LINDA RONSTADT "GREATEST HITS Album" 1976 Vintage Asylum Orig 1st Press 7E-1092

Size

12"

Genre

Country, Country Rock, Easy listening

Speed

33 RPM

LINDA RONSTADT "GREATEST HITS Album" 1976 Vintage Asylum Orig 1st Press 7E-1092. This 1976 vintage Album is in excellent condition with some very light surface scuffs but plays very clean. Album Jacket is in excellent condition with original inner sleeve. Greatest Hits is Linda Ronstadt's first major compilation album, released at the end of 1976 for the holiday shopping season. It includes material from both her Capitol Records and Asylum Records output, and goes back to 1967 forThe Stone Poneys' hit "Different Drum."It remains the biggest-selling album of Ronstadt's career, being certified seven times Platinum (over 7 million US copies shipped) by the Recording Industry Association of America in America alone, with 1.87 million units consumed after 1991 when Sound Scan started tracking sales. It peaked at No. 6 on the main Billboard album chart and also reached No. 2 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart, where it remained for over three years. The album was criticized by the Rolling Stone Record Guide for being "premature," as Ronstadt continued to have record-breaking mainstream successes for many years following this release. By the time this collection came out, however, Ronstadt had already been recording hit records (as a solo artist and with the Stone Poneys) for a decade, and there were many examples of other artists releasing greatest hits albums much sooner, such as Elvis Presley. In terms of being released while the performer was still in the midst of their career, this collection is unusual for a major artist in that it compiled works from two unrelated labels thanks to, as the sleeve states, a "special arrangement" between Asylum and Capitol; this overlap mirrors the situation in which Ronstadt briefly alternated releasing albums between Capitol and Asylum in 1973-74 in order to fulfil her contract with Capitol.