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Playin' Favorites is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 1973. It was re-issued by BGO Records in 1995. [5][6][7]

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Playin' Favorites
Studio album by Don McLean
Released	October 1973
Recorded	Summer 1973
Studio	The Record Plant, New York City; remixed at the Record Plant, Sausalito
Genre	Rock
Label	United Artists
Producer	Ed Freeman
Don McLean chronology
Don McLean (1972) Playin' Favorites (1973) Homeless Brother (1974)
Singles from Playin' Favorites
"Everyday[1]" Released: 23 March 1973 "Mountains O' Mourne[2]" Released: 19 October 1973 "Fool's Paradise[3]" Released: December 1973 "Sitting on Top of the World[4]" Released: 1974

Track listing

Side A

1. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Bo Carter, Little Walter)
2. "Living With the Blues" (Brownie McGhee)
3. "Mountains O' Mourne" (Percy French)
4. "Fool's Paradise" (Sonny LeGlaire, Horace Linsley, Norman Petty)
5. "Love O' Love" (Traditional; adapted and arranged by Don McLean)
6. Medley: "Bill Cheetham/Old Joe Clark" (Traditional; adapted and arranged by Don McLean)

Side B

1. "Everyday" (Charles Hardin, Norman Petty) "Glen D. Hardin" was incorrectly listed on some labels as the songwriter.
2. "Ancient History" (Irene Stanton, Wayne Walker)
3. "Over the Mountains" (Irene Stanton, Wayne Walker)
4. "Lovesick Blues" (Cliff Friend, Irving Mills)
5. "New Mule Skinner Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers, George Vaughn)
6. "Happy Trails" (Dale Evans)

Chart positions

Chart (1973)	Peak position
Australian (Kent Music Report)[8]	22
United Kingdom (Official Charts Company)	42[citation needed]

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