Thank You World

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Thank You World
Statler Bros Thank You World.jpg
Studio album by
Released1974 (1974)
Genre Country
Label Mercury
Producer Jerry Kennedy
The Statler Brothers chronology
Carry Me Back
(1973)
Thank You World
(1974)
Alive at the Johnny Mack Brown High School
(1974)

Thank You World is the tenth studio album by American country music group The Statler Brothers. It was released in 1974 via Mercury Records. The album peaked at number 36 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

Contents

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Thank You World" (Don Reid, Lew DeWitt) – 3:07
  2. "City Lights" (Bill Anderson) – 3:15
  3. "Sweet Charlotte Anne" (D. Reid) – 2:25
  4. "Left-Handed Woman" (D. Reid, Harold Reid) – 2:14
  5. "The Blackwood Brothers by The Statler Brothers" (D. Reid) – 3:50
  6. "Cowboy Buckaroo" (Mason Williams) – 3:19

Side 2

  1. "She's Too Good" (D. Reid, H. Reid) – 2:10
  2. "The Babtism of Jesse Taylor" (Dallas Frazier, Sanger D. Shafer) – 2:35
  3. "Streets of Baltimore" (Tompall Glaser, Harlan Howard) – 3:20
  4. "Margie's at the Lincoln Park Inn" (Tom T. Hall) – 2:51
  5. "The Boy Inside of Me" (DeWitt) - 3:10

Chart performance

Chart (1974)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums36

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