The Best of The Band

The Best of The Band

Infobox Album
Name = The Best of The Band
Type = Compilation album
Artist = The Band


Released = July 15, 1976
Recorded = Early 1968 - Mid-1975
Genre = Rock
Length = 47:34
Label = Capitol
Producer = The Band, John Simon
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:17he4j270wal link]
Last album = "Northern Lights - Southern Cross" (1975)
This album = "The Best of The Band" (1976)
Next album = "Islands" (1977)

"The Best of The Band" was the first greatest hits package by Canadian-American rockers The Band. Featuring ten tracks taken from six of their first seven albums (not counting 1974's "Before the Flood" or 1975's "The Basement Tapes", both with Bob Dylan), it featured two tracks from the first, second, third and seventh albums, one each from the fourth and fifth, rounded out by the early 1975 single "Twilight".

No substitute for the albums themselves, as the group certainly were no singles act, for the uninitiated, it was still the best way to get into the group without purchasing a multi-disc anthology or all of the original LPs until the release of 2000's "Greatest Hits".

Track listing

#Up On Cripple Creek (from "The Band") (Robertson; - 4:34)
#The Shape I'm In (from "Stage Fright") (Robertson; – 4:00)
#The Weight (from "Music From Big Pink") (Robertson; – 4:38)
#It Makes No Difference (from "Northern Lights/Southern Cross") (Robertson; – 6:34)
#Life Is a Carnival (from "Cahoots") (Danko-Helm-Robertson; – 4:00)
#Twilight (from the 1975 single) (Robertson; – 3:17)
#Don't Do It (from "Rock of Ages") (Holland-Dozier-Holland; – 5:00)
#Tears Of Rage (from "Music From Big Pink") (Dylan-Manuel; – 5:23)
#Stage Fright (from "Stage Fright") (Robertson; – 3:43)
#Ophelia (from "Northern Lights/Southern Cross") (Robertson; – 3:32)
#The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (from "The Band") (Robertson; – 3:33)

The Band's version of the song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" was also featured as part of a promotional-only compilation album released by Capitol records entitled "The Greatest Music Ever Sold" (Capitol SPRO-8511/8512), which was distributed to record stores during the 1976 Holiday season as part of Capitol's "Greatest Music Ever Sold" campaign which promoted 15 "Best Of" albums issued by the record label.

Group Members and Other Participants

*Rick Danko - bass, violin and vocals
*Levon Helm - drums, tambourine and vocals
*Garth Hudson - organ, piano, clavinet, Melodica, synthesizers and wind instruments
*Richard Manuel - piano, clavinet, organ, harmonica and vocals
*Robbie Robertson - guitars
*John Simon - tenor saxophone on "Tears Of Rage"
*Allen Toussaint - brass arrangements on "Life Is A Carnival"
*The Band - producers (tracks 1, 3-6, 8-9)
*John Simon - producer (tracks 2, 7, 10-11)
*See individual albums for engineering credits


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