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  • Artist: Billy Ray Cyrus
  • Rating: StarStarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1992
  • Total Time: 35:42
  • Genre: Country

Review

Some Gave All became the first debut album by a country artist to enter the pop charts at #1 (it hit #1 on the country charts as well). The album's sales were fueled by the breakout single "Achy, Breaky Heart," which offered Southern-fried Rolling Stones rhythms and a goofy chorus with a hook so big it demanded a reaction. Not one to eschew the obvious, Cyrus pumped his songs full of as much rock & roll as the market would bear, so songs like "Could've Been Me" and "Never Thought I'd Fall in Love with You" appealed to young fans who had just discovered the possibilities (both musical and sexual) of country music. ~ Brian Mansfield, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Could've Been Me (Lyrics) Monty Powell, Reed Nielsen Billy Ray Cyrus (3:44)
Achy Breaky Heart (Lyrics) Don Von Tress Billy Ray Cyrus (3:23)
She's Not Cryin' Anymore (Lyrics) Billy Ray Cyrus, Terry Shelton, Buddy Cannon Billy Ray Cyrus (3:25)
Wher'm I Gonna Live? (Lyrics) Billy Ray Cyrus, Cindy Cyrus Billy Ray Cyrus (3:29)
These Boots Are Made for Walkin' Lee Hazlewood Billy Ray Cyrus (2:47)
Someday, Somewhere, Somehow (Lyrics) Billy Ray Cyrus Billy Ray Cyrus (3:47)
Never Thought I'd Fall in Love With You (Lyrics) Mike Murphy Billy Ray Cyrus (3:41)
Ain't No Good Goodbye (Lyrics) Billy Ray Cyrus, Barton Stevens, Kevin White Billy Ray Cyrus (3:22)
I'm So Miserable (Lyrics) Corky Holbrook, Billy Ray Cyrus Billy Ray Cyrus (3:59)
Some Gave All (Lyrics) Billy Ray Cyrus, Cindy Cyrus Billy Ray Cyrus (4:05)

Credits

Joe Scaife (Vocals (Background)), Hank Williams (Mastering), Joe Scaife (Engineer), Barton Stevens (Keyboards), Sonny Garrish (Guitar (Steel)), Terry Shelton (Guitar (Electric)), Joe Scaife (Mixing), Terry Shelton (Guitar), Billy Ray Cyrus (Vocals (Background)), Costo Davis (Synthesizer), Barton Stevens (Vocals (Background)), Terry Shelton (Guitar (Acoustic)), Joe Scaife (Producer), Keith Hinton (Guitar (Acoustic)), Virginia Team (Art Direction), Keith Hinton (Guitar (Electric)), Mary Beth Felts (Make-Up), Billy Ray Cyrus (Vocals), Keith Hinton (Guitar), Corky Holbrook (Bass), B.R. Cyrus (Vocals (Background)), Grahame Smith (Assistant Engineer), Greg Fletcher (Percussion), Jim Cotton (Engineer), Jerry Joyner (Design), Greg Fletcher (Drums), Jim Cotton (Producer), Jim Cotton (Mixing), Peter Nash (Photography), Clyde Carr (Vocals (Background)), Kim Markovchick (Art Direction), Clyde Carr (Assistant Engineer)
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Some Gave All
Studio album by Billy Ray Cyrus
Released May 19, 1992 (1992-05-19)
Genre Country
Length 35:42
Label Mercury
Producer Joe Scaife, Jim Cotton
Professional reviews
Billy Ray Cyrus chronology
Some Gave All
(1992)		 It Won't Be the Last
(1993)
Singles from Some Gave All
  1. "Achy Breaky Heart"
    Released: April 14, 1992
  2. "Could've Been Me"
    Released: September 1, 1992
  3. "Wher'm I Gonna Live?"
    Released: November, 1992
  4. "She's Not Cryin' Anymore"
    Released: January 23, 1993

Some Gave All was the 1992 debut album by American country music musician Billy Ray Cyrus. It was released on Mercury Records and it produced four hit singles on the Billboard country charts. The first of these was Cyrus's breakthrough song "Achy Breaky Heart", a five-week Number One, as well as a Top 5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. This song was originally recorded as "Don't Tell My Heart" by The Marcy Brothers on their 1991 self-titled album.

