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{{Infobox album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
|Name = For the Record
|Type = [[Greatest hits]]
|Artist = [[Alabama (band)|Alabama]]
|Cover = Alabamarecord.jpg
|Released = August 25, 1998
|Recorded = 1998 (Disc 1, Tracks 1-3)<br />1980-1997 (other tracks)|
|Genre = [[Country music|Country]]
|Length = |
|Label = [[RCA Records|RCA]]
|Producer = Alabama and Don Cook (Disc 1, Tracks 1-3)<br/>Various original producers (other tracks)
|Chronology = [[Alabama (band)|Alabama]]
|Last album = ''[[The Essential Alabama (RCA Essential Series)|The Essential Alabama]]''<br />(1998)
|This album = '''''For the Record'''''<br />(1998)
|Next album = ''[[Twentieth Century (Alabama album)|Twentieth Century]]''<br />(1999)
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r373291|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref>
}}<!-- Automatically generated by DASHBot-->
'''''For the Record''''' is a two-disc, 44-track [[greatest hits]] package released by the [[United States|American]] [[country music]] band [[Alabama (band)|Alabama]].
The album chronicles the biggest hits from Alabama released between 1980 and 1998. The lineup includes all 33 of their ''[[Billboard magazine]]'' [[Hot Country Songs|Hot Country Singles & Tracks]] No. 1 singles, as well as other songs which reached Number One on the former ''[[Radio & Records]]'' (now ''[[Mediabase 24/7]]'') charts; each of the non-''Billboard'' No. 1 hits made the top 5 on that chart.
Three new tracks are also included. Of these, "How Do You Fall in Love" reached No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in late 1998. The follow-up single, "Keepin' Up", reached the Top 20 in early 1999, while "Five O'Clock 500" was not released as a single.
All of the greatest hits are presented in their single/radio edit forms; in some cases, the songs were nearly two minutes shorter than their original album versions.
==''The Essential''==
''For the Record'' was re-released in 2005 as ''The Essential''. Both albums have an identical track lineup. In his review of ''The Essential'', [[Allmusic]] reviewer [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] stated that the new album title eliminated "the misleading subtitle that claimed all of the songs on the album hit No. 1."<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r778570|pure_url=yes}} allmusic ((( The Essential Alabama [2005<nowiki>]</nowiki> > Overview )))]</ref> A disclaimer on the back of the album indicates that ''The Essential'' is the reissued ''For the Record''.
==Sales==
The original ''For the Record'' album was certified platinum for sales of 5 million units by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]].<ref>[http://www.riaa.com/gp/database/search_results.asp RIAA - Gold & Platinum]</ref>
==Song listing==
===Disc 1===
