International Airport," "Willy Jones," "Pitty, Pitty, Patter," and "(I've Got A) Happy Heart" are absent) but a number of cuts do appear both here and on Varese/Craft's The Very Best of Buck Owens and Susan Raye. There is no overlap here with Varese Sarabande/Craft Recordings' solo Raye compilation 16 Greatest Hits (meaning that her most familiar songs such as "L.A. Together Again boasts a dozen Owens/Raye duets and nine solo Raye deep tracks. International Airport." Raye remained on Hee Haw for nine seasons, and largely retired from music and performing in the mid-1980s. She scored over 20 solo chart entries including three top 40s in 1971 alone and seven top 10s in total, among them the international crossover hit "L.A. Owens and Raye released five studio albums together and placed six hits on the Country chart, while Raye prospered as a solo artist as well. In addition to being a distinctive vocalist, Raye was a television natural she had previously appeared alongside the Bakersfield icon on The Buck Owens Ranch Show. Susan Raye began singing with Owens in 1968, and soon after became a featured performer on the Owens-co-hosted variety show Hee Haw.
It will be available on both CD and digital formats. On December 10, Omnivore will release Buck Owens and Susan Raye's Together Again, a new 22-track compendium of duet and solo cuts originally issued between 19. (Watch this space for more coverage of that trio soon!) But happily, the label is far from done with the Owens oeuvre. On October 29, Omnivore Recordings concludes its current reissue program of nine never-on-standalone-CD albums from Buck Owens with reissues of In the Palm of Your Hand, Ain't It Amazing, Gracie, and It's a Monster's Holiday.