Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989
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| 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 McDonald |
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| 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 |
[edit] Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 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 |
[edit] Chart positions
| Chart | Peak position |
Weeks |
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| Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)[2] | 51 | 2 |
| The US Billboard 200[3] | 132 | 6 |
[edit] Sales
| Country | Provider | Sales |
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| Japan | Oricon | 6,820+[4] |
[edit] 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.
