''Rose Garden'' is a multi-million selling,

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Platinum-certified studio album by country singer

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. It was released in late 1970 as the title song was climbing country and pop music charts around the world. The single went on to top the Country charts, where it stayed at the number 1 position for five weeks. It reached number 3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 pop chart in early 1971 and hit number 1 in both ''

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'' and ''

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''. It was an international top five pop hit in numerous countries. Anderson received a

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for the record. It would remain the biggest selling album by a female country artist for 27 years (1970-1997). The album went platinum in the

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, arguably the first female country artist release to do so (''Tammy Wynette's Greatest Hits'' from 1969 also went platinum but given that the

did not officially have "platinum" records until 1976 there was no way to tell which album reached the sales mark first; Columbia/Epic gave Anderson and Wynette each platinum record trophies in late 1972.) The album ''Rose Garden'' continued to sell well for over a decade and later managed to receive an official platinum record as well for sales post-1976. The album ''Rose Garden'' hit the ''Billboard'' country album chart on December 26, 1970 and by the February 13th issue had climbed to number 1 on the chart where it would remain for 14 weeks, the longest run at the top of that chart for any country female vocalist until

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's '' The Woman in Me'' album in 1995, 25 years later. ''Rose Garden'' still ranks among the top 50 country albums of alltime in the history of the country album chart. The disc peaked at number 19 on the

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albums pop chart, by far Anderson's best showing on that chart. The album was also nominated for "Album of the Year" by the

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and was in print for over 15 years. Anderson was also nominated for "Record of the Year" for the single of "Rose Garden" and won the Female Vocalist of the Year award at the same ceremonies breaking

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's three-year winning streak.

Later releases

This album, together with the 1972 "

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" album, was reissued on the

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format in 2018 by UK label Dutton Vocalion, remastered in both Stereo and Surround Sound from the original analogue tapes by Michael J. Dutton and released as a 2-fer with "Greatest Hits". The Surround Sound portion of the disc features the Quadraphonic mixes for both the "Greatest Hits" and "Rose Garden" albums, made available for the first time in over 40 years.

Track listing

#" (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden" (

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) – 2:53 #" For the Good Times" (

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) #"Another Lonely Night" ( Larry Butler) #"

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) #"Your Sweet Love Lifted Me" (

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, Glenn Sutton) #" Sunday Morning Coming Down" (

) #"I Still Belong to You" (

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, Jerry Foster) #"I Wish I Was a Little Boy Again" (Glenn Sutton, Darrell Edwards) #"

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, Jack Nance) #"Nothing Between Us" (Lynn Anderson)

External links

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