Overview
Gene Watson was very much a major league artist within the genre of country
music at the time this compilation album of material ('Greatest Hits') was released.
Gene had seen the release of six albums for the MCA Records roster
between 1981 & 1985 & this compilation of material celebrates
Gene's time at the label.
Gene Watson's 'Greatest Hits' collection from 1985 features a total of
ten tracks from the Gene Watson (MCA Records) albums: 'Between
This Time & the Next Time' (1981), 'Old
Loves Never Die' (1981), 'This
Dream's on Me' (1982), 'Sometimes
I Get Lucky' (1983) & 'Little by Little'
(1984).
As a footnote, MCA Records also released the 'Little
by Little' album on CD
(MCAD 22009) in 1990.
'Greatest Hits'
MCA Records MCA5572 (1985)
MCA Records MCAD31128 (1985)
Track Listing
1 'Between this time & the next time'
•
Written by Ray Griff
Published by
ASCAP
2
'Maybe I should have been listening' •
Written by
Buzz Rabin
Published by
BMI
3 'Fourteen carat mind' ••
Written by
Dallas Frazier &
Larry Lee
(RIP)
Published by
BMI
4 'Speak softly (you're talking to my heart)'
••
Written by Steve Spurgin &
J.D. Mendenhall
Published by
BMI
5 'This dream's on me' •••
Written by
Fred Koller
Published by
BMI
6 'What she don't know won't hurt her'
•••
Written by Dave Lindsey & Ernie Rowell
Published by
BMI
7 'You're out doing what I'm here doing without'
*
Written by Bo
Roberts & Allen Frizzell
Published by
BMI
8 'Sometimes
I get lucky and forget' *
Written by
Ernie Rowell & Bob House
(RIP)
Published by
BMI
9 'Drinkin'
my way back home' **
Written by D.
Scaife, R. Scaife &
Phil Thomas
Published by
BMI
10 'Forever
again' **
Written by
Warren Robb &
Dave Kirby
(RIP)
Published by
BMI / ASCAP
'Between
this time & the next time' & 'Maybe I should have been
listening' (tracks indicated thus •)
were originally included on the 'Between This Time
& the Next Time' album, which was
released on MCA Records in 1981.
'Fourteen carat mind' & 'Speak softly (you're
talking to my heart)' (tracks indicated thus
••)
were originally included on the 'Old
Loves Never Die' album, which was released on MCA
Records in 1981.
'This
dream's on me' & 'What she don't
know won't hurt her' (tracks indicated thus
•••)
were originally included on the 'This
Dream's on Me' album, which was released on MCA
Records in 1982.
'You're
out doing what I'm here doing without' & 'Sometimes I
get lucky' (tracks indicated thus *)
were originally included on the 'Sometimes
I Get Lucky' 'Sometimes
I Get Lucky' album, which was released on MCA Records
(MCA 5384) in 1983.
'Drinkin'
my way back home' & 'Forever again' (tracks indicated thus
**)
were originally included on the 'Little
by Little' 'Little
by Little' album, which was released on MCA
Records (MCA 5440) in 1984.
'Greatest
Hits'