Phil Ochs - Greatest Hits Album

Tracklist

1	One Way Ticket Home	2:39
2	Boy In Ohio	3:45
3	Jim Dean Of Indiana	5:02
4	Chords Of Fame Arranged By – Earl Ball	3:32
5	Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & Me Arranged By – Bob Thompson	5:05
6	Basket In The Pool	3:40
7	No More Songs Arranged By – Kirby Johnson	4:33
8	Ten Cents A Coup	3:15
9	My Kingdom For A Car	2:50
10	Gas Station Woman Arranged By – Earl Ball	3:35

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
SP-4253	Phil Ochs	Greatest Hits ‎(LP)	A&M Records	SP-4253	US	1970
ED CD 201	Phil Ochs	Greatest Hits ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP)	Edsel Records	ED CD 201	UK	Unknown
8T-4253	Phil Ochs	Greatest Hits ‎(8-Trk)	A&M Records	8T-4253	US	1970
SP 4253, SP-4253	Phil Ochs	Greatest Hits ‎(LP, Album, RE)	A&M Records, A&M Records	SP 4253, SP-4253	Canada	Unknown
SPC-3735	Phil Ochs	Greatest Hits ‎(LP, Album, RE)	Pickwick	SPC-3735	Canada	1980

Credits

• Engineer – Don Landee, Douglas Botnick, Peter Pilafian
• Producer – Van Dyke Parks

Notes

Original Brown label. Terre Haute pressings are denoted by a 'T' in runouts

Barcodes

• Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): SP-4405
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): SP-4406
• Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched): A+M SP4405-7
• Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): B1 T
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched): A+M SP4406(RE-1)-7
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): B3 T

Companies

• Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute

Short intro

Greatest Hits was Phil Ochs' seventh LP and final studio album. Contrary to its title, it offered ten new tracks of material, mostly produced by Van Dyke Parks, and was released in 1970. Focusing more on country music than any other album in Ochs' canon, it featured an impressive number of musicians, including members of The Byrds and Elvis Presley's backing group alongside mainstays Lincoln Mayorga and Bob Rafkin. His lyrics were at their most self-referential and only one overtly political song. After witnessing the mayhem of the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, Phil Ochs wrote and recorded one of his finest albums, Rehearsals for Retirement, but that testament to what Ochs described as the death of the American left him with little desire to sing about political matters - and in time, little desire to write at all. Greatest Hits. Phil Ochs - Greatest Hits 1970. To favorites 1 Download album. Listen album. Phil Ochs. Group Compilation. Songs in album Phil Ochs - Greatest Hits 1970. Phil Ochs - One Way Ticket Home. Phil Ochs - Jim Dean Of Indiana. Phil Ochs - My Kingdom For A Car. Phil Ochs - Boy In Ohio. Phil Ochs - Gas Station Women. Phil Ochs - Chords Of Fame. Phil Ochs - Ten Cents A Coup. Phil Ochs - Bach, Beethoven,. Contrary to its title, it offered ten new tracks of material and was released in 1970. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue Hits. Released 1970. Greatest Hits Tracklist. One Way Ticket Home Lyrics. No More Songs Lyrics. About Greatest Hits. The title is a black joke that got blacker with time it is a studio album, and not a compilation. Phil never had any hits. Thats the joke. Greatest Hits is the work of a man on fire, but rather than dramatically burning in a column of righteous flame, this is a man slowly smouldering and blackening into a cinder. Band Name Phil Ochs. Album Name Greatest Hits. Type Compilation. Released date 1970. Other productions from Phil Ochs. On My Way 1963 Demo Session. Live at Newport. Play jigsaw puzzles for free Home. Phil Ochs - Greatest Hits, 1970. One Way Ticket Home, 02:40. Jim Dean of Indiana, 05:05. However Greatest Hits mostly only scrapes at politics, being more an album of resignation and nostalgia. It is also a poignant and haunting coda to Phil's career being the last studio album was to do before his suicide some years later. Most people view Ochs through the prism of his early protest music, compare him unfavorably with Dylan and don't like to talk about what happened to him later on. Well as much as I respect his early topical work, for me his most powerful music begins when he began examining his own troubled pysche, peaking with the album previous to this e. Greatest Hits 1970. Album by Phil Ochs. Chords of Fame. was covered in. Album 1970 10 Songs. It's his seventh and final studio album of new, original material, and it ranks among the best work he released. But when it was recorded in late 1969, mostly with producer Van Dyke Parks, Ochs was a broken man never to recover. His political will had been badly damaged by the violence and malfeasance of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago and the subsequent election of Richard Nixon