Greatest Hits (Selena album)
Encyclopedia
Greatest Hits is a collection of most of the English
songs by the late American
Tejano
-pop
singer Selena
. It contains all of her English songs from her Dreaming of You album, as well as both regularly and posthumously released English songs she had made throughout her career.
"Don't Throw Away My Love" is a remix of "My Love".
There are two English songs that Selena recorded but did not appear on the album: "Call Me", and "Give Me One More Chance" both from the 1984 Selena y los Dinos album.
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
songs by the late American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Tejano
Tejano music
Tejano music or Tex-Mex music is the name given to various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas...
-pop
Popular music
Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...
singer Selena
Selena
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez , known simply as Selena, was a Mexican American singer-songwriter. She was named the "top Latin artist of the '90s" and "Best selling Latin artist of the decade" by Billboard for her fourteen top-ten singles in the Top Latin Songs chart, including seven number-one hits...
. It contains all of her English songs from her Dreaming of You album, as well as both regularly and posthumously released English songs she had made throughout her career.
"Don't Throw Away My Love" is a remix of "My Love".
There are two English songs that Selena recorded but did not appear on the album: "Call Me", and "Give Me One More Chance" both from the 1984 Selena y los Dinos album.
Track listing
- "My Love" (A. B. Quintanilla) - 2:49
- "I Could Fall in Love" (Keith Thomas) - 4:42
- "Captive Heart" (Mark Goldenberg/Kit Hain) - 4:24
- "I'm Getting Used to You" (Diane WarrenDiane WarrenDiane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...
) - 4:03 - "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)" (Duet with David ByrneDavid Byrne (musician)David Byrne is a musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography,...
) (David Byrne) - 4:16- Literal SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
translation of "Dance With Me"
- Literal Spanish
- "Dreaming of YouDreaming of You (Selena song)"Dreaming of You" is the name of a Selena love song written by Franne Golde and Tom Snow. It was Selena's biggest single, peaking at #21 on the Billboard Hot 100.The song was released at the end of the first quarter of 1995, after Selena's murder...
" (Franne Golde/Tom Snow) - 5:15 - "Missing My Baby" (A. B. Quintanilla) - 4:13
- "Wherever You Are" (Donde Quiera Que Estés) (Duet with the Barrio Boyzz) (K. C. PorterK. C. PorterKC Porter is an American record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. For nearly three decades in the entertainment industry, Porter has earned numerous Grammy nominations and 3 Grammys and Latin Grammys...
/Miguel Flores) - 4:30 - "Only Love" (M. Spiro/Robbie BuchananRobbie BuchananRobbie Buchanan is a Canadian keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, and producer.Buchanan began playing the piano at the age of 6. He acquired his first paying gig as a pianist at the age of 12 playing 6 nights a week in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. While still a teenager, Buchanan joined a band...
) - 4:13 - "A Million to OneA Million to One"A Million to One" is a song written by Phil Medley and first recorded by Jimmy Charles on his 1960 album The Age for Love. It peaked at #5 on a Promo single.-Covers:...
" (Phil Medley) - 3:22 - "Where Did The Feeling Go?" (Norman Sallitt) - 3:44
- "Is It The Beat?" (A.B. Quintanilla III/Pamela Phillips Oland) - 4:09
- "A Boy Like That" (Leonard BernsteinLeonard BernsteinLeonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
/Stephen SondheimStephen SondheimStephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
)- 5:53 - "Always Mine" (A.B. Quintanilla III) - 3:37
- "My Love (Don't Throw Away My Love)" (A.B. Quintanilla III) - 3:40
- "Disco Medley: "I Will SurviveI Will Survive"I Will Survive" is a song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris...
"/"FunkytownFunkytown"Funkytown" is a 1980 disco hit song by the disco band Lipps Inc. The song expresses the singer's pining for a metaphorical place that will "keep me movin', keeps me groovin' with some energy". It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Dance charts in 1980, also reaching number 1 in Germany,...
"/"Last DanceLast Dance (song)"Last Dance" is a hit 1978 song by singer Donna Summer. The song appeared on the Thank God It's Friday movie soundtrack. It was written by Paul Jabara and was co-produced by Summer's regular collaborator Giorgio Moroder, along with Bob Esty...
"/"The Hustle"/"On the RadioOn the Radio (Donna Summer song)"On the Radio" is a single by Donna Summer released in 1979 on the Casablanca record label. It was written for the soundtrack to the film Foxes and included on Summer's first international compilation album On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2. It was released as a single and became, in...
" (Freddie PerrenFreddie PerrenFrederick "Freddie" Perren was an American songwriter, record producer, arranger, and orchestra conductor best known for as a co-songwriter and co-producer of such mega-hits as "Boogie Fever" by the Sylvers, "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor, and "Shake Your Groove Thing" by Peaches &...
/Dino Fekaris/S. Greenberg/Paul Jabbara/Van McCoyVan McCoyVan Allen Clinton McCoy was an accomplished musician, music producer, arranger, songwriter, and orchestra conductor. He is known best for his 1975 internationally successful song "The Hustle", which is still played in dance halls and on radio to this day more than thirty years since his death...
/Giorgio MoroderGiorgio MoroderHansjörg "Giorgio" Moroder is an Italian record producer, songwriter and performer based in Los Angeles. When in Munich in the 1970s, he started his own record label called Oasis Records, which several years later became a subdivision of Casablanca Records...
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) - 7:36