Greatest Hits (Huey Lewis and the News album)
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Greatest Hits & Videos is a greatest hits album by Huey Lewis and the News
Huey Lewis and the News
Huey Lewis and the News is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 top-ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts...

, released on May 23, 2006. It contains the band's most popular songs and music videos. The collection has outsold their previous hits compilation, Time Flies... The Best of
Time Flies... The Best of
Time Flies is a greatest hits album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1996 . The album also features four previously unreleased tracks. This marks the first time "The Power of Love" was available on an International Huey Lewis and the News album- it had previously been...

 Huey Lewis & the News
from the previous decade.

A version without the DVD was released as Greatest Hits with different cover artwork.

CD

  1. "The Heart of Rock & Roll
    The Heart of Rock & Roll
    "The Heart of Rock & Roll" is a song performed by Huey Lewis and the News, released as the third single from their album Sports in 1984. The single peaked at number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.-History:...

    " (Johnny Colla
    Johnny Colla
    Johnny Colla is one of the founding members of the American rock band, Huey Lewis and the News. He is the guitarist and saxophonist. He has been heavily involved in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for more than 25 years.-Brief history:The first bands that Colla was involved with were the...

    , Huey Lewis
    Huey Lewis
    Huey Lewis is an American musician, songwriter and occasional actor.Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis and the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs...

    )
  2. "I Want a New Drug
    I Want a New Drug
    "I Want a New Drug" is a song by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News from their third album Sports. It was released as the second single from the album, following the top-ten hit "Heart and Soul" in January 1984. The single reached number six on the U.S...

    " (Chris Hayes, Lewis)
  3. "The Power of Love" (from the motion picture soundtrack for Back to the Future) (Hayes, Lewis, Colla)
  4. "Jacob's Ladder
    Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis and the News song)
    "Jacob's Ladder" is a 1986 song, written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John Hornsby, that was recorded by Huey Lewis and the News and became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987....

    " (Bruce Hornsby
    Bruce Hornsby
    Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances, Hornsby draws frequently from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, rock, blues, and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and...

    , John Hornsby)
  5. "Stuck with You
    Stuck with You
    "Stuck with You" is the title of a hit single by Huey Lewis and the News, written by guitarist Chris Hayes and lead singer Huey Lewis, from 1986. It was the first single from the band's fourth album, Fore!. The song spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 from September 20, 1986,...

    " (Hayes, Lewis)
  6. "Doing It All for My Baby
    Doing It All for My Baby
    "Doing It All for My Baby" is a song performed by Huey Lewis and the News, released as a single from the album Fore! in 1987. The single peaked at number six on the U.S...

    " (Mike Duke, Phil Cody)
  7. "If This Is It
    If This Is It
    "If This Is It" is a song by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News. It was released as the fourth single from their number-one album Sports in 1984, and became their fifth top-ten and third consecutive number-six hit on the Billboard Hot 100...

    " (Colla, Lewis)
  8. "Do You Believe in Love
    Do You Believe in Love
    "Do You Believe in Love" is the first top-ten hit for the American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, peaking at number seven in May 1982, off their second album Picture This. It was written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange.-History:...

    " (Robert John "Mutt" Lange)
  9. "Heart and Soul
    Heart and Soul (Huey Lewis and the News song)
    "Heart and Soul" is a song written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn and made famous by Huey Lewis and the News. The song was first recorded by Exile in 1981 as the title track of their album Heart & Soul. Exile's single was unsuccessful, bubbling under the Billboard Hot 100 at number 102...

    " (Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn
    Nicky Chinn
    Nicky Chinn born Nicholas Barry Chinn, 16 May 1945, London, UK) is a British songwriter and record producer. Together with Mike Chapman he had a long string of hit singles in the UK and US in the 1970s and early 1980s, including several number-one records...

    )
  10. "Back in Time
    Back in Time
    "Back in Time" is a song by Huey Lewis and the News written for and featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future. The song is heard near the end of the film when Marty McFly wakes up to the song playing on the radio while in his own bed after returning from 1955. It is also played during the...

    " (from the motion picture soundtrack for Back to the Future) (Colla, Hayes, Sean Hopper, Lewis)
  11. "Perfect World
    Perfect World (Huey Lewis and the News song)
    "Perfect World" is a song performed by Huey Lewis and the News and released as the first single from the album Small World in late June 1988...

