Short Stories (The Statler Brothers album)

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Short Stories
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Studio album by The Statler Brothers
Released 1977 (1977)
Genre Country
Label Mercury
Producer Jerry Kennedy
The Statler Brothers chronology
Country America Loves
(1977)
Short Stories
(1977)
Entertainers...On and Off the Record
(1978)

Short Stories is the seventeenth studio album by American country music group The Statler Brothers. It was released in 1977 via Mercury Records. The album peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

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.

The Statler Brothers were an American country music, gospel, and vocal group. The quartet was formed in 1955 performing locally and, in 1964, they began singing backup for Johnny Cash.

Mercury Records record label

Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. In the United States, it operates through Island Records; in the UK, it is distributed by Virgin EMI Records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Silver Medals And Sweet Memories" (Don Reid) – 2:30
  2. "The Regular Saturday Night Setback Card Game" (D. Reid, Harold Reid) – 2:52
  3. "That Summer" (D. Reid) – 2:54
  4. "He Went To The Cross Loving You" (D. Reid, H. Reid) – 2:36
  5. "Quite A Long, Long Time" (Lew DeWitt) – 2:30
  6. "Carried Away" (L. DeWitt) – 2:22
  7. "The Star" (D. Reid) – 3:26
  8. "Grandma" (D. Reid) – 2:58
  9. "Different Things To Different People" (D. Reid) – 2:52
  10. "Give My Love To Rose" (Johnny Cash) – 3:10
  11. "Some I Wrote" (D. Reid, H. Reid) - 2:20

Chart performance

Chart (1977)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums21

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