Before You Go (Buck Owens album)

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Before You Go
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 26, 1965
RecordedMarch 1965
Studio Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre Country
Label Capitol ST-2353
Producer Ken Nelson
Buck Owens chronology
I've Got a Tiger by the Tail
(1965)
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(1965)
Christmas with Buck Owens
(1965)
Singles from Before You Go
  1. "Before You Go"
    Released: April 19, 1965

Before You Go is an album by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, released in 1965. It is no longer in print.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
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In his AllMusic review, critic Richie Unterberger wrote: "This has the usual competent original material and accomplished guitar picking, paced by the number one title track, with occasional instrumentals thrown in for a change of pace." [1]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Before You Go" (Buck Owens, Don Rich)
  2. "Gonna Have Love" (Owens, Red Simpson)
  3. "Getting Used to Loving You" (Owens, Rich)
  4. "Steel Guitar Rag" (Leon McAuliffe, Cliff Stone, Merle Travis)
  5. "No Fool Like an Old Fool" (Owens)
  6. "I Betcha Didn't Know" (Lamar Morris)

Side two

  1. "I Want No One But You" (Owens, Simpson)
  2. "If You Want a Love" (Buck Owens, Bonnie Owens, Don Rich)
  3. "Number One Heel" (Owens, Owens)
  4. "Raz-Ma-Taz Polka" (Owens)
  5. "There's Gonna Come a Day" (Owens)
  6. "Charlie Brown" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) with Doyle Holly

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References

  1. 1 2 Richie, Unterberger. "Before You Go > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  2. Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (1 January 1966). "Buck Owens: "Before You Go"/"No One But You" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 251. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2022.