Greatest Hits (Colleen Hewett album)

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Greatest hits album by Colleen Hewett
Released May 1974
Recorded 1971-1973
Label Festival Records
Colleen Hewett chronology
Colleen Hewett
(1972)
Greatest Hits
(1974)
M'Lady
(1974)

Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by Australian recording artist Colleen Hewett. The album was released in May 1974 by Festival Records.

Colleen Hewett is an Australian theatre and TV actress, and a popular singer. Her top 40 singles on the Kent Music Report include "Super Star", "Day by Day", "Carry That Weight" (1972), "Dreaming My Dreams with You" (1980), and "Gigolo" (1981). Her version of "Day by Day" peaked at No. 1 on the Go-Set National Top 40 Singles Chart and was certified as a gold record. At the TV Week King of Pop Awards she was voted Queen of Pop in both 1972 and 1973. During 1985, she played Sheila Brady in the international hit TV series, Prisoner.

Festival Records Australian record label; imprint of Festival Records Pty. Ltd.

Festival Records was an Australian recording and publishing company founded in Sydney in 1952 and operated until 2005.

Contents

Background

In 1971, Hewett was signed to Festival Records and released a number of successful singles and a self titled debut album in 1972, which peaked at number 28 on the Australian charts. Hewett also starring role in the stage production of Godspell , which opened at the Playbox Theatre in Melbourne in November 1971 and won the TV Week's Queen of Pop in 1972 and 1973. In January 1974, it was announced Hewett had signed with Atlantic Records, as a result, Festival Records issued a 'greatest hits', despite Hewett having only released one album to date. [1]

<i>Colleen Hewett</i> (album) 1972 studio album by Colleen Hewett

Colleen Hewett is the debut studio album by Australian recording artist Colleen Hewett. The album was released in October 1972 by Festival Records

<i>Godspell</i> musical

Godspell is a musical composed by Stephen Schwartz with the book by John-Michael Tebelak. The show opened off-Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has since been produced by multiple touring companies and in many revivals. The 2011 revival played on Broadway from October 13, 2011 through June 24, 2012.

The Playbox Theatre was a theatre located at 53-55 Exhibition Street in Melbourne, Australia.

Track listing

Vinyl/Cassette

Side A

  1. "Day by Day"
  2. "Superstar"
  3. "Waltzing Matilda"
  4. "Can't Sit Down"
  5. "By My Side"
  6. "I'll Be Seeing You"

Side B

  1. "Wish to Wish"
  2. "Carry That Weight"
  3. "Sit Yourself Down"
  4. "More Today Than Yesterday"
  5. "Danny Boy"
  6. "Day by Day" (Godspell version)

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References

  1. "Colleen Hewett". Rock On Vinyl. Retrieved 18 January 2017.