Description
Offered for sale is an original U.S. promotional copy of Greatest Hits Live by Carly Simon.
About this copy: This copy of Greatest Hits Live is a 1988 U.S. pressing on the Arista label.
The cover is VG++ with no wear, but with a bend in the upper right hand corner. There is a hype sticker attached to the front cover and a promotional stamp on the back.
The custom inner sleeve is M- with no splits.
The disc, pressed on translucent virgin vinyl, is M- and looks unplayed. Clean disc!
A nice copy of a scarce Carly Simon album, as few copies were pressed on vinyl in the U.S.
Background: Released in 1988, Greatest Hits Live was the first live album by Carly Simon.
The album reached #87 on the U.S. album chart.
Allmusic.com gave Greatest Hits Live a 4 star review:
Okay, here’s the problem: in 1975, Elektra released The Best of Carly Simon, which compiled her hits from 1971-1975. Simon then scored a couple more big hits for Elektra (“Nobody Does It Better,” “You Belong to Me”) before leaving the label in 1979, but not enough to justify another compilation. She had another hit on Warners (“Jesse”), where she spent the early ’80s, crapped out on Epic, for whom she made one album in 1985, and revived her career on Arista starting with the Top 40 hit “Coming Around Again” in 1986. That means her catalog contained one obsolete best-of, while her other hits were strewn across several labels. The solution? A live album, of course. Except that Simon had developed stage fright. Nevertheless, she was persuaded to do one show at her Martha’s Vineyard summer home, which was filmed for the HBO special and home video Carly in Concert: Coming Around Again and taped for this album. …The material was well performed, and though these of course were re-recordings, the album’s gold-selling commercial success confirmed that Simon’s fans were looking for a good career retrospective and willing to settle.
| Country of origin: | U.S. |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Arista |
| Catalog Number: |
AL 8526 |
| Year of Release: | 1988 |
| Format: | Stereo |
| Share: |       |
