Unchained Melody: The Early Years

Compilation album by LeAnn Rimes

Released

February 11, 1997

Recorded

1994-1996, Norman Petty Studios (Clovis, N.M.) Rosewood Stuidios (Tyler Texas), Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)

Genre

Country

Length

32:36

Label

Curb Records

Producer

Greg Walker, Johnny Mulhair, Wilbur C. Rimes

LeAnn Rimes chronology

Unchained Melody: The Early Years
(1997)

I Need You
(2001)

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Unchained Melody: The Early Years or simply The Early Years is a compilation album by American country singer LeAnn Rimes, released in the United States on February 11, 1997 (see 1997 in music) by Curb Records. Due to high sales of her debut album, Blue, the album consists of tracks recorded previously to Blue (tracks one, two and five through nine were taken from Rimes' independent album, under Nor Va Jak label, All That (1994). "Unchained Melody" (originally by The Righteous Brothers) was released on a single as a B-side track with "Put a Little Holiday in Your Heart" at Target stores during the 1996 Christmas season alongside Rimes' debut album. The album contains cover versions of "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" by Patsy Montana, "Blue Moon of Kentucky" by Bill Monroe, "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton, "Yesterday" by The Beatles. The album has been certified 2× Platinum for shipments of two million copies in the United States.

Due to high sales of Rimes' debut album, Blue,Curb Records used several tracks recorded from Rimes' commercial album, All That, all of which were recorded when Rimes was eleven years old. The only songs not recorded prior to Blue is Rimes' cover of Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky and the song "River of Love". "Unchained Melody" was originally released on a single as a B-side track with "Put a Little Holiday in Your Heart" at Target stores during the 1996 Christmas season alongside Rimes' debut album. The compilation album was released on February 11, 1997 by Curb Records.

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