For the Record

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For the Record
Greatest hits by Alabama
Released	1998
Recorded	1998 (Disc 1, Tracks 1-3) 1980-1996 (other tracks)
Genre	Country
Label	RCA
Producer	Various producers and Alabama
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Alabama chronology
The Essential Alabama (1998) For the Record (1998) Twentieth Century (1999)

For the Record is a two-disc, 44-track greatest hits package released by the American country music band Alabama.

The album chronicles the biggest hits from Alabama released between 1980 and 1998. The lineup includes all 33 of their Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles & Tracks No. 1 singles, plus eight other Top 5 hits and three new tracks.

Of those new tracks, "How Do You Fall in Love" reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in the fall of 1998. The follow-up single, "Keepin' Up," reached the Top 20 in early 1999, while "Five O'Clock 500" 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.

Contents 1 The Essential 2 Sales 3 Track listing 3.1 Disc 1 3.2 Disc 2 4 Charts 4.1 As For the Record 4.2 As The Essential 5 References

[edit] The Essential

For the Record was re-released in 2005 as The Essential; both albums have an identical track lineup.

In his review of The Essential, All Music Guide 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."^[1] A disclaimer on the back of the album indicates that The Essential is the reissued For the Record.

[edit] Sales

The original For the Record album was certified platinum for sales of 5 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America.^[2]

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc 1

1. "Five O'Clock 500" (Gentry, Owen, Rogers) – 3:36*
2. "Keepin' Up" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen, Rogers) – 3:08*
3. "How Do You Fall in Love" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:02*
4. "Tennessee River" (Owen) – 3:02
5. "Why Lady Why" (Gentry, Scott) – 3:09
6. "Old Flame" (Donna Lowery, Mac McAnally) – 3:12
7. "Feels So Right" (Owen) – 3:36
8. "Love in the First Degree" (DuBois, Hunt) – 3:19
9. "Mountain Music" (Owen) – 3:38
10. "Take Me Down" (Mark Gray, J.P. Pennington) – 3:43
11. "Close Enough to Perfect" (Carl Chambers) –3:33
12. "Dixieland Delight" (Ronnie Rogers) – 3:57
13. "The Closer You Get" (Mark Gray, J.P. Pennington) – 3:35
14. "Lady Down on Love" (Owen) – 3:58
15. "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" (Dave Loggins) – 3:44
16. "When We Make Love" (Seals, Williams) – 3:37
17. "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)" (Kellum, Mitchell) – 3:22
18. "(There's A) Fire in the Night" (Corbin) – 3:58
19. "There's No Way" (Jarrard, Palas, Robinson) – 4:12
20. "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" (Dave Loggins, Don Schlitz, Lisa Silver) – 3:21
21. "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" (Corbin) – 3:39
22. "She and I" (Dave Loggins) – 3:36

[edit] Disc 2

1. "Touch Me When We're Dancing" (Bell, Skinner, Wallace) – 3:43
2. "'You've Got' the Touch" (Jarrard, Palas, Robinson) – 4:15
3. "Face to Face" (duet with K.T. Oslin) (Owen) – 3:01
4. "Fallin' Again" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:59
5. "Song of the South" (Bob McDill) – 3:11
6. "If I Had You" (Chater, Mayo) – 3:54
7. "High Cotton" (Anders, Murrah) – 3:00
8. "Southern Star" (Alves, Dean, Murrah) – 3:08
9. "Jukebox in My Mind" (Gibson, Rogers) – 3:37
10. "Forever's as Far as I'll Go" (Mike Reid) – 3:34
11. "Down Home" (Bowles, Leo) – 3:27
12. "Here We Are" (Chapman, Gill) – 2:52
13. "Then Again" (Bowles, Silbar) – 3:44
14. "Born Country" (Hill, Schweers) – 3:17
15. "I'm in a Hurry (and Don't Know Why)" (Murrah, VanWarmer) – 2:49
16. "Once Upon a Lifetime" (Baker, Myers) – 4:17
17. "Hometown Honeymoon" (Leo, Photoglo) – 3:17
18. "Reckless" (Clark, Stevens) – 3:19
19. "Give Me One More Shot" (Gentry, Owen, Rogers) – 3:30
20. "She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl" (Jason) – 2:53
21. "In Pictures" (Boyd, Doyle) – 3:31
22. "Sad Lookin' Moon" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:35

* Denotes new track

[edit] Charts

[edit] As For the Record

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1998	Country Albums	2

[edit] As The Essential

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
2005	Country Albums	52

[edit] References