History of Country Music: Best Of The '70s

Skeeter Davis (Artist), Waylon Jennings (Artist), Susan Raye (Artist), Dottie West (Artist), Dolly Parton (Artist), Dickey Lee (Artist), The Kendalls (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 3, 2000)
• Original Release Date: October 31, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Madacy Records
• ASIN: B0000521XR
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #383,226 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Take Me Home, Country Roads

2. Good Hearted Woman [Live][Version]

3. I'll Be Your San Antone Rose

4. If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me)

5. When You're Hot, You're Hot

6. Never Ending Song

7. L.A. International Airport

8. Just One Time

9. (I'd Be) A Legend In My Time

10. Lying in Love With You

11. Last Time I Saw Him

12. I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore

13. Heaven's Just a Sin Away

14. Last Cheater's Waltz

15. It Only Hurts for a Little While

16. She's Just an Old Love Turned Memory

17. Coat of Many Colors

18. Guitar Man

19. Coal Miner's Daughter

20. Thank God I'm a Country Boy [Live]

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Collection of Vintage Country 70's Hits, July 4, 2005

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Tee (LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: History of Country Music: Best Of The '70s (Audio CD)

This is a wonderful collection of vintage 1970's country music hits, and yes purists, these are the originals. All of these recordings were released on RCA with six exceptions: Loretta Lynn (Decca), Susan Raye (Capitol), The Kendalls (Ovation), and Margo Smith, T. G. Sheppard, and the Bellamys (all Warner Bros.) RCA really dominated country music in the 70's (and the 60's and 80's too) so it's no surprise they had so many of the tracks here. Makes you wonder why they didn't go for an all RCA collection but the other tracks are absolutely wonderful (though the Bellamys have always been too soft rock for me and rarely country enough). You not only get the RCA superstars like Dolly, Waylon, and Ronnie, it's nice to see Dickey Lee here and whoa, what a nice surprise to see Dottsy (I'LL BE YOUR SAN ANTONE ROSE) who had a short but fairly successful stint for RCA. The album opens with Skeeter Davis' wonderful cover version of "Take Me Home Country Roads" but that song was never released as a single for her; Skeeter's 70's hits couldn't match her 60's sensations but she still had a number of top 40 country songs in the 70's so it's odd one of those wasn't used for her track here. Certainly you could hardly have a RCA country compilation without Skeeter D. This is a very good collection of 1970's country hits with some songs not easy to find.

5.0 out of 5 stars A GOOD BUY, November 12, 2005

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Madlyderanged_1 "chippendales" (Barbados) - See all my reviews

This review is from: History of Country Music: Best Of The '70s (Audio CD)

Omigod..."Take Me Home, Country Roads" by Skeeter Davis on this compilation? Well then everyone should buy this. This is a really good CD. There are one or two slow moments, but otherwise this is the epitome of country and western.