# "Five O'Clock 500" (Teddy Gentry, [[Randy Owen]], [[Ronnie Rogers]]) – 3:36<sup>A</sup>
# "[[Keepin' Up]]" (Greg Fowler, Gentry, Owen, Rogers) – 3:05<sup>A</sup>
# "[[How Do You Fall in Love]]" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:00<sup>A</sup>
# "[[Tennessee River (song)|Tennessee River]]" (Owen) – 3:02
# "[[Why Lady Why]]" (Gentry, Rick Scott) – 3:09
# "[[Old Flame (song)|Old Flame]]" (Donny Lowery, [[Mac McAnally]]) – 3:10
# "[[Feels So Right (song)|Feels So Right]]" (Owen) – 3:35
# "[[Love in the First Degree (Alabama song)|Love in the First Degree]]" ([[Tim DuBois]], Jim Hurt) – 3:18
# "[[Mountain Music (song)|Mountain Music]]" (Owen) – 3:38
# "[[Take Me Down]]" ([[Mark Gray (singer)|Mark Gray]], [[J.P. Pennington]]) – 3:43
# "[[Close Enough to Perfect]]" (Carl Chambers) –3:33
# "[[Dixieland Delight]]" (Rogers) – 3:56
# "[[The Closer You Get (song)|The Closer You Get]]" (Gray, Pennington) – 3:37
# "[[Lady Down on Love]]" (Owen) – 3:57
# "[[Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)]]" ([[Dave Loggins]]) – 3:43
# "[[When We Make Love (Alabama song)|When We Make Love]]" ([[Troy Seals]], [[Mentor Williams]]) – 3:36
# "[[If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)]]" (Murry Kellum, Dan Mitchell) – 3:22
# "[[(There's A) Fire in the Night]]" (Bob Corbin) – 3:57
# "[[There's No Way]]" ([[John Jarrard]], Lisa Palas, Will Robinson) – 4:11
# "[[40 Hour Week (For a Livin')]]" (Loggins, [[Don Schlitz]], Lisa Silver) – 3:18
# "[[Can't Keep a Good Man Down (Alabama song)|Can't Keep a Good Man Down]]" (Corbin) – 3:39
# "[[She and I]]" (Loggins) – 3:34
===Disc 2===
# "[[Touch Me When We're Dancing]]" (Kenneth Bell, Terry Skinner, J.L. Wallace) – 3:41
# "[["You've Got" the Touch]]" (Jarrard, Palas, Robinson) – 4:15
# "[[Face to Face (Alabama song)|Face to Face]]" (Owen) – 3:00
# "[[Fallin' Again]]" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:59
# "[[Song of the South (song)|Song of the South]]" ([[Bob McDill]]) – 3:11
# "[[If I Had You (Alabama song)|If I Had You]]" ([[Kerry Chater]], [[Danny Mayo]]) – 3:33
# "[[High Cotton (song)|High Cotton]]" (Scott Anders, [[Roger Murrah]]) – 3:00
# "[[Southern Star (song)|Southern Star]]" (Rich Alves, Steve Dean, Murrah) – 3:08
# "[[Jukebox in My Mind]]" (Dave Gibson, Rogers) – 3:39
# "[[Forever's as Far as I'll Go]]" ([[Mike Reid (American football)|Mike Reid]]) – 3:33
# "[[Down Home (song)|Down Home]]" (Rick Bowles, [[Josh Leo]]) – 3:27
# "[[Here We Are (Alabama song)|Here We Are]]" ([[Beth Nielsen Chapman]], [[Vince Gill]]) – 2:51
# "[[Then Again (song)|Then Again]]" (Bowles, Jeff Silbar) – 3:43
# "[[Born Country]]" ([[Byron Hill]], John Schweers) – 3:19
# "[[I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)]]" (Murrah, [[Randy VanWarmer]]) – 2:48
# "[[Once Upon a Lifetime]]" ([[Gary Baker (songwriter)|Gary Baker]], [[Frank J. Myers]]) – 4:13
# "[[Hometown Honeymoon]]" (Leo, [[Jim Photoglo]]) – 3:18
# "[[Reckless (Alabama song)|Reckless]]" (Michael Clark, [[Jeff Stevens (singer)|Jeff Stevens]]) – 3:19
# "[[Give Me One More Shot]]" (Gentry, Owen, Rogers) – 3:29
# "[[She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl]]" (Robert Jason) – 2:53
# "[[In Pictures (song)|In Pictures]]" (Bobby E. Boyd, Joe Doyle) – 3:33
# "[[Sad Lookin' Moon]]" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:33
*<sup>A</sup> Previously unreleased
==Live DVD==
A DVD was released with Alabama performing all 41 Number One Hits (plus My Home's In Alabama) at Las Vegas on October 10, 1998.
