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Barbara Mandrell is undoubtedly our greatest country music ambassadress. Her career, which has spanned over 30 years, has not only included a massive amount of hit recordings, but her TV show (Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters) in the early '80s - probably the last truly successful variety show - gave the genre incredible exposure, and brought her so much notoriety that she not only won prestigious country music awards, but also the more broad-based People's Choice Awards - nine of them!Her appeal was far and wide because she not only sang, she played many instruments, which was extremely unusual for a woman in the '70s. Audiences responded to her music because it encompassed all styles, even though she was categorized as country. Early on, she adopted Duke Ellington's famous statement that "there are only two kinds of music - good and bad." That assertion governed the way she chose her songs and the manner in which she elected to record them as evidenced by such cover choices as "Married But Not To Each Other," "If Lovin' You Is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Right" and "Woman To Woman" in which she struggled to perfect the beginning spoken intro."I remember saying to my producer Tom Collins, 'I can't do a recitation,'" Mandrell recalls. "He said, 'I don't ever want to hear, 'I can't.' I always say I don't want to hear that either, so I had to do it."
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Tracks| 1 | Tonight My Baby's Coming Home | | 2 | The Midnight Oil | | 3 | Standing Room Only | | 4 | Married But Not To Each Other | | 5 | Woman To Woman | | 6 | Tonight | | 7 | Sleeping Single In A Double Bed | | 8 | (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Wanna Be Right | | 9 | Fooled By A Feeling | | 10 | Years | | 11 | Crackers | | 12 | The Best Of Strangers | | 13 | I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool - live duet with George Jones | | 14 | Till You're Gone | | 15 | In Times Like These | | 16 | One Of A Kind Pair Of Fools | | 17 | Happy Birthday Dear Heartache | | 18 | Only A Lonely Heart Knows | | 19 | There's No Love In Tennessee | | 20 | Angel In Your Arms | | 21 | Fast Lanes And Country Roads | | 22 | No One Mends A Broken Heart Like You | | 23 | I Wish That I Could Fall In Love Today |
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