Greatest Hits (Waylon Jennings album)


Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, released in 1979 by RCA Records.

Background

The LP documents Jennings' outlaw country years for RCA and includes several of his most well-known signature songs, the most recent of which had been the title track of I've Always Been Crazy, released the year before. Not counting the Mackintosh & T.J. soundtrack album and the White Mansions concept album, Greatest Hits became Jennings' eighth consecutive release to reach #1 on the charts; it was also one of his last chart-topping records, with What Goes Around Comes Around, released that same year, peaking at #2.
"Amanda" had been a track on his 1974 album The Ramblin' Man, but had not been released as a single at that time. More than 4½ years later, new overdubs were added to the original track and the song was placed on this greatest hits album. In April 1979 it was issued as a single and soon became one of the biggest country hits of 1979.
The album has been 5× Platinum certified by the Recording Industry Association of America and 3× Platinum by Music Canada. In 1984, RCA issued the original 11-track album on compact disc. In 1989, RCA reissued an abridged CD/Cassette version with the songs resequenced and omitting two tracks. This is the version of the CD currently available.

Track listing

1979 release

  1. "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" – 3:38
  2. :From Lonesome, On'ry and Mean
  3. "Ladies Love Outlaws" – 2:32
  4. :From Ladies Love Outlaws
  5. "I've Always Been Crazy" – 4:11
  6. :From I've Always Been Crazy
  7. "I'm a Ramblin' Man" – 2:46
  8. :From The Ramblin' Man
  9. "Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line" – 2:20
  10. :From Only the Greatest
  11. "Amanda" – 2:56
  12. :New overdub of a song that had appeared on The Ramblin' Man
  13. "Honky Tonk Heroes" – 3:27
  14. :From Honky Tonk Heroes
  15. "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" – 2:32
  16. *With Willie Nelson
  17. :From Waylon and Willie
  18. "Good Hearted Woman" – 2:59
  19. *With Willie Nelson
  20. :From Wanted! The Outlaws
  21. "Luckenbach, Texas " – 3:19
  22. :From Ol' Waylon
  23. "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" – 2:55
  24. :From Dreaming My Dreams

    1989 release

  25. "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" – 3:38
  26. "I've Always Been Crazy" – 4:11
  27. "Honky Tonk Heroes" – 3:27
  28. "Luckenbach, Texas " – 3:19
  29. "I'm a Ramblin' Man" – 2:46
  30. "Amanda" – 2:56
  31. "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys" – 2:32
  32. "A Good Hearted Woman" – 2:59
  33. "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" – 2:55

    Chart performance