Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!

Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!
Compilation album by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Released July 1976
Recorded 1972-75
Sigma Sound Studios
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Genre R&B
Length 43:13
Label Philadelphia International
PZ 34232
Producer Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Harold Melvin
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes chronology
Wake Up Everybody
(1975)		 Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!
(1976)		 Reaching for the World
(1977)

Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits! is a compilation album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in July 1976. It includes all of their biggest hits up to that point, such as "If You Don't Know Me by Now", "The Love I Lost", Bad Luck", and "Wake Up Everybody".

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau (A-) [2]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Gamble and Huff, except where noted. 

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "The Love I Lost"   6:24
2. "Bad Luck" (John Whitehead, Gene McFadden, Victor Carstarphen) 6:29
3. "If You Don't Know Me by Now"   3:27
4. "Be for Real" (Huff, Cary Gilbert, Gamble) 3:45
Side two
No. Title Length
5. "Wake Up Everybody" (Whitehead, McFadden, Carstarphen) 7:30
6. "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" (featuring Sharon Paige) 3:45
7. "Where Are All My Friends" (Whitehead, McFadden, Carstarphen) 3:22
8. "I Miss You"   8:31

Charts

Album

Year Album Chart positions[3]
US US
R&B
1976 Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits! 51 23

References

  1. ^ Cook, Stephen. Collectors' Item review at Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Collectors' Item review". Robert Christgau. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=1504. Retrieved 2011-09-21. 
  3. ^ "US Albums Charts > Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4891/charts-awards/billboard-albums. Retrieved 2011-09-21. 

External links

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Harold Melvin · Bernard Williams · Roosevelt Brodie · Jesse Gillis, Jr. · Franklin Peaker · John Atkins · Teddy Pendergrass · Lawrence Brown · Bernard Wilson · Lloyd Parks · Jerry Cummings · Sharon Paige · David Ebo · Dwight Johnson · William Spratelly · Gil Saunders
Studio albums
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes · Black & Blue · To Be True · Wake Up Everybody · Reaching for the World · Now Is the Time · The Blue Album · All Things Happen in Time · Talk It Up (Tell Everybody)
Compilation albums
Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits! · Greatest Hits · If You Don't Know Me by Now: The Best of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes · Blue Notes & Ballads · Super Hits · The Ultimate Blue Notes · The Essential Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes · Playlist: The Very Best of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
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