The Very Best of Cat Stevens

by Cat Stevens

The Very Best of Cat Stevens cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 28 March 2000
  • Label: Island Records
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:08:28
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Collection of Cat Stevens's Island and A&M recordings, centred on the 'Tea for the Tillerman' and 'Teaser and the Firecat' period. It gathers his best-known songs of 1970 to 1978 in a single-disc programme.

Genres

Descriptors: compilation, acoustic, male-vocals, folk, melodic, folklore

Tracklist

  1. Matthew & Son (2:42)
  2. The First Cut Is The Deepest (3:00)
  3. Lady D'Arbanville (3:42)
  4. I've Got A Thing About Seeing My Grandson Grow Old (2:41)
  5. Wild World (3:20)
  6. Where Do The Children Play? (3:52)
  7. Hard Headed Woman (3:47)
  8. Father And Son (3:40)
  9. The Wind (1:42)
  10. Morning Has Broken (3:20)
  11. Moonshadow (2:50)
  12. Peace Train (4:11)
  13. Sitting (3:13)
  14. Can't Keep It In (3:01)
  15. Foreigner Suite (Excerpt) (7:19)
  16. Oh Very Young (2:35)
  17. Another Saturday Night (2:28)
  18. Majik Of Majiks (4:31)
  19. (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard (2:44)
  20. Just Another Night (3:50)

Credits

  • Bill Levenson - compilation producer, producer
  • Malu Halasa - liner notes [essay], liner notes
  • Ted Jensen - mastered by, mastering
  • David Redfern - photography by, photography
  • Gijsbert Hanekroot - photography by, photography
  • Michael Putland - photography by, photography
  • Wherefore Art? - design
  • Eleanor Farjeon - lyrics by
  • Sam Cooke - written-by
  • Alan Tew - directed by
  • Mike Hurst - producer
  • Phil Dennys - directed by
  • Paul Samwell-Smith - producer
  • Paul Hicks - mixed by
  • David Kershenbaum - producer [with]

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