BEST OF THE STRAWBS, 1978
Release date: Sep 1978
In 1978, three years after parting company with them, A&M went back to their archives for a creditable 2LP "best of" collection for the UK and the US (Canada had beat them to it with the epic-oriented Classic Strawbs 2LP set). The cover was interesting - a hand reaching out of a pile of strawberries, clutching a mandolin (not an instrument heavily featured in the Strawbs' output). Oh well, the selection of tracks featured was a good one, including "Blue Angel" from Dave's solo album Two Weeks Last Summer, which deserved to be brought to a wider audience.
Track listing
- Hero And Heroine (Cousins)
- Tears And Pavan: Tears; Pavan (Cousins)/ (Hudson/Ford/Cousins)
- A Glimpse Of Heaven (Cousins)
- Round And Round (Cousins)
- New World (Cousins)
- Benedictus (Cousins)
- Shine On Silver Sun (Cousins)
- To Be Free (Cousins)
- Where Do You Go (When You Need A Hole To Crawl In) (Cousins)
- Autumn: Heroine's Theme; Deep Summer's Sleep; (Hold On To Me) The Winter Long (Hawken)/(Cousins)/(Cousins)
- Don't Try To Change Me (Lambert)
- Little Sleepy (Lambert)
- Part Of The Union (Hudson/Ford)
- Song Of A Sad Little Girl (Cousins)
- Down By The Sea (Cousins)
- Lay Down (Cousins)
- Heavy Disguise (Ford)
- Lemon Pie (Cousins)
- Blue Angel: Divided; Half Worlds Apart; At Rest (Cousins)
Sleeve Notes
To follow