I would reccommend this cd for a new listener or someone who is familar with this wonderful singer.5 STARS!
August 29, 2008Lynn Anderson has been my favortite forever. Her style is above all others. She has class as well as a great country voice. She also shares a great interest with me--A love of Quarter Horses.
June 22, 2008I have always enjoyed listening to Lynn Anderson and have been looking for some songs for , it seems like forever. It was great to find all the songs I was looking for on one disc. I love this cd.
March 2, 2008Hi, I like this album I like the old country music sometimes but this is very good I listened to it twice already.
October 23, 2007 |  | Get Lynn Anderson's 24 Track Greatest Hits instead |  |
Lynn Anderson's rich recording catalog has been neglected for most of the digital era. Thankfully, Collectors Choice Music put together the 24-track Greatest Hits two years ago. It was the first cd to combine hits from Anderson's '60s Chart Records and '70s Columbia Records tenures. Now there is also this 16 Biggest Hits which includes many of the tracks found on that superior set.
Signing with Chart Records in 1966, Anderson was an immediate success thanks in large part to mom Liz's songwriting. These songs - like "If I Kiss You" and "Promises, Promises" - featured clever wordplay that played off her youthful exuberance. Also, the heartbreaking "Big Girls Don't Cry" which showed Anderson's adeptness with ballads.
At Columbia, Joe South's compositions "Rose Garden," "Fool Me," and "How Can I Unlove You" provided Anderson with an early boost. Even more important was the writing and production involvement of husband Glenn Sutton, whom Anderson married just prior to joining Columbia. At Columbia, Sutton matched the brisk pace of Anderson's best Chart recordings with his narcissistic songwriting efforts "You're My Man" and "What A Man, My Man Is." He also encouraged Anderson to stretch stylistically, with the breezily seductive "Sing About Love" and a remake of Johnny Ray's "Cry" that showed she could effectively go from delicate to bombastic within the course of a song.
The only recording on 16 Biggest Hits that isn't on Greatest Hits is her first hit, "Ride, Ride, Ride." It is essential, but there are far many (nine) other hits included on Greatest Hits that aren't found here. The omissions include hit remakes of "I've Been Everywhere" and "Rocky Top" which displayed Anderson at her most irresistibly chipper, and the witty tale of exasperation "Talkin' To The Wall." If you can only afford one Lynn Anderson disc and can live without "Ride, Ride, Ride," Greatest Hits is the far better collection and value.
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