American Dreams (The Oak Ridge Boys album)

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American Dreams
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 30, 1989 (1989-08-30)
Genre Country
Length38:24
Label MCA
Producer Jimmy Bowen
The Oak Ridge Boys chronology
Greatest Hits 3
(1989)
American Dreams
(1989)
Unstoppable
(1991)
Singles from American Dreams
  1. "An American Family"
    Released: August 19, 1989
  2. "No Matter How High"
    Released: December 1989

American Dreams is a studio album by American country music group The Oak Ridge Boys. It was released in 1989 via MCA Records. The album peaked at number 24 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. [1] It includes the singles "An American Family" and "No Matter How High", the latter of which was the group's last number one hit on Hot Country Songs. "Turning for Home" later served as the title track to Mike Reid's 1991 debut album Turning for Home .

Contents

The album cover shows The Oak Ridge Boys standing in the seats along the left field line of Nashville, Tennessee's, Herschel Greer Stadium. Richard Sterban was a minority shareholder of the Nashville Sounds, who played their home games at Greer. [2]

Track listing

  1. "Cajun Girl" (Martin Kibbee, William Payne) — 4:42
  2. "Baby, You'll Be My Baby" (Gene Pistilli, Troy Seals) — 3:41
  3. "An American Family" (Bob Corbin) — 3:01
  4. "No Matter How High" (Joey Scarbury, Even Stevens) — 2:51
  5. "If I Was to Start Crying" (Michael Smotherman) — 5:09
  6. "Turning for Home" (Mike Reid) — 3:46
  7. "In My Own Crazy Way" (Seals, Eddie Setser, Ralph Stanley, Rod Stewart) — 3:25
  8. "Don't Give Up" (Jerry Hludzik, Rick Manwiller) — 3:27
  9. "Bed of Roses" (Rex Benson, Steve Gillette) — 3:45
  10. "The American Dream" (Gary Harrison, Keith Stegall) — 4:37

Personnel

The Oak Ridge Boys

Additional musicians

Chart performance

Chart (1989)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums24

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References

  1. "American Dreams Charts". Allmusic . Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  2. O'Neal, Bill (1994), The Southern League: Baseball in Dixie, 1885–1994, Eakin Press, p. 285, ISBN   0890159521