I Think About You
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I Think About You is the fourth studio album released by American
United States
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 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 Collin Raye
Collin Raye
Floyd Collin Wray Floyd Collin Wray Floyd Collin Wray (born August 22, 1959 or 1960,Although multiple online sources all indicate Raye's date of birth as 1959, Raye's MySpace lists his date of birth as 1960. Furthermore, the 2004 Deseret News article cited in this article indicates the singer as...

. Released in 1995 on Epic Records
Epic Records
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, I Think About You was also Raye's fourth consecutive album to receive a platinum certification by the RIAA. The album produced the singles "I Think About You", "Not That Different", "On the Verge", "One Boy, One Girl", "Love Remains" and "What If Jesus Comes Back Like That". These latter two tracks were the first two singles of Raye's career to miss Top Ten on the Billboard country charts.

Track listing

  1. "I Think About You
    I Think About You (song)
    "I Think About You" is the title of a song written by Don Schlitz and Steve Seskin, and recorded by American country music singer Collin Raye. It was released in February 1996 as the third single from his 1995 album of the same name...

    " (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...

    , Steve Seskin
    Steve Seskin
    Steve Seskin is an American songwriter whose compositions have been recorded by Alabama, Kenny Chesney, Peter Frampton, Waylon Jennings, Brian McComas, Neal McCoy, Tim McGraw, John Michael Montgomery, Colin Raye, Tebey and Mark Wills...

    ) – 3:27
  2. "Not That Different
    Not That Different
    "Not That Different" is the title of a song written by Karen Taylor-Good and Joie Scott, and recorded by American country music singer Collin Raye. It was released in November 1995 the second single from his 1995 album, I Think About You...

    " (Karen Taylor-Good
    Karen Taylor-Good
    Karen Taylor-Good is an American singer-songwriter. Taylor-Good and her then-husband, Bill Taylor, started the Mesa Records label in 1982. Her first single, "Diamond in the Rough," reached the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart early that year...

    , Joie Scott) – 3:56
  3. "On the Verge
    On the Verge (song)
    "On the Verge" is a single by American country music artist Collin Raye. Released in 1997, it was the sixth and final single from Raye's 1995 album I Think About You. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in May 1997....

    " (Hugh Prestwood
    Hugh Prestwood
    Hugh Prestwood is an American songwriter whose work is primarily in country music. His first hit as a songwriter was "Hard Time for Lovers", which was recorded in 1978 by Judy Collins. Prestwood also wrote "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart", a Number One for Randy Travis in 1990, and a song for...

    ) – 3:49
  4. "One Boy, One Girl
    One Boy, One Girl
    "One Boy, One Girl" is a single by American country music singer Collin Raye. It was the first single released from his 1995 album, I Think About You. It peaked at #2 in the United States and #4 in Canada. It also peaked at #87 on the Billboard Hot 100....

    " (Mark Alan Springer, Shaye Smith) – 4:03
  5. "Sweet Miss Behavin'" (Kostas
    Kostas
    Kostas Lazarides is a Greek-born American country music songwriter, known professionally as Kostas. He has written for several country music artists, including Dwight Yoakam, Patty Loveless, and Travis Tritt, and has won eleven awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated...

    , Wally Wilson
    Wally Wilson
    Wally Wilson , is an American record producer and songwriter based in Nashville.-Career:Wally Wilson has worked with artists as diverse as Leon Russell, Bo Diddley, the Neville Brothers, Junior Wells, Amy Grant, Trisha Yearwood, Lone Star, Lorrie Morgan, Sammy Kershaw, Rick Trevino, Rascal Flatts...

    ) – 2:14
  6. "Heart Full of Rain" (Prestwood) – 3:53
  7. "What If Jesus Comes Back Like That" (Pat Bunch, Doug Johnson) – 3:07
  8. "The Time Machine" (Gary Burr
    Gary Burr
    Gary Burr, born in Meriden, Connecticut, is an American musician and songwriter and producer, mostly known for his stable of hits recorded by country music performers. Burr began his career as a member of the group Pure Prairie League from 1982 to 1985, taking over after Vince Gill departed the group...

    ) – 3:41
  9. "I Love Being Wrong" (Billy Kirsch, John Jarrard) – 4:17
  10. "I Volunteer" (Larry Boone
    Larry Boone
    Larry Eugene Boone is an American country music artist. Between 1985 and 1993, Boone recorded five major label studio albums, in addition to charting several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts. His highest-charting single, "Don't Give Candy to a Stranger", reached #10 in 1988...

    , Will Robinson, Tammy Hyler) – 3:09
  11. "Love Remains" (Tom Douglas
    Tom Douglas (songwriter)
    Thomas Stevenson "Tom" Douglas is an American country music songwriter. Active since the early 1990s, he has written Top Ten hits for John Michael Montgomery, Martina McBride, Tim McGraw, Collin Raye and others....

    , Jim Daddario) – 3:48

Personnel

  • Larry Byrom – electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Joe Chemay – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , background vocals
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

  • Dan Dugmore – pedal steel guitar
    Pedal steel guitar
    The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...

  • Larry Franklin – fiddle
    Fiddle
    The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...

  • Paul Franklin
    Paul Franklin (musician)
    Paul Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville,...

     – pedal steel guitar
  • John Hobbs – piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

    , Hammond B-3 organ
    Hammond organ
    The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...

    , synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

    , accordion
    Accordion
    The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

  • Dann Huff
    Dann Huff
    Dann Huff is an American musician, session musician, singer-songwriter and producer. For his work as a producer in the Country music genre he has won several awards including the Musician of the Year award in 2001 and 2004 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award...

     – electric guitar
  • Paul Leim – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Anthony Martin – background vocals
  • Tom Roady – percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • John Wesley Ryles
    John Wesley Ryles
    John Wesley Ryles is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1968 with the single "Kay", a Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, and the title track to his debut album for Columbia Records.Ryles later recorded one album, Reconsider Me, for the Plantation label,...

    – background vocals
  • Ed Seay – six-string bass guitar
  • Billy Joe Walker, Jr. – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
  • Dennis Wilson – background vocals
  • Lonnie Wilson – drums
  • Curtis Young – background vocals

Chart performance

Chart (1995) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 5
U.S. Billboard 200 40
Canadian RPM Country Albums 13
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