    " (Alex Call
    Alex Call
    Alex Call is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.-Biography:Alex Call was one of the original members of the California rock band Clover. After four albums, the band broke up in 1978 and Call went solo. His first solo album was released in 1983 for Arista Records. One of the songs from...

    )
  12. "I Know What I Like
    I Know What I Like
    "I Know What I Like" is a song performed by Huey Lewis and the News and released as a single from the album Fore! in 1987. The single peaked at number nine on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100...

    " (Hayes, Lewis)
  13. "Trouble in Paradise" (from the We Are the World
    We Are the World (album)
    We Are the World was a 1985 album that contained USA for Africa's "We Are the World" superstar charity recording for famine relief efforts in Ethiopia....

    album - live in San Francisco 2/21/85) (Colla, Bill Gibson, Hayes, Hopper, Lewis, Mario Cipollina)
  14. "It's Alright" (from the Curtis Mayfield
    Curtis Mayfield
    Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...

     tribute album People Get Ready) (Mayfield)
  15. "Cruisin'
    Cruisin' (song)
    "Cruisin" is a 1979 single written, produced, and recorded by Smokey Robinson for Motown Records' Tamla label. One of Robinson's most successful singles outside of his work with The Miracles, "Cruisin'" was a Top 10 Billboard Pop hit, peaking at number four not only on the Billboard Hot 100 but on...

    " (Huey Lewis duet with Gwyneth Paltrow
    Gwyneth Paltrow
    Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress and singer. She made her acting debut on stage in 1990 and started appearing in films in 1991. After appearing in several films throughout the decade, Paltrow gained early notice for her work in films such as Se7en and Emma...

    , from the motion picture soundtrack Duets) (Smokey Robinson
    Smokey Robinson
    William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...

    , Marv Tarplin
    Marv Tarplin
    Marvin "Marv" Tarplin was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known as the guitarist for The Miracles from the 1950s through the early 1970s. He was one of the group's original members and co-wrote several of their biggest hits, including the 2007 Grammy Hall Of Fame inducted "The Tracks...

    )
  16. "Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do
    Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do
    "Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do" is a song performed by Huey Lewis and the News, released as the second single from the album Picture This in 1982. The single peaked at number 36 on the U.S...

    " (Duke)
  17. "Small World
    Small World (album)
    Small World is the fifth album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1988 .Although it reached the top 20 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the album was much less successful than its predecessors, 1983's Sports and 1986's Fore!...

    " (featuring Stan Getz) (Hayes, Lewis)
  18. "But It's Alright
    Four Chords & Several Years Ago
    Four Chords & Several Years Ago is the seventh album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1994 . The title is a play on the first sentence in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address .It is a collection of 1960s rhythm & blues covers influential to the members of the group during...

    " (J.J. Jackson, Pierre Tubbs
    Pierre Tubbs
    Pierre Tubbs is a British songwriter and music producer. One of his biggest successes is "Right Back Where We Started From" recorded by Maxine Nightingale. He also co-wrote the J.J...

    )
  19. "Hip to Be Square
    Hip to Be Square
    "Hip to Be Square" is a song by Huey Lewis and the News, written by Bill Gibson, Sean Hopper, and Huey Lewis, and released in 1986 as the second single from the multi-platinum album, Fore!. The song features Pro Football Hall of Famers and then-San Francisco 49ers Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott...

    " (Gibson, Hopper, Lewis)
  20. "Couple Days Off
    Couple Days Off
    "Couple Days Off" is a song performed by Huey Lewis and the News and released as a single from the album Hard at Play in 1991. The single peaked at #11 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.-Chart performance:...

    " (Hayes, Lewis, Geoffrey Palmer)
  21. "Workin' for a Livin'
    Workin' for a Livin'
    "Workin' for a Livin" is a single by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1982. Included on their 1982 album Picture This, the song peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks charts, and number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100.In 2007, Huey Lewis himself recorded the...

    " (Hayes, Lewis)

DVD

  1. "Do You Believe in Love" (previously unreleased)
  2. "Heart and Soul"
  3. "I Want a New Drug"
  4. "The Heart of Rock & Roll"
  5. "If This Is It"
  6. "Bad Is Bad"
  7. "The Power of Love"
  8. "Stuck with You"
  9. "Doing It All for My Baby" (original long version)
  10. "Workin' for a Livin'" (live at the Country Club, Reseda, CA, 4/29/82)
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