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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Collectables
Salesrank: 53182
Released: November 14, 2000 |
| Our Price: $9.83 |
| Used Price: $36.21 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Midnight Oil/Treat Him Right Track Listing:
1. Midnight Oil
2. Give a Little, Take a Little
3. Jamestown Ferry
4. Show Me
5. In the Name of Love
6. Tonight My Baby's Coming Home
7. Ain't It Good
8. Satisfied
9. Holdin' On (To the Love I Got)
10. Smile Somebody Loves You
11. We're Gonna Hold On
12. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
13. He'll Never Take the Place of You
14. Playin' Around With Love
15. I've Been Loving You Too Long
16. Letter
17. Treat Him Right
18. Break My Mind
19. Watching My World Walk Away
20. Baby, Come Home
21. I Almost Lost My Mind
22. Games People Play
23. Ten Commandments of Love [*] - David Houston, Barbara Mandrell
24. This Time I Almost Made It [*]
25. Wonder When My Baby's Comin' Home [*]
26. After Closing Time [*] - David Houston, Barbara Mandrell
27. I Love You, I Love You [*] - David Houston, Barbara Mandrell
The Midnight Oil/Treat Him Right Reviews:
Grrrreat!!!! 
2009-11-30 - As far as I'm concerned... THIS is the Best of Barbara Mandrell.
Her 80's and beyond are good though, (the best of that being
"Country when it was'nt Cool")
Listen to this CD and you'll see why it's her best stuff.
Absolutely essential for every fan of Barbara Mandrell
2002-11-29 - I was SO glad to see these albums become available on CD. BUY THIS ALBUM WHILE YOU CAN...Barbara's material is going to be hard to come by soon since she is retired and out of the public eye.
Two of Barbara's early albums with bonus tracks
2002-09-01 - At the time Barbara recorded these tracks in the early seventies (before she hit the big time), they didn't sound very country to a lot of people, yet now they sound fairly traditional. How times change.
It's not difficult to see what some people objected to - there were several covers of R+B classics, like Show me (Joe Tex), I've been loving you too long (Otis Redding), The letter (Box tops), Do right woman do right man (Aretha Franklin) and others. However, Barbara's versions had a strong country flavor, much more so than her later recordings for MCA, which also featured a lot of R+B covers.
There are also a fair number of covers of more recognisably country songs here, including We're gonna hold on (George and Tammy), The Jamestown ferry (Tanya Tucker), Break my mind (written by John D Loudermilk and recorded by a lot of country singers), Holdin' on to the love I got (Tammy Wynette) and Games people play (Joe South).
Barbara's biggest hits from this period included Tonight my baby's coming home, The midnight oil and After closing time, one of several duets she recorded with David Houston.
I love these early recordings, but I wish somebody would release some of her MCA albums on CD - all we ever seem to get from that period are hits collections. In the meantime, we can enjoy two of Barbara's great early albums.
Wonderful!
2000-12-09 - Anyone who questions why Mandrell was named "Entertainer of the Year" at the CMA awards need only listen to this disc. Contained within are Barbara's early efforts for Columbia Records from 1970 and 1973. These 2 albums are just a glimpse at the brilliance of Mandrell's country vocals. Producer Billy Sherrill (who helped shape the careers of Tammy Wynette just several years before) gives Mandrell similar material. Covers of rhythm and blues tunes, a practice that would prove successful for Mandrell throughout her career, found their origin here. Mandrell always gave her all to her audiences on stage and record. This is just an early, wonderful example!
