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Ringo Starr: Photograph - The Very Best of Ringo Starr

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Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2007
Time:
 68:04
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.ringostarr.com
Appears with: The Beatles
Purchase date: 2010.04.13
Price in €: 2,00





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[1] Photograph (Harrison/Starr) - 3:58
[2] It Don't Come Easy (Starr) - 3:01
[3] You're Sixteen [You're Beautiful and You're Mine] (Sherman/Sherman) - 2:49
[4] Back Off Boogaloo (Starr) - 3:19
[5] I'm the Greatest (Lennon) - 3:26
[6] Oh, My My (Poncia/Starr) - 4:15
[7] Only You [And You Alone] (Ram/Rand) - 3:24
[8] Beaucoups of Blues (Rabin) - 2:33
[9] Early 1970 (Starr) - 2:18
[10] Snookeroo (John/Taupin) - 3:24
[11] No-No Song (Axton/Jackson) - 2:31
[12] [It's All Down To] Goodnight Vienna (Lennon) - 3:02
[13] Hey Baby (Channel/Cobb) - 3:10
[14] A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll (Groszman) - 3:24
[15] Weight of the World (ODoherty/Velez) - 3:54
[16] King of Broken Hearts (Dudas/Grakal/Hudson/Starr) - 4:43
[17] Never Without You (Hudson/Nicholson/Starr) - 5:23
[18] Act Naturally (Morrison/Russell) - 3:00
[19] Wrack My Brain (Harrison) - 2:21
[20] Fading in and Fading Out (Burr/Hudson/Starr) - 3:58

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Ringo Starr - Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Drums, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Executive Producer, Commentary

Mark Hudson - Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Percussion, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Background Voclas, Producer, Mellotron
Michael Brecker - Tenor Saxophone
Randy Brecker - Trumpet
Gary Burr - Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Background Voclas
Jimmy Calvert - Acoustic Guitar, Guitar
Terry Christoffersen - Guitar
Eric Clapton - Guitar, Soloist
Ray Cooper - Percussion, Piano, Background Voclas, Vocoder
Jim Cox - Hammond Organ, Horn Arrangements, Wurlitzer
Steve Cropper - Electric Guitar
Doyle Curtsinger - Bass
Jesse Ed Davis - Guitar, Electric Guitar
Lew Del Gatto - Baritone Saxophone
Steve Dudas - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Chuck Finley - Horn
Herbie Flowers - Bass, Tuba
Peter Frampton - Guitar
Mark Goldenberg - Guitar
Gary Grant - Horn
Dan Higgins - Horn
James Newton Howard - Synthesizer
James "Hutch" Hutchinson - Bass
John Jarvis - Keyboards
Elton John - Piano
Jim Keltner - Drums
Bobby Keys - Horn, Tenor Saxophone
Al Kooper - Piano, Electric Guitar
Danny Kortchmar - Guitar
Trevor Lawrence - Horn
John Lennon - Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Inspiration, Vocal Harmony
Bill Lloyd - Guitar
Mad Mauries - Vocals, Handclapping
Steve Madaio - Horn
Paul McCartney - Soloist, Mouth Sax
Jim McCarty - Drums
Mark Mirando - Electric Guitar
Gary Nicholson - 12 String Acoustic Guitar
Buck Owens - Vocals
Vini Poncia - Acoustic Guitar, Guitar, Background Voclas, Vocal Harmony
Cooker Lo Presti - Bass
Billy Preston - Organ, Piano, Electric Piano, Clavinet
Mac Rebennack - Keyboards
Robbie Robertson - Guitar
Alan Rubin - Trumpet
Tom Scott - Saxophone, Horn Arrangements, Soloist
Jim Shaw - Piano, Producer
Stephen Stills - Guitar
Benmont Tench - Keyboards
Derrek Van Eaton - Percussion
Lon VanEaton - Guitar, Percussion, Horn
Klaus Voormann - Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Dobro, Saxophone
Gary Wright - Piano, Keyboards
Alan Young - Trumpet
Reggie Young - Guitar

