The Ultimate Singer-Songwriter Collection (2003)

About this title: When one thinks of the singer/songwriter style of popular music, one thinks inevitably of the defining artists of the early '70s: James Taylor, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, Jackson Browne, etc. None of these names appear on The Ultimate Singer-Songwriter Collection, which tends to call the claim made by that title into question. But in the wake of those top-drawer artists came a whole raft of second-echelon performers who took the singer/songwriter style into the pop singles charts during the '70s and beyond, and it is they who turn up here, acts like Seals & Crofts, Harry Chapin, ... read more

Tracks:

1. Summer Breeze [Crofts/Seals]
2. Sunshine (Go Away Today) [Edwards]
3. Year of the Cat [Stewart/Wood]
4. I Saw the Light [Rundgren]
5. Midnight Blue [Manchester/Sager]
6. Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues [OKeefe]
7. She's Gone [Hall/Oates]
8. Walking in Memphis [Cohn]
9. My Father [Collins]
10. Welcome Back [Sebastian]
11. Diamonds & Rust [Baez]
12. Taxi [Chapin]
13. Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) [Croce]
14. Thank You for Being a Friend [Gold]
15. That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be [Brackman/Simon]
16. Wildfire [Cansler/Murphey]
17. All by Myself [Carmen]
18. Alison [Costello]
19. On and On [Bishop]
20. Never Be the Same [Cross]
21. Sometimes When We Touch [Hill/Mann]
22. Ain't No Sunshine [Withers]
23. And When I Die [Nyro]
24. Mellow Yellow [Donovan]
25. Leader of the Band [Fogelberg]
26. Hello It's Me [Rundgren]
27. Chuck E.'s in Love [Jones]
28. Diamond Girl [Crofts/Seals]
29. I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near) [Leiber/Stoller/McDo]
30. Time in a Bottle [Croce]
31. Cat's in the Cradle [Chapin]
32. City of New Orleans [Goodman]
33. Sailing [Cross]
34. Brand New Key [Safka]
35. American Pie [McLean]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.