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Greatest Hits on Monument (Jeannie Seely album)

1993 compilation album by Jeannie Seely

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ96379900 ↗
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Greatest Hits on Monument is a compilation album by American country music artist Jeannie Seely. It was released on March 9, 1993, via Sony Music Entertainment. The album was comprised on Seely's original recordings for the Monument label during the 1960s. It included some of her biggest hit singles during her career. It also featured songs written Seely herself as well as other writers, predominantly the material of Hank Cochran.

Background and content

Greatest Hits on Monument was a compilation of music Seely recorded while she was at Monument for three years. These recordings were among the first during her music career. It was at Monument where Seely had her first major hit, 1966's "Don't Touch Me". The song is the album's opening track and was written by Hank Cochran. Cochran wrote 11 additional tracks that are featured on the record.

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“Greatest Hits on Monument (Jeannie Seely album)” enters the record as 1993 compilation album by Jeannie Seely. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Greatest, Hits and Monument can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-03-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Greatest, Hits and Monument.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q96379900. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993 and 1966.

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