"How's the World Treating You"? Are you one of those people predicting "The End of the World"? Or do you just want to "Make the World Go Away"? Are you on "Top of the World"? Back "Here in the Real World", I'm just an old retired guy looking for songs that include the word "World" in the title. I sometimes go through the songs in my MacBook's i-Tunes library, looking for ideas for a playlist. With all the information available on the internet, "It's Such a Small World".
Today I came up with a list of country "World" songs. Some are singles, some album tracks, some old, some new. Some are so well known that no comment is needed for readers who are country music fans. I'm sure I've missed some good songs so I'm open to suggestions to upgrade this list. So "Hello World", here are the songs with the names of the songwriters in parenthesis and the album it first appeared in:
Alan Jackson - "Here in the Real World" (Mark Irwin & AJ), from the 1990 album of the same name.
Alison Krauss & James Taylor - "How's the World Treating You" (Chet Atkins & Boudleaux Bryant), from the 2000 tribute album, "Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers".
Brad Paisley - "The World" (Kelley Lovelace, Lee Thomas Miller & BP), from "Time Well Wasted".
Dixie Chicks - "Top of the World" (Patty Griffin), from the album "Home".
Brooks & Dunn - "Rock My World (Little Country Girl)" (Bill La Bounty & Steve O'Brien), from their 1993 album, "Hard Workin' Man".
Allison Paige - "The End of the World" (Sylvia Dee - lyrics & Arthur Kent - music), first recorded by Skeeter Davis in 1962 and by many others since.
Rodney Crowell & Rosanne Cash - "It's Such a Small World" (Rodney Crowell), from Rodney's "Diamonds & Dirt" album.
Ronnie Milsap - "Let's Take the Long Way Around the World" (A. Jordan & N. Martin), from "The Essential Ronnie Milsap", a 40 song collection released in 2006 on BMG Music.
Lady Antebellum - "Hello World" (Tom Douglas, Tony Lane & David Lee), from "Need You Now".
Lady Antebellum - "Heart of the World" (Tom Douglas & Scooter Carusoe), from "Own the Night".
Blaine Larsen - "Off to Join the World (the Circus Song)" (Mark D. Sanders & Shawn Camp), from his 2004 debut album of the same name.
Wynonna - "Change the World" (Gordon Kennedy, Tommy Sims & Wayne Kirkpatrick), an album track from her 1996 album "Revelations".
Wynonna - "What the World Needs" (Brett James & Holly Lamar), a single from her 2003 album "What the World Needs Now Is Love".
Mary Chapin Carpenter - "A Place in the World" (MCC), from her album of the same title.
Eagles - "It's Your World Now" (Glenn Frey & Jack Tempchin), the last track on disc 2 of their "Long Road Out of Eden" album.
Jeff Carson with Lisa Brokop - "God Save the World" (Pat Bunch & Doug Johnson)
The Jeffersons (who are LIsa Brokop & Paul Jefferson, not George and Louise) - "What a World" (Fred Wilhelm & Lisa Brokop), from their debut cd as a duo.
Mark McGuinn - "If the World Was Mine" (Mark McGuinn & Shane Decker), from his self-titled debut album in 2001.
Melinda Schneider - "Big World, Small World" (Jay Knowles & Melinda Schneider), from her album "Melinda Schneider, Hits and Rarities"
Rissi Palmer - "I'm Not of This World" (Sarah Majors, Dan Shea & Rissi Palmer), from her 2007 self-titled debut album.
Gloriana - "The World Is Ours Tonight" (Jess Cates, Lindy Robbins & Matt Serletic), from their debut album "Gloriana".
Tricia Walker - "Eighth Wonder of the World" (Bobby King & Ellen Britton), from her 2007 album "Velvet".
A few years ago I bought the "Ultimate Eddy Arnold" cd, a 20 song compilation released in 2003 from BMG Music. The cd included the following three "World" songs, all from the mid 1960's and all made it to #1 on the country charts:
"What's He Doing in My World" (Carl Belew, Billy Joe Moore & Eddie Bush)
"Make the World Go Away" (Hank Cochran), first recording was by Ray Price in '63.
"Turn the World Around" (Ben Peters)
In addition to these three, I found four other "World" songs on Wikipedia's Eddy Arnold discography. Guess he was the king of the world song singers?
What are your favorite country "World" songs?
If you like playlists with a theme, you may want to check out some of these past posts here on Music & More:
Country Covers of pop songs - 8/24/08
Sappy Songs - 9/29/08
True Duets - 10/20/08
Christmas Songs - 12/11/08
Fun Country Songs - 3/8/09
Best Baseball Songs - 4/5/09
Country Story Songs - 9/26/09
Country Dance Songs - 5/1/10
A Few Autumn/Fall Songs 10/1/10
Gone Country Songs - 11/2/10
Winter Songs - 1/27/11
Cities & States in Country Songs - 3/8/11
Cowboy Songs - 4/2/11
Country Rain Songs - 6/21/11
Pop Rain Songs - 7/12/11
Favorite Songs about Working - 9/1/11
Favorite Country Drinking Songs - 10/7/11
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