The Very Best of Leo Sayer

The Very Best of Leo Sayer
Greatest hits album by Leo Sayer
Released 1979
Recorded Various Years
Genre Soft rock, disco
Label Chrysalis Records - CDL 1222
Producer Various
Leo Sayer chronology
Leo Sayer
(1978)		 The Very Best of Leo Sayer
(1979)		 Here
(1979)

The Very Best of Leo Sayer was a greatest hits compilation album released in 1979. His seventh album, it was in the #1 spot in the UK Albums Chart for 3 weeks,[1] and in Australia for 1 week. It is his only chart-topper in the UK Albums Chart.[1]

The album is split with the first side featuring his more recent work with producer Richard Perry and side two featuring his earlier work produced by Adam Faith with David Courtney or Russ Ballard.

Side one has seven of the eight UK singles released from 1976-8 (leaving out the none-charting "There Isn't Anything" and also the US only single "Easy to Love"). Side two features five of the six singles released from 1973-5 (with none-charting debut single "Why Is Everybody Going Home" not included). It also includes two album tracks from 1974's Just a Boy LP; "Train" (which was released as a single in 1979 to promote this album in Australia) and his version of the hit he wrote for Roger Daltrey, "Giving It All Away".

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "When I Need You"
  2. "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
  3. "Raining in My Heart"
  4. "How Much Love"
  5. "Dancing the Night Away"
  6. "Thunder in My Heart"
  7. "I Can't Stop Loving You (Though I Try)"

Side 2

  1. "One Man Band"
  2. "Giving It All Away"
  3. "Train"
  4. "Let It Be"
  5. "Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)"
  6. "Moonlighting"
  7. "The Show Must Go On"

[2]

Charts

Year Chart Position
1979 UK Albums Chart 1[3]
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart
Preceded by
Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 by Barbra Streisand		 UK number one album
28 April 1979 – 18 May 1979 (3 weeks) 		Succeeded by
Voulez Vous by Abba
Preceded by
Discovery by Electric Light Orchestra		 Australian Kent Music Report number-one album
6–12 August 1979 		Succeeded by
Get the Knack by The Knack

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[4] gold 25,000[4]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

  1. 1 2 Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 483. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  2. ↑ Allmusic.com album overview
  3. ↑ "Number 1 Albums – 1970s". The Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Leo Sayer" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
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