If Teardrops Were Pennies, released by CBS in 1982 (P 18280), is a Mac Wiseman album recorded at Audio Media in Nashville with a band of skilled session players — Mark Casstevens on guitar, Eddie Adcock on banjo, Charlie McCoy on harmonica — supporting Wiseman's familiar clear baritone. The title track is the classic country waltz Wiseman had been performing for decades; the program also includes Mansion on the Hill, You Are My Sunshine, and Don't Make Me Go to Bed and I'll Be Good. The CBS budget-line treatment kept the recording quality high while pricing the LP for a mass country audience. The album sits among the late-period Wiseman records that maintained his catalog through the 1980s.
Tracklist
- 1 If teardrops were pennies
- 2 Don't make me go to bed and I'll be good
- 3 You Are My Sunshine alt version
- 4 Mansion on the hill
- 5 Let's say goodbye like we said hello
- 6 Maple on the hill
- 7 Picture from life's other side
- 8 Blues in my mind
- 9 Tramp on the street
- 10 Remembering
