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Elton John: Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II

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Label: DJM Records
Released: 1977.09.13
Time:
 49:51
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Gus Dudgeon
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.eltonjohn.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] The Bitch Is Back (Elton John/Bernie Taupin) - 3:42
[2] Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) - 5:58
[3] Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (Elton John/Bernie Taupin) - 3:43
[4] Don't Go Breaking My Heart [duet with Kiki Dee] (Ann Orson/Carte Blanche) - 4:23
[5] Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Elton John/Bernie Taupin) - 6:45
[6] Philadelphia Freedom (Elton John/Bernie Taupin) - 5:38
[7] Island Girl (Elton John/Bernie Taupin) - 3:45
[8] Grow Some Funk of Your Own (Elton John/Bernie Taupin/Davey Johnstone) - 4:45
[9] Levon (Elton John/Bernie Taupin) - 5:22
[10] Pinball Wizard (Pete Townshend) - 5:08

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Elton John - Harpsichord, Mellotron, Piano, Synthesizer, Vocals

James Newton Howard - Mellotron, Electric Piano, Synthesizer
Davey Johnstone - Banjo, Guitar, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Sitar, Slide Guitar, Background Vocals
B.J. Cole - Steel Guitar
Ray Cooper - Gong, Maracas, Tambourine, Vibraphone
Dusty Springfield - Vocals, Background Vocals
Kiki Dee - Vocals
Brian Dee - Harmonium
Dave Glover - Bass
Barry Morgan - Drums
Dee Murray - Bass, Background Vocals
Dr. Winston O'Boogie - Guitar
Brian Odgers - Bass
Nigel Olsson - Drums, Background Vocals
Kenny Passarelli - Bass
Lenny Pickett - Tenor Saxophone
Roger Pope - Drums
Caleb Quaye - Acoustic & Acoustic Guitar
Les Thatcher - Acoustic Guitar
Tower of Power Horn Section - Brass
Gene Page - Arranger

Sue - Background Vocals
Tony Burrows - Background Vocals
Roger Cook - Background Vocals
Lesley Duncan - Background Vocals
Clydie King - Background Vocals
Sherlie Matthews - Background Vocals
Barry St. John - Background Vocals
Jessie Mae Smith - Background Vocals
Terry Steele - Background Vocals
Liza Strike - Background Vocals
Sunny - Background Vocals

Gus Dudgeon - Producer
Bryan Forbes - Photography
Martyn Goddard - Photography
Gered Mankowitz - Photography
David Nutter - Photography
Michael Ross - Photography
David Costa - Art Direction, Design
George Rowbottom - Art Direction, Design

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Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 rounds up the handful of singles that weren't included on Elton John's first Greatest Hits collection ("Levon," "Tiny Dancer") and adds the highlights from Caribou, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, and Rock of the Westies ("The Bitch Is Back," "Someone Saved My Life Tonight," "Island Girl," "Grow Some Funk of Your Own," "I Feel Like a Bullet [In the Gun of Robert Ford]"), plus two non-LP hit singles ("Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Philadelphia Freedom") and John's version of "Pinball Wizard," taken from the soundtrack to Tommy. In short, it's an excellent continuation of the first collection, and taken together, they function as an ideal singles retrospective of the most successful singles artist of the early '70s.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Elton John's second volume of hits covers the incredibly fertile hit-making period from late 1974 to early 1976, with a step or two outside that era. Some of his very greatest pop creations are here: "Philadelphia Freedom," "The Bitch Is Back," the giddy John Lennon-abetted cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Levon." If you love him, no doubt many of these songs are among the reasons.

Rickey Wright - Amazon.com



Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II is a compilation album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1977. The original 1977 US version features one song from 1971 that wasn't on the first greatest hits album, two songs from 1974 that weren't on the first greatest hits volume. It also features several hit songs from 1975 and two hit singles from Elton's last year of performing in 1976.

There are several versions of the album. There were two original versions, one in the United States and Canada and another for Great Britain and the rest of the world, both released in 1977. The British version, released on DJM Records, included "Bennie and the Jets", a song that had appeared on the 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road but had only recently been released as a single (1976) in Elton John's home country. In North America, where the album was released by MCA Records, this song had already appeared on the first volume of Greatest Hits. It was replaced with "Levon", an even older song (from 1971's Madman Across the Water album) that had not yet been collected.

The album also contained two songs that would later be replaced, "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" both from 1976. These were the newest songs on the collection, and the only two not owned by DJM/This Record Company. They had been released on Elton John's own label named The Rocket Record Company and were owned by his own royalty collection company, Sackville Productions. They appeared on this DJM album by mutual agreement. In North America, all his records were released by MCA (the singles from 1976 as well as the Blue Moves album also carried the Rocket logo), so, at that time, no agreement was necessary.

The original album contained a booklet containing lyrics to the songs (even to the covers of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Pinball Wizard"), with illustrations or performance photos for each song.

In 1992, a new version was released worldwide. Elton John had moved to Polygram Records, who got the rights to all of his DJM recordings (pre-1976.) MCA now controlled his post-DJM recordings, including his later work on Geffen Records which had been taken over by MCA. Greatest Hits Volume III was deleted and replaced with Greatest Hits: 1976–1986, which also contained "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word" and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" from the original version of Greatest Hits – Volume 2. On the new edition, those two songs were replaced with two singles not on the original version, 1971's "Tiny Dancer" and 1975's "I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)." Meanwhile, since the current edition of Greatest Hits Volume One now included "Bennie and the Jets" worldwide, Volume 2 now included "Levon" worldwide.

In the US, it was certified gold in September 1977, platinum in November 1977, 3x platinum in March 1993, 4x platinum in September 1995,and 5x platinum in August 1998 by the RIAA.

All of these versions contain "The Bitch Is Back", "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", "Philadelphia Freedom", "Island Girl", "Grow Some Funk of Your Own" and John's covers of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Pinball Wizard".

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