Open Up Your Heart (album)
Encyclopedia
Open Up Your Heart is an album by Buck Owens
and his Buckaroos
, released in 1966. It reached Number one on the Billboard
Country Albums chart.
It was re-released on CD in 1995 by Sundazed Records
.
1995 bonus tracks:
Buck Owens
Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...
and his Buckaroos
The Buckaroos
The Buckaroos were a Grammy-winning band led by Buck Owens in the 1960s and early '70s, who were heavily involved in the development and presentation of the "Bakersfield Sound." Their peak of success was from 1965-1970. In 2005, CMT named the Buckaroos No...
, released in 1966. It reached Number one on the Billboard
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...
Country Albums chart.
It was re-released on CD in 1995 by Sundazed Records
Sundazed Records
Sundazed Records is a record label based in Coxsackie, in the Catskills of New York. It specializes in obscure and rare recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s.Label founders Bob Irwin and his wife Mary started the label in 1989...
.
Side one
- "Open Up Your HeartOpen Up Your Heart (song)"Open Up Your Heart" is a 1966 single by Buck Owens. "Open Up Your Heart" was a number one country hit for Buck Owens, spending four weeks at the top spot and total of twenty weeks on the country charts .-Chart performance:...
" (Buck Owens) – 2:28 - "Congratulations, You're Absolutely Right" (Owens, Don RichDon RichDonald Eugene Ulrich, best known by the stage name Don Rich was a country musician who helped develop the Bakersfield sound in the early 1960s. He was a noted guitarist and fiddler, and a member of the Buckaroos, the backing band of country singer Buck Owens.-Biography:Donald Eugene Ulrich was...
, Red SimpsonRed SimpsonRed Simpson is an American country singer-songwriter best known for his trucker-themed songs.-Biography:Red Simpson was raised in Bakersfield, California, the youngest of a dozen children...
) – 2:38 - "Think of Me" (Olson, Rich) – 2:15
- "In the Palm of Your Hand" (Owens) – 2:25
- "You, You, Only You" (Rich, Simpson) – 2:06
- "Sam's Place" (Owens, Simpson) – 1:59
Side two
- "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line" (Owens, Rich, Nat Stuckey) – 2:18
- "A Devil Like Me (Needs an Angel Like You)" (Rich, Simpson) – 2:09
- "Heart of Glass" (Owens, Simpson) – 2:09
- "Cadillac Lane" (Owens, Simpson) – 2:22
- "No More Me and You" (Owens) – 2:03
- "Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You" (Owens) – 2:12
1995 bonus tracks:
- "Open Up Your Heart" (Owens) – 2:27
- "Think of Me" (Estella Olson, Don Rich) – 2:13
Recorded
- August 23, 1965, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood (6,9)
- August 24, 1965, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood (4,7)
- February 15, 1966, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood (3,11)
- April 1966, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood (1,2,5,8,10,12)