===Track listing===
# "[[Tennessee River (song)|Tennessee River]]" (Extended)
# "[[Why Lady Why]]" (Single Version)
# "[[Old Flame (song)|Old Flame]]"
# "[[Feels So Right (song)|Feels So Right]]"
# "[[Love in the First Degree (Alabama song)|Love in the First Degree]]"
# "[[Mountain Music (song)|Mountain Music]]" (Extended)
# "[[Take Me Down]]" (Single Version)
# "[[Close Enough to Perfect]]"
# "[[Dixieland Delight]]" (Extended)
# "[[The Closer You Get (song)|The Closer You Get]]" (Intro, Chorus, Bridge and Outro Only)
# "[[Lady Down on Love]]"
# "[[Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)]]" (Single Version)
# "[[When We Make Love (Alabama song)|When We Make Love]]"
# "[[If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)]]"
# "[[(There's A) Fire in the Night]]"
# "[[There's No Way]]"
# "[[40 Hour Week (For a Livin')]]" (Extended)
# "[[Can't Keep a Good Man Down (Alabama song)|Can't Keep a Good Man Down]]"
# "[[She and I]]" (Short Version)
# "[[Touch Me When We're Dancing]]"
# "[["You've Got" the Touch|'You've Got' the Touch]]"
# "[[Face to Face (Alabama song)|Face to Face]]"
# "[[Fallin' Again]]"
# "[[Song of the South (song)|Song of the South]]" (Extended)
# "[[If I Had You (Alabama song)|If I Had You]]"
# "[[High Cotton (song)|High Cotton]]"
# "[[Southern Star (song)|Southern Star]]"
# "[[Jukebox in My Mind]]"
# "[[Forever's as Far as I'll Go]]"
# "[[Down Home (song)|Down Home]]"
# "[[Here We Are (Alabama song)|Here We Are]]" (Extended Intro)
# "[[Then Again (song)|Then Again]]"
# "[[Born Country]]"
# "[[I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)]]"
# "[[Once Upon a Lifetime]]"
# "[[Hometown Honeymoon]]"
# "[[Reckless (Alabama song)|Reckless]]"
# "[[Give Me One More Shot]]"
# "[[She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl]]"
# "[[In Pictures (song)|In Pictures]]"
# "[[Sad Lookin' Moon]]" (Extended)
# "[[My Home's in Alabama (song)|My Home's in Alabama]]" (Extended)
==Chart performance==
===As ''For the Record''===
{| class="wikitable"
!Chart (1998)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|U.S. ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums
|align="center"|2
|-
|U.S. ''Billboard'' 200
|align="center"|13
|-
|Canadian ''RPM'' Country Albums
|align="center"|4
|}
===As ''The Essential''===
{| class="wikitable"
!Chart (2005)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|U.S. ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums
|align="center"|52
|}
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Alabama (band)|Alabama}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:For The Record}}
[[Category:1998 greatest hits albums]]
[[Category:2005 greatest hits albums]]
[[Category:Alabama (band) compilation albums]]
[[Category:RCA Records compilation albums]]' |
New page wikitext, after the edit (new_wikitext ) | '{{about|the Alabama album|the Torae album|For the Record (Torae album)|the television program on TheBlaze|For the Record (TV series)}}
{{distinguish|Four the Record}}
{{Refimprove|date=January 2011}}
{{Infobox album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
|Name = For the Record
|Type = [[Greatest hits]]
|Artist = [[Alabama (band)|Alabama]]
|Cover = Alabamarecord.jpg
|Released = August 25, 1998
|Recorded = 1998 (Disc 1, Tracks 1-3)<br />1980-1997 (other tracks)|
|Genre = [[Country music|Country]]
|Length = |
|Label = [[RCA Records|RCA]]
|Producer = Alabama and Don Cook (Disc 1, Tracks 1-3)<br/>Various original producers (other tracks)
|Chronology = [[Alabama (band)|Alabama]]
|Last album = ''[[The Essential Alabama (RCA Essential Series)|The Essential Alabama]]''<br />(1998)
|This album = '''''For the Record'''''<br />(1998)
|Next album = ''[[Twentieth Century (Alabama album)|Twentieth Century]]''<br />(1999)
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r373291|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref>
}}<!-- Automatically generated by DASHBot-->
'''''For the Record''''' is a two-disc, 44-track [[greatest hits]] package released by the [[United States|American]] [[country music]] band [[Alabama (band)|Alabama]].
The album chronicles the biggest hits from Alabama released between 1980 and 1998. The lineup includes all 33 of their ''[[Billboard magazine]]'' [[Hot Country Songs|Hot Country Singles & Tracks]] No. 1 singles, as well as other songs which reached Number One on the former ''[[Radio & Records]]'' (now ''[[Mediabase 24/7]]'') charts; each of the non-''Billboard'' No. 1 hits made the top 5 on that chart.
Three new tracks are also included. Of these, "How Do You Fall in Love" reached No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in late 1998. The follow-up single, "Keepin' Up", reached the Top 20 in early 1999, while "Five O'Clock 500" was not released as a single.
All of the greatest hits are presented in their single/radio edit forms; in some cases, the songs were nearly two minutes shorter than their original album versions.
