Greatest Hits (Cameo album)

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Greatest Hits
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ReleasedSeptember 15, 1998 (1998-09-15)
Genre R&B, funk
Length50:45
Label Polygram
Producer Larry Blackmon
Cameo chronology
The Ballads Collection
(1998)
Greatest Hits
(1998)
12" Collection and More
(1999)
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Greatest Hits is a compilation album released by the funk/R&B group Cameo. It was the fourth album to be released by the band (and the third collection of previously released material) in 1998.

This 12-track collection can be considered a combination of the 1993 album The Best of Cameo and its sequel in 1996. Only one track, "You Make Me Work", was not on either volume. Some of the tracks are edited versions.

Track listing

  1. "Word Up!" – 4:20 - Blackmon, Jenkins
  2. "Single Life" – 4:29 - Blackmon, Jenkins
  3. "Candy" – 4:25 - Blackmon, Jenkins
  4. "She's Strange" – 3:47 - Blackmon, Jenkins
  5. "Attack Me With Your Love" – 4:32 - Blackmon, Kendrick
  6. "Back and Forth" – 3:51 - Blackmon, Jenkins, Kendrick, Leftenant
  7. "You Make Me Work" – 4:44 - Blackmon
  8. "I Just Want to Be" – 3:42 - Blackmon, Johnson
  9. "Sparkle" – 4:02 - Blackmon, Lockett
  10. "Skin I'm In" – 4:35 - Blackmon
  11. "Freaky Dancin'" – 4:16 - Blackmon, Jenkins
  12. "Keep It Hot" – 4:02 - Blackmon, Lockett

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