Rick Sings Nelson

Rick Sings Nelson
Studio album by
Rick Nelson and The Stone Canyon Band
Released1970
Recorded1970
GenreCountry rock
Length35:09
LabelDecca/MCA[1]
ProducerRick Nelson
Rick Nelson and The Stone Canyon Band chronology
In Concert at The Troubadour
(1970)
Rick Sings Nelson
(1970)
Rudy the Fifth
(1971)

Rick Sings Nelson is the nineteenth studio album by Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band.[2][3] It was the first album on which Nelson wrote every song.[4]

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated November 17 of that year and remained on the chart for two weeks, peaking at number 196.[5]

The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Beat Goes On on January 26, 1999 as tracks 1 through 10 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 11 through 22 consisting Nelson's 20th Studio & 12th Decca album from November 1971, Rudy the Fifth.[6]

  1. ^ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440229169 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Ricky Nelson | Rhino". www.rhino.com.
  3. ^ The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. Fireside. 1995.
  4. ^ The Da Capo Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music. Da Capo Press. 1995. p. 684.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's top pop albums : 1955-1996 : compiled from Billboard magazine's pop album charts, 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 556. ISBN 0898201179.
  6. ^ "Rick Sings Nelson/Rudy the Fifth". allmusic.com. Retrieved 15 September 2024.