Detailed item info
| Album Features |
| UPC: |
793515743820 |
| Artist: |
Don McLean |
| Format: |
CD |
| Release Year: |
2001 |
| Record Label: |
Empire Music Group Inc. |
| Genre: |
Rock & Pop, Singer/Songwriter |
Track Listing
1. Crying
2. Crazy
3. Dream Lover
4. Castles in the Air
5. Words and Music
6. Prime Time
7. Believers
8. If You Can Dream
9. Since I Don't Have You
10. It Doesn't Matter Anymore
11. Your Cheating Heart
12. If You Could Read My Mind
13. Chain Lightning
14. Statue, The
15. Wonderful Night
16. Somewhere Over The Rainbow / Brother Can You Spare A Dime
17. Vincent - (live)
18. American Pie - (live)
| Details |
| Distributor: |
Empire Music Group Inc. |
| Recording Type: |
Studio |
| Recording Mode: |
Stereo |
| SPAR Code: |
n/a |
Album Notes
Includes liner notes by Colon Irwin.British reissue label Music Club's 18-song, 79-minute Don McLean compilation The Collection contains none of the original recordings from the singer/songwriter's popular heyday on United Artists Records from 1971 to 1976. Instead, it focuses on the second phase of his recording career, starting with 1977's Prime Time, originally released by Arista Records, and continuing through Chain Lightning, Believers, and the live album Dominion. Hence, it does not contain the hit versions of "American Pie" or "Vincent," but it does conclude with concert renditions of those songs. McLean still had some commercial clout in the second half of the `70s and the early `80s, and the hit versions of "Crying," "Since I Don't Have You," and "Castles in the Air" are included. So are the bonus tracks that were featured on the 1997 reissues of Prime Time, Chain Lightning, and Believers, McLean's original "If You Can Dream" and his covers of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" and Bobby Darin's "Dream Lover." There are also selections from the all-covers disc For the Memories. As such, the album constitutes a combination of McLean's work as a songwriter and as an interpretive singer. But it is a collection drawn only from a slice of his recorded output, and not the most popular slice at that. ~ William Ruhlmann
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$9.95
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