Before he began co-hosting the US country music variety show Hee Haw in 1969, Buck Owens was already a country music icon. Between 1963 and 1967, Owens released an astounding 15 consecutive US Country #1 songs that epitomized the Bakersfield sound, a stripped-down, guitar-driven honky-tonk style that he helped create. Rhino Records celebrates Owens' influential music with a compilation of the legend's 21 chart-topping country classics. 21 #1 HITS: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION contains remastered versions of Billboard country chart-toppers originally released from 1963 to 1988 including his first US #1 smash, "Act Naturally," and his final US #1, a 1988 re-recording of "Streets of Bakersfield" featuring Owens and his musical progeny, Dwight Yoakam.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. ACT NATURALLY
2. LOVE'S GONNA LIVE THERE
3. STREETS OF BAKERSFIELD
4. I'VE GOT A TIGER BY THE TAIL
5. MY HEART SKIPS A BEAT
6. TOGETHER AGAIN
7. I DON'T CARE (JUST AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME)
8. BEFORE YOU GO
9. ONLY YOU (CAN BREAK MY HEART)
10. BUCKAROO
11. WAITIN' IN YOUR WELFARE LINE
12. THINK OF ME
13. OPEN UP YOUR HEART
14. WHERE DOES THE GOOD TIMES GO
15. SAM'S PLACE
16. YOUR TENDER LOVING CARE
17. HOW LONG WILL MY BABY BE GONE
18. WHO'S GONNA MOW YOUR GRASS
19. TALL DARK STRANGER
20. MADE IN JAPAN
21. JOHNNY B. GOODE