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Their 16 Greatest Hits

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Recorded
  
1965–1971

Release date
  
1971

Genre
  
Pop music

Artist
  
The Grass Roots

Label
  
Dunhill Records

Producers
  
Steve Barri, P. F. Sloan

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Released
  
September 1971 (1971-09)

Their 16 Greatest Hits (September 1971)
  
The ABC Collection (1976)

Similar
  
Golden Grass, More Golden Grass, Lovin' Things, Leaving It All Behind, Where Were You When I N

The grass roots sooner or later


Their 16 Greatest Hits is a greatest hits collection by American pop group The Grass Roots. The album was originally released by Dunhill Records in September 1971 shortly after the success of "Sooner or Later" earlier in the year (see 1971 in music). The album also included many other hit singles that were released from 1966 to 1971.

Contents

Songs

As the group's third greatest hits collection, Their 16 Greatest Hits contained many of the hit songs from the group's first two greatest hits albums, Golden Grass and More Golden Grass. This included 6 songs from the former and 9 songs from the latter. The one song not on either previous album was "Sooner or Later," which had become the band's first Billboard top 10 entry since "Midnight Confessions" in 1968 and would be their last.

The songs on this release include three songs that reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, eleven that reached the top 40, and a total of fifteen songs that appeared on the chart.

Artwork, packaging

The original release of Their 16 Greatest Hits on Dunhill ABC had a black label pressing with the Dunhill ABC Records logo on the top-center. The front and back cover photographs were taken by Tom Gundelfinger and the package was designed by Philip Schwartz. The same artwork and design was used on the versions of the album released by MCA Records in 1980, with only the label differing.

Track listing

All songs produced by Steve Barri, except X produced by Steve Barri & P. F. Sloan.

Side one
  1. "Sooner or Later" (Gary Zekley, Mitchell Bottler, Ekundayo Paris, Adeniyi Paris, Ted McNamara) – 2:37
  2. "Where Were You When I Needed You"X (P. F. Sloan, Steve Barri) – 2:59
  3. "Heaven Knows" (Harvey Price, Dan Walsh) – 2:25
  4. "Let's Live for Today"X (Mogol, David Shapiro, Michael Julien) – 2:35
  5. "Temptation Eyes" (Price, Walsh) – 2:40
  6. "The River Is Wide" (Gary Knight, Billy Joe Admire) – 2:47
  7. "Come On and Say It" (Dennis Provisor, Rob Grill, Warren Entner) – 2:38
  8. "Midnight Confessions" (Lou T. Josie) – 2:42
Side two
  1. "Wait a Million Years" (Zekley, Bottler) – 3:09
  2. "Walking Through the Country" (Provisor) – 3:02
  3. "Lovin' Things" (Artie Schroeck, Jet Loring) – 2:42
  4. "Things I Should Have Said"X (Sloan, Barri) – 2:30
  5. "Bella Linda" (Mogol, Lucio Battisti, Barri, Barry A. Gross) – 2:47
  6. "Baby Hold On" (Price, Walsh) – 2:42
  7. "Feelings" (Rick Coonce, Entner, Kenny Fukomoto) – 2:50
  8. "I Can Turn Off the Rain" (Provisor) – 3:09

Personnel

The following people contributed to Their 16 Greatest Hits:

  • Rob Grill – vocals, bass
  • Dennis Provisor – vocals, piano, organ
  • Terry Furlong – guitar
  • Warren Entner – guitar, organ, vocals
  • Rick Coonce – drums, percussion
  • Steve Barri – producer
  • Phil Kaye – engineer
  • Chuck Britz – engineer
  • P. F. Sloan – producer, guitar, keyboards
  • Creed Bratton – guitar
  • Jimmie Haskell – arrangements
  • Sid Feller – arrangements
  • Session musicians – various instruments

    • Songs

    1Sooner or Later2:37
    2Where Were You When I Needed You2:59
    3Heaven Knows2:55

    References

    Their 16 Greatest Hits Wikipedia
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