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Greatest Hits (Alabama album)

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Released
  
January 1986 (1986-01)

Label
  
RCA Records

Artist
  
Alabama

Producer
  
Harold Shedd

Length
  
48:21

Greatest Hits (1986)
  
The Touch (1986)

Release date
  
21 January 1986

Genre
  
Country music

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Recorded
  
1985 (new tracks) 1980–1982, 1984 (older tracks)

Awards
  
American Music Award for Favorite Country Album

Similar
  
Alabama albums, Country music albums

Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits package released by the American country music band Alabama. The album was released by RCA Records in 1986, and has since been certified platinum for sales of 5 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Contents

By the mid-1980s, Alabama had become the most dominant act in country music. During the first half of the decade, the Fort Payne, Alabama-based group had 18 No. 1 songs in as many single releases (discounting their 1982 Christmas single, "Christmas in Dixie"). They had released six multi-platinum albums and had won many awards from the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music.

Alabama's first greatest hits album includes eight of their hit singles; seven of those reached No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart between 1980 and 1985. The eighth song of that group was "My Home's in Alabama", widely considered by fans to be their signature tune (despite only reaching No. 17).

Extended live concert versions of "My Home's in Alabama" and "Tennessee River", recorded at June Jam in 1985, are presented on this album. The album-length versions of "Why, Lady, Why" and "Mountain Music" are also included, as opposed to their respective single/radio edits. The version of "She and I" included here (complete with false fade-out toward the end of the song) runs more than five minutes, nearly 1½ minutes longer than the single edit.

The album contains two new tracks. Of these, "She and I" was the only single release, and it became the band's 19th No. 1 song in April 1986. The other song, "The Fans", is Alabama's ode of thanks to their fans.

Side A

  1. "She and I" (Dave Loggins) – 5:18A
  2. "Mountain Music" (Randy Owen) – 4:12
  3. "Feels So Right" (Owen) – 3:37
  4. "Old Flame" (Donny Lowery, Mac McAnally) – 3:12
  5. "Tennessee River" (live version) (Owen) – 8:06A

Side B

  1. "Love in the First Degree" (Tim DuBois, Jim Hurt) – 3:18
  2. "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" (Loggins, Don Schlitz, Lisa Silver) – 3:21
  3. "Why Lady Why" – (Teddy Gentry, Rick Scott) – 4:11
  4. "The Fans" – (Greg Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 4:54A
  5. "My Home's in Alabama" – (live version) (Gentry, Owen) 8:27A

A Previously unreleased

Songs

1She and I5:19
2Mountain Music4:12
3Feels So Right3:36

References

Greatest Hits (Alabama album) Wikipedia