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Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago

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{{Infobox album

| name = Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago

| type = greatest

| artist = Carole King

| cover = Carole King Greatest Hits.jpg

| alt =

| released = March 1978
May 25, 1999 (re-release)

| recorded = 1971–1978

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Pop

| length =

| label = Ode/Epic/CBS

| producer = Lou Adler

| prev_title = Welcome Home

| prev_year = 1978

| next_title = Touch the Sky

| next_year = 1979

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r10894|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev2Score = B+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: K|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=K&bk=70|accessdate=February 28, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}

}}

Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago is the first official compilation album by Carole King. It was released in 1978 and features twelve songs that had previously appeared on her six studio albums for Ode Records released between 1971 and 1976. The album was re-released on CD/Cassette in 1999 with two additional tracks.

Background

Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago is Carole King's first compilation album.{{cite web|url=http://www.caroleking.com/index.php?p=discography&subp=1&start=1 |title=CaroleKing.com |publisher=CaroleKing.com |date=1971-06-18 |accessdate=2012-02-21}} The original release features twelve songs which had previously appeared on her studio albums Tapestry, Music, Rhymes and Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy and Thoroughbred. Four of the songs had appeared on her second album Tapestry, one of the most successful albums in the history of popular music. "Brother, Brother", a song of her third album Music, is the only one chosen for the compilation LP that was never released as a single. The original release does not feature any songs from her debut album Writer or from her two most recent albums at the time of the initial release, Simple Things and Welcome Home.

The 1999 re-release of the album was digitally remastered and included the live versions of two more songs as performed during her Carnegie Hall concert in 1971: "Eventually," from her debut album Writer, and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," which was originally recorded by Aretha Franklin in 1967 and was covered by King for Tapestry.

Track listing

All tracks written by Carole King, except where noted.

=1978 release=

{{Track listing

| collapsed =

| headline = Side one

| title1 = Jazzman

| note1 =

| writer1 = King, David Palmer

| length1 = 3:48

| title2 = So Far Away

| writer2 =

| length2 = 3:58

| title3 = Sweet Seasons

| writer3 = King, Toni Stern

| length3 = 3:17

| title4 = Brother, Brother

| writer4 =

| length4 = 3:02

| title5 = Only Love Is Real

| writer5 =

| length5 = 3:35

| title6 = I Feel the Earth Move

| writer6 =

| length6 = 3:02

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side two

| title7 = It's Too Late

| writer7 = King, Stern

| length7 = 3:55

| title8 = Nightingale

| writer8 = King, Palmer

| length8 = 3:40

| title9 = Been to Canaan

| writer9 =

| length9 = 3:43

| title10 = Smackwater Jack

| writer10 = Gerry Goffin, King

| length10 = 3:45

| title11 = Corazón

| note11 =

| writer11 =

| length11 = 3:58

| title12 = Believe in Humanity

| writer12 =

| length12 = 3:23

| }}

=1999 re-release=

The 1999 re-release features the original album digitally remastered along with two additional live recordings from the album Carnegie Hall Concert: June 18, 1971.

{{Track listing

| headline = Bonus tracks

| title13 = Eventually

| note13 = live

| writer13 = Goffin, King

| length13 = 4:43

| title14 = (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

| note14 = live

| writer14 = Goffin, King, Jerry Wexler

| length14 = 4:12

}}

Charts

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=Weekly charts=

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Chart (1978)

!Position

align="left"|United States Billboard 200[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r10894/charts-awards|accessdate=2012-02-07|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic - Carole King > Her Greatest Hits > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums]

|47

Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=166/167}}

| style="text-align:center;"|73

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=Certifications=

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Personnel

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References

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External links

  • [http://www.caroleking.com/index.php?p=discography&subp=ckalbums_detail&id=188 The album at caroleking.com (1978 edition)]
  • [http://www.caroleking.com/index.php?p=discography&subp=ckalbums_detail&id=2588 The album at caroleking.com (1999 edition)]

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Category:1978 greatest hits albums

Category:Carole King albums

Category:Albums produced by Lou Adler

Category:Ode Records albums