Home on the Range (album) explained

Home on the Range
Type:Studio
Artist:Slim Whitman
Cover:Home on the Range cover.jpg
Released:1977
Recorded:April 27–29, 1977; Woodland Studios, East Nashville, Tennessee
Genre:Folk, World, Country
Label:United Artists Records
Producer:Alan Warner, Scott Turner (songwriter)
Prev Title:Red River Valley
Prev Year:1977
Next Title:Song I Love to Sing
Next Year:1980

Home on the Range is a 1977 folk, world and country music album recorded by Slim Whitman.[1]

An album of standards from the three genres, it reached 2 in the UK Albums Chart in 1977 staying for thirteen weeks on the charts. It was a follow-up album to his Red River Valley, also successful in the UK in 1977.[2] [3]

Track listing

Side One.

  1. "Dear Heart" (Henry Mancini, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans)
  2. "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (James Austin Butterfield; arranged by Slim Whitman)
  3. "Pearly Shells" (Webley Edwards)
  4. "Down the River of Golden Dreams" (John Klenner, Nathaniel Shilkret)
  5. "Top of the World" (John Bettis, Richard Carpenter)
  6. "Rockin' Alone (In an Old Rockin' Chair)" (William York)

Side Two

  1. "Home on the Range" (Traditional; arranged by Slim Whitman)
  2. "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" (Roger Greenaway, Barry Mason)
  3. "Paper Roses" (Fred Spielman, Janice Torre)
  4. "I'm So Lonesome" (Byron Keith)
  5. "Diane" (Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack)
  6. "I'll Be Home" (Ferdinand Washington, Stanley Lewis)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Home on the Range. www.disogs.com. 22 June 2013.
  2. Book: Roberts, David . . 2006 . HIT Entertainment.
  3. Web site: Slim Whitman. www.officialcharts.com. 22 June 2013.