Murray McLauchlan's Greatest Hits, the summation of his first six studio albums, is one of the few compilation albums to receive consideration in this poll of my FaceBook friends for Canada's all-time best, perhaps because, as Alan Guettel argued, it "is still the greatest greatest-hits album of the era," which may be because it is selective in which hits it includes and augments them with album tracks that weren't hits, re-recorded songs and a new song.
Interestingly, Greatest Hits didn't chart as well (#57) as any of McLauchlan's seven previous albums, although it did eventually garner enough sales to achieve gold record statusand helped earn McLauchlan the 1979 Juno Award as Folk Singer of the Year.
When my friend Frank Huntley and I used to talk about the greatest albums ever, he was always dismayed that I included disks from Murray McLauchlan in my choices, but I was more likely to take Sweeping the Spotlight Away than this one.
| Hometown: | Toronto |
| Label: | Anthem |
| Release Date: | 1978 |
| Producer: | Murray McLauchlan (on 1, 7, 8) with Bernie Finkelstein (on 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11), Ed Freeman (on 2) |
| Style: | country, folk, rock |
| Mar*Star 125: | 102 |
| Mar*Star 150: | 90 |
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