The Best Of Crystal Waters / Mercury Audio CD 1998 / 558 194-2
UPC 731455819427
The Best of Crystal Waters is the first official compilation of Crystal Waters's music output. It was released on August 11, 1998, on Universal/Polygram. It includes most of the singles taken from her three full-length studio releases; Surprise (1991), Storyteller (1994) and Crystal Waters (1997). Also included are the non-LP tracks "The Boy from Ipanema" (an international single taken from the various artists Red Hot + Rio compilation) and "In De Ghetto" (a 1996 re-release of a 1994 Bad Yard Club single featuring then-new additional vocal contributions by Crystal Waters).
Controversially, The Best of Crystal Waters release features all but one of the singles in original LP version form instead of the often dramatically different single remixes. Minor hits "Surprise" and "Relax" suffer most from this oversight, but this also affects all three of her Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hit singles ("Gypsy Woman", "100% Pure Love" and "Say...If You Feel Alright") which were radio and video hits with alternate edited and subtly remixed versions not included on this compilation.
In Brazil this compilation includes "Love I Found" and "Twisted", and "Gypsy Woman" ('98 Remix) is not a hidden track.
The album has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide.
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Mercury – 558 194-2 |
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CD, Compilation
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Europe |
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Released:
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Sep 28, 1998 |
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Electronic |
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House |
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Tracklist:
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Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)
Engineer – Jay Steinhour
Organ, Keyboards, Arranged By [Strings] – Neal Conway
Producer, Arranged By, Mixed By, Percussion, Drums – The Basement Boys
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3:48
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100% Pure Love
Drum Programming [Additional] – Maurice Fulton, Sean Spencer
Engineer – David Sussman
Guitar – Wayne Cooper
Keyboards – Gary Hudgins, Mark Harris, Fruity Roberts
Organ [Solo] – Gary Hudgins
Producer [Vocals], Arranged By [Vocals] – Kenny Hicks
Producer, Arranged By, Mixed By – The Basement Boys
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4:38
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Say...If You Feel Alright
Backing Vocals – Carrie Harrington, James "Big Jim" Wright, Prof T.
Guitar – Mike Scott
Producer, Arranged By – Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
Recorded By, Mixed By – Steve Hodge
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3:55
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In De Ghetto
Engineer [Remix] – David Sussman
Keyboards [Additional] – Joe Moskowitz
Percussion – Steve Thornton
Producer, Drum Programming – David Morales
Programmed By [Keyboards] – Peter Daou, Satoshi Tomiie
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3:26
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Makin' Happy (Hurley's Happy House 7")
Engineer – Jay Steinhour
Keyboards – Neal Conway
Piano – Mark Harris
Producer, Arranged By, Mixed By, Drums, Percussion – The Basement Boys
Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Steve "Silk" Hurley
Voice [Happy Male Voice] – Everett Jones
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6:20
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Ghetto Day
Backing Vocals – Audrey Wheeler, Crystal Waters, Kenny Hicks
Drums – Sean Spencer
Engineer, Mixed By – Gerry Brown
Guitar – Wayne Cooper
Horns [Live] – P Funk Horn Section
Keyboards – Gary Hudgins, Hoza Clowney
Producer [Vocals], Arranged By [Vocals] – Kenny Hicks
Producer, Engineer – The Basement Boys
Scratches – DJ Noodles
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3:30
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Just A Freak
Engineer – David Sussman
Featuring – Dennis Rodman
Producer [For 95 North Productions], Mixed By – Doug Smith, Richard Payton
Producer, Mixed By – Crystal Waters
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4:11
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Spin Me
Backing Vocals – Carla Brown
Engineer – David Sussman
Producer – Crystal Waters
Producer [For 95 North Productions], Mixed By – Doug Smith, Richard Payton
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4:33
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Relax
Engineer, Mixed By – Bill Klatt
Producer, Keyboards, Programmed By – David Anthony
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3:26
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Surprise
Arranged By [Vibes & Strings Arrangement] – Gary Hudgins
Engineer – Jay Steinhour
Keyboards – Neal Conway
Producer – The Basement Boys
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4:21
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Love I Found
Backing Vocals – Crystal Waters, New Jersey Mass Choir
Drum Programming – DJ Spen
Engineer – "Bonzai" Germano Caruso
Guitar – Lloyd "Skip" Dorsey
Keyboards – Gary "Hudge" Hudgins
Producer, Mixed By, Drum Programming – The Basement Boys
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5:57
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Twisted
Engineer – Jay Steinhour
Piano, Bass, Drums – David Bach
Producer, Arranged By, Mixed By – The Basement Boys
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2:29
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The Boy From Ipanema
Keyboards – Philippe Saisse
Percussion – Cyro Baptista
Producer, Mixed By – Goh Hotoda
Recorded By – Vaughan Merrick
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4:20
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Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (Strip To The Bone Mix)
Engineer – Jay Steinhour
Organ, Keyboards, Arranged By [Strings] – Neal Conway
Producer, Arranged By, Mixed By, Drums, Percussion – The Basement Boys
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7:20
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Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (98 Remix)
Producer, Arranged By, Mixed By – The Basement Boys
Remix – Greg Padula, Joey Malzone
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- Art Direction – Margery Greenspan
- Compilation Producer – Bas Hartong, Bruce Carbone, Vito Bruno
- Coordinator [Copy Coordination] – Doug Joswick
- Coordinator [Project Assistance] – Catherine Ladis
- Coordinator [Project Coordination] – Eileen Cleary, Sal Guastella, Terri Tierney
- Design, Layout – Sandra Monteparo
- Executive-Producer – Vito Bruno
- Mastered By [Digitally] – Herb Powers
- Photography By – Dah Len, Ellen Von Unwerth
