The Katie Melua Collection | ||||
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Released | October 27, 2008 | |||
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Length | 61:46 | |||
Label | Dramatico | |||
Producer | Mike Batt | |||
Katie Melua chronology | ||||
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AllMusic | [1] |
BBC Music | (positive) [2] |
The Katie Melua Collection is a compilation album by Georgian-born British singer and songwriter Katie Melua. The album is a two disc set with 17 songs, three previously unreleased, and a DVD that was filmed in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The album includes the singles "When You Taught Me How to Dance" from the film Miss Potter , "What a Wonderful World" with a recording of Eva Cassidy, and three new songs: "Toy Collection" (written by Melua for the film Faintheart ), "Two Bare Feet", and "Somewhere in the Same Hotel". [3]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | From Album | Length |
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1. | "The Closest Thing to Crazy" | Mike Batt | Call Off the Search | 4:15 |
2. | "Nine Million Bicycles" | Batt | Piece by Piece | 3:17 |
3. | "What a Wonderful World (duet with Eva Cassidy)" | Bob Thiele, George David Weiss | Previously unreleased | 4:19 |
4. | "If You Were a Sailboat" | Batt | Pictures | 4:01 |
5. | "Piece by Piece" | Katie Melua | Piece by Piece | 3:24 |
6. | "Call Off the Search" | Batt | Call Off the Search | 3:25 |
7. | "On the Road Again" | Floyd Jones, Alan Wilson | Piece by Piece | 4:38 |
8. | "Mary Pickford" | Batt | Pictures | 3:13 |
9. | "Spider's Web" | Melua | Piece by Piece | 3:56 |
10. | "Thank You, Stars" | Batt | Piece by Piece | 3:40 |
11. | "I Cried for You" | Melua | Piece by Piece | 3:38 |
12. | "Crawling up a Hill" | John Mayall | Call Off the Search | 3:25 |
13. | "Tiger in the Night" | Batt | Call Off the Search | 3:08 |
14. | "When You Taught Me How to Dance" | Batt, Nigel Westlake, Richard Maltby Jr., Melua | Miss Potter Soundtrack | 3:24 |
15. | "Two Bare Feet" | Batt, Melua | Previously Unreleased | 3:00 |
16. | "Toy Collection" | Melua | Previously Unreleased | 3:13 |
17. | "Somewhere in the Same Hotel" | Batt, Melua | Previously Unreleased | 3:50 |
Three extra tracks have been released as downloads only, by different vendors:
Weekly charts | End of year charts
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