''Four for the Show'' is the twenty-eighth studio album by American
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group
The Statler Brothers
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. It was released in 1986 via
Mercury Records
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. The album peaked at number 7 on the ''
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Top Country Albums
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chart.
Track listing
#" Count On Me" (Don Reid) – 2:27
#"You Oughta Be Here with Me" (
Roger Miller
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Forever
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Jimmy Fortune
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Buck Ram
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) – 2:58
#"For Cryin' Out Loud" (John Rimel, Fortune) – 3:04
#"Will You Be There?" (Don Reid, Debo Reid) – 2:41
#"I Believe I'll Live for Him" (Don Reid, H. Reid) - 2:40
#"More Like Daddy Than Me" (Don Reid) - 3:35
Personnel
*Mike Leech - bass
*
Gene Chrisman
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,
Jerry Carrigan
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- drums
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Hoot Hester
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- fiddle
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Ray Edenton
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,
Jerry Kennedy
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, Pete Wade,
Chip Young
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