Description
Tracklist:
1-1: If Only You Knew
1-2: Love, Need And Want You
1-3: If You Don’t Know Me By Now (Live)
1-4: The Best Is Yet To Come
1-5: The Spirit’s In It
1-6: New Attitude
1-7: On My Own
1-8: When You Talk About Love
1-9: My Love, Sweet Love (From The Soundtrack To Waiting To Exhale)
1-10: Somebody Loves You Baby (You Know Who It Is)
1-11: Down The Aisle (The Wedding Song)
1-12: The Bells
1-13: Last Dance
1-14: Moon Shadow (Album Version)
1-15: I Sold My Heart To The Junkman (Alternate Version)
2-1: Lady Marmalade
2-2: What Can I Do For You?
2-3: You Turn Me On
2-4: Open Up Your Heart
2-5: Messin’ With My Mind
2-6: Isn’t It A Shame
2-7: Joy To Have Your Love
2-8: You Are My Friend
2-9: It’s Alright With Me
2-10: Music Is My Way Of Life (Album Version)
2-11: Release (The Tension) (Disco Version)
2-12: Over The Rainbow
2-13: Come What May
2-14: Love Has Finally Come
: Bonus Track
2-15: Mean Ol’ Man’s World
Tracks 1-13, 2-11 & 2-15 Previously unreleased.
Mastered at Battery Mastering Studios, New York
Digital editing at Battery Studios, New York
Tape transfers, [url=http://www.discogs.com/label/1210459]Gamble-Huff Recording Studios[/url], Philadelphia, PA
Inside booklet (B&W from left): Photo provided Courtesy of [a5266767], Sony BMG Archives, Ken the Photographer (photo provided Courtesy of Pattonium, Inc.).
Chart positions courtesy of [a849249] & [url=http://www.discogs.com/label/1772611]Billboard Publications[/url]
Track Notes:
1-1, 1-2 1983 Assorted Music, Inc. d/b/a Philadelphia International Records.
1-3 Recorded at Convention Hall, Washington, D.C. 1983 Assorted Music, Inc. d/b/a Philadelphia International Records.
1-4 1982 Elektra Entertainment Group Produced Under License From Atlantic Recording Corp.
1-5, 2-12 1981 Assorted Music, Inc. d/b/a Philadelphia International Records.
1-6 1984 Geffen Records Courtesy of Geffen Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises.
1-7 1986 Geffen Records Courtesy of Geffen Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises.
1-8 Contains a sample of “Love And Happiness” written by Al Green & Mabon Hodges. 1997 Geffen Records Courtesy of Geffen Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises.
1-9 1995 Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
1-10 1991 Geffen Records Courtesy of Geffen Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises.
1-11 1963 Timeless Entertainment Corp.
1-12 Originally released 1971 Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
1-13 1973 Sony BMG Music Entertainment (previously unreleased)
1-14 Recorded “live” at The Record Plant, Los Angeles. 1972 Warner Bros. Records Inc. Produced Under License from Warner Bros. Records Inc.
1-15 1962 Timeless Entertainment Corp.
2-1 to 2-3 1974 Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
2-4 1973 Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
2-5 1975 Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
2-6 1976 Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
2-7, 2-8 1977 Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
2-9, 2-10, 2-13 1979 Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
2-11 1980, 2008 Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
2-14 1980 Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
2-15 2008 Assorted Music, Inc. d/b/a Philadelphia International Records.
“A friend” is credited for electric piano on Pressure Cookin’ (tracks 1-13 and 2-4).
