Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989

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Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989
Compilation 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 McDonald
Professional reviews
George Harrison chronology
Cloud Nine
(1987)		 Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989
(1989)		 Live in Japan
(1992)

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 UK and reached #132 in the US.

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 songs were not included as bonus tracks in the remastered edition of Cloud Nine, nor did they appear in the Dark Horse Years box set, so this is the only release in which two of these three songs can be found, despite the fact that it is out of print. 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

[edit] Track listing

All songs by George Harrison, except where noted.

  1. "Poor Little Girl" – 4:33
  2. "Blow Away" – 3:59
  3. "That's The Way It Goes" – 3:34
  4. "Cockamamie Business" – 5:15
    • Tracks 1 & 4 are exclusive new recordings for this album
  5. "Wake Up My Love" – 3:32
  6. "Life Itself" – 4:24
  7. "Got My Mind Set On You" (Rudy Clark) – 3:51
  8. "Crackerbox Palace" – 3:56
  9. "Cloud 9" – 3:14
  10. "Here Comes The Moon" – 4:09
  11. "Gone Troppo" – 4:23
    • Appears only on the CD versions of this album
  12. "When We Was Fab" (George Harrison/Jeff Lynne) – 3:56
  13. "Love Comes To Everyone" – 3:40
  14. "All Those Years Ago" – 3:44
  15. "Cheer Down" (George Harrison/Tom Petty) – 4:08

[edit] Chart positions

Chart Peak
position		 Weeks
Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)[1] 51 2
The U.S. Billboard 200[2] 132 6

[edit] Sales

Country Provider Sales
Japan Oricon 6,820+[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ 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 2009-09-13. 
  2. ^ "allmusic ((( The Best of Dark Horse (1976-1989) > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hxkqikk6bbf9~T3. Retrieved 2009-09-13. 
  3. ^ "George Harrison Japanese Album Chart trajectories". http://homepage1.nifty.com/tuty/after_beatles_george_albumchartaction_japan.htm/. Retrieved 2008-07-01. 
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