Greatest Hits (Linda Ronstadt)

Infobox Album |
Name = Greatest Hits
Type = compilation
Artist = Linda Ronstadt


Released = late 1976
Recorded = 1967, 1970, 1973-1976
Genre = Rock, Country
Length = 37:33
Label = Asylum Records
Producer = various
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w9fuxqt5ldfe link]
*"Rolling Stone Record Guide" Rating|4|5 [1979]
Last album = "Hasten Down the Wind"
(1976)
This album = "Greatest Hits"
(1976)
Next album = "Simple Dreams"
(1977)

"Greatest Hits" was Linda Ronstadt's first major compilation album, released in late 1976 for the holiday shopping season. It included material from both her Capitol Records and Asylum Records output, and went back to 1967 for The Stone Poneys' "Different Drum".

It remains the biggest-selling album of Linda's entire career, being certified 7 times platinum (over 7 million copies sold) by the RIAA as of 2001, [http://www.riaa.com/gp/database/search_results.asp] in the US alone. It charted At No.6 on the Billboard 200 and spent over a year and a half on the album chart. However it was criticized by the "Rolling Stone Record Guide" for being "premature", as Ronstadt continued to have great pop successes with her next two albums after this one.

Track listing

ide one

#"You're No Good" (Clint Ballard Jr.) – 3:40
#"Silver Threads and Golden Needles" (J. Rhodes, D. Reynolds) – 2:20
#"Desperado" (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) – 3:30
#"Love is a Rose" (Neil Young) – 2:46
#"That'll Be the Day" (Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 2:32
#"Long, Long Time" (Gary White) – 4:21

ide two

#"Different Drum" (with The Stone Poneys) (Mike Nesmith) – 2:45
#"When Will I Be Loved" (Phil Everly) – 2:05
#"Love Has No Pride" (Eric Kaz, Libby Titus) – 4:10
#"Heat Wave" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) – 2:46
#"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" (Paul Anka) – 3:26
#"Tracks of My Tears" (Smokey Robinson, Marv Tarplin, Warren Moore) – 3:12

Personnel

ee also

* List of best-selling albums in the United States