Greatest Hits (1971 Fleetwood Mac album)
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| Compilation album by Fleetwood Mac | |||||
| Released | 1971 | ||||
| Recorded | 1967-1971 | ||||
| Genre | Blues, Rock Music | ||||
| Label | CBS | ||||
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This was the first greatest hits package for the rock band Fleetwood Mac, covering the period from the band's beginning in 1968 through 1971, in its original incarnation led by guitarist Peter Green. Part of the second British blues boom of the late 1960s, Fleetwood Mac enjoyed several hit singles in the United Kingdom, collated here for this album issued on CBS Records only in the U.K., but available in the United States as an import.
The single "Black Magic Woman" received exposure in the U.S. via a cover by the San Francisco group Santana, who placed their version in the Billboard Top 40.
Long out of print, it has been replaced on compact disc by the 2002 compilation The Best Of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac on the Sony International label, which now owns the Columbia/CBS catalogue.
A very similar release with the same title and same cover was released by Sony BMG in 1989, but consisted of the tracks from The Pious Bird of Good Omen plus "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "Love That Burns".
- The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) (Green)
- Oh Well, Pt. 1 (Green)
- Oh Well, Pt. 2 (Green)
- Shake Your Moneymaker (James)
- Need Your Love So Bad (John)
- Rattlesnake Shake (Green)
- Dragonfly (Kirwan)
- Black Magic Woman (Green)
- Albatross (Green)
- Man of the World (Green)
- Stop Messin' Around (Green/Adams)
- Love That Burns (Green/Adams)
- Peter Green - vocals, guitar, harmonica
- Jeremy Spencer - vocals, slide guitar
- Danny Kirwan - vocals, guitar
- John McVie - bass
- Mick Fleetwood - drums