Country Croonin'

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Country Croonin'
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 22, 2002 (2002-10-22)
Genre Country
Length100:36
Label Straightway Records
Producer Anne Murray
Tommy West
Anne Murray chronology
What a Wonderful Christmas
(2001)
Country Croonin'
(2002)
I'll Be Seeing You
(2004)

Country Croonin' is the thirtieth studio album and an RIAA Gold-certified album by Canadian country music artist Anne Murray. It was released by Straightway Records in the fall of 2002.

Contents

The disc peaked at #13 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and sold over 500,000 copies in the United States alone. [1]

Track listing

Disc 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Help Me Make It Through the Night" Kris Kristofferson 3:54
2."Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)"Jimmie Hodges4:01
3."The End of the World" Sylvia Dee, Arthur Kent3:51
4."Oh Lonesome Me" Don Gibson 3:01
5."I Can't Stop Loving You"Gibson4:10
6."Me and Bobby McGee" Fred Foster, Kristofferson4:05
7."Can't Help Falling in Love" Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti, George David Weiss 3:57
8."Let It Be Me" Gilbert Bécaud, Manny Curtis, Pierre Delanoë 3:09
9."Singing the Blues"Melvin Endsley2:48
10."I Really Don't Want to Know"Howard Barnes, Don Robertson 4:41
11."(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I"Bill Trader3:02
12."Always on My Mind"Johnny Christopher, Mark James, Wayne Carson Thompson 3:56
13."('Til) I Kissed You"Don Everly2:40
14."Loving Arms" Tom Jans 3:22
15."Are You Lonesome Tonight?" Lou Handman, Roy Turk 3:22
Total length:53:59
Disc 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Make the World Go Away" Hank Cochran 3:26
2."Anytime"Herbert "Happy" Lawson2:41
3."You Don't Know Me" Eddy Arnold, Cindy Walker 3:59
4."Bye Bye Love" Felice and Boudleaux Bryant 2:53
5."Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)"Inez James, Buddy Pepper, Larry Russell3:19
6."Take These Chains from My Heart" Hy Heath, Fred Rose 3:07
7."For the Good Times"Kristofferson4:10
8."Sea of Heartbreak" Hal David, Paul Hampton 3:13
9."She'll Have to Go" Joe Allison, Audrey Allison4:09
10."I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)/I'm a Fool to Care"Ted Daffan, Doc Dougherty, Al Neiburg, Ellis Reynolds4:16
11."Blue Blue Day"Gibson2:05
12."That's the Way Love Goes" Lefty Frizzell, Sanger D. Shafer 3:20
13."I Fall to Pieces"Cochran, Harlan Howard 3:10
14."All I Have to Do Is Dream"Boudleaux Bryant2:52
15."Tennessee Waltz" Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart 3:04
Total length:49:44

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