Rose Garden (album)

Rose Garden
Studio album by Lynn Anderson
Released	1970
Recorded	August 1970 at Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, TN
Genre	Country Music/Pop Music
Label	Columbia
Producer	Glenn Sutton, Clive Davis
Lynn Anderson chronology
No Love at All 1970 Rose Garden 1970 You're My Man 1971

Rose Garden was an album released in November 1970 by country singer Lynn Anderson as the title song was climbing up country and pop charts around the world. The song went on to top the country charts, where it stayed at the #1 position for five weeks, and reached #3 on the pop charts in 1971 and was an international top five pop hit in numerous countries. Anderson would receive Grammy Award for the song for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the record.

The album went platinum in the United States, arguably the first female country artist release to do so (Tammy Wynette's Greatest Hits from 1969 also went platinum but given the RIAA did not officially have "platinum" records until 1976 there was no way to tell which album reached the sales mark first; Columbia/Epic gave Anderson and Wynette each platinum record trophies in late 1972.) The album "Rose Garden" continued to sell well for over a decade and later managed to receive an official platinum record as well for sales post-1976.

The album "Rose Garden" hit the Billboard country album charts on December 26, 1970 and by the February 13th issue had climbed to #1 on the chart where it would remain for 14 weeks, the longest run at the top of that chart for any country female vocalist until Shania Twain's "The Woman in Me)" album in 1995, 25 years later. "Rose Garden" still ranks among the top 50 country albums of alltime in the history of the country album chart. The disc peaked at #19 on the pop Billboard's Hot 200 Albums, by far Anderson's best showing on that chart. The album was also nominated for "Album of the Year" by the Country Music Association and was in print for over 15 years. Anderson was also nominated for "Record of the Year" for the single of "Rose Garden" and won the Female Vocalist of the Year award at the same ceremonies breaking Tammy Wynette's three-year winning streak.

Track listing

1. "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden" (Joe South) – 2:53
2. "For the Good Times" (Kris Kristofferson)
3. "Another Lonely Night" (Larry Butler)
4. "I Don't Wanna Play House" (Billy Sherrill, Glenn Sutton)
5. "Snowbird" (Gene MacLellan)
6. "Your Sweet Love Lifted Me" (George Richey, Glenn Sutton)
7. "Sunday Morning Coming Down" (Kris Kristofferson)
8. "I Still Belong to You" (Bill Rice, Jerry Foster)
9. "I Wish I Was a Little Boy Again" (Glenn Sutton, Darrell Edwards)
10. "It's Only Make Believe" (Conway Twitty, Jack Nance)
11. "Nothing Between Us" (Lynn Anderson)

External links

• LP Discography entry.