==''The Essential''==
''For the Record'' was re-released in 2005 as ''The Essential''. Both albums have an identical track lineup. In his review of ''The Essential'', [[Allmusic]] reviewer [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] stated that the new album title eliminated "the misleading subtitle that claimed all of the songs on the album hit No. 1."<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |title=The Essential Alabama <nowiki>[</nowiki>2005<nowiki>]</nowiki> - Overview |url={{Allmusic |class=album|id=r778570|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=[[Allmusic]]|author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |accessdate=2013-12-10}}</ref> A disclaimer on the back of the album indicates that ''The Essential'' is the reissued ''For the Record''.
==Sales==
The original ''For the Record'' album was certified platinum for sales of 5 million units by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database# |title=Searchable Database - Search: For the Record, author: Alabama |publisher=RIAA |accessdate=2013-12-10}}</ref>
==Song listing==
===Disc 1===
# "Five O'Clock 500" (Teddy Gentry, [[Randy Owen]], [[Ronnie Rogers]]) – 3:36<sup>A</sup>
# "[[Keepin' Up]]" (Greg Fowler, Gentry, Owen, Rogers) – 3:05<sup>A</sup>
# "[[How Do You Fall in Love]]" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:00<sup>A</sup>
# "[[Tennessee River (song)|Tennessee River]]" (Owen) – 3:02
# "[[Why Lady Why]]" (Gentry, Rick Scott) – 3:09
# "[[Old Flame (song)|Old Flame]]" (Donny Lowery, [[Mac McAnally]]) – 3:10
# "[[Feels So Right (song)|Feels So Right]]" (Owen) – 3:35
# "[[Love in the First Degree (Alabama song)|Love in the First Degree]]" ([[Tim DuBois]], Jim Hurt) – 3:18
# "[[Mountain Music (song)|Mountain Music]]" (Owen) – 3:38
# "[[Take Me Down]]" ([[Mark Gray (singer)|Mark Gray]], [[J.P. Pennington]]) – 3:43
# "[[Close Enough to Perfect]]" (Carl Chambers) –3:33
# "[[Dixieland Delight]]" (Rogers) – 3:56
# "[[The Closer You Get (song)|The Closer You Get]]" (Gray, Pennington) – 3:37
# "[[Lady Down on Love]]" (Owen) – 3:57
# "[[Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)]]" ([[Dave Loggins]]) – 3:43
# "[[When We Make Love (Alabama song)|When We Make Love]]" ([[Troy Seals]], [[Mentor Williams]]) – 3:36
# "[[If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)]]" (Murry Kellum, Dan Mitchell) – 3:22
# "[[(There's A) Fire in the Night]]" (Bob Corbin) – 3:57
# "[[There's No Way]]" ([[John Jarrard]], Lisa Palas, Will Robinson) – 4:11
# "[[40 Hour Week (For a Livin')]]" (Loggins, [[Don Schlitz]], Lisa Silver) – 3:18
# "[[Can't Keep a Good Man Down (Alabama song)|Can't Keep a Good Man Down]]" (Corbin) – 3:39
# "[[She and I]]" (Loggins) – 3:34
===Disc 2===
# "[[Touch Me When We're Dancing]]" (Kenneth Bell, Terry Skinner, J.L. Wallace) – 3:41
# "[["You've Got" the Touch]]" (Jarrard, Palas, Robinson) – 4:15
# "[[Face to Face (Alabama song)|Face to Face]]" (Owen) – 3:00
# "[[Fallin' Again]]" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:59
# "[[Song of the South (song)|Song of the South]]" ([[Bob McDill]]) – 3:11
# "[[If I Had You (Alabama song)|If I Had You]]" ([[Kerry Chater]], [[Danny Mayo]]) – 3:33
# "[[High Cotton (song)|High Cotton]]" (Scott Anders, [[Roger Murrah]]) – 3:00
# "[[Southern Star (song)|Southern Star]]" (Rich Alves, Steve Dean, Murrah) – 3:08
# "[[Jukebox in My Mind]]" (Dave Gibson, Rogers) – 3:39
# "[[Forever's as Far as I'll Go]]" ([[Mike Reid (American football)|Mike Reid]]) – 3:33
# "[[Down Home (song)|Down Home]]" (Rick Bowles, [[Josh Leo]]) – 3:27
# "[[Here We Are (Alabama song)|Here We Are]]" ([[Beth Nielsen Chapman]], [[Vince Gill]]) – 2:51
# "[[Then Again (song)|Then Again]]" (Bowles, Jeff Silbar) – 3:43
# "[[Born Country]]" ([[Byron Hill]], John Schweers) – 3:19
# "[[I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)]]" (Murrah, [[Randy VanWarmer]]) – 2:48
# "[[Once Upon a Lifetime]]" ([[Gary Baker (songwriter)|Gary Baker]], [[Frank J. Myers]]) – 4:13
# "[[Hometown Honeymoon]]" (Leo, [[Jim Photoglo]]) – 3:18
# "[[Reckless (Alabama song)|Reckless]]" (Michael Clark, [[Jeff Stevens (singer)|Jeff Stevens]]) – 3:19
# "[[Give Me One More Shot]]" (Gentry, Owen, Rogers) – 3:29
# "[[She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl]]" (Robert Jason) – 2:53
# "[[In Pictures (song)|In Pictures]]" (Bobby E. Boyd, Joe Doyle) – 3:33
# "[[Sad Lookin' Moon]]" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen) – 3:33
*<sup>A</sup> Previously unreleased
==Live DVD==
A DVD was released with Alabama performing all 41 Number One Hits (plus My Home's In Alabama) at Las Vegas on October 10, 1998.
