Greatest Hits Vol. II (Alabama album) explained

Greatest Hits Vol. II
Type:greatest
Artist:Alabama
Cover:AlabamaGreatestHits2.jpg
Released:October 8, 1991
Recorded:1991 (new tracks)
1982-1984, 1987-1989 (older tracks)
Genre:Country
Length:43:14
Label:RCA Nashville
Producer:Various producers and Alabama
Chronology:Alabama
Prev Title:Pass It On Down
Prev Year:1990
Next Title:American Pride
Next Year:1992

Greatest Hits Vol. II is the second compilation album by American country music band Alabama. The album was released by RCA Records in 1991, and has since been certified platinum for sales of 1 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America.[1]

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 magazines 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 Closer You Get" is presented in its single-edit form and "Fallin' Again" in its shorter LP edit.

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.

Personnel on New Tracks

Alabama

Mark Herndon, Alabama's drummer, does not play on the new tracks.

Additional Musicians

Chart performance

Chart (1991)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums10
U.S. Billboard 20072
Canadian RPM Country Albums13

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Greatest Hits Vol. II RIAA certification.