Midnight Oil / Treat Him Right

Barbara Mandrell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 14, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B0000507ZN
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,630 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Midnight Oil

2. Give a Little, Take a Little

3. Jamestown Ferry

4. Show Me

5. In the Name of Love

6. Tonight My Baby's Coming Home

7. Ain't It Good

8. Satisfied

9. Holdin' On (To the Love I Got)

10. Smile Somebody Loves You

11. We're Gonna Hold On

12. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man

13. He'll Never Take the Place of You

14. Playin' Around With Love

15. I've Been Loving You Too Long

16. The Letter

17. Treat Him Right

18. Break My Mind

19. Watching My World Walk Away

20. Baby, Come Home

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely essential for every fan of Barbara Mandrell, November 29, 2002

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Bryon Burks (Wichita, KS) - See all my reviews
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I was SO glad to see these albums become available on CD. BUY THIS ALBUM WHILE YOU CAN...Barbara's material is going to be hard to come by soon since she is retired and out of the public eye.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two of Barbara's early albums with bonus tracks, September 1, 2002

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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At the time Barbara recorded these tracks in the early seventies (before she hit the big time), they didn't sound very country to a lot of people, yet now they sound fairly traditional. How times change.

It's not difficult to see what some people objected to - there were several covers of R+B classics, like Show me (Joe Tex), I've been loving you too long (Otis Redding), The letter (Box tops), Do right woman do right man (Aretha Franklin) and others. However, Barbara's versions had a strong country flavor, much more so than her later recordings for MCA, which also featured a lot of R+B covers.

There are also a fair number of covers of more recognisably country songs here, including We're gonna hold on (George and Tammy), The Jamestown ferry (Tanya Tucker), Break my mind (written by John D Loudermilk and recorded by a lot of country singers), Holdin' on to the love I got (Tammy Wynette) and Games people play (Joe South).

Barbara's biggest hits from this period included Tonight my baby's coming home, The midnight oil and After closing time, one of several duets she recorded with David Houston.

I love these early recordings, but I wish somebody would release some of her MCA albums on CD - all we ever seem to get from that period are hits collections. In the meantime, we can enjoy two of Barbara's great early albums.

5.0 out of 5 stars Grrrreat!!!!, November 30, 2009

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KnowsGoodMusic (Ruston, La United States) - See all my reviews

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As far as I'm concerned... THIS is the best OF Barbara Mandrell.
Her 80's up till present are good though, (the best of that being
"I Was Country (when it was'nt cool")

Listen to this CD and you'll see why THIS is the BEST of BARBARA.