Best of Rockers & Ballads

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Best of Rockers & Ballads
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Compilation album by
Released1991
Recorded1973–1980
Genre Rock
Length63:26
Label Polydor
Roger Daltrey chronology
Can't Wait to See the Movie
(1987)
Best of Rockers & Ballads
(1991)
Rocks in the Head
(1992)

Best of Rockers & Ballads is a compilation album released by Roger Daltrey in 1991. [1] The music was compiled by Paul Jansen and mastered for CD by Bart Orange.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "It's a Hard Life" (David Courtney, Leo Sayer)
  2. "Giving It All Away" (Courtney, Sayer)
  3. "Without Your Love" (Billy Nicholls)
  4. "Say It Ain't So, Joe" (Murray Head)
  5. "Leon" (Phillip Goodhand-Tait)
  6. "The Prisoner" (David Courtney, Todd, Daltrey)
  7. "Parade" (Goodhand-Tait)
  8. "White City Lights" (Billy Nicholls, Jon Lind)
  9. "Oceans Away" (Goodhand-Tait)
  10. "One Man Band" (Courtney, Sayer)
  11. "Avenging Annie" (Andy Pratt)
  12. "Walking the Dog" (Rufus Thomas)
  13. "One of the Boys" (Steve Gibbons)
  14. "Thinking" (Courtney, Sayer)
  15. "Free Me" (Russ Ballard)
  16. "Proud" (Ballard)
  17. "Reprise - One Man Band" (Courtney, Sayer)

Song chart positions

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References

  1. "Best of Rockers & Ballads". Amazon.com. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
  2. "Roger Daltrey Discography". Thewho.net. Archived from the original on 12 June 2010.