Chart Years

Lynn Anderson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 1999)
• Original Release Date: October 26, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Renaissance
• ASIN: B00001SIAC
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #416,695 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ride, Ride, Ride

2. If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away)

3. Keeping Up Appearances

4. Too Much Of You

5. Beggars Can't Be Choosers

6. Promises, Promises

7. No Another Time

8. Big Girls Don't Cry

9. Flattery Will Get You Everywhere

10. Our House Is Not A Home (If It's Never Been Loved In)

11. That's A No No

12. He'd Still Love Me

13. I've Been Everywhere

14. Rocky Top

15. I'm Alright

16. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels

17. Jim Dandy

18. He Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye

19. I Live To Love You

20. Strangers

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection of Anderson's early years, June 20, 2000

By 

James E. Bagley "Jim Bagley" (Sanatoga, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chart Years (Audio CD)

In 1966, a teenaged Anderson signed with the small Chart label and immediately hit with her mother Liz's up-tempo composition "Ride, Ride, Ride." For the next two years, mom kept daughter charting with top-notch songs that played off her youthful exuberance like "If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away)" and "Promises, Promises." Outside writers entered the fray in 1969 and continued the success, with the equally playful "That's A No No" as well as the Wynette-like tearjerker "Our House Is Not A Home." Anderson would leave Chart in 1970 for the big time (Columbia Records) but the move didn't mean she was now Chartless. Chart mined Anderson's old albums for new singles to compete with her new Columbia recordings. They astutely selected remakes of hits like Hank Snow's "I've Been Everywhere" and the Osborne Brothers' "Rocky Top" which displayed Anderson at her most irresistibly chipper. Consequently, Chart got a handful of top 20 hits for about two years after she left the label. The Chart Years contains every single Chart released on Anderson (including all of the aforementioned), along with a few well-chosen album tracks like "Auctioneer" and "Sing Me A Sad Song." As her entire Chart catalog had been out of print for years, most people have forgotten or never heard these great early Anderson recordings. This reissue should help rectify that.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best pure country Lynn Anderson album, April 25, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Chart Years (Audio CD)

I had been looking for the song "If I Kiss You" for many years. When I finally found and purchased the CD I was pleasantly surprised with the other tracks. I had forgotten about "No Another Time", which was one of my favorites in college, and "Big Girls Don't Cry". Lynn's renditions of "Rocky Top" and "I've Been Everywhere" are good. The liner notes are good and I have a new appreciation for the song writing abilities of Lynn's mother, Liz. I will probably wear this CD out, the tracks are so good and bring back good country memories, in fact I am playing it now. By the way, I must be the only person on the planet who did not like the crossover hit "Rose Garden". However, in this album (before that era) Lynn's Pure County voice shines. Thanks to Renaissance/Sony Music Special Products.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Great Collection Of Music, Represents Security!, November 15, 1999

By 

Gregory D. Wade (Anchorage, Alaska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chart Years (Audio CD)

I recently received my copy of Lynn Anderson "Anthology - The Chart Years" CD. My Grandma raised me on her singing. Grandma has "The Best Of Lynn Anderson" on an 8 track tape (and many of her albums, as I do) that we'd always listen to when she drove me around in her 1966 Chevy II Nova, which by the way is the year I was born, in fact my birthday is coming up this week. This collection of music, is the greatest birthday present, since I received my copy of my absolute favorite singer Sylvia "Anthology", around this time in 1997. I was very insecure, when I was a little boy and when my Grandma would drive over 200 miles, one way, to pick me up and take me home with her, is when I'd feel the most secure. This music from Lynn Anderson takes me back to that time, like it was yesterday. Songs like..."Too Much Of You", "Sing Me A Sad Song", "Big Girls Don't Cry" and my all-time absolute favorite Lynn Anderson song ever..."I Live To Love You". As well as some of the more up-beat songs..."Promises, Promises", "No Another Time", "That's A No No" and "If I Kiss You"...Are so great to hear in crystal clear CD quality for the first time in my life, her voice on these songs, is so sweet and beautiful and it makes me proud to have been raised on her music. I can't wait to play this CD for my Grandma and see if it brings back nice memories for her too. I finally got the chance to meet Lynn Anderson for the first time last year in Reno after her performance, she treated me like a long lost relative and was gracious enough to pose for a few pictures with me, I cherish those photos! In my opinion, Renaissance Records is the best record company for bringing back so very many classic country artists and their music. A BIG THANK YOU....TO JOHN EDWARDS AND EVERYONE AT RENAISSANCE RECORDS! If you like Lynn, as I do...You'll want to check out Sylvia "Anthology" as well. :)