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Greatest Hits (Tom Petty album)

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Recorded
  
1976–1993

Greatest Hits (1993)
  
Wildflowers (1994)

Label
  
MCA Records

Length
  
65:17

Release date
  
16 November 1993

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Released
  
November 16, 1993 (1993-11-16)

Producer
  
Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Denny Cordell, Jimmy Iovine, Jeff Lynne, Rick Rubin, Noah Shark, David A. Stewart

Artists
  
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Sheep on Drugs, Mefisto

Genres
  
Rock music, Rock and roll, Heartland rock

Similar
  
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers albums, Rock music albums

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Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1993. It is Petty's best-selling album to date and was certified 12x Platinum by the RIAA on April 28, 2015. The single "Mary Jane's Last Dance" became one of Petty's most popular songs, reaching #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The other new song on the album is a cover of the Thunderclap Newman hit "Something in the Air". The album contains no songs from 1987's Let Me Up (I've Had Enough). However, three songs from 1989's Full Moon Fever were included; despite the album's technical status as a Tom Petty solo album, it contained contributions from several members from the Heartbreakers, thus legitimizing its inclusion on this compilation. As of September 2011, Greatest Hits had sold 7,464,000 copies in the United States, making it Tom Petty's best-selling album.

Contents

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Track listing

  1. "American Girl" (Tom Petty)  – 3:35
  2. Originally released on the album Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 1976
  3. "Breakdown" (Petty)  – 2:44
  4. Originally released on the album Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  5. "Listen to Her Heart" (Petty)  – 3:05
  6. Originally released on the album You're Gonna Get It!, 1978
  7. "I Need to Know" (Petty)  – 2:26
  8. Originally released on the album You're Gonna Get It!
  9. "Refugee" (Petty, Mike Campbell)  – 3:25
  10. Originally released on the album Damn the Torpedoes, 1979
  11. "Don't Do Me Like That" (Petty)  – 2:44
  12. Originally released on the album Damn the Torpedoes
  13. "Even the Losers" (Edited version) (Petty)  – 3:35
  14. Originally released on the album Damn the Torpedoes
  15. "Here Comes My Girl" (Petty, Campbell)  – 4:27
  16. Originally released on the album Damn the Torpedoes
  17. "The Waiting" (Petty)  – 4:01
  18. Originally released on the album Hard Promises, 1981
  19. "You Got Lucky" (Petty, Campbell)  – 3:38
  20. Originally released on the album Long After Dark, 1982
  21. "Don't Come Around Here No More" (Petty, David A. Stewart)  – 5:07
  22. Originally released on the album Southern Accents, 1985
  23. "I Won't Back Down" (Petty, Jeff Lynne)  – 2:59
  24. Originally released on the album Full Moon Fever, 1989
  25. "Runnin' Down a Dream" (Petty, Lynne, Campbell)  – 4:25
  26. Originally released on the album Full Moon Fever
  27. "Free Fallin'" (Petty, Lynne)  – 4:18
  28. Originally released on the album Full Moon Fever
  29. "Learning to Fly" (Petty, Lynne)  – 4:05
  30. Originally released on the album Into the Great Wide Open, 1991
  31. "Into the Great Wide Open" (Petty, Lynne)  – 3:45
  32. Originally released on the album Into the Great Wide Open
  33. "Mary Jane's Last Dance" (Petty)  – 4:33
  34. First release, 1993
  35. "Something in the Air" (Speedy Keen)  – 3:17
  36. Thunderclap Newman cover/First release

The U.K. release also includes the track "Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll," originally from the album Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, as track 3, with all subsequent tracks in the same order. The 2008 reissue has the same track listing as the American release.

A remastered version was released on May 20, 2008, replacing "Something in the Air" with "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," Petty's duet with Stevie Nicks from her 1981 album Bella Donna. The album photos replaced the "Wildflowers" and "Into the Great Wide Open" session photos with out-takes from the You're Gonna Get It! album cover. The original album is available for download on iTunes. It was also reissued on March 9, 2010 reverting to the original 1993 track listing.

Personnel

The Heartbreakers
  • Tom Petty – vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica, percussion
  • Mike Campbell – guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, accordion
  • Benmont Tench – keyboards, piano, backing vocals
  • Ron Blair – bass guitar on tracks 1-7
  • Howie Epstein – bass guitar, backing vocals on 10-12 and 15-18
  • Stan Lynch – drums, percussion, backing vocals on tracks 1-11 and 15-18
  • Alan "Bugs" Weidel – "wild dog" piano on track 11, roadie for all sessions
  • Additional musicians

    Credited

  • Jeff Lynne – bass guitar, guitar, guitar synthesizer, piano, keyboards, backing vocals on tracks 12-16
  • George Harrison – acoustic guitar, backing vocals on track 12
  • David A. Stewart – sitar, keyboards, backing vocals on track 11
  • Uncredited

  • Phil Seymour - backing vocals on tracks 1-2
  • Jeff Jourard – guitar on track 2
  • Jim Keltner – percussion on track 5
  • Phil Jones – percussion on tracks 6–14, drums on tracks 12-14
  • Chris Trujillo – percussion on tracks 17-18
  • Dean Garcia – intro bass guitar on track 11
  • Daniel Rothmuller – cello on track 11
  • Sharon Celani, Marilyn Martin, Stephanie Sprull – backing vocals on track 11
  • Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar on "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (2008 release)
  • Stevie Nicks – co-lead vocal on "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (2008 release)
  • Songs

    1American Girl3:32
    2Breakdown2:43
    3Listen to Her Heart3:03

    References

    Greatest Hits (Tom Petty album) Wikipedia