Overview
Gene Watson was very much a major
league artist in the world of country music when this
compilation album of material was released in the United States
of America in May 1978.
'The Best of Gene Watson' compilation album includes tracks from
the albums 'Gene Watson' (1969 &
1973), 'Love in the Hot Afternoon'
(1975), 'Because You Believed in
Me' (1976) & 'Paper Rosie'
(1977).
'The Best of Gene Watson' compilation album also includes two
tracks ('Shadows on the wall' & 'John's back in town'), both of
which were previously released on 45rpm vinyl single only. The
latter track ('John's back in town') was co-written by
Bill Mack &
Waylon Jennings.
The 'Best of Gene Watson' album
achieved a chart position of Number
29 on the Billboard Top Country
Album Chart in 1978.
'The Best of Gene Watson'
Capitol Records ST11782 (1978)
Capitol Records CDP 7916412 (1989)
Track Listing
1 'Love in
the hot afternoon'
•
Written by Kent Westberry
& Vince Matthews (RIP)
Published by Jack Music Inc. / BMI
2 'You could know as much about a stranger'
• †
Written by Nadine Bryant
Published by Hotel Publishing Company Ltd / ASCAP
3 'Because you believed in me'
••
Written by Owens, Hall and Vowell
Published by Unichappell Music, Inc. / BMI / Belida
Music
4 'Bad water' •
Written by Jackie DeShannon, Holiday & Myers
Published by Unart Music Corporation / BMI
5 'Shadows on the wall'
**
Written by Thomas Becket
Published by Ricci Mareno / SESAC
6 'Paper Rosie' *
Written by Dallas Harms
Published by Doubleplay Music / Quality Music Publishing
Ltd / BMI
7 'Where love begins' •
Written by Ray Griff
Published by Blue Echo Music / Chappell & Company /
ASCAP
8 'If I'm a fool for leaving'
•••
Written by Skip
Graves & Little Jimmy Dickens
Published by Cedarwood Publishing Company, Inc. / BMI
9 'John's
back in town' **
Written by Bill Mack &
Waylon
Jennings (RIP)
Published by Glad Music Company / BMI
10 'Her body couldn't keep you
(off my mind)'
••
Written by Ray Griff
Published by Blue Echo Music / ASCAP
'Love
in the hot afternoon', 'You could
know as much about a stranger', 'Bad
Water' & 'Where Love Begins' (tracks
indicated thus
•) were originally
included on the 'Love
in the Hot Afternoon' album,
which was released on Capitol
Records (ST 5 11443A-5384) in 1975.
'Because
you believed in me' & 'Her
body couldn't keep you (off my mind)'
(tracks indicated thus
••)
were originally included on the 'Because
You Believed in Me' album, which
was released on Capitol Records (ST
11529) in 1976.
'Paper
Rosie' (track indicated thus
*)
was originally included on the 'Paper
Rosie' album, which was released
on Capitol Records (ST 11597) in
1977.
The
'Paper
Rosie' album was released by Hux
Records (London, England) on Tuesday
3rd December 2002, as a
special 2-on-1 CD, along with
the original 'Love
in the Hot Afternoon' (Capitol
Records) album which was released in
1975.
'If
I'm a fool for leaving' (track
indicated thus
•••) was originally
included on the 'Gene
Watson' album, which was
released on Wide World Records
(WWS-2002) in 1969. The album
was subsequently re-released by
Stoneway Records (ST2002) in 1973.
'If
I'm a fool for leaving'
(track indicated thus
•••)
was originally included on the 'Because
You Believed in Me' album, which
was released on Capitol Records (ST
11529) in 1976.
The
'Because
You Believed in Me' album
(Capitol Records, 1976) was released
by Hux Records (London, England) as
a
special
2-on-1 CD, along with
the 'Beautiful
Country' (Capitol Records,
1977), in October/November 2005.
A
re-recorded version of 'If I'm a
fool for leaving' (track indicated
thus •••)
was included on the 'Gene Watson:
Then & Now' album, which was
released on Koch Records Nashville
in 2005.
A re-recorded
version of 'You could know as much
about a stranger' (track indicated
thus †)
was included on the 'Gene Watson:
Then & Now' album, which was
released on Koch Records Nashville
in 2005.
'The Best of Gene Watson'
