Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello

Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello is a compilation of Ernest Tubb recordings from 1947 to 1953, released in 1991. It is a 5-CD box set and contains 119 songs. The set includes extensive liner notes, session notes and photographs. Among the songs are performances by Tubb with Red Foley, The Andrews Sisters, and Minnie Pearl. In his Allmusic review, Bruce Eder describes the album as "These 119 songs over five CDs represent Ernest Tubb at the very peak of his career musically and commercially, from 1947 until 1953. Disc One is filled with winners; Tubb's voice on these and the rest of the songs in this collection is at its richest and most expressive, not exactly soaring (it never did that) but never straining into the top of his...