Greatest Hits (Billy Dean album)

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Greatest Hits
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Greatest hits album by Billy Dean
Released March 8, 1994 (1994-03-08)
Genre Country
Length34:19
Label SBK/Liberty
Producer Jimmy Bowen
Billy Dean
Chuck Howard
Tom Shapiro
Billy Dean chronology
Fire in the Dark

(1993)
Greatest Hits
(1994)
Men'll Be Boys
(1994)
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Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album released by American country music artist Billy Dean. It reprises his first nine singles, presented in chronological order from 1991's "Only Here for a Little While" to 1993's "I'm Not Built That Way", as well as the track "Once in a While", which was also included on the soundtrack to the 1994 film 8 Seconds . The album was certified gold by the RIAA.

Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music and blues.

Billy Dean American country music singer and songwriter

William Harold Dean Jr. is an American country music singer and songwriter.

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Contents

Track listing

  1. "Only Here for a Little While" (Wayland Holyfield, Richard Leigh) – 3:33
  2. "Somewhere in My Broken Heart" (Billy Dean, Leigh) – 3:19
  3. "You Don't Count the Cost" (Tom Shapiro, Chris Waters, Chuck Jones) – 3:15
  4. "Only the Wind" (Shapiro, Jones) – 3:36
  5. "Billy the Kid" (B. Dean, Steve Dean) – 3:04
  6. "If There Hadn't Been You" (Shapiro, Ron Hellard) – 3:18
  7. "Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark" (B. Dean, Tim Nichols) – 3:35
  8. "I Wanna Take Care of You" (B. Dean, J.K. Jones) – 3:54
  9. "I'm Not Built That Way" (Don Pfrimmer, George Teren) – 2:52
  10. "Once in a While" (Steve Dorff, John Bettis) – 3:53

Chart performance

Chart (1994)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums29
U.S. Billboard 200148

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