===Track listing===
# "[[Tennessee River (song)|Tennessee River]]" (Extended)
# "[[Why Lady Why]]" (Single Version)
# "[[Old Flame (song)|Old Flame]]"
# "[[Feels So Right (song)|Feels So Right]]"
# "[[Love in the First Degree (Alabama song)|Love in the First Degree]]"
# "[[Mountain Music (song)|Mountain Music]]" (Extended)
# "[[Take Me Down]]" (Single Version)
# "[[Close Enough to Perfect]]"
# "[[Dixieland Delight]]" (Extended)
# "[[The Closer You Get (song)|The Closer You Get]]" (Intro, Chorus, Bridge and Outro Only)
# "[[Lady Down on Love]]"
# "[[Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)]]" (Single Version)
# "[[When We Make Love (Alabama song)|When We Make Love]]"
# "[[If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)]]"
# "[[(There's A) Fire in the Night]]"
# "[[There's No Way]]"
# "[[40 Hour Week (For a Livin')]]" (Extended)
# "[[Can't Keep a Good Man Down (Alabama song)|Can't Keep a Good Man Down]]"
# "[[She and I]]" (Short Version)
# "[[Touch Me When We're Dancing]]"
# "[["You've Got" the Touch|'You've Got' the Touch]]"
# "[[Face to Face (Alabama song)|Face to Face]]"
# "[[Fallin' Again]]"
# "[[Song of the South (song)|Song of the South]]" (Extended)
# "[[If I Had You (Alabama song)|If I Had You]]"
# "[[High Cotton (song)|High Cotton]]"
# "[[Southern Star (song)|Southern Star]]"
# "[[Jukebox in My Mind]]"
# "[[Forever's as Far as I'll Go]]"
# "[[Down Home (song)|Down Home]]"
# "[[Here We Are (Alabama song)|Here We Are]]" (Extended Intro)
# "[[Then Again (song)|Then Again]]"
# "[[Born Country]]"
# "[[I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)]]"
# "[[Once Upon a Lifetime]]"
# "[[Hometown Honeymoon]]"
# "[[Reckless (Alabama song)|Reckless]]"
# "[[Give Me One More Shot]]"
# "[[She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl]]"
# "[[In Pictures (song)|In Pictures]]"
# "[[Sad Lookin' Moon]]" (Extended)
# "[[My Home's in Alabama (song)|My Home's in Alabama]]" (Extended)
==Chart performance==
===As ''For the Record''===
{| class="wikitable"
!Chart (1998)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|U.S. ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums
|align="center"|2
|-
|U.S. ''Billboard'' 200
|align="center"|13
|-
|Canadian ''RPM'' Country Albums
|align="center"|4
|}
===As ''The Essential''===
{| class="wikitable"
!Chart (2005)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|U.S. ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums
|align="center"|52
|}
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Alabama (band)|Alabama}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:For The Record}}
[[Category:1998 greatest hits albums]]
[[Category:2005 greatest hits albums]]
[[Category:Alabama (band) compilation albums]]
[[Category:RCA Records compilation albums]]' |