The Very Best of Cat Stevens

Tracklist

• 1
  Moonshadow
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Father and Son
  3:40
  4.2 ★
• 3
  Morning Has Broken
  3:19
  4.2 ★
• 4
  Wild World
  3:20
  3.9 ★
• 5
  The First Cut Is the Deepest
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Lady D’Arbanville
  3:44
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Oh Very Young
  2:36
  3.3 ★
• 8
  Matthew & Son
  2:43
  3.1 ★
• 9
  Sitting
  3:13
  3.4 ★
• 10
  Hard Headed Woman
  3:49
  3.1 ★
• 11
  I Love My Dog
  2:18
  3.2 ★
• 12
  Rubylove
  2:37
  3.6 ★
• 13
  Don’t Be Shy
  2:51
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Can’t Keep It In
  3:00
  3.4 ★
• 15
  Here Comes My Baby
  2:54
  3.2 ★
• 16
  Into White
  3:24
  3.4 ★
• 17
  (Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard
  2:42
  3.9 ★
• 18
  Where Do the Children Play?
  3:51
  3.9 ★
• 19
  How Can I Tell You
  4:28
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Another Saturday Night
  2:27
  4.5 ★
• 21
  Sad Lisa
  3:41
  3.9 ★
• 22
  Just Another Night
  3:50
  4.0 ★
• 23
  Peace Train
  4:11
  4.1 ★
• 24
  If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out
  2:46
  4.6 ★

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Early Tapes

Early Tapes 2006

Gold

Gold 2005

Early Tapes

Early Tapes 1993

The Very Best of Cat Stevens

The Very Best of Cat Stevens 1989

Release credits

• Alan James
  bass [9, 14]
• Alan Tew
  arranger [8, 11, 15]
• Alun Davies
  acoustic guitar [9, 14], guitar [1-4, 10, 12, 16, 18-19, 21, 23]
• Andy Newmark
  drums (drum set) [17]
• Angelos Hatzipavli
  bouzouki [1, 3, 12, 19, 23]
• Big Jim Sullivan
  guitar [5]
• Brian Cole
  steel guitar [22]
• Bruce Lynch
  bass [22], bass guitar [17]
• Cat Stevens
  Moog [17], arranger [6], celesta [17], electric guitar [14], guitar [1-4, 10, 12-13, 16, 18-19, 21-24], keyboard [1-4, 10, 12-13, 16, 18-19, 21-23], lead vocals [1, 3, 12, 19, 23], mandolin [9], organ [14], percussion [17], piano [9, 17], producer [7, 13, 17, 20, 22, 24], strings [17], vocal [2, 4-5, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24]
• David Kershenbaum
  producer [17]
• Del Newman
  strings [1-4, 10, 12, 16, 18-19, 21, 23]
• Elkie Brooks
  vocal [17]
• Gerry Conway
  drums (drum set) [1, 3, 9, 12, 14, 19, 22-23]
• Harvey Burns
  drums (drum set) [1-4, 10, 12, 16, 18-19, 21, 23]
• Jean‐Alain Roussel
  organ [17], piano [14, 22], strings [17]
• John Paul Jones
  bass [5]
• John Rostein
  solo [2, 4, 10, 16, 18, 21], violin [2, 4, 10, 16, 18, 21]
• John Ryan
  bass guitar [2, 4, 10, 16, 18, 21]
• John Wood
  recording [7]
• Larry Steele
  bass [1, 3, 12, 19, 23], congas [1, 3, 12, 19, 23]
• Mike Bobak
  engineer [6]
• Mike Hurst
  arranger [8, 11, 15], guitar [5], producer [5, 8, 11, 15], vocal [5]
• Paul Samwell-Smith
  producer [1-4, 6-7, 9-10, 12, 14, 16, 18-19, 21-24]
• Rick Wakeman
  piano [3]
• Suzanne Lynch
  choir vocals [17]
• Vic Coppersmith‐Heaven
  recording [8, 11, 15]
• Victor Gamm
  recording [7]
• Yusuf Islam
  phonographic copyright [13, 17, 22, 24]
• Ανδρέας Τουμαζής
  bouzouki [1, 3, 12, 19, 23]
• Show all credits (29)

Issues

• 

  T
  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD
  28 March 2000
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  T
  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD
  9 May 2000
• 

  T
  The Very Best Of Cat Stevens

  Digital Media
  13 October 2003
• 

  T
  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD
  3 November 2003
• 

  T
  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD, DVD
  2003
• 

  T
  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD
  2003
• 

  T
  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD (Disctronics Pressing)
  2003
• T
  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD
  2004