Where Have All Our Heroes Gone

Where Have All Our Heroes Gone
Where Have All Our Heroes Gone
Studio album by Bill Anderson
Released	December 1970
Recorded	August 1970
Studio	Bradley's Barn, Mount Juliet, Tennessee
Genre	Country; Nashville Sound;
Label	Decca
Producer	Owen Bradley
Bill Anderson chronology
Singles from Where Have All Our Heroes Gone
	"Where Have All Our Heroes Gone"; Released: September 1970;

Where Have All Our Heroes Gone is a studio album by American country singer-songwriter Bill Anderson. It was released in December 1970 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley. It was Anderson's fifteenth studio album as a recording artist and his third studio album released in 1970. The album's title track became a major hit on the Billboard country chart. The album itself would also reach peak positions on the Billboard country albums chart.

Background and content

Where Have All Our Heroes Gone was recorded in August 1970 at Bradley's Barn studio in Mount Juliet, Tennessee and produced by the studio's owner, Owen Bradley. It was Anderson's fifteenth studio album and fifth to be produced by Bradley^[2] The album consisted of 11 tracks.^[3] The project was designed to be a collection of recitation songs. Anderson presented the title track as which impressed Bradley and other engineers on the project. From the title track, an album was built around it. Three additional songs on the album were composed by Anderson. Other songs were cover versions of songs recorded by others. Among these tracks was Ray Price's "For the Good Times" and Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee".^[2]

Release and reception

Where Have All the Heroes Gone was released in December 1970 and was his third studio album released that year.^[2] It was issued as a vinyl LP, with five songs on side one and six songs on side two of the record.^[3] The album spent a total of 11 weeks on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart before peaking at number 27 in April 1971.^[4] The title track was the only single released from the album. Issued in September 1970, the song reached number six on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart by December.^[5] It also reached a peak of number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100, one of his few singles to chart on that list.^[6] It also reached number 9 on the RPM Country Singles chart in Canada.^[7] In later years the album would be reviewed by Allmusic, which gave it a rating of 3.5 out of 5 possible stars.^[1]

Track listing

Side one^[3]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Where Have All Our Heroes Gone"	Bill Anderson Bob Talbert	4:59
2.	"For the Good Times"	Kris Kristofferson	3:23
3.	"Loving a Memory"	Anderson	2:45
4.	"Me and Bobby McGee"	Fred Foster Kristofferson	2:35
5.	"And Then Came the Bad Years"	Steve Karliski	2:35

Side two^[3]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"All I Have to Offer You Is Me"	Dallas Frazier Arthur Leo Owens	2:49
2.	"Poison Red Berries"	Mickey Newbury	3:38
3.	"I Can't Go Anywhere But Wrong"	Anderson	2:10
4.	"I'll Bring More Flowers"	Anderson Bobby Runnell	2:18
5.	"Melinda"	Jerry Crutchfield Jimmy Gateley	2:43
6.	"Friends"	Dick Bowman Glen Campbell	3:02