Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!

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
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Allmusic [1]
Christgau's Record GuideA–[2]
Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!
Compilation album by
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
ReleasedJuly 1976
Recorded1972-75
Sigma Sound Studios
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
GenreR&B
Length43:13
LabelPhiladelphia International
PZ 34232
ProducerKenneth 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.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Love I Lost"Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff6:24
2."Bad Luck"John Whitehead, Gene McFadden, Victor Carstarphen6:29
3."If You Don't Know Me by Now"Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff3:27
4."Be for Real"Leon Huff, Cary Gilbert7:45
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Wake Up Everybody"John Whitehead, Gene McFadden, Victor Carstarphen7:30
6."Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" (featuring Sharon Paige)Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff3:45
7."Where Are All My Friends"John Whitehead, Gene McFadden, Victor Carstarphen3:22
8."I Miss You"Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff8:31

Charts
Chart (1976) Peak
[3]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs 51
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs 23
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References
  1. Cook, Stephen. Collectors' Item review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
  2. 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.
  3. "US Charts > Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes". Allmusic. Retrieved 2013-04-21.
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