Hall & Oates - All-Time Greatest Hits

I've been looking for the single version of "I Don't Wanna Lose You" and I checked the version on this 3 CD set, and I can confirm it's the album version. With the other potential single versions on the set, I was hoping this one would be the single, but it's still has never made a CD anywhere in the world.

Ah... Thanks for pointing that info out, Aaron. I forgot to mention those actual 45 times in my original post.

I should also mention that I have most of the 45 edits of Hall & Oates' Top 40 hits on CD, thanks to Aaron who replicated them on his digital editing software. Still, it's always nice to see when record labels themselves finally get around to releasing previously unavailable single versions on CD.

Edited by Todd Ireland

Todd Ireland wrote: I was visiting the Time-Life website and noticed it has for sale a Hall & Oates best-of compilation I believe is sold exclusively through the website...

Actually, that H&O collection is available at retail (it
comes in one of those old-style 6"x12" cardboard
longboxes). Although a paid membership is required to
shop there, many of those CD collections found on the
Time-Life web site are carried at BJ's Wholesale Club,
and I assume their main competitors as well, namely
Costco and Sam's Club. My local BJ's has carried that H&O
collection in the past, and just yesterday, I returned
there to see if they still had any on the shelf, but
alas, it appears they're currently sold out. I'd looked
at that 3-CD H&O collection several times, but like you
said, because the market has been flooded w/ new ones on
them lately, I always passed on that one. I've bought
similar Time-Life collections in the past, and it
wouldn't surprise me if some of the hits you named above
are indeed the single versions that are otherwise
unavailable elsewhere...

And in the event other fans weren't aware of it, there's
also another excellent U.S. H&O collection available only
through mail order, simply titled "Greatest Hits". It's a
2-CD set w/ 32 tracks, and came out in the late '90s. (At
the time, it was by far the best domestic H&O collection
ever released.) It was sold through Collectors' Choice
Music (official web site: www.ccmusic.com), although I
just checked, and it appears the H&O collection I'm
referring to is no longer available. I don't have my copy
next to me here at this time, but I bought "Greatest
Hits" through them (on both CD and cassette) in 1998. And
although I generally don't collect vinyl 45s (in order to
compare), again, it wouldn't surprise me if "Greatest
Hits" has some single versions unavailable
elsewhere...

Todd Ireland wrote: I should also mention that I have most of the 45 edits ... , thanks to Aaron who replicated them on his digital editing software.

Aaron seems like an interesting and talented fellow when it comes to editing - as an aside, I think I should pay him to recreate all of my favourite radio edits and I will take them to a record cutting plant and make 12" singles from them (I know this is a CD board, but CDs are the musical equivalent of ashtrays....lol (sorry I have nothing to say nice about CDs, as I'm an analog guy through and through.

Back to the topic, Aaron submitted me a "demonstration" of Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" and it was right on the money. I consider myself a very good editor, but I think I have to step aside when it comes to Aaron. I tend to take liberties when I recreate edits, but he gets them all in the right spots.

Very talented he is.

it's always helpful to have the actual vinyl 45 to get the edits correct......and, jody, i will agree aaron is THE best...no offense intended to paul, john and doug....