Where Have All Our Heroes Gone

Where Have All Our Heroes Gone was recorded in August 1970 at Bradley's Barn, a studio located in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. The recording sessions were produced by 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]

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]

All credits are adapted from the liner notes of Where Have All Our Heroes Gone.[2]

Musical personnel

• Bill Anderson – lead vocals
• Harold Bradley – guitar
• Ray Edenton – guitar
• Buddy Harman – drums
• Roy Huskey – bass
• The Jordanaires – background vocals
• Grady Martin – guitar
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano
• Hal Rugg – steel guitar
• Pete Wade – guitar

Technical personnel

• Owen Bradley – record producer