Gentle on My Mind (Patti Page album)

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Gentle on My Mind
Gentle on My Mind cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1968
Label Columbia
Producer Don Costa
Patti Page chronology
Today My Way
(1967)
Gentle on My Mind
(1968)
Honey Come Back
(1970)

Gentle on My Mind was a studio album by Patti Page, released by Columbia Records. It was originally released in June 1968 as a vinyl LP. [1] It produced and arranged by Don Costa, and conducted by Patti's long-time accompanist, Rocky Cole.

Contents

Overview

The album was recorded right after her hit country song "Little Green Apples", which peaked at No. 12 on the US Billboard Easy Listening chart, [2] and at No. 96 on the Hot 100. [3] The other single included in the album was Gentle On My Mind (No. 7 on the Easy Listening chart and No. 66 on the Hot 100). The album includes many other well-known country hits, such as the Jim Reeves hit song, "Four Walls" and a country hit of 1967, "Green Green Grass of Home".

The album peaked at No. 168 on the Billboard Top LPs chart during a six-week run on the chart. [4]

Reception

An unspecified reviewer on Record World said that "The songs here, mostly in the city - country frame, will fall gently on the ear", and noted; "But doesn't everything that Patti sings? 'Gentle on My Mind,' 'Green Green Grass of Home,' 'Skip a Rope,' 'Little Green Apples,' etc." [5]

Reissue

The album was reissued, combined with the 1965 Patti Page album Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, on compact disc by Collectables Records on August 24, 1999.

Track listing

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Gentle On My Mind" John Hartford 2:34
2."Little Green Apples" Bobby Russell 3:03
3."Take Me to Your World" Billy Sherrill, Glenn Sutton 2:55
4."Am I That Easy to Forget" Carl Belew, W.S. Stevenson3:21
5."Have A Little Faith" Billy Sherrill, Glenn Sutton 2:11
6."Four Walls"Marvin Moore, George Campbell3:18

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
7."This House" Annette Tucker, Kathy Wakefield 3:04
8."Honey (I Miss You)" Bobby Russell 4:08
9."Skip a Rope"Jack Moran, Glenn Douglas Tubb 2:29
10."Green Green Grass of Home" Claude "Curly" Putman Jr. 3:30
11."Release Me" Eddie Miller, James Pebworth, Robert Yount 3:30
Total length:34:43

Charts

Album

Chart (1969)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs [4] 168

Singles

YearTitleChartPeak
position
1967"Gentle On My Mind"US Billboard Hot 100 66
US Easy Listening (Billboard)7
1968 Little Green Apples US Billboard Hot 10096
US Easy Listening (Billboard)12

References

  1. Page, Patti (June 1968). "Gentle on My Mind (Disc Information)". Columbia Records . CS-9666.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2007). Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961-2006. Record Research, Inc. ISBN   978-0898201697.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2003). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002. Record Research Inc. ISBN   978-0898201550.
  4. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (2006). The Billboard Albums Includes Every Album that Made the Billboard 200 Chart: 50 Year History of the Rock Era. Record Research, Inc. p. 708. ISBN   978-0898201666.
  5. "Record World's Top Non-Rock", Record World , July 20, 1968. p. 12. Retrieved March 4, 2018.