Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits Vol. 2

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Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits Vol. 2
Compilation album by Cat Stevens (now Yusuf)

Publication
(s)

1984

Label (s) Island Records / A&M Records

Format (s)

LP / CD

Genre (s)

pop

Title (number)

14th

running time

47:58 (LP / CD)

production

Paul Samwell-Smith, Cat Stevens, David Kershenbaum

Studio (s)

Various

chronology
Morning Has Broken
(1981) 		Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits Vol. 2 The Very Best of Cat Stevens
(1990-2003)

Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits Vol. 2 is the second compilation album by the singer and songwriter Cat Stevens (now Yusuf).

history

The second compilation album by Cat Stevens was released in December 1984 and carried the misleading suffix "Greatest Hits Vol. 2", although apart from The Hurt and (I Never Wanted) To Be a Star on the compilation album only B-sides of singles and album tracks It also includes Father and Son that has already been released on Greatest Hits . The album also includes the first album release of the B-side of the hit single Morning Has Broken , the track I Want to Live in a Wigwam .

Furthermore, the two previously unreleased tracks If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out and Don't Be Shy from the film Harold and Maude were included (in Germany the two tracks appeared in 1981 on the compilation album Morning has Broken ); but the commercial success did not materialize. The album could not place in the UK or Germany and reached number 165 in the US.

In September 1984, Yusuf Islam wrote an introduction to the album in which he explained his conversion to Islam .

The title of the album Footsteps in the Dark was derived from the text of the song Daytime and used modified for the compilation album Footsteps in the Light from 2006.

Track list

All songs (unless otherwise mentioned) were written by Cat Stevens.

  1. The Wind - 1:42
  2. (I Never Wanted) To Be a Star - 3:00
  3. Kathmandu - 3:20
  4. I Want to Live in a Wigwam - 3:23
  5. Trouble - 2:45
  6. On the Road to Find Out - 5:08
  7. If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out - 2:46
  8. Where Do the Children Play? - 3:52
  9. Daytime (Cat Stevens, Alun Davies) - 3:55
  10. Don't Be Shy - 2:50
  11. How Can I Tell You - 4:26
  12. Father and Son - 3:40
  13. The Hurt - 4:17
  14. Silent Sunlight - 2:59

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