It Was Me

80 songs from 80 years of country music are featured in this collection, including: Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy (Red Foley) • Coal Miner's Daughter (Loretta Lynn) • Forever and Ever, Amen (Randy Travis) • Green Green Grass of Home (Porter Wagoner) • I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool (Barbara Mandrell) • Tennessee Waltz (Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys) • When You Say Nothing at All (Alison Krauss) • and more. Includes black-and-white photos and articles about the Opry.

40 songs, including: Achy Breaky Heart (Don't Tell My Heart) • Amazed • Blue • Boot Scootin' Boogie • Down at the Twist and Shout • Friends in Low Places • The Greatest Man I Never Knew • He Didn't Have to Be • Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares) • Man! I Feel like a Woman! • She Is His Only Need • Wide Open Spaces • You Had Me from Hello • You're Still the One • and more.

From his 1961 hit Bluesette with Toots Thieleman, to composing the English lyrics to The Girl from Ipanema, to winning the Best Song Oscar for It Goes like It Goes from the movie Norma Rae, to composing the memorable theme songs for TV shows such as Laverne and Shirley and The Love Boat, composer Norman Gimbel has created a rich and diverse catalog of American standards. This superb P/V/G collection - containing 50 career-spanning songs selected by Gimbel himself! - also features a foreword written by his four children, a biography, great photos, and a chronological index of titles. Songs include: Bluesette • The Girl from Ipanema • Happy Days • How Insensitive • I Will Follow Him • I Will Wait for You • It Goes like It Goes • Killing Me Softly with His Song • Live for Life • Making Our Dreams Come True • Meditation • Ready to Take a Chance Again • So Nice (Summer Samba) • Sway • Sweet Happy Life • Traces • Watch What Happens • and more.