- Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989
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Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989 Greatest hits album by George Harrison Released 23 October 1989 Recorded May 1976 - July 1989 Genre Rock Length 60:26 Label Dark Horse/Warner Bros. Producer George Harrison,
Russ Titelman,
Ray Cooper, Jeff Lynne
and Phil McDonaldGeorge Harrison chronology Cloud Nine
(1987)Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989
(1989)Live in Japan
(1992)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [1]
Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 is George Harrison's second official compilation album and was released in 1989. It follows up on both his successful comeback album Cloud Nine in 1987 and the Harrison-led Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 the following year, also a big seller.
The album covers Harrison's work released on his own Dark Horse Records label, ranging from 1976's Thirty Three & 1/3 to Cloud Nine and beyond. Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 failed to chart in the United Kingdom and reached #132 in the United States.
Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989, originally distributed through Warner Bros. Records, went out of print some years after its release, without being reissued by EMI when it acquired Harrison's entire Dark Horse catalogue.
Specially for this release, Harrison recorded two new songs—"Poor Little Girl" and "Cockamamie Business"—while also including his Lethal Weapon 2 soundtrack song "Cheer Down" for good measure. These three songs were not included as bonus tracks on the remastered edition of Cloud Nine, nor did they appear on the The Dark Horse Years 1976–1992 box set. There are currently two Harrison retrospectives in print, 1976's The Best of George Harrison and 2009's Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison, the latter of which includes "Cheer Down".
Contents
Track listing
No. Title Writer(s) Original album Length 1. "Poor Little Girl" George Harrison previously unreleased 4:33 2. "Blow Away" George Harrison George Harrison 3:59 3. "That's the Way It Goes" George Harrison Gone Troppo 3:34 4. "Cockamamie Business" George Harrison previously unreleased 5:15 5. "Wake Up My Love" George Harrison Gone Troppo 3:32 6. "Life Itself" George Harrison Somewhere in England 4:24 7. "Got My Mind Set on You" Rudy Clark Cloud Nine 3:52 8. "Crackerbox Palace" George Harrison Thirty Three & 1/3 3:56 9. "Cloud 9" George Harrison Cloud Nine 3:14 10. "Here Comes the Moon" (Single Edit) George Harrison George Harrison 4:09 11. "Gone Troppo" George Harrison Gone Troppo 4:23 12. "When We Was Fab" George Harrison, Jeff Lynne Cloud Nine 3:56 13. "Love Comes to Everyone" (Single Edit) George Harrison George Harrison 3:40 14. "All Those Years Ago" George Harrison Somewhere in England 3:44 15. "Cheer Down" George Harrison, Tom Petty Lethal Weapon 2 Soundtrack 4:08 Chart positions
Chart Peak
positionWeeks Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)[2] 51 2 The US Billboard 200[3] 132 6 Sales
Country Provider Sales Japan Oricon 6,820+[4] References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ ジョージ・ハリスン-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック "(Highest position and charting weeks)". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/9298/2/ ジョージ・ハリスン-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
- ^ "allmusic ((( The Best of Dark Horse (1976-1989) > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r9002/charts-awards. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
- ^ "George Harrison Japanese Album Chart trajectories". http://homepage1.nifty.com/tuty/after_beatles_george_albumchartaction_japan.htm/. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
George Harrison Studio albums Live albums The Concert for Bangladesh · Live in Japan · Concert for George
Soundtracks Experimental albums Compilations The Best of George Harrison · Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 · Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison
Box sets Related articles Discography · Songs · The Beatles · Traveling Wilburys · Harrisongs · Dark Horse Records · The Concert for Bangladesh · Pattie Boyd · Olivia Harrison · Dhani Harrison · Eric Clapton · Jeff Lynne · Kinfauns · Friar Park · Concert for George · HandMade Films · "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" · George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Categories:- 1989 greatest hits albums
- Albums produced by George Harrison
- Albums produced by Jeff Lynne
- Albums produced by Russ Titelman
- George Harrison compilation albums
- Dark Horse Records compilation albums
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