For the Record

Infobox Album
Name = For the Record
Type = Greatest hits
Artist = Alabama


Released = 1998
Recorded = 1998 (Disc 1, Tracks 1-3)
1980-1996 (other tracks)
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = RCA
Producer = Alabama and Don Cook (Disc 1, Tracks 1-3) Various orginal producers (other tracks)
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dbfoxqwjldje link]
Chronology = Alabama
Last album = "The Essential Alabama"
(1998)
This album = "For the Record"
(1998)
Next album = "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, as well as other songs which reached Number One on the former "Radio & Records" (now "Mediabase 24/7") charts.

Three new tracks are also included. Of these, "How Do You Fall in Love" reached No. 2 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in late 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.

"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", 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." [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:vkj97io5g78r allmusic ((( The Essential Alabama [2005] > Overview )))] ] A disclaimer on the back of the album indicates that "The Essential" is the reissued "For the Record".

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The original "For the Record" album was certified platinum for sales of 5 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America. [ [http://www.riaa.com/gp/database/search_results.asp RIAA - Gold & Platinum] ]

Track listing

Disc 1

# "Five O'Clock 500" (Teddy Gentry, Randy Owen, Ronnie Rogers) – 3:36^A
# "Keepin' Up" (Greg Fowler, Gentry, Owen, Rogers) – 3:05^A
# "How Do You Fall in Love" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:00^A
# "Tennessee River" (Owen) – 3:02
# "Why Lady Why" (Gentry, Rick Scott) – 3:09
# "Old Flame" (Donna Lowery, Mac McAnally) – 3:10
# "Feels So Right" (Owen) – 3:35
# "Love in the First Degree" (Tim DuBois, Jim Hunt) – 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 Bear 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" (Clark, 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

Charts

As "For the Record"

Album - Billboard (North America)

As "The Essential"

Album - Billboard (North America)

References