Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I Hate Everything
2. Fool Hearted Memory
3. A Fire I Can't Put Out
4. You Look So Good In Love
5. Right Or Wrong
6. Let's Fall To Pieces Together
7. Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?
8. The Chair
9. Nobody In His Right Mind Would've Left Her
10. It Ain't Cool To Be Crazy About You
11. Ocean Front Property
12. All My Ex's Live In Texas
13. Am I Blue
14. Famous Last Words Of A Fool
15. Baby Blue
16. If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')
17. Baby's Gotten Good At Goodbye
18. What's Going On In Your World
19. Ace In The Hole
20. Love Without End, Amen
21. I've Come To Expect It From You
22. If I Know Me
23. You Know Me Better Than That
24. The Chill Of An Early Fall
25. So Much Like My Dad
26. I Cross My Heart

Disc 2:

1. Heartland
2. Easy Come, Easy Go
3. I'd Like To Have That One Back
4. The Man In Love With You
5. The Big One
6. You Can't Make A Heart Love Somebody
7. Lead On
8. Check Yes Or No
9. I Know She Still Loves Me
10. Blue Clear Sky
11. Carried Away
12. I Can Still Make Cheyenne
13. One Night At A Time
14. Carrying Your Love With Me
15. Today My World Slipped Away
16. Round About Way
17. I Just Want To Dance With You
18. TRUE
19. We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This
20. Write This Down
21. The Best Day
22. Go On
23. Run
24. Living and Living Well
25. She'll Leave You With A Smile

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1076 in Music
• Released on: 2004-10-05
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.com
When George Strait's "She'll Leave You With a Smile" moved to the top of the country charts in early 2003, the handsome Lone Star crooner bested Conway Twitty for the most No. 1 singles by a solo artist. This collection of 50 chart-toppers, spanning 22 years, showcases the Cadillac of country singers at his best, blending traditional and contemporary stylings, but never straying too far from the core of his Texas barroom sound. "Fool Hearted Memory," from 1982, proves that Strait had his uncluttered production and straightforward vocal approach down from the start, no matter how many producers guided him to his peak. Through the years, the path to superstardom dictated that he trade the crisp Western swing of "Right or Wrong" and "Ace in the Hole" for squishy, mid-tempo crowd pleasers like "Check Yes or No" and "Write This Down." But he redeemed himself with such poignant heartbreakers as "So Much Like My Dad" and "…Smile." This retrospective's one new track, "I Hate Everything," about a man in a bar who's besotted more from pain than whiskey, doesn't match up with the singer's best material, but it's still got that irresistible Strait hook: average-guy sincerity wrapped in a down-to-earth heart. --Alanna Nash

Customer Reviews

CD Grorge Strait 50 Number Ones
50 Number Ones

How else could I rate the services I recieved: The item was recieved before the date estimated, and arrived in good condition.

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all george straits good songs are on here along with some not so good ones my disk 2 cd had a mold mark on it and about 3 songs on it dont play right.

I don't care
So some of the songs are truncated. I don't care! Country music is not a genre with a definite pattern in the composition like concerti and symphonies. It was difficult to get all those 50 hits on two discs, and I appreciate the effort.

When I'm riding down the road and listening to George Strait, I enjoy his own unique style with a hint of the rhythm that Johnny Cash used and a big dose of the melancholy that made us all love George Jones. Then I hear some novelty country Western tune from back in the 1980's, and I'm smiling again.

George Strait is the kind of male singer that makes a woman feel good. When we women listen to him, we can think about the men in our lives. His songs convey an appreciation and love for women. I don't know of anyone else who stirs up that much feeling. He's not self-absorbed, and his lyrics that he selects are all about men who loved women. Often things just didn't turn out right. The poignancy of this album and the vulerability of George Strait affect me.