula Major (3:13)
3. Johnny Vallis & Johnny Preston - Running Bear (2:38)
4. Björn Olsson - Björn Olsson (2:47)
5. Gwil Owen - Honey Bear (3:30)
6. Tim Carroll - Alley Oop (3:10)
7. Mike Bell & The Belltones - Crazy Bear Rock (1:47)
8. Velvetone - Fuzzy Brown (2:18)
9. Ervin Travis - Grizzly Bear (2:21)
10. The Twistaroos - The Grizzly Bear (2:38)
11. Dennis Diken - Bear (In My Garden) (3:27)
12. Hank Shizzoe - Beware Of The Bear (3:25)
13. Freddie Staedy Krc - Like A Bear Loves Honey (3:00)
14. Phil Lee - I Wanna Spend My Christmas Time With You (2:49)
15. The Goo Men - The Bear (4:46)
16. Mike & The Ravens - Once I Was A Dancing Bear (4:42)
17. Tommy Womack - Luigi, The Lonely Christmas Bear (4:11)
18. Tim Lee 3 - Ursa Major (Airships) (2:28)
19. Charlie Pickett & The Mothers Of Propriety - What I Like About Miami (2:31)
20. Robert Johnson & The Punchdrunks - Don't Touch That Bear Or I'll Mangle You (3:17)
21. The Atomic Blast - The Amazing Hypno-Bear (On A Unicycle) (2:38)
22. Jeff Bird - Somebody's Sleeping In My Bed (4:16)