• Source: For the Record (Alabama album)

      • For the Record: 41 Number One Hits is a two-disc greatest hits album by the American country pop and southern rock band Alabama, released in 1998.
      The track-listing includes all 33 of the band's Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs chart) number-one singles, as well as other songs which reached number-one on the former Radio & Records (now Mediabase) chart; each of the non-Billboard number-one hits made the top-five on that chart. Three previously-unreleased tracks are also included: "How Do You Fall in Love" (which reached number-two on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in late 1998), "Keepin' Up" (which reached the top-20 on the same chart in early 1999) and "Five O'Clock 500" (which remained an album cut as it was not released as a single).
      All of the greatest hits are presented in their single/radio-edit forms. In some cases, the songs were nearly two minutes shorter than their original album versions.


      The Essential


      For the Record was re-released and re-packaged in 2005 as The Essential. Both albums have an identical track lineup. In his review of The Essential, AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated that the new album title eliminated "the misleading subtitle that claimed all of the songs on the album hit No. 1." A disclaimer on the back of the album indicates that The Essential is the newly reissued For the Record.


      Sales


      The original release of For the Record album was certified platinum for sales of five-million units by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).


      Song listing


      Disc 1
      "Five O'Clock 500" (Teddy Gentry, Randy Owen, Ronnie Rogers) – 3:36A
      "Keepin' Up" (Greg Fowler, Gentry, Owen, Rogers) – 3:05A
      "How Do You Fall in Love" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:00A
      "Tennessee River" (Owen) – 3:02
      "Why Lady Why" (Gentry, Rick Scott) – 3:09
      "Old Flame" (Donny Lowery, Mac McAnally) – 3:10
      "Feels So Right" (Owen) – 3:35
      "Love in the First Degree" (Tim DuBois, Jim Hurt) – 3:18
      "Mountain Music" (Owen) – 3:38
      "Take Me Down" (Mark Gray, J.P. Pennington) – 3:43
      "Close Enough to Perfect" (Carl Chambers) – 3:33
      "Dixieland Delight" (Rogers) – 3:56
      "The Closer You Get" (Gray, Pennington) – 3:37
      "Lady Down on Love" (Owen) – 3:57
      "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" (Dave Loggins) – 3:43
      "When We Make Love" (Troy Seals, Mentor Williams) – 3:36
      "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)" (Murry Kellum, Dan Mitchell) – 3:22
      "(There's A) Fire in the Night" (Bob Corbin) – 3:57
      "There's No Way" (John Jarrard, Lisa Palas, Will Robinson) – 4:11
      "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" (Loggins, Don Schlitz, Lisa Silver) – 3:18
      "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" (Corbin) – 3:39
      "She and I" (Loggins) – 3:34
      Disc 2
      "Touch Me When We're Dancing" (Kenneth Bell, Terry Skinner, J.L. Wallace) – 3:41
      ""You've Got" the Touch" (Jarrard, Palas, Robinson) – 4:15
      "Face to Face" (Owen) – 3:00
      "Fallin' Again" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:59
      "Song of the South" (Bob McDill) – 3:11
      "If I Had You" (Kerry Chater, Danny Mayo) – 3:33
      "High Cotton" (Scott Anders, Roger Murrah) – 3:00
      "Southern Star" (Rich Alves, Steve Dean, Murrah) – 3:08
      "Jukebox in My Mind" (Dave Gibson, Rogers) – 3:39
      "Forever's as Far as I'll Go" (Mike Reid) – 3:33
      "Down Home" (Rick Bowles, Josh Leo) – 3:27
      "Here We Are" (Beth Nielsen Chapman, Vince Gill) – 2:51
      "Then Again" (Bowles, Jeff Silbar) – 3:43
      "Born Country" (Byron Hill, John Schweers) – 3:19
      "I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)" (Murrah, Randy VanWarmer) – 2:48
      "Once Upon a Lifetime" (Gary Baker, Frank J. Myers) – 4:13
      "Hometown Honeymoon" (Leo, Jim Photoglo) – 3:18
      "Reckless" (Michael Clark, Jeff Stevens) – 3:19
      "Give Me One More Shot" (Gentry, Owen, Rogers) – 3:29
      "She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl" (Robert Jason) – 2:53
      "In Pictures" (Bobby E. Boyd, Joe Doyle) – 3:33
      "Sad Lookin' Moon" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:33
      A Previously unreleased


      Live DVD


      A DVD was released with Alabama performing all 41 Number One Hits (plus My Home's In Alabama) at Las Vegas on October 10, 1998, as a promotion to the album. The three new tracks were not performed live.

      Track listing


      Personnel on Tracks 1–3 (Disc #1)


      Alabama
      Randy Owen – lead vocals
      Jeff Cook – background vocals
      Teddy Gentry – bass guitar, background vocals
      Alabama's drummer, Mark Herndon, does not play on the new tracks.

      Additional Musicians
      Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
      Don Cook – background vocals
      Steve Dorff – string arrangements, conductor
      Larry Franklin – fiddle
      John Barlow Jarvis – piano, B-3 organ
      Brent Mason – electric guitar, 12-string electric guitar, gut string guitar
      Steve Nathan – keyboards
      Lonnie Wilson – drums, percussion


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