Playlist: The Very Best of Rick Springfield

Playlist: The Very Best Of Rick Springfield is a compilation album by Rick Springfield, released by RCA Records in 2008. Springfield began his recording career in the late-1960s and he had some success in the United States in the 1970s with his album Beginnings and the single "Speak to the Sky" in 1972. He continued to record and release new music for the rest of the decade; yet, his musical career did not take off again until 1981 with the release of his first RCA album Working Class Dog. The single "Jessie's Girl" from that album gave Springfield his first number one single in the U.S. and he also won a Grammy Award for that song.

Contents

• Reception
• Track listing
• Songs
• References

Rick's success continued throughout the 1980s with albums such as Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (1982) that contained the singles "Don't Talk to Strangers" and "What Kind of Fool Am I", and 1983's Living in Oz with the hits "Affair of the Heart" and "Human Touch". 1984 saw Rick Springfield star in the film Hard to Hold and the accompanying soundtrack album included the songs "Love Somebody" and "Don't Walk Away". In the mid-1980s, Rick stated that he "started dealing with serious spiritual issues" and he began to write more about them in his music. His 1985 release Tao with the singles "State of the Heart" and "Celebrate Youth" saw Rick moving in a more mature and spiritual direction. His 1988 album Rock of Life would be his last album of the new material in the 1980s.

This compilation contains the hit singles Rick Springfield released from 1981 through 1988. That period included some of Rick's most successful years on the charts.