Old Time Greats
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Greatest hits album by Lynyrd Skynyrd | ||||
Released | 1997 | |||
Recorded | 1971–1977 | |||
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Length | 132:39 | |||
Label | Repertoire | |||
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Old Time Greats is a two-disc compilation album by American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd. Released in 1997, it documents the original 1970s run of the band before the 1977 Convair 240 crash that killed Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray.
The album is released by Repertoire Records out of Hamburg, Germany. It is only available in the United States as an import.
Track listing
The tracks are from 1971 to 1977. The first four tracks on CD 1 are early recordings from 1971–72 that were originally later released on Best of the Rest in 1982 (1990 on CD) and Skynyrd's First and... Last from 1978 respectively. Those songs were recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio for what was originally planned to be the band's shelved debut album, making (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) their official debut. The remaining tracks on the album are in chronological order starting with songs from (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) in 1973 and concludes with songs from Street Survivors in 1977.
Disc one
- "I've Been Your Fool" (Allen Collins, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) – 4:28
- "Comin' Home" (Collins, Van Zant) – 5:30
- "Down South Jukin'" (Rossington, Van Zant) – 2:14
- "White Dove" (Rickey Medlocke) – 2:58
- "I Ain't the One" (Rossington, Van Zant) – 3:54
- "Tuesday's Gone" (Collins, Van Zant) – 7:33
- "Gimme Three Steps" (Collins, Van Zant) – 4:30
- "Simple Man" (Rossington, Van Zant) – 5:57
- "Poison Whiskey" (Ed King, Van Zant) – 3:12
- "Free Bird" (Collins, Van Zant) – 9:11
- "Sweet Home Alabama" (King, Rossington, Van Zant) – 4:45
- "Don't Ask Me No Questions" (Rossington, Van Zant) – 3:26
- "Workin' for MCA" (King, Van Zant) – 4:49
- "Swamp Music" (King, Van Zant) – 3:33
- "The Needle and the Spoon" (Collins, Van Zant) – 3:52
Disc two
- "Call Me the Breeze" (J. J. Cale) – 5:08
- "Saturday Night Special" (King, Van Zant) – 5:09
- "Railroad Song" (King, Van Zant) – 4:15
- "I'm a Country Boy" (Collins, Van Zant) – 4:26
- "On the Hunt" (Collins, Van Zant) – 5:27
- "Whiskey Rock-a-Roller" (King, Billy Powell, Van Zant) – 4:20
- "Gimme Back My Bullets" (Rossington, Van Zant) – 3:29
- "(I Got The) Same Old Blues" (Cale) – 4:09
- "Double Trouble" (Collins, Van Zant) – 2:50
- "Searchin'" (Collins, Van Zant) – 3:18
- "Cry for the Bad Man" (Rossington, Collins, Van Zant) – 4:50
- "What's Your Name?" (Rossington, Van Zant) – 3:33
- "That Smell" (Collins, Van Zant) – 5:48
- "I Know a Little" (Steve Gaines) – 3:28
- "You Got That Right" (Gaines, Van Zant) – 3:47
- Disc 1, track 1 from Best of the Rest (1982)
- Disc 1, tracks 2–4 from Skynyrd's First and... Last (1978)
- Disc 1, tracks 5–10 from (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) (1973)
- Disc 1, tracks 11–15 and disc 2, track 1 from Second Helping (1974)
- Disc 2, tracks 2–6 from Nuthin' Fancy (1975)
- Disc 2, tracks 7–11 from Gimme Back My Bullets (1976)
- Disc 2, tracks 12–15 from Street Survivors (1977)
References
External links
- www.angelfire.com/tn/LSkynyrd/disco3.html
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- Rickey Medlocke
- Johnny Van Zant
- Michael Cartellone
- Mark Matejka
- Peter Keys
- Keith Christopher
- Ronnie Van Zant
- Allen Collins
- Gary Rossington
- Bob Burns
- Larry Junstrom
- Greg T. Walker
- Leon Wilkeson
- Billy Powell
- Ed King
- Artimus Pyle
- Steve Gaines
- Randall Hall
- Kurt Custer
- Mike Estes
- Owen Hale
- Hughie Thomasson
- Jeff McAllister
- Kenny Aronoff
- Ean Evans
- Robert Kearns
- Johnny Colt
- (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
- Second Helping
- Nuthin' Fancy
- Gimme Back My Bullets
- Street Survivors
- Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991
- The Last Rebel
- Endangered Species
- Twenty
- Edge of Forever
- Christmas Time Again
- Vicious Cycle
- God & Guns
- Last of a Dyin' Breed
- One More from the Road
- Southern by the Grace of God
- Lyve from Steel Town
- Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyve: The Vicious Cycle Tour
- Live from Freedom Hall
- Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour Lyve!
- Skynyrd's First and... Last
- Gold & Platinum
- Best of the Rest
- Legend
- Skynyrd's Innyrds
- Lynyrd Skynyrd (box set)
- A Retrospective
- What's Your Name
- Old Time Greats
- The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album
- 20th Century Masters: The Best of Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Solo Flytes
- All Time Greatest Hits
- Collectybles
- Then and Now
- Thyrty
- Then and Now Volume Two
- Greatest Hits
- Icon
- Freebird... The Movie
- Lyve from Steel Town
- Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyve: The Vicious Cycle Tour
- Live from Freedom Hall
- "Gimme Three Steps" / "Mr. Banker"
- "Don't Ask Me No Questions" / "Take Your Time"
- "Sweet Home Alabama"
- "Free Bird"
- "Saturday Night Special"
- "Double Trouble"
- "What's Your Name"
- "That Smell"
- "Truck Drivin' Man"
- "You Got That Right"
- "Preacher Man"
- "Red White & Blue"
- "Need All My Friends"
- "Tuesday's Gone"
- "Simple Man"
- Discography
- Members
- Skynyrd Frynds
- Plane crash
- Ronnie Van Zant Memorial Park
- Leonard Skinner
- "All Summer Long"
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