“Sing It Again Rod” is the best 1st compilation by any artist in the LP era

it is a great album

 

one of my pet peeves when they use a different era photo.....Columbo did it with the Box sets for the 70's show and had the much older Peter Falk on the cover

 

Diana Ross & the Supremes - Greatest Hits (Motown 1967) - 2 LP’s, 15 singles (ten #1’s!), 5 B-sides. Holland-Dozier-Holland, James Jamerson’s bass and three pictures suitable for framing!

 

This is Sinatra!

Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady

 

"Greatest Hits" (1976) - James Taylor.

 

Elton John Greatest Hits
Elton John Greatest Hits Volume 2
Eagles Greatest Hits
Best of The Doobies
Best of BTO (So Far)
Sly And The Family Stone's Greatest Hits

 

How about 1968?


Tracklist
I Can't Let Go
Bus Stop
We're Through
Carrie Anne
Here I Go Again
King Midas In Reverse
Yes I Will
I'm Alive
Just One Look
On A Carousel
Stay
Look Through Any Window
Stop, Stop, Stop
Jennifer Eccles

 

It is a great compilation and is just as strong as his best albums

 

MBBB is probably the best single disc greatest hits.

 

seriously , as much as I love Rod

I think Rod himself would tell you, this is the winner .... Hit Kit - Wikipedia

 

Replace Lost Paraguayos and Pinball Wizard with Mama You've Been On My Mind and EPTAS and I agree.

 

I still love my first unbanded pressing on CD...still sounds great!

 

Many memories of albums I used to have. Though I think I found slipping the plastic sleeve of that Rod Stewart album back into the jacket a tad awkward

One slab of vintage vinyl I still have is "15 Everly Hits 15".

 

Any Stones compilation?

 

It may not have been totally coincidental that S&G Greatest Hits was released on the heels of their one-off reunion in June 1972. Two years after splitting up, the duo still had a huge amount of cache and for that reason, the contemporaneous album jacket photos “worked”.

 

Sing It Again has an excellent track listing, no question. I don’t own it myself. I can see it would be a fun listen, but it’s no substitute for those essential first four studio albums.

 

When I had these on 8 Track I listened to this more than SIAR

 

Sly & Family Stone "Greatest Hits"

 

Ok ...sticking to the first, one LP only rule, hits/comp by a single artist I’m going with these. Marvin Gays Super Hits was his third collection, not his first otherwise it would be on my list. Ha... watching the Green Bay vs 49er game and they just played Family Affair ... the only real hit missing from Sly’s GH package. The Rod collection is killer ... but it is lengthy as far as sound quality.

1. Sly and TFS
2. High Tide and Green Grass - Glimmers
3. Retrospective -BS
4. Byrds Greatest
5. Kinks (Reprise ‘66) Greatest Hits
6. Time Peace - Rascals
7. Meaty Beaty -Who
8. DC5 Greatest Hits
9. Doors -13
10. Hollies Greatest Hits on Imperial ‘67

Lots of others ... Bo Diddley, Roy Orbison, Elvis, The Beatles Hottest Hits looks awesome ... I basically couldn’t get out of the 60s without going completely nuts.

 

The LP era? Johnny Mathis Johnny's Greatest Hits, Rosemary Clooney Rosie's Greatest Hits, Como Golden Records, Elvis Golden Records.....

 

Have we found a date when the "LP era" began yet? I would think 1967. If so, I'd go with Bob's G/H as being the first since he was already much more than a singles artist anyways.

 

1948. IIRC Mathis was the first real hits collection

 

Sing it Again Rod was released in August of 1973. Sing it Again Rod is probably my favorite Rod
Stewart release but the premise of it being before pre-recorded cassette sales is false to begin with.

 

I have my old vinyl copy Sing It Again Rod from when it was first released, but haven't played it in decades. Great anthology, the pick of his first 4 (and 4 best) albums. But it had cross-fades, which is disqualifying IMO.

So I go with Dylan's Greatest Hits, or Hendrix's Smash Hits, or the Stones' Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass).