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Rose Garden You're My Man

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This album is great value for money, combining Lynn Anderson's albums Rose Garden and You're My Man in one. It is mainly a collection of country and pop classics from the late 1960s and early 1970s but Anderson's interpretations never fail to please.

Backed by a lush, string-driven country pop sound, she delivers memorable and engaging covers of hits like For The Good Times, I Don't Want To Play House, Snowbird and It's Only Make Believe. I also love her version of Dawn's huge 1971 hit Knock Three Times and Flying Machine, Cliff Richard's not so huge hit from the same year.

She even makes Three Dog Night's Joy To The World her own, although I don't think she succeeds so well on Sunday Morning Coming Down. Somehow I just can't see Lynn stumbling down the stairs with a hangover on a Sunday morning!

Other very listenable numbers include You're My Man, I Can Spot A Cheater, Cry, Cry Again, the gospel song Put Your Hand In The Hand and Help Me Make It Through The Night. She has a full and warm country voice and the backing is beautiful in that early 1970s way. I love this album as it really evokes the innocent spirit of the seventies.

Back in the early '70s, I had the Rose Garden LP and nearly wore it out. I really enjoyed the soaring vocals and strings that were seamlessly melded together. Her style was indeed unique during this period. I had a Panasonic 4-channel system(the one with the joystick balance control for the four speakers), and while browsing in the record section found a 4-channel release of the Rose Garden LP. It, along with the rest of my record collection, was unfortunately stolen during a military transfer and I haven't been able to find another copy. My favorites on this album are 'Rocky Top', 'Nothing Between Us' and 'Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down'. The latter one, written by Kris Kristofferson, was made popular by Johnny Cash, but Lynn puts so much more of herself into this one. It was orchestrated with a choir that, in surround sound, comes up all around the room and raises goosebumps on the first-time listener. This would be an excellent candidate to be remastered in DTS. For classic country/pop crossover, this album is a must.

There was a time when Lynn was one of the most important ladies in country music, though that is not reflected in CD releases. I bought nearly all her albums on vinyl, but very few have ever been released on CD. This twofer contains the two most obvious.

Both albums contain plenty of covers. Indeed, Rose garden was itself a cover. It was written by Joe South and originally appeared on the same album of his that included Games people play (which has also been covered by Lynn, but her version has never appeared on CD). Lynn had a major international hit with it, going high in the pop charts in Britain, America and many other countries.

Among the songs covered by Lynn on the Rose Garden album are For the good times (Kris Kristofferson), Another lonely night (Jean Shepherd), I don?t want to play house (Tammy Wynette), Snowbird (Anne Murray), Sunday morning coming down (Kris Kristofferson) and It?s only make believe (Conway Twitty). The original songs include two co-written by her then-husband (Your sweet love lifted me, I wish I was a little boy again) and Nothing between us, a song Lynn wrote herself.

The second album is You?re my man. The title track, one of four songs that Glenn Sutton wrote or co-wrote, was a huge country hit. Most, if not all, of the other songs are covers, including Knock three times (Tony Orlando and Dawn), Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival), Help me make it through the night (Kris Kristofferson), Put your hand in the hand (first recorded by Anne Murray) and Joy to the world (Three dog night).

On this edition, four bonus tracks are added. These are some of her other hits from her peak years.

These are not my absolute favorite Lynn Anderson albums, but they are excellent and they are the only ones from her peak years so far released on CD, except for a Christmas album that was made available for a short time and is now a collector?s item. Buy this now to encourage record companies to release more of Lynn?s music on CD.

Lynn Anderson was for Columbia Records what Tammy Wynette was for EPIC Records. They shared producers, musicians and song writers. But not style. While Wynette gained fame for her 'teardrop in the voice' heartbreakers, LYNN ANDERSON became "the" Nashville Sound girl. Country Cosmopolitan at its best. 'Rose Garden' is the epitome Lynn Anderson sound. Two early albums of Andersons are included here (along with a handful of other hit songs) that will give the listener an opportunity to hear a sound that is almost forgotten today. Crisp, clear and subtle. That was Lynn Anderson all the way.

When I was a kid, these two LPs were literally worn out by too much use! BOTH albums are Lynn at her prime as a vocalist, and a hit maker. To have both, with remastered sound, PLUS bonus tracks, is really a find. Don't let this pass you buy. You will find a LOT more than "Rose Garden" to love. Like ALL the rest as well!

Songbird Lynn Anderson likely gained her widest recognition with her 1970 crossover mega-smash "Rose Garden." From there and in only a relatively few years, Ms. Anderson carved her own niche in music annals with an array of signature songs, "Rose Garden" notwithstanding. But who can't help but feel the rushing tide of emotion in her powerful and soulful version of "Cry" and an equally powerful "How Can I Unlove You?" You don't have to be an Anderson fan to savor this 26-track CD that boasts the best (so far) of vintage Lynn, some surprising hidden gems like Kris Kristofferson's "Sunday Morning Coming Down" and a few standards. For the dedicated Anderson fan, this compilation is perhaps her best (again, so far) and no Anderson musical library is complete without it. Even if you're not an Anderson fan, you'll probably get so wrapped up in the lady's vocal charms that you won't notice the hours of enjoyment going by. To all who haven't heard from the lady lately, it'd be inaccurate to dub this CD "the best of." Incredibly, she's still giving her best!

What?? You doubt the fact that Lynn Anderson is the greatest female country singer of alltime??? I BEG YOUR PARDON!!! Lynn Anderson could and still can bump any hillbilly babe of yesterday, today, or tomorrow off the stage and this outstanding record - like all her others - prove it. We know she's still too young for the Country Music Hall of Fame but hey don't doubt she'll be there one day.

Lynn Anderson possessed one of the single most distinctive and expressive voices in 70s country music. She turned everyone else's songs into her own so effortlessly, she made hit making seem like child's play. Even with dozens of albums under her belt since the late sixties, there was little to recall of her in the digital age..until now. ROSE GARDEN and YOU'RE MY MAN are country singing at its best, with Lynn covering songs of Ray Price, The Carpeneters, Tammy Wynette and Sammi Smith. Lynn never goes over the top. Her vocal restraint is one of her most endearing qualities. In a decade when country music was in crisis, Lynn Anderson kept true to her fashion. Such highlights as "Snowbird", "I Still Belong to You" and "I Can Spot a Cheater" exhibit the Anderson artistry beyond her familiar vocals on "Rose Garden". This re-issue also contains bonus title tracks from Lynn's successive albums. This collection is a real treat for her old fans, as well as the newly curious. Fantastic!

She was one of my favorite singers as a teen. I still like most of her songs but now that I am older I realize that she sang alot of sad songs - men leaving her songs (crazy if they did). If you like Lynn Anderson this is a great CD to have. It does have most of her great hits and a couple that you may not have heard her sing as often.

If you like Lynn Anderson, then THIS IS the album to have as far as I am concerned!! It has SOOOooo many songs it will keep ya singin along for hours!! Heck, it even has some on there that my country singin hubby didn't even know she sang!! A real gem!! LOVED it!! Enjoy!! I have NO doubt you will!!