Anthology: The Columbia Years

Anthology: The Columbia Years

ASIN: B00001OH66

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22 track collection highlighting some of Lynn's best tracks recorded for the Columbia label throughout the '70s, including the song that topped both the country and pop charts, 'Rose Garden'. 1999 release.

Anthology: The Columbia Years,Lynn Anderson,Renaissance,Country,Country & Western,Country-Pop,Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan,Pop

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All the seventies classics

Sony's Hidden GEM

Wrap Your Ears All Around Lynn!

Finally, Lynn's Columbia Work is Collected Properly!

A Must Have Collection!!!!

Anthology: The Columbia Years
Lynn Anderson
Manufacturer: Renaissance
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00001OH66
Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

Stay There 'Til I Get There
No Love At All
Rose Garden
You're My Man
How Can I Unlove You
Cry
Listen To A Country Song
Fool Me
Keep Me In Mind
Top Of The World
Smile For Me
Sing About Love
Talkin' To The Wall
What A Man, My Man Is
He Turns It Into Love Again
I've Never Loved Anyone More
All The King's Horses
Wrap Your Love All Around Your Man
He Ain't You
I Love How You Love Me
Isn't It Always Love
Sea Of Heartbreak

Album Description

22 track collection highlighting some of Lynn's best tracks recorded for the Columbia label throughout the '70s, including the song that topped both the country and pop charts, 'Rose Garden'. 1999 release.

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All the seventies classics.......2003-04-08

To many people, Lynn remains a one hit wonder, but while Rose garden was her only major pop hit in America, and her only hit of any kind in Britain. Lynn was a major country singer in the early to mid seventies, having many hits on the American country charts, including several number ones.

There were too many country hits to include them all here (and that's not counting the sixties hits that can be found on the companion volume Anthology Chart years) but all the big ones are here.

Rose garden is typical of many of Lynn's hits, many of which were up-tempo foot-stomping songs, among them being Listen to a country song, Fool me, Top of the world, What a man my man is and Wrap your love all around your man. Of these, Top of the world is particularly interesting. The Carpenters had written and recorded it and included it on am album, but had no plans to release it as a single. So Lynn recorded it and had a huge country hit with it and also had a pop hit with it in Japan. At that point, the Carpenters got the message and released their version as a single.

However, Lynn was well capable of singing the ballads too, as she clearly demonstrates on Cry (the old Johnny Ray classic), Smile for me (a song covered by Olivia Newton John on her Come on over album) and I love how you love me (the Paris sisters hit from the sixties).

Lynn has been poorly served by CD releases, but this CD is certainly the strongest compilation of her music so far released.

Sony's Hidden GEM.......2002-05-15

Sony has long ignored this Country Superstar's catalog. It took Renessiance Records to license the songs to see the light of day on compact disc. This is a stunning collection of Lynn's CBS years, but it only taps into what could have been if she had not walked away from her career in 1981. CBS was priming her to be their version of Dolly Parton and Barbara Mandrell, but LYNN chose family instead. My only issue with this release is that it did not include any selctions from her last CBS album. In addition, some key tracks are missing such as "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues", "Blue Baby Blue", "We Got Love", and "I Love What Love Is Doing To Me".

Now that both her CHART and CBS years have been covered, how about her later years with MERCURY, PERMIAN, MCA, and Intersound? Better yet a BOX set would be what the doctor ordered. Come on Sony wake up and realize how important LYNN ANDERSON was and is to Country Music.

Wrap Your Ears All Around Lynn!.......2001-10-04

Wow! Finally, I have been waiting for years to own a compilation like this of Lynn's work. When I was 12 years old Lynn appeared on an episode of "Starsky & Hutch" and the song "Wrap Your Love All Around Your Man" was featured repeatedly through the whole episode. I became a fan then because of this great song, and sort of delved backwards into her career. All of the hits are here, and Lynn's voice will astound you. Enjoy!

Finally, Lynn's Columbia Work is Collected Properly!.......2001-09-06

While it's true that Lynn Anderson scored her biggest hit, "Rose Garden," at Columbia Records, she also enjoyed many other chart hits during her tenure there, and recorded dozens of accomplished non-single tracks that featured fuller production and more sophisticated singing than her recordings for Chart Records. Glenn Sutton introduced ambitious orchestrations to Lynn's sound and she responded by raising the emotional stakes in her vocal performances. "How Can I Unlove You" and "Wrap Your Love All Around Your Man" are just two examples of the spine-tingling production and crystal-clear vocals that ensured Lynn Anderson's records sounded like absolutely nothing else in early 70's country music. If you only know "Rose Garden," you're missing a lot.

A Must Have Collection!!!!.......2001-02-04

This has become one of my favorite recent buys!! One has to apppreciate the versatility of Lynn Anderson. I remember the great duet she did with her mother Liz Anderson, "Mother, May I?" I have been unable to find anything of Liz Anderson. I remember the old albums my mother had of her. She was awesome too. Like mother, like daughter. Worth every bit of what I paid for it. [....]

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