As is often true of Bear, they pad their boxed sets with a lot of stuff most fans won't find of interest...and jack up the price. This one is $235, which is pretty steep. But I notice Eddie McDuff is listed amongst the performers and I personally would like to hear him, since HE IS THE REAL WRITER OF "WELCOME TO MY WORLD."
In my book I reveal how Ray Winkler got all the money and all the credit for what Eddie did, and it enabled Ray to buy a beautiful new home while Eddie's widow (he was killed in a commercial airliner crash after Jim Reeves died), was left to struggle along raising young children on her own.
Yet it was Winkler who got inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame, not Eddie. I interviewed members of Mr. McDuff's family, including his dear widow, who told me the details of this rip off. Other songwriters are privy to this outrage and my information is solid.
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