''The Best of Eddy Raven'' is the first compilation album by American

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artist

Eddy Raven Edward Garvin Futch (born August 19, 1944), known professionally as Eddy Raven, is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since 1962, Raven has recorded for several record labels, including ABC, Dimension, Elektra, RCA, Univers ...

. It was released in February 1988 via

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. The album includes the singles " I'm Gonna Get You", "

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" and " 'Til You Cry".

Content

In addition to several of Raven's previous hit singles, the album contains three new tracks. These are " I'm Gonna Get You", "

", and " 'Til You Cry". All three were released as singles in 1988. The former two reached number one on the ''

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charts, while the latter peaked at number four. "I'm Gonna Get You" was previously a charted single for

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in 1987, while "Joe Knows How to Live" was previously cut by the

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on their album ''

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''. Session keyboardist

Barry Beckett Barry Edward Beckett (February 4, 1943 – June 10, 2009) was an American keyboardist, session musician, record producer, and studio founder. He is best known for his work with David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, and Roger Hawkins, his bandmates in th ...

produced these three songs. Prior to the recording, Beckett had contacted Raven and asked to produce songs for him. While Beckett had played keyboard on Raven's earlier albums, Raven said he was unaware at the time that Beckett also worked as a producer, and agreed to let him produce after discovering other songs he liked on which Beckett was a producer.

Track listing

Chart performance

References

{{Eddy Raven 1988 compilation albums Eddy Raven albums Albums produced by Barry Beckett Albums produced by Paul Worley RCA Records compilation albums