"Could've Been Me", "Wher'm I Gonna Live?" and "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" were also released as singles, peaking at #2, #23, and #6, respectively, on the country charts. Cyrus' cover of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" also reached #27 in Denmark in 1992. The title track also reached #52 based on unsolicited airplay.

Contents

Album success

Overall, the album is his most successful album to date, which has been certified 9× Multi-Platinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at #1 on the Billboard 200 (17 consecutive weeks) and most consecutive chart-topping weeks in the SoundScan era.[1][2] Some Gave All is the only album (from any genre) in the SoundScan era to log 17 consecutive weeks at #1 and is also the top-ranking debut album by a male country artist. The album ranked 43 weeks in the top 10, a total topped by only one country album in history, Ropin' the Wind by Garth Brooks.[3] The album has also sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is the Best selling debut album of all time for a solo male artist. Some Gave All was also the best selling album of the 1992 with 4,832,000 copies and it's the last country album to be the best selling album of the year.[4][5]

Track listing

# Title Length Writer(s)
1. "Could've Been Me" 3:44 Monty Powell, Reed Nielsen
2. "Achy Breaky Heart" 3:23 Don Von Tress
3. "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" 3:25 Billy Ray Cyrus, Buddy Cannon, Terry Shelton
4. "Wher'm I Gonna Live?" 3:29 B. R. Cyrus, Cindy Cyrus
5. "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" 2:47 Lee Hazelwood
6. "Someday, Somewhere, Somehow" 3:47 B. R. Cyrus
7. "Never Thought I'd Fall in Love with You" 3:41 Jim McKnight, Mike Murphy
8. "Ain't No Good Goodbye" 3:22 Barton Stevens, B. R. Cyrus, Kevin White
9. "I'm So Miserable" 3:59 B. R. Cyrus, Corky Holbrook
10. "Some Gave All" 4:05 B. R. Cyrus, C. Cyrus

Chart performance

Album

Chart(1992)
[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]		 Peak
position
Australian ARIA Charts 1
Australian Top Country Albums 1
Austrian Albums Chart 32
Canadian Albums Chart 1
Canadian Top Country Albums 1
French New Albums 33
Media Control Charts 48
Netherlands Mega Charts 58
New Zealand RIANZ Charts 2
Swedish Fullprice Albums Charts 42
Swiss Music Charts 34
UK Albums Chart 9
U.S. Billboard 200 1
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1
VG-lista Norweigian Albums Chart 5

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country US US AC CAN Country CAN CAN AC UK DEN
1992 "Achy Breaky Heart" 1 4 23 1 4 5 3 25
"Some Gave All"[A] 52 — — 86 — — — —
"Could've Been Me" 2 72 — 1 72 — 24 29
"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" — — — — — — — 27
"Wher'm I Gonna Live?" 23 — — 16 — — — —
1993 "She's Not Cryin' Anymore" 6 70 — 3 — — — —
"—" denotes releases that failed to chart
  • A^ Charted from unsolicited airplay.

Personnel

Production

  • Co-Producers: Joe Scaife, Jim Cotton
  • Assistant engineers: Grahame Snith, Clyde Carr
  • Mixing: Jim Cotton, Joe Scaife
  • Mastering: Hank Williams
  • Art direction: Virginia Team
  • Design: Jerry Joyner
  • Photography: Peter Nash
  • Make-Up: Mary Beth Felts
  • Executive Art Direction: Kim Markovchick

