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Hollywood, Tennessee/True Love | 
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| Artist: Crystal Gayle
Label: Edsel Records UK
Category: Music
List Price: $26.98
Buy New: $10.25
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 41938
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 740155102234
EAN: 0740155102234
ASIN: B0018Q2D6E
Release Date: July 29, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Keepin' Power - Crystal Gayle, Cook, Roger | | • | The Woman in Me - Crystal Gayle, Thomas, Susan Marie | | • | Ain't No Sunshine - Crystal Gayle, Withers, Bill | | • | You Never Gave Up on Me - Crystal Gayle, Pearl, Leslie | | • | Hollywood - Crystal Gayle, Cook, Roger | | • | Livin' in These Troubled Times - Crystal Gayle, Cook, Roger | | • | Love Crazy Love - Crystal Gayle, Allen, Deborah | | • | Lean on Me - Crystal Gayle, Withers, Bill | | • | Crying in the Rain - Crystal Gayle, King, Carole | | • | Tennessee - Crystal Gayle, Cook, Roger | | • | Our Love Is on the Faultline - Crystal Gayle, Kirk, Reece | | • | Deeper in the Fire - Crystal Gayle, Singleton, Don | | • | 'Til I Gain Control Again - Crystal Gayle, Crowell, Rodney | | • | Baby What About You - Crystal Gayle, Leo, Josh | | • | You Bring out the Lover in Me - Crystal Gayle, Black, Charlie | | • | True Love - Crystal Gayle, Morley, Craig | | • | Everything I Own - Crystal Gayle, Gates, David | | • | Let Your Feelings Show - Crystal Gayle, Cook, Roger | | • | Easier Said Than Done - Crystal Gayle, Wyrick, Barbara | | • | He Is Beautiful to Me - Crystal Gayle, Wood, Bobby |
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Album Description
2008 digitally remastered two-fer featuring a pair of Crystal Gayle's original albums on one CD: Hollywood Tennessee (1981) and True Love (1982). These two albums were produced by Country Music legend Allen Reynolds, with three tracks produced by Jimmy Bowen (Sinatra, Dean Martin, Garth Brooks, Steve Earle, The Judds and many others). Nashville's finest session musicians are featured playing a selection of songs from Nashville's finest songwriters. 20 tracks. Edsel.
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Worth waiting 25 years for July 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was just a kid when Crystal Gayle was at the height of her commercial peak in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I used to spend most of my (meager by today's standards) allowance on cassettes of my favorite country artists. Crystal was among them, but because my budget was extremely limited in those days, I had to make my choices judiciously and usually opted for "Best Of" or "Greatest Hits" releases. Therefore, it wasn't until I was older and working that I was able to enjoy any of her studio albums, and by then much of her earlier work was out of print.
In 1983 I signed up for the Columbia House Record and Tape Club's (this was in the pre-CD days) 15 LPs or cassettes for a penny deal. Of course the catch was that one was then obligated to buy three or four more albums at regular club prices over the subsequent three or four years. One of the cassettes I selected was "True Love" which was the current Crystal Gayle album at the time. I played that tape almost to death in my Sony Walkman for the next 10 days or so until my mother found out what I had done and made me send all the tapes back.
Little did I know then that more than 25 years would pass before I would get to hear that album again -- aside from the three smash hits "Till I Gain Control Again", "Our Love Is On The Faultine" and "Baby, What About You" , which all got significant radio airplay and were later included in 1987's Best of Crystal Gayle collection. I was very excited indeed when I learned that UK-based Edsel Records was releasing this album on CD, along with the rest of Crystal's Columbia and Warner/Elektra catalogs.
"True Love" shares disc space with Crystal's previous album "Hollywood, Tennessee". It has stood the test of time very well and is every bit as good as it was when I first heard it back in the early 80s, except the digitally remastered CD sounds much, much better than the original cassette. In addition to the three aforementioned hit singles, Crystal's cover of the David Gates & Bread (remember them?) song "Everything I Own" and "He Is Beautiful To Me" are standouts.
The other half of this disc, "Hollywood, Tennessee" was unfamiliar to me, except for the hit singles "Keepin' Power", "The Woman In Me", "You Never Gave Up On Me" and "Livin' In These Troubled Times." I expected the remaining tracks to be bland, pop filler -- Crystal's tenure with Columbia Records was her most pop-oriented period, after all. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find it quite listenable. Her covers of "Lean On Me" and "Crying In The Rain" can hold their own with any other versions I've ever heard of these songs.
Edsel did a very nice job on this set. There are a lot of photos from the original albums, and there are even pictures of the original LP labels of each. The liner notes are extensive and the remastering makes these 25+ year old recordings sound like they were just produced last week. Listening to these albums has made me feel nostalgic. It's brought back some great memories, tinged with just a bit of regret that we're no longer getting music of this caliber from mainstream country. All in all, it was well worth the 25-year wait.
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