Greatest Hits: The First Ten Years
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| Greatest hits album by Vanessa Williams | ||||
| Released | November 17, 1998 | |||
| Length | 58:01 | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Producer | Vanessa Williams, Rex Salas, Donald Robinson, Kenni Hairston, Trevor Gale, Gerry Brown, Kipper Jones, Keith Thomas, Babyface, Nick Moroch, Brian McKnight, David Foster, Gary Taylor | |||
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Greatest Hits: The First Ten Years is the first greatest hits album (sixth overall) by Vanessa Williams, released in the US on November 17, 1998 on Mercury Records. It features eleven of her previous recordings from the ten years starting from 1988, plus a new recording, a cover of Bobby Caldwell's "My Flame". This is the first Vanessa Williams album to feature her soundtrack contributions "Love Is", "Colors of the Wind" and "Where Do We Go From Here?".
The compilation includes all of Williams' singles to have charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, except for four: "Darlin' I", "Just For Tonight", "Work to Do" and "The Way That You Love".
The only older tracks included on the album that did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 are "Betcha Never" (from The Sweetest Days) and Williams's covers of Flora Purim's "Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly" and Simon Climie's "Oh How The Years Go By". Both these covers were originally released only on multi-artist compilations (although "Oh How The Years Go By" was subsequently included on Next).
Chart performance
The album failed to chart on the Billboard 200. "My Flame" was released as a single and gained airplay on mostly jazz and adult contemporary radio stations, but failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "The Right Stuff (from The Right Stuff)" | Kipper Jones, Rex Salas | Salas | 4:18 |
| 2. | "Dreamin' (from The Right Stuff)" | Michael Forte, Lisa Montgomery, Geneva Paschal | Donald Robinson | 5:25 |
| 3. | "Running Back to You (from The Comfort Zone)" | Trevor Gale, Kenni Hairston | Gale, Hairston | 4:39 |
| 4. | "The Comfort Zone (from The Comfort Zone)" | Jones, Reggie Stewart | Gerry Brown, Jones | 3:58 |
| 5. | "Save the Best for Last (from The Comfort Zone)" | Phil Galdston, Jon Lind, Wendy Waldman | Keith Thomas | 3:40 |
| 6. | "The Sweetest Days (from The Sweetest Days)" | Galdston, Lind, Waldman | Thomas | 3:31 |
| 7. | "Betcha Never (from The Sweetest Days)" | Babyface | Babyface | 3:55 |
| 8. | "Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly (from the compilation Ain't Nuthin' But A She Thing)" | Chick Corea, Neville Potter | Brown, Nick Moroch, Williams | 4:57 |
| 9. | "Oh How the Years Go By (from the compilation NBA at 50 - A Musical Celebration and the album Next)" | Simon Climie, Will Jennings | Thomas | 5:11 |
| 10. | "Love Is (with Brian McKnight) (from the soundtrack to Beverly Hills 90210)" | Michael Caruso, Tonio K, John Keller, Anna McGarrigle, Janie McGarrigle | McKnight, Brown, Williams | 4:45 |
| 11. | "Colors of the Wind (from the Pocahontas soundtrack)" | Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz | Thomas | 4:18 |
| 12. | "Where Do We Go from Here? (featured in the film Eraser but previously unreleased on an album)" | David Foster, Douglas Pashley, Linda Thompson | Foster | 4:19 |
| 13. | "My Flame (previously unreleased)" | Bobby Caldwell | Gary Taylor | 5:05 |