The Very Best of

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Calender Girl
  2:39
• 2
  Stairway to Heaven
  2:42
• 3
  Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen
  2:39
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Oh! Carol
  2:15
• 5
  One Way Ticket to the Blues
  2:21
• 6
  Run Samson Run
  2:42
• 7
  Baby Blue
  3:28
• 8
  King of Clowns
  2:40
• 9
  Rainy Jane
  2:56
• 10
  Workin’ on a Groovy Thing
  3:59
• 11
  Beautiful You
  3:16
• 12
  Standing on the Inside
  3:56
• 13
  Armarillo
  3:13
• 14
  Laughter in the Rain
  2:44
• 15
  The Hungry Years
  4:04
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Lonely Night
  3:10
• 17
  The Queen of 1964
  3:30
• 18
  The Miracle Song
  4:26
• 19
  The Other Side of Me
  3:34
• 20
  Going Nowhere
  3:55
• 21
  Sad Eyes
  3:40
• 22
  Perfect Strangers
  4:42
• CD 2
• 1
  I Go Ape
  2:26
• 2
  The Diary
  2:20
• 3
  Tillie the Twirler
  3:53
• 4
  New York City Blues
  4:18
• 5
  You Mean Everything to Me
  2:40
• 6
  Stupid Cupid
  2:43
• 7
  Little Devil
  2:44
• 8
  Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (original)
  2:21
  3.2 ★
• 9
  Next Door to an Angel
  2:28
• 10
  Betty Grable
  2:52
• 11
  Wheeling West Virginia
  3:33
• 12
  That’s When the Music Takes Me (live)
  3:11
• 13
  Solitaire (live)
  4:50
• 14
  Our Last Song Together
  4:02
• 15
  The Immigrant
  3:48
• 16
  Love Will Keep Us Together
  3:43
• 17
  Bad Blood
  3:09
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Love in the Shadows
  3:19
• 19
  Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (slow)
  3:16
• 20
  Should’ve Never Let You Go
  4:17
• 21
  A Little Lovin’
  2:55
• 22
  One More Ride on the Merry‐Go‐Round
  3:39

More by Neil Sedaka

The Definitive Collection

The Definitive Collection 2007

Ultimate Collection

Ultimate Collection 2001

All Time Greatest Hits

All Time Greatest Hits 1988

A Song

A Song 1977

Sedaka’s Back

Sedaka’s Back 1974

The Tra‐La Days Are Over

The Tra‐La Days Are Over 1973

Release credits

• Abigale Haness
  background vocals [14]
• Al Lorber
  arranger [8], conductor [8]
• Artie Butler
  arranger [14]
• Brenda Russell
  background vocals [14]
• Brian Russell
  background vocals [14]
• Danny Kortchmar
  electric guitar [14]
• Dean Parks
  acoustic guitar [14]
• Jim Horn
  baritone saxophone [14], tenor saxophone [14]
• Leland Sklar
  bass guitar [14]
• Neil Sedaka
  piano [14], vocal [8]
• Russ Kunkel
  drums (drum set) [14]
• William D. “Smitty” Smith
  Hammond organ [14], background vocals [14]

Issues

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  The Very Best of

  2x CD
  1999