Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989

Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989
Greatest hits album by George Harrison
Released	23 October 1989
Recorded	May 1976 - July 1989
Genre	Rock
Length	60:26
Label	Dark Horse/Warner Bros.
Producer	George Harrison, Russ Titelman, Ray Cooper, Jeff Lynne and Phil McDonald
George Harrison chronology
Cloud Nine (1987) Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989 (1989) Live in Japan (1992)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 is George Harrison's second official compilation album and was released in 1989. It follows up on both his successful comeback album Cloud Nine in 1987 and the Harrison-led Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 the following year, also a big seller.

The album covers Harrison's work released on his own Dark Horse Records label, ranging from 1976's Thirty Three & 1/3 to Cloud Nine and beyond. Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 failed to chart in the United Kingdom and reached #132 in the United States.

Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989, originally distributed through Warner Bros. Records, went out of print some years after its release, without being reissued by EMI when it acquired Harrison's entire Dark Horse catalogue.

Specially for this release, Harrison recorded two new songs—"Poor Little Girl" and "Cockamamie Business"—while also including his Lethal Weapon 2 soundtrack song "Cheer Down" for good measure. These three songs were not included as bonus tracks on the remastered edition of Cloud Nine, nor did they appear on the The Dark Horse Years 1976–1992 box set. There are currently two Harrison retrospectives in print, 1976's The Best of George Harrison and 2009's Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison, the latter of which includes "Cheer Down".

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Poor Little Girl"	George Harrison	previously unreleased	4:33
2.	"Blow Away"	George Harrison	George Harrison	3:59
3.	"That's the Way It Goes"	George Harrison	Gone Troppo	3:34
4.	"Cockamamie Business"	George Harrison	previously unreleased	5:15
5.	"Wake Up My Love"	George Harrison	Gone Troppo	3:32
6.	"Life Itself"	George Harrison	Somewhere in England	4:24
7.	"Got My Mind Set on You"	Rudy Clark	Cloud Nine	3:52
8.	"Crackerbox Palace"	George Harrison	Thirty Three & 1/3	3:56
9.	"Cloud 9"	George Harrison	Cloud Nine	3:14
10.	"Here Comes the Moon" (Single Edit)	George Harrison	George Harrison	4:09
11.	"Gone Troppo"	George Harrison	Gone Troppo	4:23
12.	"When We Was Fab"	George Harrison, Jeff Lynne	Cloud Nine	3:56
13.	"Love Comes to Everyone" (Single Edit)	George Harrison	George Harrison	3:40
14.	"All Those Years Ago"	George Harrison	Somewhere in England	3:44
15.	"Cheer Down"	George Harrison, Tom Petty	Lethal Weapon 2 Soundtrack	4:08

Chart positions

Chart	Peak position	Weeks
Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)[2]	51	2
The US Billboard 200[3]	132	6

Sales

Country	Provider	Sales
Japan	Oricon	6,820+[4]

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ ジョージ・ハリスン-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック "(Highest position and charting weeks)". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/9298/2/ ジョージ・ハリスン-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック. Retrieved 13 September 2009. 
3. ^ "allmusic ((( The Best of Dark Horse (1976-1989) > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r9002/charts-awards. Retrieved 13 September 2009. 
4. ^ "George Harrison Japanese Album Chart trajectories". http://homepage1.nifty.com/tuty/after_beatles_george_albumchartaction_japan.htm/. Retrieved 1 July 2008.