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Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits! is a compilation album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in July 1976. It includes all of their biggest hits with the label recorded between 1972 and 1975, such as "If You Don't Know Me by Now", "The Love I Lost", Bad Luck", and "Wake Up Everybody". Many of the songs were in extended versions. The album, produced by Gamble & Huff, sold over a million in the USA. The UK album release also included the track, "Satisfaction Guaranteed" which had been a big hit for the group there.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	A−[2]

Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!

Compilation album by

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

Released

July 1976

Recorded

1972-75
Sigma Sound Studios
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Genre

R&B

Length

43:13

Label

Philadelphia International
PZ 34232

Producer

Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Harold Melvin

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes chronology

Wake Up Everybody
(1975)

Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!
(1976)

Reaching for the World
(1977)

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Love I Lost"	Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff	6:24
2.	"Bad Luck"	John Whitehead, Gene McFadden, Victor Carstarphen	6:29
3.	"If You Don't Know Me by Now"	Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff	3:27
4.	"Be for Real"	Leon Huff, Cary Gilbert	7:45

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"Wake Up Everybody"	John Whitehead, Gene McFadden, Victor Carstarphen	7:30
6.	"Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" (featuring Sharon Paige)	Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff	3:45
7.	"Where Are All My Friends"	John Whitehead, Gene McFadden, Victor Carstarphen	3:22
8.	"I Miss You"	Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff	8:31

Charts

Chart (1976)	Peak [3]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	51
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	23

References

Cook, Stephen. Collectors' Item review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: M". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 7, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
"US Charts > Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes". Allmusic. Retrieved 2013-04-21.

External links

Collectors' Item at Discogs (list of releases)

v t e Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Harold Melvin Bernard Williams Roosevelt Brodie Jesse Gillis, Jr. Franklin Peaker John Atkins Teddy Pendergrass Lawrence Brown Bernard Wilson Lloyd Parks Jerry Cummings Sharon Paige David Ebo Dwight Johnson William Spratelly Gil Saunders
Studio albums	I Miss You Black & Blue To Be True Wake Up Everybody Reaching for the World
Compilation albums	Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!
Singles	"If You Don't Know Me by Now" "The Love I Lost" "Bad Luck" "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" "Wake Up Everybody" "Don't Leave Me This Way"
Related articles	Discography Philadelphia International Records

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