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Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors was one of those records that managed to have enough cross over appeal to spill over onto the AM radio I listened to as a kid. Between singing along to "Cover of the Rolling Stone" (yeah, tell 'em who we are) and wondering who Stealers Wheel was stuck in the middle with, there was a big silky voice asking if I'd seen "The Most Beautiful Girl?" I don't remember if I liked it or not back then, but it was played a lot. That Charlie Rich guy was no Brownsville Station that was for sure, however; here we are practically fifty years after the fact, and I'm listening to Behind Closed Doors and this is a well crafted effort that falls more into the country camp than the pop arena - but a good album is a good album (most of the time). This was an album my wife grew up with and when I started playing records again, she "borrowed" the beat up and scratched copy (she claims to have no knowledge of how it came to be in such bad sha...