Just Us | ||||
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Released | September 1987 | |||
Studio | The Music Mill (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 41:47 | |||
Label | RCA Nashville | |||
Producer | Alabama Harold Shedd | |||
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Singles from Just Us | ||||
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Just Us is the eleventh studio album by American country music band Alabama, released in 1987. As with most of their albums, the band co-produced with Harold Shedd. The album charted at number 1 on Billboard Top Country Albums, and accounted for three singles. It also charted at number 55 on the Billboard 200.
The album's three singles all charted on Hot Country Songs: "Tar Top" made number 7, followed by the number 1 singles "Face to Face", which featured K. T. Oslin on guest vocals, and "Fallin' Again". Lead singer Randy Owen wrote or co-wrote all three singles. [1]
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Allmusic | [2] |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Tar Top" | Randy Owen | 3:56 (4:55 on CD) |
2. | "I Can't Stop" | Robert Byrne, Teddy Gentry | 3:59 |
3. | "I Saw the Time" | Owen | 3:56 |
4. | "You're My Explanation for Living" | Owen | 4:19 (6:52 on CD) |
5. | "Face to Face" (featuring K. T. Oslin [3] ) | Owen | 3:01 |
6. | "(I Wish It Could Always Be) '55" | Owen | 4:43 |
7. | "Old Man" | Gentry, John Jarrard, Lisa Palas | 3:26 |
8. | "If I Could Just See You Now" | Jeff Cook, Lynde Darrell-Boles | 3:14 |
9. | "Fallin' Again" | Greg Fowler, Gentry, Owen | 3:58 (7:41 on CD) |
From Just Us liner notes. [4]
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA) [8] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
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