The Very Best of Cat Stevens

chronology
The Very Best of Cat Stevens
Compilation album by Cat Stevens (now Yusuf)
Publication ; (s)	1990/2000
Label (s)	Island Records / Universal / A&M Records
Format (s)	LP / CD
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	18/24/20/24
running time	57:30 (1990), 68:51 (2000), 77:44 (1999/2003)
production	Mike Hurst, Paul Samwell-Smith, Cat Stevens, David Kershenbaum
Studio (s)	Various

The Very Best of Cat Stevens is the third compilation album by the singer and songwriter Cat Stevens .

history

The third compilation album by Cat Stevens was released in February 1990 and for the first time also included two titles that were released on the Deram Records label, making the compilation more comprehensive than the two previous greatest hits compilation albums (USA: no placement; GB: 4th place ; Germany: 8th place). Nine years later, Remember Cat Stevens - The Ultimate Collection (USA: no publication; GB: 31st place; Germany: 20th place), a compilation of 24 titles published in October 2003 under the name The Very Best of Cat Stevens (USA : no placement; GB: no placement; Germany: 6th place) was released with a DVD. The DVD contains previously unreleased video material.

In March 2000, under the same name with a very similar cover, a compilation of 20 titles was published in the USA, chronologically from 1967 to 1978 (USA: 58th place), which included an unpublished title ( I've Got a Thing About Seeing My Grandson Grow Old ) from the Mona Bone Jakon session; an alternate version of this title appeared on the 2001 Box On the Road to Find Out (Box Set) .

Playlists

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

Release version February 1990

Where Do the Children Play?
Wild World
Tuesday's Dead
Lady D'Arbanville
The first cut is the deepest
Oh very young
Rubylove
Morning Has Broken
Moonshadow
Matthew and Son
Father and Son
Can't Keep It In
Hard headed woman
(Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard
I love my dog
Another Saturday Night (Sam Cooke)
Sad Lisa
Peace Train

Release version March 2000 (USA)

Matthew and Son
The first cut is the deepest
Lady D'Arbanville
I've Got a Thing About Seeing My Grandson Grow Old (first published)
Wild World
Where Do the Children Play?
Hard headed woman
Father and Son
The wind
Morning Has Broken
Moonshadow
Peace Train
Sitting
Can't Keep It In
Foreigner Suite (excerpt)
Oh very young
Another Saturday Night (Sam Cooke)
Majik of Majiks
(Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard
Just another night

Release version October 2003 (Europe)

The track composition is identical to the CD Remember Cat Stevens - The Ultimate Collection from November 1999

Moonshadow
Father and Son
Morning Has Broken
Wild World
The first cut is the deepest
Lady D'Arbanville
Oh very young
Matthew and Son
Sitting
Hard headed woman
I love my dog
Ruby Love
Don't be shy
Can't Keep It In
Here comes my baby
Into white
(Remember the Days of The) Old School Yard
Where Do the Children Play?
How Can I Tell You
Another Saturday Night (Sam Cooke)
Sad Lisa
Just another night
Peace Train
If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

With bonus DVD:

Moonshadow (Cat Stevens in Concert 1971, BBC)
Wild World (Cat Stevens in Concert 1971, BBC)
Father and Son (Cat Stevens in Concert 1971, BBC)
Hard Headed Woman (Majikat Earth Tour 1976)
Where Do The Children Play? (Granada TV)
(Remember The Days Of The) Old School Yard (Promo Video)
Teaser and the Firecat (animation film)

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