Let Them Be Little

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Let Them Be Little
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 29, 2005 (2005-03-29)
Genre Country
Length35:58
Label Curb
Producer Ray Barnette
Billy Dean
Lari White
Billy Dean chronology
Real Man
(1998)
Let Them Be Little
(2005)
The Christ (A Song for Joseph)
(2005)
Singles from Let Them Be Little
  1. "Let Them Be Little"
    Released: August 30, 2004
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Let Them Be Little is the seventh studio album by American country music singer Billy Dean. His first album since Real Man seven years previous, it is also his first release on Curb Records. The album was originally to have been released in 2003, on View 2 Records, which promoted the first two singles ("I'm in Love with You" and a cover of John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"). Asylum-Curb promoted the third single, "Let Them Be Little", which was co-written by Richie McDonald, lead singer of Lonestar, and recorded by the band on their 2004 album Let's Be Us Again . After this song came "This Is the Life", "Race You to the Bottom" and "Swinging for the Fence". Also included on the album are re-recordings of "Somewhere in My Broken Heart" and "Billy the Kid", two of Dean's early singles from 1991 and 1992.

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.

<i>Real Man</i> 1998 studio album by Billy Dean

Real Man is the sixth studio album by American country music singer Billy Dean. It was released August 25, 1998 via Capitol Records Nashville. The album includes two singles: the title track and "Innocent Bystander", which respectively reached #33 and #68 on the U.S. Billboard country singles charts. Dean co-produced the album with David Gates, formerly of Bread, and co-wrote several of its songs with him. "Voices Singing," features the St. Nicholas School Children's Choir of Chattanooga, as well as Dean's son, Eli.

Contents

Dean produced the entire album, working with Lari White on tracks 3-7 and Ray Barnette for the rest.

Lari White American singer-songwriter

Lari Michele White Cannon was an American country music artist and actress. She first gained national attention in 1988 as a winner on You Can Be a Star, a talent competition which aired on The Nashville Network. A recording contract with RCA Records Nashville followed a year later, producing three studio albums, a greatest hits package, and several chart singles, with three of her singles having reached Top Ten: "That's My Baby" and "That's How You Know " at No. 10, and "Now I Know" at No. 5. A fourth studio album was released in 1998 on Lyric Street Records, followed by two more releases on her own label, Skinny White Girl. Overall, White charted twelve times on the Billboard country music charts. White was also married to Nashville-based songwriter Chuck Cannon.

Track listing

  1. "This Is the Life" (Billy Dean, Chuck Cannon) – 2:43
  2. "Eyes" (Dean, Ray Barnette) – 3:35
  3. "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (John Sommers) – 2:54
  4. "I'm in Love with You" (Dean, Cannon) – 3:38
  5. "Slow Motion" (Dean, Cannon, Chuck Jones) – 3:50
  6. "Let Them Be Little" (Dean, Richie McDonald) – 3:43
  7. "Good Love Gone Bad" (Dean, Cannon, Stephanie Paisley) – 3:05
  8. "Race You to the Bottom" (Dean, Barnette) – 3:21
  9. "Shelfer Street" (Dean) – 2:39
  10. "Swinging for the Fence" (Dean, Barnette) – 3:02
  11. "Somewhere in My Broken Heart" (Dean, Richard Leigh) – 3:22
  12. "Billy the Kid" (Dean, Paul Nelson) – 3:08

Personnel

Keyboard instrument class of musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings.

Organ (music) musical keyboard instrument

In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria, who invented the water organ. It was played throughout the Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman world, particularly during races and games. During the early medieval period it spread from the Byzantine Empire, where it continued to be used in secular (non-religious) and imperial court music, to Western Europe, where it gradually assumed a prominent place in the liturgy of the Catholic Church. Subsequently it re-emerged as a secular and recital instrument in the Classical music tradition.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Chart performance

Chart (2005)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums8
U.S. Billboard 20050

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