Milestones: Greatest Hits

Holly Dunn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 17, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B000R7I3I2
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,914 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Daddy's Hands

2. Only When I Love

3. (It's Always Gonna Be) Someday

4. Love Someone Like Me

5. A Face in the Crowd

6. Strangers Again

7. Maybe I Mean Yes

8. There Goes My Heart Again

9. Are You Ever Gonna Love Me

10. No One Takes the Train Anymore

11. You Really Had Me Going

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A brief but brilliant hit-making career, September 17, 2008

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Milestones: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

In the late eighties, Holly Dunn was highly successful on the American country charts despite being on a small independent label, MTM, which was established by actress Mary Tyler-Moore. Eventually MTM closed and Warners took over Holly's music. Some minor hits are missing but all the essential hits are here.

The set opens with Daddy's hands, the song for which Holly is perhaps best known, in which Holly praises her father while acknowledging that he could be hard when the occasion demanded it.

Maybe I mean yes was Holly's last big hit, but caused a lot of controversy. Holly asked for the single to be pulled and radio stations to stop playing it. It seems to have killed her career, which is a pity. Although she continued to record great music, the radio stations were no longer interested.

The other nine songs here are all wonderful examples of country music at its best. Most of the songs are upbeat in outlook, though there is the occasional tinge of sadness, as in Strangers again. Perhaps one day somebody will release a more generous compilation of 16 or 20 tracks, but until then, this CD provides an excellent sampling of Holly's music.