Track Listing DISC 1: 1. On the Road Again - Willie Nelson 2. Act Naturally - Buck Owens 3. I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline 4. Stand by Your Man - Tammy Wynette 5. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash 6. Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell 7. El Paso - Marty Robbins 8. I Love a Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt 9. King of the Road - Roger Miller 10. Don't It Make Your Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle 11. I Want to Go With You - Eddy Arnold 12. Mama Tried - Merle Haggard 13. Three Bells, The - The Browns 14. Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender 15. Somewhere Tonight - Highway 101
DISC 2: 1. Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton 2. Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis 3. For the Good Times - Ray Price 4. Hello Walls - Faron Young 5. Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson 6. Gambler, The - Kenny Rogers 7. Coal Miner's Daughter - Loretta Lynn 8. Young Love - Sonny James 9. Hello Darlin' - Conway Twitty 10. Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich 11. Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke 12. Four Walls - Jim Reeves 13. Swingin' - John Anderson 14. Streets of Bakersfield - Buck Owens & Dwight Yoakam 15. I'm Movin' On - Hank Snow
| Details | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Recording information: 1952 - 1988. A wide-ranging two-disc set with 30 songs, BILLBOARD #1's: CLASSIC COUNTRY is roughly evenly divided between three important eras. The traditional country of the 1950s and early '60s brings hits by Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, and Faron Young; the strings-and-choirs school of "countrypolitan" music showcases hits by Tammy Wynette, Ray Price, and Lynn Anderson; finally, the country-pop of the Urban Cowboy school and its nearly immediate New Traditionalist backlash of the mid-1980s includes songs by Willie Nelson, Eddie Rabbit, and Randy Travis. And the non-chronological setlist nicely showcases the similarities of the twangy schools more than the differences.
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