The Best of The Guess Who Volume II

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The Best of The Guess Who Volume II
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Compilation album by
The Guess Who
ReleasedNovember 1973
Recorded1970-1973
GenreRock
Length42:23
LabelRCA Victor
ProducerJack Richardson
The Guess Who chronology
#10
(1973) 		The Best of The Guess Who Volume II
(1973) 		Road Food
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3/5 stars[1]

The Best of The Guess Who Volume II is the fifth compilation album by the Canadian group The Guess Who. It was originally released by RCA Records in 1973,[2] and contains recordings made between 1970 and 1973.

Release history[]

In addition to the usual 2 channel stereo version the album was also released by RCA in a 4 channel quadraphonic version on LP record and 8-track tape in 1974. The quad LP release used the Quadradisc system.

The first CD issue was released in 1992 by RCA. In 2019, the album was reissued in the UK by Dutton Vocalion on the Super Audio CD format. The disc also contains the 1972 album Rockin'. The Dutton Vocalion release contains the complete stereo and quad versions of both albums.[3]

The album peaked at number 186 on the Billboard 200 in January 1974.[4]

Track listing[]

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Broken"
3:05
2."Albert Flasher"Cummings2:24
3."Rain Dance"
  • Cummings
  • Winter
3:25
4."Sour Suite"Cummings4:06
5."Life in the Bloodstream"Cummings3:10
6."Guns, Guns, Guns"Cummings4:59
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
7."Heartbroken Bopper"
  • Cummings
  • Winter
3:26
8."Runnin' Back to Saskatoon"
  • Cummings
  • Winter
2:56
9."Follow Your Daughter Home"
3:39
10."Orly"Cummings2:54
11."Glamour Boy"Cummings4:52

Personnel[]

The Guess Who

on tracks 1-7

on track 8

  • Burton Cummings – lead vocals, keyboards
  • Kurt Winter – lead guitar
  • Donnie McDougall - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
  • Jim Kale - bass, backing vocals
  • Garry Peterson – drums

on tracks 9-11

  • Burton Cummings – lead vocals, keyboards
  • Kurt Winter – lead guitar
  • Donnie McDougall - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
  • Bill Wallace – bass, backing vocals
  • Garry Peterson – drums


Additional personnel
  • Jack Richardson - producer
  • Brian Christian - engineer and Quadraphonic remix

References[]

  1. ^ The Best of The Guess Who Volume II at AllMusic
  2. ^ The Guess Who, The Best of The Guess Who Volume II Retrieved February 6, 2019 at Discogs
  3. ^ The Guess Who – Rockin' & The Best Of The Guess Who Volume II release on SACD Retrieved June 23, 2019
  4. ^ "Billboard 200, The week of January 26, 1974". Billboard.
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