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Basket In The Pool. 3:42. No More Songs. 4:32. Phil Ochs - Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & Me. 5:08. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of "Greatest Hits" on Discogs.
Phil Ochs' last studio album, this is not a collection of hits, but an album called "Greatest Hits." The album featured members of The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Elvis Presley's backing band, as well as Merry Clayton, famous for her vocal on Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones. The gold lamé suit Ochs wears on the cover was made ...
Jan 1, 1970 · Listen to Phil Ochs - Greatest Hits by Phil Ochs on Apple Music. Stream songs including One Way Ticket Home, Jim Dean of Indiana and more. Album · 1970 · 10 Songs.
Tracks 6, 8, 9, 14 and 15 from Greatest Hits (1970) Track 12 from the 1973 single; Track 16 was performed live in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Thursday, March 13, 1969. According to the liner notes of the CD, this performance was Ochs' first since his arrest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, but this is incorrect. References
Jan 1, 1970 · Greatest Hits is a powerful piece of work, but also a very depressing one, despite the glossy presentation, occasionally forced good cheer, and the final overheard conversation in which Ochs mumbles "I'll be around for a while," and it's both sad and appropriate that it would prove to be Ochs' final studio album; he committed suicide in 1976.
Jul 28, 2010 · As fans of the late Phil Ochs know, Greatest Hits is not a hits album; rather, it is his final studio album, released in 1970. The year before that saw the release of Rehearsals for Retirement, Ochs' brilliant commentary on the troubled state of the Union, and himself, in the wake of the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, an event from which Phil apparently never fully recovered.
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Oct 18, 1998 · My Kingdom For A Car (2:50) Boy In Ohio (3:42) Gas Station Women (3:30) Chords Of Fame (3:31) Ten Cents a Coup (3:14) Not on the Pickwick reissue. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & Me (5:05) Basket in the Pool (3:40) No More Songs (4:31) NOTE: The running times above are from the CD, the LP running times are a few seconds longer on many tracks.
