House On Old Lonesome Road (Conway Twitty album)
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House On Old Lonesome Road is a full-length album by country singer Conway Twitty
. It was released in 1989 on MCA Records, and features the hit "She's Got A Single Thing In Mind", which allmusic's Jason Ankeny called "the energizing hit which reaffirmed Twitty's standing among the era's country's giants."
Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...
. It was released in 1989 on MCA Records, and features the hit "She's Got A Single Thing In Mind", which allmusic's Jason Ankeny called "the energizing hit which reaffirmed Twitty's standing among the era's country's giants."
Track listing
- "She's Got a Single Thing in MindShe's Got a Single Thing in Mind"She's Got a Single Thing in Mind" is a single by American country music artist Conway Twitty. Released in 1989, it was the first single from the album House on Old Lonesome Road. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...
" (Walt AldridgeWalt AldridgeWalt Aldridge is an American musician, singer, songwriter, engineer and record producer.Aldridge is known primarily as a Nashville songwriter...
) 3:42 - "Who's Gonna Know" (Jimmy GriffinJimmy GriffinJames Arthur Griffin was a singer, guitarist, and songwriter with the 1970s rock band Bread.-Early life:An Academy Award winning songwriter, Griffin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. His musical training began when his parents signed him up for accordion lessons...
, Richard Mainegra, Rick Yancey) 2:49 - "Play, Ruby, Play" (Tony BrownTony Brown (record producer)Tony Brown is an American country music record producer.He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina.Brown played piano for Elvis Presley. He toured with the TCB Band for much of Presley's final two years and was a part of the 1976 "Jungle Room" recording sessions at Graceland...
, Troy SealsTroy SealsTroy Seals is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.He is a member of the prominent Seals family of musicians that includes, Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Brady Seals...
) 3:29 - "House on Old Lonesome Road" (Dave Gibson, Bernie Nelson) 3:57
- "Nobody Can Fill Your Shoes" (Roger MurrahRoger MurrahRoger Murrah is a songwriter and music publisher who has written hits for artists including Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, Al Jarreau, and Alabama....
, James Dean Hicks) 2:43 - "Private Part of My Heart" (Max D. BarnesMax D. BarnesMax D. Barnes was a country music singer and songwriter.As a songwriter, Barnes composed many familiar songs of the '80s and '90s, receiving 42 songwriter awards in his career...
, Seals) 3:30 - "Child With Child" (Dave Goodman, Allen Ray) 2:57
- "Take Me Home to Mama" (Karen Staley, Gary Harrison) 3:18
- "Pieces of You" (Barnes, Skip EwingSkip EwingDonald Ralph "Skip" Ewing is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since 1988, Ewing has recorded nine studio albums, and has charted fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts.-Career:...
) 3:20 - "Too White to Sing the Blues" (Lacy J. DaltonLacy J. DaltonLacy J. Dalton , is an American country and western singer and songwriter, known for her gritty, powerful vocals, which a number of critics likened to a country equivalent to Bonnie Raitt . She had a number of hits in the 1980s, including "Takin' It Easy," "Crazy Blue Eyes" and "16th Avenue." ...
, Murrah) 3:12
Production
- Produced By Conway Twitty, Dee Henry & Jimmy Bowen
- Engineers: Ron Treat
- Second Engineers: Mark J. Coddington, Tim Kish, Russ Martin
- Mixing: Chuck Ainlay
- Digital Editing: Milan Bogdan
- Mastering: Glenn Meadows
Personnel
- Drums: Eddie Bayers
- Bass: David HungateDavid HungateDavid Hungate is a bass player noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977-1982. Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees album of 1976 included Hungate and several other future members of Toto...
- Keyboards: John Barlow Jarvis
- Synthesizer: Mike Lawler
- Guitars: Conway Twitty
- Fiddle, Mandolin: Hoot Hester
- Harmony Vocals: Vince GillVince GillVincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
, Joe Manuel
Chart performance
Chart (1989) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 39 |