The Ultimate Hits Collection (Juice Newton album)

This article is about the album by Juice Newton. For the album by Johnny Mathis, see The Ultimate Hits Collection (Johnny Mathis album).
The Ultimate Hits Collection
Compilation album by Juice Newton
Released July 26, 2011 (2011-07-26)
Genre Country rock, country pop
Length 1:14:46 (original)
1:21:19 (ITunes edition)
Label Fuel Records
Juice Newton chronology
Duets: Friends & Memories
(2010)		 The Ultimate Hits Collection
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[1]

The Ultimate Hits Collection is a compilation album by country pop singer Juice Newton. It was released by Fuel Records in 2011. All 10 tracks from Newton's 1998 album The Trouble With Angels were included in this release along with 10 other recordings from various other Newton albums. An ITunes edition added two more tracks.

Overview

Background

Juice Newton began her recording career in 1975 but did not achieve major stardom until the release of her 1981 album Juice. The album was a crossover success and yielded three hit singles, "Angel of the Morning", "Queen of Hearts", and "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)". The last of these peaked at number one on the Billboard Country Chart.[2] She followed Juice with Quiet Lies (1982), an album that brought her two more hits, "Love's Been a Little Bit Hard on Me" and "Break It to Me Gently", of which the latter earned her the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female.[2][3] Newton's 1985 album Old Flame was her country breakthrough, spawning three number one hits "You Make Me Want to Make You Mine", "Hurt", and the duet with Eddie Rabbitt "Both to Each Other (Friends & Lovers)" and also three additional Top Ten hits: "Old Flame", "Cheap Love", and "What Can I Do with My Heart". After two more albums (Emotion and Ain't Gonna Cry) Newton concentrated more on concert performing.[2]

Newton returned to recording in 1998 with her album The Trouble With Angels, a collection made up largely of new renditions of her previous hits.[4] The following year she released American Girl.[5] In the mid-1990s Newton began recording a series of duets. Initially these were conceived to be a double album that would be released via a television infomercial. However legal problems kept them from being officially issued for many years.[6] What finally emerged was a single disc collection of 10 songs released in 2010 as Duets: Friends & Memories.[7] In the meantime, Newton made a concert video, Every Road Leads Back to You, and a Christmas album, The Gift of Christmas.[8][9]

Ultimate Hits

Juice Newton's The Ultimate Hits Collection was released as a budget-priced anthology by Fuel Records on July 7, 2011.[1] For the album's content Fuel used all ten tracks from The Trouble With Angels thus rejecting many of Newton's actual hits by including later re-recordings in their place. Therefore this collection does not contain any of the recordings from her "breakthrough" album Juice.[1] The only vintage hit records included are "Hurt", "Tell Her No", "Heart of the Night", and "A Little Love" from, respectively, the Old Flame, Dirty Looks, Quiet Lies, and Can't Wait All Night albums.[10][11][12][13] Four songs from American Girl along with a duet with Willie Nelson from Duets: Friends & Memories are also included.[5][7] The only previously unreleased recording in the collection is "Sweet Sweet Smile", a song written by Newton with her long-time collaborator Otha Young that had been a minor hit for The Carpenters in 1978.[14][15]

The Ultimate Hits Collection has been made available from ITunes with two extra songs taken from The Gift of Christmas.[16]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Angel of the Morning"  Chip TaylorThe Trouble With Angels4:16
2."Love's Been a Little Bit Hard on Me"  Gary BurrThe Trouble With Angels3:11
3."Break It to Me Gently"  Diane Lambert, Joe SenecaThe Trouble With Angels4:07
4."When I Get Over You"  Kipp Lennon, Mark Lennon, Michael Lennon, John VesterThe Trouble With Angels3:51
5."This Old Flame"  Reed NielsenThe Trouble With Angels3:37
6."The Trouble With Angels"  Terry WilsonThe Trouble With Angels4:00
7."Hurt"  Jimmie Crane, Al JacobsOld Flame3:45
8."Ride 'Em Cowboy"  Paul DavisThe Trouble With Angels4:10
9."Red Blooded American Girl"  Lawrence Gottlieb, Kevin MontgomeryThe Trouble With Angels5:03
10."Queen of Hearts"  Hank DeVitoThe Trouble With Angels3:29
11."The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)"  Otha YoungThe Trouble With Angels4:15
12."Nightime Without You"  Juice NewtonAmerican Girl2:36
13."Ask Lucinda"  Johnny Pierce, Otha YoungAmerican Girl2:51
14."Love Hurts"  Boudleaux BryantAmerican Girl4:03
15."Tell Her No"  Rod ArgentDirty Looks3:34
16."Heart of the Night"  John Bettis, Michael ClarkQuiet Lies4:09
17."Crazy Little Thing Called Love"  Freddie MercuryAmerican Girl2:45
18."Funny How Time Slips Away" (with Willie Nelson)Willie NelsonDuets: Friends & Memories3:34
19."A Little Love"  Todd Sharp, Danny Douma, Richard FeldmanCan't Wait All Night3:57
20."Go Tell It on the Mountain" (only in ITunes edition)John Wesley Work, Jr.The Gift of Christmas3:19
21."Jingle Bell Rock" (only in ITunes edition)Joseph Carleton Beal, James Ross BootheThe Gift of Christmas3:14
22."Sweet Sweet Smile" (track 20 on CD release)Juice Newton, Otha Youngpreviously unissued3:33

References

  1. 1 2 3 Campbell, Al. Review of The Ultimate Hits Collection at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Biography of Juice Newton at AllMusic. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Grammy Awards: Juice Newton". The Recording Academy. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Review of The Trouble With Angels at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  5. 1 2 Dillon, Charlotte. Review of American Girl at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  6. ↑ Bowling, David (April 26, 2011). "Music Review: Juice Newton - Duets: Friends & Memories". Seattle pi. Hearst Seattle Media. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  7. 1 2 Duets: Friends & Memories at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  8. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Every Road Leads Back to You at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  9. ↑ The Gift of Christmas at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  10. ↑ Owens, Thom. Review of Old Flame at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  11. ↑ Dirty Looks at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  12. ↑ Worbois, Jim. Review of Quiet Lies at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  13. ↑ Allen, Jim. Review of Can't Wait All Night at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Sweet Sweet Smile" at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  15. ↑ "The Hot 100: The Carpenters". Billboard. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  16. ↑ "iTunes: The Ultimate Hits Collection". Apple, Inc. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
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