Upper 48 Hits 1972-97

Tanya Tucker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 7, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Raven [Australia]
• ASIN: B00006J9MP
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #153,138 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Delta Dawn

2. Love's The Answer

3. The Jamestown Ferry

4. What's Your Mama's Name, Child?

5. Blood Red And Going Down

6. Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)?

7. The Man That Turned My Mama On

8. Lizzie & The Rainman

9. San Antonio Stroll

10. Don't Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. One Love At A Time

2. I Won't Take Less Than Your Love

3. If It Don't Come Easy

4. Strong Enough To Bend

5. Highway Robbery

6. Call On Me

7. My Arms Stay Open All Night

8. Walking Shoes

9. Don't Go Out With Him

10. It Won't Be Me

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Aussie exclusive compilation featuring 48 hits, 47 of which made the U.S. Billboard Top 20 between 1972 & 97, including 10 number ones & 21 top fives. The only comprehensive, cross-label anthology available in the world. Featuring a deluxe 16-page color booklet with detailed liner notes. Over 150 minutes of music. Raven Records/EMI. 2002.

Customer Reviews

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TANYA's POT OF GOLD, July 19, 2005

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Hugo (HOUSTON, TEXAS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Upper 48 Hits 1972-97 (Audio CD)

Raven Records'[double disc]set becomes the ultimate and certainly most comprehensive TANYA TUCKER hit singles collection to ever compile her amazing long running 25 year[mostly winning] streak of memorable radio/chartbusters over the course of her four recording company associations in one package. Despite various highly publicized ups and downs TANYA TUCKER weathered throughout her long running career, her constant was her music. A celebrated C&W Princess with her first hit["Delta Dawn"]at thirteen years of age, Tanya rode out the ensuing three decades with various twists and turns in country based styles, proving to be one of the most consistent hit radio and recording charts artists to emerge at the tail end of the traditional country music era. Possessing one of the most cherished, distinct, smoky, husky and expressive vocal instruments in country music, Tanya remains the most popular and enduring Country Queen of all time. No other female country singer has equalled nor ever embraced the ability to maintain the longevity of popularity this girl achieved before she even hit her fortieth birthday! Though she hasn't produced a hit record in a while[blame that on the narrowminded uncool taste lackin' radio station programmers who have taken over the business this past decade & a half]she has offered up an impressive album or two of more recently newer studio recordings, TANYA remains a popular concert attraction - yup, she's still touring and packin' 'em in over three decades later. I wouldn't be surprised if Tanya makes a huge comeback at some point in the future and enjoys another long run of popular recordings storming up and down the radio/charts again - she's still young enough to pull it off. For now, Tanya Tucker's pot of gold is this treasure of rockabilly gems, compelling emotion wrenched ballads, moving country shuffles-barnyard stompers and some of the most captivating story tellin' tunes in Country Music history.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive career-spanning Tanya collection, November 9, 2002

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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: Upper 48 Hits 1972-97 (Audio CD)

Tanya Tucker has a very distinctive voice. It is reminiscent of Tina Turner's, but their music is very different, Tanya's being (for the most part) solidly traditional country music.

Tanya recorded for four different record labels in the 20th century and all are represented here. She began with Columbia, where her most famous songs were Delta Dawn and Would you lay with me in a field of stone.

Her next label was MCA - perhaps the best remembered songs from this period are San Antonio stroll and Texas (when I die).

After a brief period in the wilderness, Tanya recorded one album for Arista, represented here by Baby I'm yours, a cover of the sixties R+B classic. This is the rarest track here, as the others have all been released on at least one Tanya CD before.

Another spell in the wilderness, followed by Tanya's most successful years - on the Capitol label. The last four tracks on CD 1 and all of CD 2 are devoted to this period, which includes too many great songs to name, but my favorites include Just another love, I won't take less than your love, Strong enough to bend (Beth Nielson Chapman's first success as a songwriter), If your heart ain't busy tonight and Two sparrows in a hurricane.

If you only ever buy one collection of Tanya's music, this is the one to go for. Many great songs are missing, but all the essentials are here and it would take about six CD's to include all Tanya's memorable songs.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most underrated singers ever, September 26, 2002

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B. Percell (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Upper 48 Hits 1972-97 (Audio CD)

One of main problems with many greatest hits albums is that they only cover one label. Tanya Tucker is a case in point. The only greatest hits albums she's ever released have been incomplete because she has jumped from Columbia to MCA to Capitol, recording solid hits for all three, and never having all the hits in one set. That, I'm happy to say, has changed with this one. This is a must-have.