The Best of the Oak Ridge Boys

Track Listings

 
1. Lucky Moon
2. Your Love Made Me This Way
3. Change My Mind
4. Baby on Board
5. Walkin' After Midnight
6. Fall
7. Standin' by the River
8. You're My Soul and Inspiration
9. Stay With Me

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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Oak Ridge Boys
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Good intro, but
  • Awesome
  • Elvira is cut short!!!!!!!!!!
  • MCA gets cheap?
  • Not just for country music lovers!
 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys
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ASIN: B00004WFHX
Release Date: 2000-08-15

Tracks:

  1. Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight
  2. I'll Be True To You
  3. Dream On
  4. Trying To Love Two Women
  5. Elvira
  6. Fancy Free
  7. Bobbie Sue
  8. I Wish You Could Have Turned My Head (And Left My Heart Alone)
  9. American Made
  10. I Guess It Never Hurts To Hurt Sometimes
  11. Make My Life With You
  12. It Takes A Little Rain (To Make Love Grow)

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Good intro, but.......2005-08-24

The first 5 songs are top 10 hits +, but after that I went to fast forward.

5 out of 5 stars Awesome.......2003-09-12

My parents listen to these good old boys and I grew up listening to them and my children are now listening to them. I went to a concert at the Ross Ragland in Klamath Falls,Or and I loved the bass he is so low you can feel it in your seat. All are cute too! Great albums

2 out of 5 stars Elvira is cut short!!!!!!!!!!.......2002-07-25

The very end of the song where Richard hits the "bottom of the barrel" with his amazing vocal chords...is totally cut out! What a scam! I used to listen to this song as a kid and I feel I've been betrayed!!

4 out of 5 stars MCA gets cheap?.......2002-04-28

The Oak Ridge Boys deserve to have at least one Millenium Collection released (if not more), but should it be done to accomodate MCA's increasingly cheap approach to older artists?

This collection would not be quite to bad if MCA hadn't released "The Oak Ridge Boys COLLECTION" nearly 10 years earlier. At least that package got original artwork and liner notes. When it became inevitable that the Oaks needed a Millenium Collection, what did MCA do? They simply pulled the 1992 "Collection" off the market (which had been certified Gold not too long before), slapped an old album photo on it (the original cover for "American Made," to be exact), and ever so slightly edited the track list. The result: a POOR excuse for a new release. All but one of the songs on this release appeared on the '92 collection ("Bobbie Sue," conspicuously absent from the prior release, and "Make My Life With You" are the only additions). Amazing, two of the Oaks' biggest hits, "Y'all Come Back Saloon" and "Thank God For Kids" were cut altogether (I guess to save even more money).

Even the liner notes are nearly identical to the '92 release. I see no reason for this total lack of concern for a top-notch group such as the Oaks. Since they have so many more hits, perhaps MCA will consider doing a Volume Two Millenium release (with a NEW cover photo and DIFFERENT song line-up!!)

4 out of 5 stars Not just for country music lovers!.......2001-05-13

One listen to "The Best Of The Oak Ridge Boys - The Millennium Collection" will have you immediately hooked on the material, even if you aren't a fan of country music. What endeared many a fan to this legendary quartet is their unique brand of interwoven, finely homogenized blend of vocalization. Perhaps you could call the Oaks' the "Mamas and the Papas" or the "Three Dog Night" of country music. In this collection, you get eleven of their best known country tunes, plus the Oaks one and only crossover country-pop smash "Elvira", which features Richard Sterban's trademark bass vocals. I couldn't sing that low if my life depended on it! The saxophone playing in "Bobbie Sue" is reminiscent of The Coasters "Charlie Brown", which gives this track a jazzy-bluesy sort of quality. My favorite tracks in this collection would have to be "I Wish You Could Have Turned My Head (And Left My Heart Alone)", "American Made" (which was later revamped and used in a popular beer commercial), "Trying To Love Two Women", "Fancy Free" and "Make My Life With You". The other tracks featured in this greatest hits collection are worth the money as well, so you'll derive great listening pleasure, as well as get more than what you pay for with this one of a kind body of work from one of country music's biggest legends. This could be a five star review, had MCA included the Oaks' two most endearing favorites "Thank God For Kids" and "Everyday", but MCA sort of dropped the ball on this one. Although The Oak Ridge Boys have enjoyed a rather fruitful career over the years, perhaps their most notorious act was when Joe Bonsall, Duane Allen and Richard Sterban dismissed fellow longtime member William Lee Golden in the mid-'80's for refusing to shave off his trademark shepherd-like, salt and pepper beard. C'mon guys, that's like asking Alex Trebek to do away with his "flavor saver", or even asking Kenny Rogers to shave off all his facial hair! The group then replaced Golden with a dark haired guy with no facial hair, who, in photographs looked so out of place in this band. By the time the '90's rolled around, Golden was later back with The Oak Ridge Boys, but the group failed to recapture their late '70's/early '80's chart success. This Millennium Collection CD belongs in every country music/Oaks' fan's, and in some cases, pop music fan's CD library. You better not wait too long, because "The Best Of The Oak Ridge Boys - The Millennium Collection" might not be around for the next millennium! As they say down South, "Ya better git while the gittin's good!" In English, that means "Order yours today (while supplies last)!"
The Best of the Oak Ridge Boys
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • A nice (if short) collection of later gospel "Boys"
  • Nice rendition of the pre-country Oaks!
  • Web mistake
 The Best of the Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys
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ASIN: B0000025CR
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

