Billboard #1s: Classic Country

Recording information: 1952 - 1988. Awide-ranging two-disc set with 30 songs, BILLBOARD #1's: CLASSIC COUNTRY is roughly evenly divided between three important eras. The traditional country of the 1950s and early '60s brings hits by PatsyCline, Johnny Cash, and Faron Young; thestrings-and-choirs school of "countrypolitan" music showcases hits by Tammy Wynette, Ray Price, and Lynn Anderson; finally, the country-pop of the Urban Cowboy school and its nearly immediate New Traditionalist backlash of the mid-1980s includes songs by Willie Nelson, Eddie Rabbit, and Randy Travis. And the non-chronological setlist nicely showcases the similarities of the twangy schools more than the differences.

Track Listing

• Disc 1
• • 1 on the road again
  • 2 act naturally
  • 3 i fall to pieces
  • 4 stand by your man
  • 5 i walk the line
  • 6 rhinestone cowboy
  • 7 el paso
  • 8 i love a rainy night
  • 9 king of the road
  • 10 don't it make my brown eyes blue
  • 11 i want to go with you
  • 12 mama tried
  • 13 the three bells
  • 14 before the next teardrop falls
  • 15 somewhere tonight
• Disc 2
• • 1 here you come again
  • 2 forever and ever, amen
  • 3 for the good times
  • 4 hello walls
  • 5 rose garden
  • 6 the gambler
  • 7 coal miner's daughter
  • 8 young love
  • 9 hello darlin'
  • 10 behind closed doors
  • 11 walk on by
  • 12 four walls
  • 13 swingin'
  • 14 streets of bakersfield
  • 15 i'm moving on