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EdisonLite wrote:
| On a similar note, when did "Greatest Hits" albums start including new songs that weren't on any previous albums - but were added to the "Greastest Hits" to promote the sale of the album? I don't think it was too common in the '60s and early '70s. |
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"Summer" by War in 1976 is the earliest one that comes to my mind.
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thecdguy wrote:
EdisonLite wrote:
| On a similar note, when did "Greatest Hits" albums start including new songs that weren't on any previous albums - but were added to the "Greastest Hits" to promote the sale of the album? I don't think it was too common in the '60s and early '70s. |
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"Summer" by War in 1976 is the earliest one that comes to my mind. |
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Although your example predates mine by a couple years, Best Of Earth Wind & Fire Vol. 1 from 1978 is the parent album for "September."
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AndrewChouffi wrote:
I think "I'm Not The One" from the
Cars' Greatest Hits
was a remix from a previous album that was released as
a single - just going by memory.
Does anyone out there know if my memory is accurate?
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Your memory is accurate. The remix of I'm Not
The One is on the Cars' Greatest Hits album (1985), but the
original mix was on their Shake It Up LP (1981).
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EdisonLite wrote:
On a similar note, when did
"Greatest Hits" albums start including new songs that
weren't on any previous albums - but were added to the
"Greastest Hits" to promote the sale of the album? I
don't think it was too common in the '60s and early
'70s. |
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Maybe not common, but not unheard of. One example I can
think of right off hand is the Grass Roots' "Bella
Linda" from the first "Golden Grass" GH comp.
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Thanks for the info, guys. I was (and am) a big fan of Arista Records, so I noticed this very thing on Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits in 1979 ("Ready to Take a Chance Again" - although I suppose the "Foul Play" soundtrack came out around the same time), then in '82 with Melissa Manchester (her single "Nice Girls', and of course, Air Supply's "Making Love Out of Nothing At All" was released concurrently with their "Greatest Hits" and boy did it help the sales of that album - peaking at #7 and going 5x platinum.
But you've given examples from '78. '76 & '68! I'm sure there were others before 1979 as well.
Speaking of greatest hits album, a trivia question that I'm not sure I know the answer for. What was the 1st greatest hits album to be released?
I think I heard it was Johnny Mathis' Greatest Hits - and I think it contained a notice like "Includes previously recorded material" (which should be obvious!), but there may have been one or more preceding it. Imagine the 1st person who ever thought up the concept of a Greatest Hits album. Many kudos to them!
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I can remember back in High School, looking for 'Ups and
Downs' by Paul Revere & the Raiders and only finding it
on their 'Greatest Hits'. The old guys in the record
store would tell me that an artist would only come out
with a 'Greatest Hits' when their career was almost over.
I found that was not always the case. -Bill.
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Also, didn't 'Elvis's Golden Records' predate the Mathis
collection? I think most, if not all the selections on
Elvis' record were from singles that had not been
released on albums. -Bill.
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