Stars of the Grand Ole Opry is a studio album by American country music artist Jan Howard.

The album part of a veteran-artists program crafted by the First Generation label to market music towards middle-aged audiences.

In the 1960s, Howard had a string of charting US country songs including the top ten releases "Evil on Your Mind", "Bad Seed" and the chart-topping "For Loving You".

[2] Howard was approached by First Generation records creator Pete Drake to make an album with his label and she agreed to it.

[3] Stars of the Grand Ole Opry was released in May 1981 by First Generation Records and was the fifteenth studio album of Howard's music career.

[6] First Generation planned to mail 5,000 brochures to US country music retailers in its original distribution.