Super Hits (Eddie Money album)

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Super Hits
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Greatest hits album by
ReleasedAugust 26, 1997
Recorded1977 - 1988
Genre Rock, pop rock
Length38:17
Label Columbia
Producer Bruce Botnick
Tom Dowd
Eddie Money
Ron Nevison
Richie Zito
Eddie Money chronology
Good as Gold
(1996)
Super Hits
(1997)
Shakin' with the Money Man
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Super Hits is a compilation album by Eddie Money, released in 1997, and contains 10 digitally remastered tracks.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Baby Hold On" (Lyon, Money) - 3:33
  2. "Two Tickets to Paradise" (Money) - 3:59
  3. "Think I'm in Love" (Money, Oda) - 3:10
  4. "Running Back" (Bryan) - 4:01
  5. "Take Me Home Tonight" (Leeson, Vale, Greenwich, Barry, Spector) - 3:32
  6. "I Wanna Go Back" (Byron, Chuncey, Walker) - 3:58
  7. "Walk on Water" (Harms) - 4:39
  8. "We Should Be Sleeping" (Burns, Money, Lowry, Thompson) - 3:52
  9. "The Big Crash" (Hitchings, Money) - 3:39
  10. "Let's Be Lovers Again" (Lyon, Money) - 3:54

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