Twenty-one Number One Hits: The Ultimate Collection

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21 #1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection
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Greatest hits album by
Buck Owens
ReleasedAugust 1, 2006
RecordedFeb 12, 1963-Apr 4, 1988
Genre Country
Length49:57
Label Rhino
Producer Ken Nelson, Pete Anderson
Buck Owens chronology
Remembering
(2006)		21 #1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection
(2006)		Down on the Corner of Love
(2006)

21 #1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection is an album by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, released in 2006. Released shortly after his death, it is a single-disc compilation containing all of Owens' number one chart hits.

Buck Owens Alvis Edgar Owens Jr., American musician, singer, songwriter and bandleader, 21 number 1 hits, Billboard magazine country music with Buckaroos

Alvis Edgar Owens Jr., professionally known as Buck Owens, was an American musician, singer, songwriter and band leader who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band the Buckaroos. They pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named after Bakersfield, California, the city Owens called home and from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call American music.

The Buckaroos were a Grammy-winning band led by Buck Owens in the 1960s and early '70s, who, along with The Strangers, were heavily involved in the development and presentation of the "Bakersfield sound." Their peak of success was from 1965 to 1970. In 2005, CMT named the Buckaroos No. 2 on its list of the 20 Greatest Country Music Bands.

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In his Allmusic review, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote "...there is no other single-disc Buck CD that comes as close to offering as much of his best in one disc as 21 #1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection, and it's nice to finally have such a collection in his catalog after such a long wait." [1]

Track listing

All songs by Buck Owens unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Act Naturally" (Voni Morrison, Johnny Russell) – 2:22
  2. "Love's Gonna Live Here" – 2:02
  3. "Streets of Bakersfield" [Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens] (Homer Joy) – 2:49
  4. "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" (Harlan Howard, Owens) – 2:15
  5. "My Heart Skips a Beat" – 2:27
  6. "Together Again" – 2:27
  7. "I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me)" – 2:10
  8. "Before You Go" (Owens, Don Rich) – 2:11
  9. "Only You (Can Break My Heart)" – 2:21
  10. "Buckaroo" (Bob Morris) – 2:00
  11. "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line" (Owens, Rich, Nat Stuckey) – 2:19
  12. "Think of Me" (Estella Olson, Rich) – 2:17
  13. "Open Up Your Heart" – 2:29
  14. "Where Does the Good Times Go" – 2:20
  15. "Sam's Place" (Owens, Red Simpson) – 2:00
  16. "Your Tender Loving Care" – 2:46
  17. "How Long Will My Baby Be Gone" – 2:14
  18. "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass" – 2:23
  19. "Tall Dark Stranger" – 3:00
  20. "Made in Japan" (Bob Morris, Faye Morris) – 2:42
  21. "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry) – 2:23

Personnel

Guitar Fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Don Rich American musician

Donald Eugene Ulrich, best known by the stage name Don Rich, was a country musician who helped develop the Bakersfield sound in the early 1960s. He was a noted guitarist and fiddler, and a member of The Buckaroos, the backing band of country singer Buck Owens. Rich was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1974 at the age of 32.

Fiddle musical instrument

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres including classical music. Although violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and classical violins. For example, fiddles may optionally be set up with a bridge with a flatter arch to reduce the range of bow-arm motion needed for techniques such as the double shuffle, a form of bariolage involving rapid alternation between pairs of adjacent strings. To produce a "brighter" tone, compared to the deeper tones of gut or synthetic core strings, fiddlers often use steel strings. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk) styles, which are typically aural traditions—taught 'by ear' rather than via written music.

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Chart performance

Chart (2006)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums55

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References

  1. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Twenty-one Number One Hits: The Ultimate Collection > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved May 31, 2015.
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