Albums #1 Randall Franks Americana Youth of Southern Appalachia Feb. 13, 2021 Top 50 APD Global Albums #1 In the Heat of the Night Cast and Friends Christmas Time's A Comin' Oct. 2019 Top 50 APD Christmas Global Albums #2 In the Heat of the Night Cast and Friends Christmas Time's A Comin' Dec. 2019 Top 50 APD Global Albums #4 In the Heat of the Night Cast and Friends Christmas Time's A Comin' Oct. 17, 2021 Top 50 APD Global Albums #8, #16 & #19 Randall Franks Americana Youth of Southern Appalachia May 2020 Top 50 APD Global Albums #9 Randall Franks Americana Youth of Southern Appalachia June 2019 Top 50 Global Albums All Genres #10 Randall Franks Americana Youth of Southern Appalachia Feb. 2020 Top 50 APD Americana/Grassicana Global Albums #10 Randall Franks - Faith Will See Us Through April 26, 2021 Top 50 APD Global Albums #16 Randall Franks - God's Children July 2019 Top 50 APD Bluegrass/Folk Global Albums #12 Randall Franks - APD Music Page June 2019 Top 50 APD Christian/Gospel Global Albums #18 Randall Franks - "Keep 'Em Smilin'" June 2019 Top 50 APD Christian/Gospel Global Albums #18 Randall Franks - Handshakes and Smiles June 1990 Top 20 Christian Sales Charts The Music City News #20 Randall Franks - Mountain Opry Memories''' June 2019 Top 50 APD Bluegrass/Folk Global Albums #20 & #45 Randall Franks - Faith Will See Us Through June 2020 Top 50 APD Global Albums #25 Randall Franks - APD Music Page Jan. 25, 2022 Top 50 APD Global Albums #36 In the Heat of the Night Cast and Friends Christmas Time's A Comin' Top 50 ALLTIME APD Holiday/Christmas Albums Recording Executive & Producer Franks served as director for A & R for MBM Records and its family of labels including Encore and ASL and coordinated its publishing company. Bluegrass label Atteiram Records also called upon Franks as a graphic artist and liner note writer using him to design album covers or cassette inserts for many of its artists. Some among those were The Crain Brothers, Appalachian Express, James Monroe, Jim Southern and Southern Sounds, Joe Stuart and Carl Sauceman, Brother Birch Monroe, Frank Buchanan, Carl Story and the Rambling Mountaineers, Vic Jordan, The Ridgerunners, The Boyd Brothers, Hubert Cox and the Southern Grass, The Blue Ridge Gentlemen, The Pinnacle Boys, and Southwind. Franks used his television popularity to widen the