The Best of Collin Raye: Direct Hits

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The Best of Collin Raye: Direct Hits
Greatest hits by Collin Raye
Released	March 11, 1997 (1997-03-11)
Genre	Country
Label	Epic
Professional reviews
All Music Guide - link
Collin Raye chronology
Christmas: The Gift (1996) The Best of Collin Raye: Direct Hits (1997) The Walls Came Down (1998)

The Best of Collin Raye: Direct Hits is the title of country singer Collin Raye's first greatest hits album. Released in 1997 on Epic Records, the album reprised the greatest hits from his first studio albums, with several new tracks also included. Among the new recordings were the singles "What the Heart Wants", "Little Red Rodeo" (which were both Top 5 hits on the country charts) and "The Gift", a collaboration with Jim Brickman and Susan Ashton, released only to the Adult Contemporary format. Also included on the album is a cover of rock bank Journey's ballad, "Open Arms."

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1. "Little Rock" (Tom Douglas)
2. "I Think About You" (Don Schlitz, Steve Sekin)
3. "Not That Different" (Karen Taylor-Good, Joie Scott)
4. "That's My Story" (Lee Roy Parnell, Tony Haselden, C. Alex Hawkins)
5. "If I Were You" (John Hobbs, Chris Farren)
6. "One Boy, One Girl" (Mark Alan Springer, Shaye Smith)
7. "In This Life" (Mike Reid, Allen Shamblin)
8. "My Kind of Girl" (Debi Cochran, John Jarrard, Monty Powell)
9. "That Was a River" (Susan Longacre, Rick Giles)
10. "What the Heart Wants" (Michael Dulaney)¹
11. "The Gift" (Tom Douglas, Jim Brickman)¹
    • feat. Jim Brickman and Susan Ashton
12. "Open Arms" (Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry)¹
13. "Little Red Rodeo" (Charlie Black, Phil Vassar, Rory Michael Rourke)¹
14. "Love, Me" (Skip Ewing, Max T. Barnes)

• ¹Previously unreleased track.