The Best of Country

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

1▶CD: Country Legends - Rawhide
2▶CD: Country Legends - Jambalaya
3▶CD: Country Legends - Blame It on the Times
4▶CD: Country Legends - Honky Tonkin’
5▶CD: Country Legends - For the Good Times
6▶CD: Country Legends - Kiss an Angel Good Morning
7▶CD: Country Legends - I Walk the Line
8▼CD: Country Legends, Volume 1
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1I Walk the Line
producer:
Sam Phillips (founder of Sun Records)
acoustic guitar and lead vocals:
Johnny Cash (country music legend) (on 1956-04-02)
double bass:
Marshall Grant (on 1956-04-02)
electric guitar:
Luther Perkins (on 1956-04-02)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Sun Entertainment Corporation (company credits only; do not use as release label!) (in 1956) and Sun Record Company (in 1956)
recorded at:
Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, United States (on 1956-04-02)
part of:
Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 30), Dave Marsh: The Best of the Top 40 Singles: 1956 (number: 33) and Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition (number: 76)
recording of:
I Walk the Line (on 1956-04-02)
lyricist and composer:
John R. Cash (country music legend) (in 1956)
publisher:
Aberbach (London) (publisher), Bug Music, Inc., Carlin Music Corporation, Hill and Range Songs, Inc. (publisher), Hill and Range Southwind Mus S A (BMI-affiliated) and House of Cash, Inc. (BMI-affiliated, publisher for works of Johnny Cash)
Johnny Cash4.152:43
2Me and Bobby McGee
cover recording of:
Me and Bobby McGee
lyricist and composer:
Fred Foster and Kris Kristofferson
publisher:
Combine Music Corp., Copyright Control (not for release label use! this is only for copyrights and publishing relationships), EMI Songs Ltd. and Keith Prowse Music Publishing Co. Ltd.
Kenny Rogers2:32
3Dallas
Billie Jo Spears2:50
4Always Something There to Remind Me
recording of:
(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me
lyricist:
Hal David
composer:
Burt Bacharach
publisher:
Blue Seas Music, Inc., BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. (Hal David) (not for release label use! see annotation), Carlin Music Corporation, Copyright Control (not for release label use! this is only for copyrights and publishing relationships), Intersong Music, JAC Music Co., Inc., New Hidden Valley Music Co., フジパシフィック音楽出版 BMG事業部 (until 2014-12-31), フジパシフィック音楽出版 第2事業部 (Fujipacific Music Publishing Division 2) (until 2014-12-31), フジパシフィックミュージック BMG事業部 (Fujipacific Music Inc., BMG Division) (from 2015-01-01 to present) and フジパシフィックミュージック 第2事業部 (Fujipacific Music, Inc. Division 2) (from 2015-01-01 to present)
Don Williams2:24
5Stand by Your Man
cover recording of:
Stand by Your Man (on 1968-10-10)
writer:
Billy Sherrill (US songwriter/producer/arranger) and Tammy Wynette
publisher:
Al Gallico Music Corp., EMI Al Gallico Music Corp., EMI Blackwood Music Inc. and EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated)
Lynn Anderson2:46
6Blame It on the Times
recording of:
Blame It on the Times
lyricist and composer:
Willie Nelson
publisher:
Tree Publishing Co., Inc.
Willie Nelson2:18
7Honky Tonkin’
recording of:
Honky Tonkin’ (on 1947-11-06)
lyricist and composer:
Hank Williams (country music legend)
publisher:
Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc. (BMI) (on 1948-11-16)
Hank Williams3.752:47
8Letter to Heaven
recording of:
Letter to Heaven
lyricist and composer:
Dolly Parton
publisher:
Owepar Publishing Inc.
Dolly Parton2:37
9Wedding Bells
recording of:
Wedding Bells (on 1949-03-20)
lyricist and composer:
Claude Boone
publisher:
Morley Music Co. Inc. and Hometown Music Co., Inc. (on 1947-11-21)
Hank Williams2:55
10All That Keeps Me Alive
Donna Fargo2:26
11Big Town
recording of:
Big Town
lyricist and composer:
Harold L. Jenkins
Conway Twitty2:26
12Love Me ’Till the Morning Comes
Rita Remington2:14
13I Miss You So
Mickey Gilley2:13
14There Goes My Everything
recording of:
There Goes My Everything (1965 song)
lyricist and composer:
Dallas Frazier (American songwriter and musician)
publisher:
Acuff-Rose Music Limited (UK), Copyright Control (not for release label use! this is only for copyrights and publishing relationships), Elvis Presley Music Inc., Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc. (BMI) (on 1965-11-24), Blue Crest Music, Inc. (on 1965-11-24) and Husky Music (on 1965-11-24)
version of:
En gång är ingen gång
Anne Murray3:26
15Burning Memories
cover recording of:
Burning Memories
writer:
Melvin Tillis and Wayne Walker
Waylon Jennings2:21
16Crystal Chandeliers
recording engineer:
Jim Malloy
recorded at:
RCA Victor Studios (Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
cover recording of:
Crystal Chandeliers (1965 song) (on 1967-07-31)
lyricist and composer:
Ted Harris (US Rockabilly/Country artist Theodore Clifford Harris)
recording of:
Crystal Chandeliers (1965 song)
lyricist and composer:
Ted Harris (US Rockabilly/Country artist Theodore Clifford Harris)
Charley Pride2.52:49
17Jezebel
recording of:
Jezebel
lyricist and composer:
Wayne Shanklin
publisher:
Anne-Rachel Music Corp. and Domino Publishing Co. Ltd.
Frankie Laine3:10
18Box of Memories
recording of:
Box of Memories
writer:
Clark Bentley and Jerri Clark
Jeannie C. Riley2:29
19Bimbo
live recording of:
Bimbo (1953 song) (in 1959)
lyricist and composer:
Rod Morris
publisher:
EMI Unart Catalog Inc.
Jim Reeves1:42
20Jambalaya
Jerry Lee Lewis1:59
9▶CD: Country Legends, Volume 2
10▶CD: Kenny Rogers
11▶CD: Country's Finest
12▶CD: Follow Me Back to Louisville