Greatest Hits is a 1997 compilation album from American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Pam Tillis

Pam Tillis

Pamela Yvonne "Pam" Tillis is an American country music singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of country music singer Mel Tillis....

. The album reached #6 on the Billboard country albums charts. It chronicles her greatest hits from her first four albums for Arista Nashville

Arista Nashville

Arista Nashville is an American record label that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment, operated under the Sony Music Nashville division. Founded in 1989, the label specializes in country music artists, including Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood...

. The tracks "Land of the Living" and "All the Good Ones Are Gone" are new to this compilation. Both were released as singles, reaching Top Five on the country charts in 1997. The album was certified Platinum for shipments of over 1,000,000 coppies in the U.S.! This was the last of her albums to receive certification in sales. "All The Good Ones Are Gone" would also be Pam's last top 10 appearance in the Country Singles Charts.

Track listing

1. "Land of the Living
   Land of the Living (Pam Tillis song)
   "Land of the Living" is a single by American country music artist Pam Tillis. Released in 1997, it was the second new single from her Greatest Hits album. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...
   
   " (Wayland Patton, Tia Sillers) – 3:32
2. "All the Good Ones Are Gone
   All the Good Ones Are Gone
   "All the Good Ones Are Gone" is a single by American country music artist Pam Tillis. Released in 1997, it was the first new single from her Greatest Hits album. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart....
   
   " (Dean Dillon
   Dean Dillon
   Dean Dillon is an American country music artist. Between 1982 and 1993, Dillon recorded six studio albums on various labels, and charted several singles on the Billboard country charts. Although he has not charted since 1993, Dillon has continued to write several hit songs for other artists, most...
   
   , Bob McDill
   Bob McDill
   Robert Lee "Bob" McDill is an American country music songwriter. Active from the 1960s until 2000, he has written several songs for country music artists, including more than thirty Number One hits...
   
   ) – 3:17
3. "Don't Tell Me What to Do
   Don't Tell Me What to Do
   "Don't Tell Me What to Do" is a single by American country music artist Pam Tillis. Released in 1991, it was the first single from the album Put Yourself in My Place. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
   
   " (Harlan Howard
   Harlan Howard
   Harlan Perry Howard was a prolific American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists...
   
   , Max D. Barnes
   Max D. Barnes
   Max D. Barnes was a country music singer and songwriter.As a songwriter, Barnes composed many familiar songs of the '80s and '90s, receiving 42 songwriter awards in his career...
   
   ) – 3:12
4. "Maybe It Was Memphis
   Maybe It Was Memphis
   "Maybe It Was Memphis" is the title of a song recorded by American country music artist Pam Tillis on two separate occasions. She first cut the song on Warner Bros...
   
   " (Michael Anderson) – 4:00
5. "Shake the Sugar Tree
   Shake the Sugar Tree
   "Shake the Sugar Tree" is the title of a country music song written by Chapin Hartord. It was recorded by American singer Pam Tillis on her 1992 album Homeward Looking Angel, from which it was released in 1992 as the album's lead-off single...
   
   " (Chapin Hartford) – 3:08
6. "Let That Pony Run
   Let That Pony Run
   "Let That Pony Run" is the title of a song written by Gretchen Peters and recorded by American country music artist Pam Tillis. It was released in January 1993 as the second single from the album Homeward Looking Angel. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart...
   
   " (Gretchen Peters
   Gretchen Peters
   Gretchen Peters is a singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. She was born in New York and raised in Boulder, Colorado, but moved to Nashville in the late 1980s...
   
   ) – 3:30
7. "Cleopatra, Queen of Denial" (Pam Tillis, Bob DiPiero
   Bob DiPiero
   Bob DiPiero is an American country music songwriter. He has written 15. U.S. Number 1 hits and countless top 20 hits for the likes of Tim McGraw, The Oak Ridge Boys, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Shenandoah, Neal McCoy, Highway 101, Restless Heart, Ricochet, John Anderson, Montgomery...
   
   , Jan Buckingham) – 3:12
8. "Spilled Perfume
   Spilled Perfume
   "Spilled Perfume" is the title of a song written by American country music artist Pam Tillis along with Dean Dillon, and recorded by Tillis. The song was released as the lead single from her 1994 album, Sweetheart's Dance.-Personnel:...
   
   " (Tillis, Dillon) – 3:53
9. "When You Walk in the Room
   When You Walk In The Room
   "When You Walk in the Room" is a song written and recorded by Jackie DeShannon, first released by her in 1963 but covered by many artists. The lyrics of the song attempt to detail the singer's emotions when in the presence of the person he or she loves...
   
   " (Jackie DeShannon
   Jackie DeShannon
   Jackie DeShannon is an American singer-songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock 'n' roll period.- Life and early career :...
   
   ) – 2:44
10. "In Between Dances
    In Between Dances
    "In Between Dances" is a single by American country music artist Pam Tillis. Released in 1995, it was the fifth single from the album Sweetheart's Dance...
    
    " (Barry Alfonso, Craig Bickhardt
    Craig Bickhardt
    Craig Bickhardt is an American country music singer and songwriter. His musical career includes co-writing credits for The Judds, Steve Wariner, Kathy Mattea and others. He was also a member of S-K-B, formerly S-K-O, after Paul Overstreet exited that band, and he has released three studio albums...
    
    ) - 3:21
11. "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
    Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
    "Mi Vida Loca " is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Pam Tillis. It was released in November 1994 as the third single from the album, Sweetheart's Dance. She co-wrote the song with Jess Leary, and co-produced it with Steve Fishell...
    
    " (Tillis, Jess Leary) – 2:51
12. "The River and the Highway
    The River and the Highway
    "The River and the Highway" is a single by American country music artist Pam Tillis. Released in 1996, it was the second single from the album All of This Love. The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart....
    
    " (Gerry House
    Gerry House
    Gerry House is a and award-winning American radio personality, currently heard on WSIX-FM in Nashville, Tennessee on the morning show Gerry House and the House Foundation...
    
    , Don Schlitz
    Don Schlitz
    Donald Alan "Don" Schlitz, Jr. is a country music songwriter. For his songwriting efforts, Schlitz has earned two Grammys, as well as four ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year awards...
    
    ) – 4:21

Chart performance

Chart (1997)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	6
U.S. Billboard 200	47