Red River Valley (album) explained

Red River Valley
Type:studio
Artist:Slim Whitman
Cover:Slim Whitman Red River Valley.jpg
Genre:Country, folk
Label:United Artists
Producer:Alan Warner, Ken Barnes, Pete Drake
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Red River Valley is an album by American recording artist Slim Whitman, released on 17 December 1976.[1] It was his second and final number-one album in the UK. It spent four weeks at the top of the chart in 1977;[2] it kept David Bowie's Low off the top spot at the end of January 1977.[3] The album was arranged by Whitman and Pete Moore. The cover photography was by Derek Richards.

Track listing

  1. "Rhinestone Cowboy" (Larry Weiss)
  2. "Mr. Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man)" (George Morgan)
  3. "Too Young" (Sidney Lippman, Sylvia Dee)
  4. "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" (Beth Slater Whitson, Leo Friedman)
  5. "(It's A) Small World" (Richard Sherman, Robert Sherman)
  6. "Somewhere My Love (Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago)" (Maurice Jarre, Paul Francis Webster)
  7. "Una Paloma Blanca" (Hans Bouwens)
  8. "Red River Valley" (Traditional; arranged by Pete Moore)
  9. "My Elusive Dreams" (Billy Sherrill, Curly Putman)
  10. "Cara Mia" (Bunny Lewis (credited here as Lee Lang), (Mantovani, under pen name Tulio Trapani)
  11. "When the Moon Comes over the Mountain" (Harry M. Woods, Howard Johnson, Kate Smith)
  12. "Now Is the Hour" (Dorothy Scott, Maewa Kaihau)

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Slim Whitman Discography. 45worlds . 27 September 2022 . 27 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220927102710/https://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/artist/slim-whitman . live .
  2. Book: Roach, Martin. The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums. 2009. Virgin Books. 978-0753517000. 1–512.
  3. Web site: Official Albums Chart Top 60 – 30 Jan 1977 . Official Charts Company . 8 August 2021 . 21 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180321131834/http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19770130/7502/ . live .
  4. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 336.
  5. 24 December 1977 . Top Albums 1977 . live . PDF . . 14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210309080814/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1977/Music-Week-1977-12-24.pdf . 9 March 2021 . worldradiohistory.com . 30 November 2021.

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