Track listing

1. "Words and Music"
2. "Crying" (Roy Orbison
   Roy Orbison
   Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...
   
   , Joe Melson
   Joe Melson
   Joe Melson , is an American singer and a BMI Award–winning songwriter.Melson was born in Bonham, the seat of Fannin County in northeast Texas. He was reared on a farm until he was sixteen. He attended high school in Gore, Oklahoma, and in Chicago before he returned to Texas to study at the two-year...
   
   )
3. "It's Just the Sun"
4. "Lotta Lovin'" (Bernice Bedwell)
5. "Chain Lightning"
6. "Your Cheatin' Heart
   Your Cheatin' Heart
   "Your Cheatin' Heart" is a song written and recorded by the American country music singer and songwriter Hank Williams in 1952, but released after his death in 1953.. It is often considered one of his greatest songs, and one of the great songs of country music...
   
   " (Hank Williams)
7. "Wonderful Night"
8. "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" (Paul Anka
   Paul Anka
   Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...
   
   )
9. "Since I Don't Have You" (Wally Lester, Joe VerScharen, Janet Vogel, Lenny Martin, Joseph Rock, James Beaumont, Jackie Taylor)
10. "Genesis (In the Beginning)"
11. "It's a Beautiful Life"
12. "If You Could Read My Mind
    If You Could Read My Mind (song)
    "If You Could Read My Mind" is a song by Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. It reached number one on Canadian music charts and was his first recording to appear on the American music charts, reaching number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in January 1971. Later in the year, it...
    
    " (Gordon Lightfoot
    Gordon Lightfoot
    Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s...
    
    )

Chart performance

Personnel

• Don McLean - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
• James D. Capps, Ray Edenton - Acoustic Guitar
• Tommy D. Allsup
  Tommy Allsup
  Tommy Allsup is an American musician.He worked with entertainers such as Buddy Holly and Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys...
  
  , Billy R. Sanford - Electric Guitar
• Pete Drake
  Pete Drake
  Pete Drake , born Roddis Franklin Drake, was a major Nashville, Tennessee-based record producer and pedal steel guitar player....
  
   - Pedal Steel Guitar
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Chuck Cochran - Piano
• Bobby R. Woods
  Bob Woods
  Robert Leslie "Bob" Woods is an Australian former politician. He was a Liberal Senator for the state of New South Wales in Australia between 1993 and 1997. Woods was previously a Member of the Australian House of Representatives as the Liberal member for Lowe between 1987 and 1993...
  
   - Electric Piano
• Bob "King" Moore
  Bob Moore
  Bob Loyce Moore is an American session musician, orchestra leader, and bassist who was a member of the legendary Nashville A-Team during the 1950s and 60s.-Biography:...
  
   - Bass
• Jerry K. Carrigan
  Jerry Carrigan
  Jerry Carrigan is an American drummer and record producer born 13 September 1943 in Florence, Alabama. He first achieved widespread recognition by being part of the first wave of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and later as a session musician in Nashville, Tennessee for over 3 decades...
  
   - Drums, Percussion
• Joseph E. Chrisman, Eddy Anderson - Drums
• The Jordanaires
  The Jordanaires
  The Jordanaires are an American vocal quartet, which formed as a gospel group in 1948. They are best known for providing vocal background for Elvis Presley, in live appearances and recordings from 1956 to 1972...
  
   - Background Vocals
• The Nashville Strings - Strings
• Bill Justis
  Bill Justis
  William E. "Bill" Justis Jr. was an American pioneer rock and roll musician, composer, and musical arranger, best known for his 1957 Grammy Hall of Fame song, "Raunchy."-Biography:...
  
  - arranger & conductor