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| B.B. King - Greatest Hits | 
 enlarge | Artist: B.b. King
Label: Mca
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 3759
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 11746
UPC: 008811174620
EAN: 0008811174620
ASIN: B00000ADG3
Release Date: August 25, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Every Day I Have the Blues - B.B. King, Memphis Slim | | • | Sweet Little Angel - B.B. King, King, Riley | | • | How Blue Can You Get? - B.B. King, Feather, Leonard | | • | Paying the Cost to Be the Boss - B.B. King, King, Riley | | • | Don't Answer the Door - B.B. King, Johnson, Mark [2] | | • | Why I Sing the Blues - B.B. King, Clark, Dave [Saxoph | | • | The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King, Darnell, Rick | | • | I Like to Live the Love - B.B. King, Crawford, Dave [1] | | • | Hummingbird - B.B. King, Russell, Leon | | • | To Know You Is to Love You - B.B. King, Wonder, Stevie | | • | Chains and Things - B.B. King, Clark, Dave [Saxoph | | • | Better Not Look Down - B.B. King, Sample, Joe | | • | Never Make a Move Too Soon - B.B. King, Hooper, Stix | | • | There Must Be a Better World Somewhere - B.B. King, Pomus, Doc | | • | Playin' with My Friends - B.B. King, Cray, Robert | | • | When Love Comes to Town - B.B. King, Bono |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 BB KING GREATEST HITS CD January 8, 2009
My husband requested this CD for Christmas as he is a huge BB King fan. He loves it! Any BB King afficianado will be very pleased with this CD.
Great blues July 18, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
From one of the most renonwned blues legends ever, this album of his greatest hits is awesome. If you love guitar, and blues then check this album out.
Influential................ December 9, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
B.B. King is the most influential blues guitarist of all time. B.B. is the real deal for so many reasons, and this greatest hits complination is the very best. The first two tracks are taken from Live At Regal one of the best live B.B. King recordings including Every Day I Have The Blues, and Sweet Little Angel. Some other known tracks for the early listner are The Thrill Is Gone, and Hummingbird those are both two tracks that really stand out. Their is a track called Playin' With My Friends (with robert cray), and When Love Comes To Town(with U2). I highly encourage anybody to try this bb. king's greatest hits complination. I also would highly recomend Live At The Regal!
No doubt this guy IS history himself! October 20, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Later in life I`ve discovered the power and energy of B.B.King, and amazed I`ve become his fan. This is a good sample of his style and tempo, and no matter he gets old, his quality remains intact.
 Too focused on mediocre latter-day material June 28, 2004
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
This certainly isn't everything you could ever want from the Beale Street Blues Boy, but it does give the first-time listener a pretty accurate idea about what to expect from B.B. King. For better or worse.
His excellent and highly influential 50s singles are missing, which is a shame, especially since some of those were actually sizable hits and this compilation has the audacity to call itself "Greatest Hits".
There are lot of great moments here anyway, like the swinging "Paying The Cost To Be The Boss", the epic "Why I Sing The Blues", and the slow burner "How Blue Can You Get" among them, and they sit next to two cuts from King's highly succesful "Live At The Regal" album, an excellent "Sweet Little Angel" and a hideous "Every Day I Have The Blues" which falls miles short of Memphis Slim's potent original ("Nobody Loves Me").
And there are just too many mediocrities on this album. B.B. King experimented with some sort of pop-blues fusion in the 70s and 80s, and the compilers have included "To Know You Is to Love You", "I Like To Live The Love" and "Hummingbird" from that unfortunate era. The duets with Robert Cray on "Playin' With My Friends" and rock group U2 on "When Love Comes To Town" are not much more uplifting, and too much of this material was recorded well after King's prime.
If you like B.B. King at his most pop-friendly, you will probably enjoy this compilation. If you like him at his grittiest, you will certainly be disappointed. May I suggest the new "Ultimate Collection" instead.
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