Greatest Hits Vol. II (Alabama album)

Infobox Album
Name = Greatest Hits Vol. II
Type = Greatest hits
Artist = Alabama


Released = October 1991
Recorded = 1991 (new tracks)
1980-1988 (older tracks)
Genre = Country
Length = 43:14
Label = RCA Records
Producer = Various producers and Alabama
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wm03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gpfixqwgld0e]
Chronology = Alabama
Last album = "Pass It on Down"
(1990)
This album = "Greatest Hits Vol. II"
(1991)
Next album = "American Pride"
(1992)

"Greatest Hits Vol. II" is the second greatest hits package released by the American country music band Alabama. The album was released on RCA Records in 1991, and has since been certified platinum for sales of 1 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America [http://www.riaa.com/gp/database/search_results.asp] .

As with Alabama's first greatest hits album, "Greatest Hits Vol. II" includes many of the band's biggest hits of the 1980s, a decade in which they sold millions of albums, had 26 No. 1 singles on "Billboard magazine"'s Hot Country Singles chart and won the "Entertainer of the Decade" honor from the Academy of Country Music. Seven of the album's 10 songs went to No. 1 between 1982-1989; three of them – "Take Me Down", "Dixieland Delight" and "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" – are presented here in their original album-length versions, while the single edits for "The Closer You Get" and "Fallin' Again" are spotlighted.

Two of the album's three new tracks were released as singles: "Then Again" and "Born Country," both of which were top 5 hits on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart; "Born Country" reached No. 1 on the Radio & Records chart.

Track listing

#"Born Country"* (Byron Hill/John Schweers) - 3:19
#"Then Again"* (Rick Bowles/Jeff Silbar) - 3:43
#"Dixieland Delight" (Ronnie Rogers) - 5:22
#"Lady Down on Love" (Randy Owen) - 3:57
#"The Closer You Get (single edit)" (J.P. Pennington/Mark Gray) - 3:38
#"Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" (Dave Loggins) - 4:17
#"Fallin' Again (single edit)" (Randy Owen/Teddy Gentry/Greg Fowler) - 3:58
#"Song of the South" (Bob McDill) - 3:15
#"High Cotton" (Roger Murrah/Scott Anders) - 3:00
#"Take Me Down" (J.P. Pennington/Mark Gray) - 4:50
#"Hats Off"* - 3:55* "Denotes new track"

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)