The Collection [Import]

Yvonne Elliman

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 18, 1999)
• Original Release Date: September 18, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polygram UK
• ASIN: B000025AAD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #115,620 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. If I Can't Have You

2. Hello Stranger

3. I Know

4. Without You (There Ain't No Love at All)

5. Moment by Moment

6. Baby Don't Let It Mess Your Mind

7. I'd Do It Again

8. (I Don't Know Why) I Keep Hangin' On

9. Sailing Ships

10. She'll Be the Home

11. Uphill Peace of Mind

12. I'll Be Around

13. I Can't Get You Outta My Mind

14. Good Sign

15. I'm Gonna Use What I Got to Get What I Need

16. Love Pains

17. Love Me

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Mid-priced retrospective featuring all of the disco diva's chart hits for the RSO label in the latter half of the '70s. 17 tracks, including her #1 smash remake of the Bee Gees' 'If I Can't Have You' from the 'Saturday Night Fever' soundtrack, plus 'Love Me', 'Hello Stranger', 'Moment By Moment' & 'Love Pains'. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome compilation!!, October 29, 2005

By	acshore (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

I really feel that Yvonne was robbed by the music industry. She never got the chance to shine like she should have been able to.


I like this whole CD, except for "I'm Gonna Use What I Got." That song is horrible! I wish they had put "More Than One, Less Than Five" on here.


Due to this CD is out of print, go on ebay and purchase it. It's amazing!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remembered for hits with Bee Gees songs, June 2, 2003

By	Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Yvonne's biggest hit was If I can't have you, written by the Bee Gees and featured in the Saturday night fever soundtrack. It topped the American charts and also made the top five in Britain. Hello stranger (a cover of the sixties classic by Barbara Lewis) also charted in both countries, but her only really big hit apart from If I can't have you was Love me, another Bee Gees song, which reached number six in the UK.

Her first (minor) British hit was I don't know how to love him, a song from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, in which Yvonne played Mary. The song was not a hit for Yvonne in America, where Helen Reddy and Petula Clark both charted.

I can't get you out of my mind charted in Britain. Moment by moment and Love pains charted in America. Yvonne seemed content to sing backup on other people's records (especially Eric Clapton - listen to her singing on his Ocean boulevard album and others recorded around that time) and did not really push her solo career as much as she might have done.

This collection represents her best solo work but it would have been even better if it include ore or two tracks with Eric Clapton. Of course, you solve the problem of their omission by buying his albums. It contains all the above hits except I don't know how to love him (recorded for a different record label) and could be described as typical seventies pop leaning towards soul and disco.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yvonne Elliman ~ The Collection, March 10, 2007

By	Daniel Ming (Atlanta, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The most extensive collection of Yvonne's hits. For example, "She'll Be The Home" which was the B side of "Hellow Stranger" can only be found on this disc. There are other great songs. The recording is excellent and leaves the listener yearning to locate all of Yvonne Elliman's albums that unfortunately have not been released on cd.