Joe Bean - Background Voclas
Madeline Bell - Background Voclas
The Blackberries - Background Voclas
Merry Clayton - Background Voclas
Lesley Duncan - Background Voclas
Pete Ham - Background Voclas
The Jordanaires - Background Voclas
Clydie King - Background Voclas
Linda Lawrence - Background Voclas
Melissa Manchester - Background Voclas
Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - Background Voclas
Masst Alberts - Background Voclas
Harry Nilsson - Background Voclas
Martha Reeves - Background Voclas
Andy Sturmer - Background Voclas

Jerry Crutchfield - Producer
Jeff Lynne - Producer
Pete Drake - Producer
Arif Mardin - Producer
Richard Perry - Producer
Don Was - Producer
Mike Ragogna - Compilation Producer
Rob Christie - Compilation Producer
Steve Rooke - Mastering
Jack Nitzsche - Arranger, Orchestral Arrangements
Graham Preskett - String Arrangements
Jim Horn - Horn Arrangements
Quincy Jones - Author
Paul Moore - Design
Neal Preston - Photography
Gene Trindl - Photography
Tom Recchion - Art Direction
David Wild - Interviewer
 

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2007 CD Capitol/Apple/EMI 93827
2007 CD Capitol Records 049322



Hard as it is to believe but there has not been a proper Ringo Starr hits collection since the first, 1975's Blast from Your Past — that's not counting 1989's Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2, which was designed as a companion to that earlier set — until 2007's Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr. Blast from Your Past was released just five years after his debut, Sentimental Journey, but it ignored that collection of pop standards, along with much of its country cousin Beaucoups of Blues, winding up as a collection of highlights of 1973's Ringo and 1974's Goodnight Vienna, with a few non-LP hit singles rounded up within the LP's tight ten-track, 30-minute span. Ringo kept recording after Blast, working his way through several labels and ill-advised phases before settling into a nice, easy groove with 1993's Time Takes Time, but he stopped having hits not long after 1975, after the Elton John/Bernie Taupin "Snookeroo" climbed all the way to number three, capping off a remarkable streak of seven Top Ten singles. After that, the crash was fast: "Oo-Wee" was pulled off of Vienna and stalled at 31, then there was just one more hit — "A Dose of Rock & Roll," peaking at 26 in 1976 — before a five-year wait until the George Harrison-written "Wrack My Brain" limped to 38 in 1981 before Ringo disappeared from the charts. His '90s comeback may have never dented Billboard, but it is represented on the 20-track Photograph, which also contains all the aforementioned singles (apart from "Oo-Wee," no great loss) and the entirety of Blast from Your Past, albeit presented in a different running order. This doesn't just make for a compilation that's longer than the 1975 set, it makes for one that's better, since it adds the terrific "(It's All Down to) Good Night Vienna" to the mix, along with the amiable 1976 cover of Bruce Channel's "Hey Baby," a duet with Buck Owens on "Act Naturally" from 1989, and a well-chosen selection from each of Time Takes Time, 1998's Vertical Man, 2003's Ringorama, and 2005's Choose Love. This may not hit all the great stuff from the early '70s — after all, the whole of Ringo is exceptionally strong — but it does cut out all the real embarrassing stuff from the late '70s and just concentrates on the good latter-day material that holds its own with the best of his '70s hits. Far from merely being songs that are good when graded on a curve, these hits have aged really well, especially his originals: "It Don't Come Easy," the thundering glam rocker "Back Off Boogaloo," the cheerfully post-Beatles autobiography of "Early 1970" and "Photograph," his gorgeous collaboration with George, which lends this comp its title and ranks as among the very best post-Beatles songs by any of the Fab Four. That tune proves Ringo could deliver music every bit as memorable as his colleagues and much of this excellent, long overdue compilation is at a similar high standard.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide
 

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