Classic Country: Queens of Country

Dolly Parton (Artist), Loretta Lynn (Artist), Skeeter Davis (Artist), Patsy Cline (Artist), Tammy Wynette (Artist), Kitty Wells (Artist), Dottie West (Artist), Barbara Mandrell (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Time Life Records
• ASIN: B0000DD54R
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,256 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rose Garden

2. Stand by Your Man

3. Sweet Dreams

4. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

5. Coal Miner's Daughter

6. Harper Valley P.T.A.

7. Ode to Billie Joe

8. Delta Dawn

9. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right

10. Country Sunshine

11. Satin Sheets

12. Funny Face

13. Help Me Make It Through the Night

14. Once a Day

15. Making Believe

16. If I Could Only Win Your Love

17. A Satisfied Mind

18. The End of the World

19. Break It to Me Gently

20. I Will Always Love You

Editorial Reviews

Classic Country: Queens of Country ASIN: B0000DD54R Binding: Audio CD UPC: 610583096729

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most Awesome Collection of Country Queens Ever Packaged!, May 24, 2005

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Tee (LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Classic Country: Queens of Country (Audio CD)

This Time-Life collection of the 20 greatest female country singers of the 1950's through the 1970's has been such a blockbuster success in the television commercial hawking it has been parodied on Saturday Night Live with Jennifer Aniston! This is truly a historic collection of legendary performances that every country music fan should own, spanning from Kitty Wells in the early 50's to Barbara Mandrell in the late 70's. These are the ORIGINAL recordings too! Almost every song on this CD was an essential ground-breaker for country music, a true landmark record! These are songs ("The End of the World", "Ode to Billie Joe", "Rose Garden", "Help Me Make it Through the Night" etc. etc.) that even those with just a passing knowledge of country music are well familiar with and many of these ladies - notably Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton - are true American pop culture legends. Every song and every performance is truly a classic unforgettably performed by as extraordinary a collection of female vocalists as any music genre ever had in a single generation. Certainly today's country "divas" cannot compete with these QUEENS. Every artist here is represented with her signature hit with the curious exceptions of Kitty Wells (her classic "Making Believe" is featured instead of the historic "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"), Donna Fargo ("Funny Face" may have been a bigger pop crossover but "Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" is surely Donna's most famous song), and Brenda Lee (represented by "Break it to Me Gently" instead of say, "I'm Sorry"). Lee's presence on this collection is the only sour note for me; yes she was a legendary pop artist who recorded in Nashville but this does not make her a country artist. Her song here "Break it to Me Gently" was not even released on the country music market!!! Nor were any of her other 60's pop hits issued to or played on country radio. The fact that she had a modest career later in the 1970's in the country music market does not make her vintage pop oldies now country records!! Her place should have been filled by Jeannie Seely ("Don't Touch Me"), Jan Howard ("Evil on Your Mind"), Susan Raye ("LA International Airport"), or Billie Jo Spears ("Blanket on the Ground"). Nevertheless, this still remains an awesome collection of every important country queen from Jean Shepard to Crystal Gayle to Connie Smith to Emmylou Harris to Dottie West - every one of these women (with the arguable exception of Ms. Lee on whom I may be being a tad too critical) rightfully deserves to be known as one of the true queens of country music.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC COLLECTION!!, July 24, 2005

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Ellen Jackson "crazy 4 catz" (Southern CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic Country: Queens of Country (Audio CD)

I totally agree with the first reviewer. Not only is this an awesome collection of Classic Country Queens; but, the sound and quality of this CD is excellent. If you are a fan of classic country music, especially the ladies, this CD is a MUST for your collection.

5.0 out of 5 stars 20 Time Life hits from the Queens of Country (single disc version), January 14, 2012

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J. Bynum (the southwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic Country: Queens of Country (Audio CD)

Queens of Country / Classic Country series / Time Life single CD: With only 20 tracks, this CD is obviously incomplete, but for what it contains, it's simply Great!
Five Stars

Time Life also has a 2-CD set with this same title (even the same album picture) which has 30 songs (why only 10 more instead of 20 more is a mystery to me).

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A little info on the Time Life Country Classics:

Time Life has single CDs under the title of "Best of Classic Country" divided into decades so there is a single CD under that name for the "50's", "60's", "70's" and "80's".

Time Life also has many single CDs under the general term of "Country Classics". These titles include:
- Kings of Country
- Queens of Country
- God, Family, Country
- Road songs
- Great Story Songs
- More Great Story Songs
- Crazy Country Hits
- Sweet Country Ballads
- Honky Tonk Heroes
- Great Country Gospel
and several (many many) more titles. These disks are all very good to great, but there is a lot of songs that are repeated from one disk to another.