  1. The Baptism Of Jesse Taylor
  2. Loves Me Like A Rock
  3. Why Me
  4. Rhythm Guitar
  5. Freedom For The Stallion
  6. Heaven Bound
  7. He's Gonna Smile On Me
  8. There Must Be A Better Way
  9. Where The Soul Never Dies
  10. Family Reunion

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A nice (if short) collection of later gospel "Boys".......2004-03-18

Released by Columbia just before the "Boys" broke into mainstream country, this bargain release takes ten gospel songs to make a short (less than 30 minutes) shining collection.

First the less shining stars of the collection are Paul Simon's "Loves Me Like A Rock" and Kris Kristofferson's "Why Me". While good songs in their own right, the group does an OK job, no more, no less.

"The Baptism of Jesse Taylor" starts off the collection with a good story and morality song. Think of it as bad man gone good. "Rhythm Guitar" is a good song although I disagree with one lyric, the singer talks about Jesus saying "I don't think it's working out at all the way He planned." I happen to think He doesn't make mistakes and that all this happens the way it does for a reason. Forgive the theology. :)

Allan Toussaint's "Freedom For The Stallion" is done to perfection, often getting the repeat button. "Heaven Bound" makes you want to be sure to be on that train. "He's Gonna Smile On Me", "There Must Be A Better Way" and "Where The Soul Never Dies" are effective gospel rousers and the final cut David Allan Coe's "Family Reunion" gives a hint of where the Boys were heading.

A bit skimpy on the number of tracks and the first two songs I mentioned are the only reason this collection gets 4 stars instead of 5.

5 out of 5 stars Nice rendition of the pre-country Oaks!.......2001-03-18

This is a compilation of the Oaks' "Columbia Days," just before they made the switch to mainstream country. It features two Grammy-award-winning songs ("The Baptism Of Jesse Taylor" and "Where The Soul Never Dies"), more southern-style with "Rhythm Guitar" and "Family Reunion," and a more contemporary sound with "There Must Be A Better Way" and "He's Gonna Smile On Me." Perhaps one of the finest cuts on here is the previously-unreleased "Heaven Bound," a rocking, uptempo tune. Unlike most of the Oaks' gospel music available today, this collection features the CURRENT group (Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, William Lee Golden, and Richard Sterban), and not the lineup from the late 50's/early 60's. All in all, it is a very good album!

1 out of 5 stars Web mistake.......1999-09-13

We chose "Rhythm Guitar" by the Oak Ridge Boys to listen to, but a funky version of "White Lightning" came up instead. We'd still like to listen to "Rhythm Guitar" if it can be fixed! Thanks!
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    7. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
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      3. My Heavenly Father
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      5. Little Is Much
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      5 out of 5 stars The Sound track of Christian Soldiers.......2004-02-18

      I first owned this collection as a cassette during the summer of 1984, just after the Olympics and before my employment and stay in Yosemite National Park. During the most trying times, I would listen to and cherish the words to HELP ME NOT TO COMPLAIN and receive much inspiration from the Old Country Church. I still see in my mind's eye the snow covered chapel in Yosemite Meadows every time that I hear that number, and I am sure that you will too.
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        Jeanne Pruett , Holly Dunn , The Oak Ridge Boys , Wilma Burgess , and Tommy Cash
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        3. What a Friend We Have in Jesus - Holly Dunn
        4. Oh Happy Day - Jack Greene
        5. What Would You Do If Jesus Came to Your House
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        At Their Best
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        • TRACK LISTING (Great Gospel):
        		At Their Best
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        5 out of 5 stars TRACK LISTING (Great Gospel): .......2006-09-03

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          • The smooth and innovative sounds of the oak ridge boys
          		 The Very Best of the Country Gospel Years
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          Release Date: 2000-05-23

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          2. I Know
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          5. I Know My Savior Is There
          6. God's Hands
          7. He Means All The World To Me
          8. Hide Thou Me
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          12. Lead Me To Calvary
          13. I Want To See Jesus Most Of All
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          15. My Heavenly Father
          16. On The Sunny Banks
          17. Thank God, I'm Reborn
          18. I Asked The Lord
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          20. You'll Never Walk Alone

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars The smooth and innovative sounds of the oak ridge boys.......2002-05-22

          If you liked the oaks before they went country you will enjoy this album. It is both innovative and the best sound the oaks had.
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            7. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
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            10. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
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            2. Christian Way
            3. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
            4. Each Step I Take
            5. Only Trust Him
            6. No One Cared So Much
            7. On the Sunny Banks
            8. There Is Sunshine in My Soul
            9. It's Different Now
            10. I Want to See Jesus Most of All
            11. Rock of Ages

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            2. When We All Get to Heaven
            3. One of These Mornings
            4. Day of Rejoicing
            5. Blessed Assurance
            6. Jesus, The One Who Never Fails
            7. I'll Wake Up on the Other Side
            8. Farther Along
            9. God's Hands
            10. Amazing Grace
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