See also

References

  1. ^ "Billy Ray Cyrus Explores His Gospel 'Side'". Billboard Magazine. 2003-10-18. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jxEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29&dq=Billy+Ray+Cyrus&lr=. Retrieved 2009-06-29. 
  2. ^ "Mariah Carey Can't Stop Taylor Swift". Yahoo!. 2009-01-28. http://new.music.yahoo.com/taylor-swift/news/mariah-carey-cant-stop-taylor-swift--61981514. Retrieved 2009-06-29. 
  3. ^ "Chart Watch Extra: Ropin' The Biggest Country Hits". Yahoo!. 2008-10-07. http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/18943/chart-watch-extra-ropin-the-biggest-country-hits/. Retrieved 2009-10-17. 
  4. ^ "Billy Ray Cyrus appeals to a whole new crowd". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 2009-04-10. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09100/961830-388.stm. Retrieved 2009-04-24. 
  5. ^ Grein. "Week Ending Nov. 8, 2009: The Host With The Most". http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/42196/week-ending-nov-8-2009-the-host-with-the-most/. Retrieved 2009-11-11. 
  6. ^ "Billy Ray Cyrus US Country Albums". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/billy-ray-cyrus/chart-history/2309?f=320&g=Albums&sort=date. Retrieved 2009-10-19. 
  7. ^ "Billy Ray Cyrus Billboard 200". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/billy-ray-cyrus/chart-history/2309?f=305&g=Albums. Retrieved 2009-10-19. 
  8. ^ "Issue date April 7, 1992". RPM. 1992-04-07. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.1989&volume=56&issue=1&issue_dt=April%2007%201992&type=1&interval=36&PHPSESSID=61e1mpj235n7ir5ko6e4v47ad4. Retrieved 2009-07-03. 
  9. ^ "Issue date August 1, 1992". RPM. 1992-08-01. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.2023&volume=56&issue=5&issue_dt=August%2001%201992&type=1&interval=36&PHPSESSID=61e1mpj235n7ir5ko6e4v47ad4. Retrieved 2009-07-03. 
  10. ^ "UK charts archive". Everyhit. http://www.everyhit.com/. Retrieved 2009-07-03. 
  11. ^ "Billy Ray Cyrus France charts". InfoDisc. http://www.infodisc.fr/Album_C.php. Retrieved 2009-08-02. 
  12. ^ "Billy Ray Cyrus German charts". Musicline: Media Control Charts. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/CYRUS%2CBILLY+RAY/?type=longplay. Retrieved 2009-07-03. 
  13. ^ "Some Gave All Oceanian and some European Charts". IFPI Switzerland. http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Billy+Ray+Cyrus&titel=Some+Gave+All&cat=a. Retrieved 2009-08-02. 
Preceded by
Totally Krossed Out
by Kris Kross		 Billboard 200 number-one album
June 13 - October 9, 1992		 Succeeded by
The Chase by Garth Brooks
Preceded by
Jesus Christ Superstar
by 1992 Australian Cast		 Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
October 11 - October 24, 1992		 Succeeded by
Love Symbol
by Prince and the New Power Generation
Preceded by
Ropin' The Wind
by Garth Brooks		 Top Country Albums number-one album
June 6 - October 10, 1992		 Succeeded by
The Chase
by Garth Brooks
Preceded by
The Chase
by Garth Brooks		 Top Country Albums number-one album
January 30 - May 22, 1993		 Succeeded by
It's Your Call
by Reba McEntire
Preceded by
Ropin' the Wind
by Garth Brooks		 Top Country Albums number-one album of the year
1993		 Succeeded by
Not a Moment Too Soon
by Tim McGraw
v • d • e
Billy Ray Cyrus
Studio albums
Some Gave All (1992) · It Won't Be the Last (1993) · Storm in the Heartland (1994) · Trail of Tears (1996) · Shot Full of Love (1998) · Southern Rain (2000) · Time Flies (2003) · The Other Side (2003) · Wanna Be Your Joe (2006) · Home at Last (2007) · Back to Tennessee (2009)
Other albums
Acting career
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