Songbook: A Collection of Hits

Songbook: A Collection of Hits

ASIN: B000005KRE

Track Listings

1. How Do I Live [#]

2. Song Remembers When

3. Wrong Side of Memphis

4. In Another's Eyes [#] - Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood

5. Woman Before Me

6. Perfect Love [#]

7. Thinkin' About You

8. Down on My Knees

9. She's in Love With the Boy

10. Walkaway Joe

11. XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)

12. Like We Never Had a Broken Heart

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Trisha Yearwood ended up in the middle of one of 1997's music-industry storms when her version of the big ballad "How Do I Live" aced out teenage sensation LeAnn Rimes' on the soundtrack of Con Air, an action flick everyone immediately forgot about. Also somewhat lost in the commotion was Yearwood's own honorable half-decade-plus of hits, so many that some of her best (like a masterful version of Melissa Etheridge's "You Can Sleep While I Drive") didn't make it to this roundup of singles. That's OK; there'll be another. And for now, Songbook honorably recapitulates the career so far of one of current country's most-reliables. --Byline

Tracks:

How Do I Live (From The Touchtone Motion Picture 'Con Air')
The Song Remembers When
The Wrong Side Of Memphis
In Another's Eyes
The Woman Before Me
Perfect Love
Thinkin' About You
Down On My Knees
She's In Love With The Boy
Walkaway Joe
XXX's And OOO's (An American Girl)
Like We Never Had A Broken Heart

Amazon.com

Trisha Yearwood ended up in the middle of one of 1997's music-industry storms when her version of the big ballad "How Do I Live" aced out teenage sensation LeAnn Rimes' on the soundtrack of Con Air, an action flick everyone immediately forgot about. Also somewhat lost in the commotion was Yearwood's own honorable half-decade-plus of hits, so many that some of her best (like a masterful version of Melissa Etheridge's "You Can Sleep While I Drive") didn't make it to this roundup of singles. That's OK; there'll be another. And for now, Songbook honorably recapitulates the career so far of one of current country's most-reliables. --Byline

Customer Reviews:

I love Trisha's Voice..........2007-01-30

Great songs, wonderful voice and great production.
Have always been a fan of Trisha.
Not many artist can hold my attention very long, but she can.

The best!.......2006-11-04

It is truly what the title says - a collection of hits! My favorite CD of Trisha Yearwood!

Trisha Yearwood.......2006-07-22

Bought the CD specificly for the song on it "Blanket On The Ground". I use to sing it when I sang with a band a few years back. Ok, quite a few years ago. LOL. Liked the CD

Better Than the Best!!!.......2006-02-24

Trisha Yearwood puts together a diversity of her finest songs.
Topically she ranges from teenagers in love(She's In Love With The Boy") to memories of young love(The Song Remembers When),and then a more mature love (Perfect Love) and its effects(How Do I Live ).

Along the path she joins with Garth Brooks in the duet"In Another's Eyes",and Trisha joins with Don Henley(Eagles) for the duet"Walkaway Joe".

This is truly a collection of hits,because it's a right on target sensation all around!

Simply Beautiful..........2005-10-01

Trisha Yearwood has a talent like no other. Her voice is just beautiful and her delivery is perfect! This CD includes all of her major hits from the '90s and even three new songs which have all since became standards for Trisha! She is definetly gonna go down in history as one of Country's brightest stars! Everyone needs to own a copy of this CD!

Average customer rating:

Trisha Yearwood essentials
A brilliant collection with extra tracks
Hits collection with six more tracks than American version
Songbook
A brilliant completion of Trisha's best

Songbook: A Collection of Hits
Trisha Yearwood
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ASIN: B000006V2C
Release Date: 1997-09-24

Tracks:

How Do I Live
Song Remembers When
Wrong Side of Memphis
In Another's Eyes
Woman Before Me
Perfect Love
Thinkin About You
Down on My Knees
She's in Love with the Boy
Walkaway Joe
Xxx's and Ooo's
Like We Never Had a Broken Heart
Lover Is Forever
Believe Me Baby (I Lied)
On a Bus to St Cloud
You Can Sleep While I Drive
Flame
Save the Land

Album Details

Australian Exclusive Release featuring Seven Bonus Tracks. Tracks: How Do I Live, the Song Remembers When, Wrong Side of Memphis, in Another's Eyes, the Woman Before Me, Perfect Love, Thinkin' About You, Down on My Knees, She's in Love with the Boy, and More.

Customer Reviews:

Trisha Yearwood essentials.......2005-06-07

I bought this import version of Songbook a few years ago. It's the original album with the 12 songs, plus 6 other tracks. These tracks include "Believe Me Baby (I Lied)", "A Lover is Forever", "On A Bus To St. Cloud", "You Can Sleep While I Drive", and "The Flame" and "Save The Land". It's nice to see some of her non bigger hits represented here, as they can stand up to the others just as well. New tracks include "How Do I Live", a monster hit, as well as the duet with Garth Brooks "In Anothers Eyes", and the uptempo top 10 hit "Perfect Love". Overall a nice collection!

A brilliant collection with extra tracks.......2003-08-25

Trisha Yearwood, at her best, is the finest of all contemporary country singers. This compilation contains many of the songs that established her as a major star, beginning with She's in love the boy - a song that enabled Trisha to become one of the few ladies in the history of country music to top the American country chart with their first single.

