Track Listing

1. Party Time
2. War Is Hell (On the Homefront, Too)
3. Last Cheater's Waltz
4. Do You Wanna Go to Heaven
5. Somewhere Down the Line
6. Slow Burn
7. I Loved 'Em Every One
8. Smooth Sailing
9. Faking Love
10. Only One You
11. I'll Be Coming Back for More
12. Finally

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6049 in Music
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 1991-03-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Just some of his classic songs
T G started out as a singer in the sixties but abandoned that career to take a job as a record plugger. Some years later, he came across a song that he thought would be a hit but nobody was interested. He therefore recorded it himself. That song, Devil in a bottle (not included here), provided T G with the first of a long string of hits spread of several years. Despite his success, there have been very few CD releases.

My favorite song here is Do you wanna go to heaven, a song which cleverly plays on different meanings of the title, but I also particularly enjoy Last cheater's waltz, Smooth sailing, War is hell on the home front too, Slow burn and Somewhere down the line - but these are just a few of the great songs here. Also worth a mention is Faking love, a duet with Karen Brooks that was co-written by Matraca Berg - one of her earliest songwriting successes. To quote another of the song titles here, I loved them every one.

This album has since been re-issued with different packaging but identical music as Super hits. I live in hope that a more comprehensive collection may one day be released. In the meantime (and possibly out of frustration), T G has re-recorded 20 of his hits including most of those here - those re-recordings can be found on Very best of T G Sheppard. As you can see from the reviews of that collection (including mine), opinion is divided about the merits of that album. If you must have the original recordings, this (or Super hits) is the best available.

If you enjoy eighties pop-country music, give T G a listen. He was as good as anybody at this type of music.

Ladies Man By The Numbers
In his skin-tight jeans and insinuating voice, Sheppard came on like a love god who could only be satisfied by the hottest angel in honky tonk heaven. Those who blame the likes of Shania Twain and Faith Hill for taking the country out of country music should get a load of these formulaic songs that topped the charts 20 years ago. Barely this side of Barry Manilow in their calculated appeal, these interchangeable tunes are a long pickup ride from Merle Haggard and George Jones or anything halfway authentic. Still, you can't help but love the rollicking piano work in "Party Time," the best song in the collection, or the ribald storytelling in "Do You Wanna Go To Heaven." Forgettable country pop done to perfection. Let's hope Sheppard cashed in--big--on his popularity before he faded into obscurity.

A good but not complete sampling of greates hits
T.G. Sheppard had a good run of hits in the 70's and 80's and this album samples his better known songs such as "War is Hell..." "Finally" and "Party Time".
Sheppard is very good at singing the ballad, the cheating song and the love song or even the rare "whimsical song" such as his duet with Clint Eastwood in "Go Ahead, Make My Day" not included here, and that is why he was among country's superstars during this era.
This is a good album to sample his talent.