Garth Brooks 1995 Album

[Keri Gamrath]

Liberty stopped shipping The Hits to retailers on September 22, 1995 though the album was mothballed in less than a year, SoundScan figures show that it still managed to sell more than 5.9 million copies.

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Another hugely successful album for Brooks, containing a series of his hits such as "Friends In Low Places", "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House", "If Tomorrow Never Comes", "The Dance", "Unanswered Prayers", "What She's Doin' Now", "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)", "The Thunder Rolls" and many others. The album went to #1 on both the Billboard Top 200 Albums and Top Country Albums charts. It went to #11 on the UK Albums chart. By 1998 the album had been certified 10x Multi-Platinum, making it a RIAA Diamond-certified seller. See image above for more RIAA sales certifications of this album through the years*.

Detailed Item Description: This is a first presentation RIAA 8x Multi-Platinum award that would have been manufactured shortly after the certification date in 1995, making it approximately 25 years old. This award was given to an industry executive with Transworld Entertainment and their signed and notarized letter of provenance will provided with purchase. Provenance letter can be seen in images with executive's name obscured for privacy. Item buyer will receive a non-obscured copy of the letter.

The award has Garth's autograph printed on the plexiglas. Not all the RIAA awards for this album came with this feature (see last image for another of these awards without the autograph). Overall the award is in VG to Excellent completely unaltered condition with only one very small chip on a corner of the frame covering that is essentially invisible when the award is hanging on a wall. It has the correct original manufacturer label from Country music RIAA award specialty manufacturer Rite Angle Inc. on it's backing paper.

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Scarecrow is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on November 13, 2001, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and the Top Country Albums chart. It has been certified 5 platinum RIAA and was named Best Selling Album at the 2002 Canadian Country Music Association Awards. It was the last album by Brooks before his thirteen-year hiatus.

"At the end of last year I made a commitment to Capitol (Records) that I would try to bring them one more album. This is the result of that effort, a real labor of love, that I'm proud to hold up next to all of our previous releases. For the first time in my life I think I made a happy album. It's heavy on steel guitars, but you're not aware of it in some places because the musicians are so good at what they do."

Singles released from this album include "Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?)" (a duet with George Jones, also found on Jones's 2001 album The Rock: Stone Cold Country 2001), "Wrapped Up in You", "Squeeze Me In" (a duet with Trisha Yearwood), "Thicker Than Blood", and "Why Ain't I Running". Of these, "Wrapped Up in You" was the highest peaking, reaching #5 on the Hot Country Songs charts. Prior to the album's release, "When You Come Back to Me Again" had charted on the country charts as a selection from the soundtrack to the film Frequency.

Several of the tracks on this album were originally recorded by other artists. "Pushing Up Daisies" was originally recorded by Kevin Welch on his 1995 album Life Down Here on Earth, while "Big Money" was originally recorded under the title "It Pays Big Money" by Mark Chesnutt on his 2000 album Lost in the Feeling. Additionally, "Don't Cross the River" was previously recorded by America on their 1972 album Homecoming. "Squeeze Me In" was previously recorded by Lee Roy Parnell on his 1995 album We All Get Lucky Sometimes.

"Love Will Always Win" appeared on Brooks' "The Lost Sessions" album in 2005, but that's not the only album where the song is found. It also appears on "Jasper County," the acclaimed album by Trisha Yearwood, who holds the distinction of being both Brooks' collaborator on the song and his wife.

"The Fever" appeared on the "Fresh Horses" album in 1995, but it's actually a cover of an Aerosmith song that debuted two years earlier on that band's "Get a Grip" album. Brooks altered the original sex-and-drugs-themed lyrics to chronicle a man who's addicted to being a rodeo star.

"When You Come Back to Me Again" was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song. The track was written for the 2000 movie "Frequency." It's the closing song on Brooks' 2001 album "Scarecrow."

"The Change" discusses the nobility in striving to make a positive impact on the world, even if the effort is futile. The song's accompanying music video paid homage to the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, which happened the year before.

Desmond Child and Victoria Shaw wrote "Where Your Road Leads," which appeared on Shaw's 1995 album "In Full View." Three years later, Trisha Yearwood recorded the song with her future husband Garth Brooks for her album, which took the same name as the song.

"Squeeze Me In," written by Delbert McClinton and Gary Nicholson, first appeared on Lee Roy Parnell's 1995 album "We All Get Lucky Sometimes." When country superduo and future power couple Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood recorded the song, it was nominated for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals at the 2003 Grammys.

"Do What You Gotta Do" is an uptempo, fiddle-heavy song about the honor found in facing challenges and accepting responsibility without complaint. The New Grass Revival anthem appeared as a single on the 1997 album "Sevens."

A tribute to tolerance and love, "We Shall Be Free" appeared on the 1992 album "The Chase." Brooks penned the song in 1992 with Stephanie Davis after witnessing the Los Angeles Riots while in Southern California for the Academy of Country Music Awards. The song was criticized by much of his core audience for its championing of gay rights.

"It's Your Song" appears on the 1998 album "Double Live." Written by Benita Hill and Pamela Wolf, the song is a tribute to Brooks' mother, her influence on his life and career, and her strength in the face of illness.

"Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) is the first single off of Brooks' self-titled debut album in 1989. Chronicling the reluctant resignation of an aging rodeo cowboy, the song mentions Chris LeDoux, whose fading career was reignited when the song became a hit. Brooks and LeDoux later collaborated before LeDoux died in 2005.

Although "Wild Horses" is about a man who can't choose between the thrill of the rodeo and the comfort of a woman, it could be interpreted as a metaphor for a serial cheater who remains unfaithful even after repeatedly being forgiven. It appeared on Brooks' breakout 1990 album "No Fences."

"Wrapped Up In You" appeared as both a single and a music video on the 2001 album "Scarecrow." Among the analogies used to describe the emotions that the song's main character feels for the woman he loves are, "I need you like a penny needs a wishing well."

"It's Midnight Cinderella" from the "Fresh Horses" album retells the classic Disney fairytale with a slightly dysfunctional twist. Here, the metaphorical Prince Charming flakes out on the naive Cinderella character at the ball, which provides an opening for the song's protagonist, Peter, Peter the Pumpkin Eater, who offers to console Cinderella by showing her "what it means to bip, bip, bip, bip, boppity boo."

Also off the "Fresh Horses" album, "That Ol' Wind" is a tender tale about two former lovers who reunite a decade after they have a tryst at the county fair. She doesn't know that he's been thinking of her all along and he doesn't know that her 10-year-old son is the result of their long-past one-night stand.

Champion rodeo rider and country musician Chris LeDoux never rose to the heights achieved by Garth Brooks, but the former influenced the latter enough to compel Brooks to record a song in his honor. When LeDoux died of cancer in 2005, Brooks performed "Good Ride Cowboy" during the 39th Annual Country Music Association Awards.

"You Move Me" is an inspired man's tribute to his lover, who doubles as the motivating force in his life. Susan Ashton, who toured with Brooks, originally recorded the song on her 1996 album "A Distant Call." It became a hit when it appeared on Brooks' 1998 album "Sevens."

Once again, the theme goes back to the rodeo, as the name of this song implies. "Rodeo," which was a single on the 1991 album "Ropin' the Wind," portrays a woman who wishes her cowboy lover was as enamored with her as he is with "that damned old rodeo."

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