Trisha's other country number one hits featured here include Thinking about you and An American girl (X's and O's). Many of the other songs were country top ten hits for Trisha. How do I live was a huge country hit for Trisha, but it was LeAnn Rimes who had the American pop hit (she also had a big UK pop hit with the song) - but Trisha's version was also a big hit in some other countries around the world, as well as being a minor UK hit. I love both versions of the song but I slightly prefer Trisha's version to LeAnn's. Really, there's not much to choose between them.

One of my particular favorites is The song remembers when - about how you remember particular events in your life when you hear a particular song. There are many other fine songs including Wrong side of Memphis, Walkaway Joe, The woman before me and a duet with Garth Brooks (In another's eyes).

The European edition (which I have) contains five bonus tracks not available on the American edition. These include two tracks from Trisha's album Everybody knows (Believe me baby I lied, A lover is forever) together with two tracks from her album Thinking about you (On a bus to St Cloud, You can sleep while I drive). More significantly, it includes The flame, which is not available on any of Trisha's standard albums. It was originally released on the Olympic album One voice and later reissued on the compilation Your love amazes me.

This Australian edition contains all the above tracks plus Save the land, a duet with Australia's own country star, Lee Kernaghan.

Hits collection with six more tracks than American version.......2003-06-20

If Linda Ronstadt had gotten started in the '90s instead of the '60s, she'd be Trisha Yearwood. Well not really, but we wouldn't need both of them. Besides their obviously similar sopranos, they share other vocal traits, be it a zestful exhuberance on a toe-tapper or an aching sensivity on a MOR ballad. And while neither write their own material, they both possess the impressive ability to regularly interpret a tune better than the originator.

For Yearwood, that also includes being able to select first-rate material. The hits assembled on (Songbook) are some of the most stimulating to emerge from Nashville in the '90s. "She's In Love With The Boy" is a light-hearted white-trash tale where young love conquers all while "XXX's and OOO's" cheerfully depicts a working woman trying to balance it all in a hectic modern world - with a little help from Aretha Franklin and Patsy Cline. Those romps are offset by some stunning ballads; in particular, the tragic teen saga "Walk Away Joe," with lovely harmonies from Don Henley, and the comparitive yet understanding "The Woman Before Me." Fast or slow, jovial or serious, all are deserved hits.

In addition to the prior hits, (Songbook) offers three new selections. The first single, "How Do I Live," from the film Con Air, is a delightfully inspirational ode of devotion. It is easy to see why Yearwood's womanly version has beaten LeAnn Rimes' rival girlish version on the country charts (age does wonders for believability when it comes to love songs). Yet even more high profile than that Con Air song battle is the second single, "In Another's Eyes," which presents the mega-event pairing of Yearwood with Garth Brooks. Too bad the song itself is so ordinary. Likewise, the uptempo third new track, "Perfect Love," with lines such as "yeah, this is a perfect love, we're doing nothing, but, what a perfect love does..." Yadda, yadda, yadda.

If Yearwood wanted another uptempo number to add some pep to this ballad-heavy collection, she should have gone with the raucous "That's What I Like About You" from her 1991 self-titled debut album. Still, all of the prior hits found here are just as good (if not quite as infectious). For those consumers of pop and adult contemporary who want to add a little country to their diet, (Songbook) is a great place to start.

This import version contains six more tracks than the American release. Of those, only "Believe Me Baby, I Lied" was a hit, and only it and "On A Bus To St. Cloud" are memorable. Do yourself a favor and buy the cheaper, domestic version instead. "Believe Me Baby, I Lied" will surely be on a second volume of Trisha hits in the next couple of years.

Songbook.......2001-03-19

This is the import copy of Songbook A Collection of Hits, a much more complete version that the domestic. It contains the exact same 12 tracks as the US version, but it also contains 6 extra tracks that were not available on the US version. The US version missed a lot of her hits, like Believe Me Baby (I Lied), You Can Sleep While I Drive, On A Bus To St. Cloud, etc, and although this collection is still missing some of her hits (ex: Everybody Knows) it is more complete.

The three new songs did very well, How Do I Live, In Anothers Eyes and Perfect Love all hit #1. When this CD was released Trisha was one of the hottest things going in country, in my opinion she still is, but the industry tends to focus on newer acts and more popular ones, but I think Trisha is the best. The CD also contains her hits like The Song Remembers When, Wrong Side Of Memphis, The Woman Before Me, Thinkin About You, Down On My Knees, Shes In Love With The Boy, Walkaway Joe, XXX's and OOO's, Like we Never Had A Broken Heart, and the extra tracks are A Lover Is Forever, Believe Me Baby I Lied, On A Bus To St Cloud, You Can Sleep While I Drive, The Flame, and Save The Land. Its a pretty penny but its worth it if you want a more complete Trisha Yearwood collection.

A brilliant completion of Trisha's best.......1999-09-24

This CD has many of Trisha's greatest songs on it. It incudes her brilliant #1 debut single "She's In Love With The Boy" and it takes you to her recent #1's "perfect Love" and "how Do I Live". This is the perfect CD for any country fan. Trisha definately displays the magnitude and power of her talent with this CD.

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