The Best of Minnie Riperton is a posthumous greatest hits album by Minnie Riperton

Minnie Riperton

Minnie Julia Riperton was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You". She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph from 1972 until her death in the summer of 1979. They had two children - music engineer Marc Rudolph and actress/comedienne Maya...

, released in 1981. The album consists of the hits like "Perfect Angel", "Lovin' You", "Inside My Love", and "Adventures in Paradise". Also included is one of her last released singles "Here We Go" from the album Love Lives Forever

Love Lives Forever

Love Lives Forever is the sixth and final studio album by American soul singer Minnie Riperton. Released posthumously, it was co-produced by her husband Richard Rudolph and released on her then-label Capitol Records. It consists of unused vocal sessions, put in music and vocally completed by...

and "You Take My Breath Away" from the same album; a new remix of "Memory Lane"; unreleased live versions of "Can You Feel What I'm Saying?", "Lover And Friend", and "Young, Willing, & Able"; two brief dialog tracks called "Moments with Minnie"; and a cover of Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

's "I Am A Woman of Heart And Mind", a holdover from the Minnie

Minnie (album)

Minnie is the fifth and final studio album by Minnie Riperton. She died of cancer two months after its release. It was also her first album for Capitol Records....

sessions, as the "new" track. Nothing from the Come to My Garden

Come To My Garden

Come to My Garden is the debut solo album by Minnie Riperton -produced, arranged and orchestrated by Charles Stepney- released in 1970. It was re-released on CD in 1999. It peaked at number one hundred and sixty on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart in 1974...

album appears here, nor does her early Chess Records

Chess Records

Chess Records was an American record label based in Chicago, Illinois. It specialized in blues, R&B, soul, gospel music, early rock and roll, and occasional jazz releases....

 releases as Andrea Davis or her material as a member of Rotary Connection

Rotary Connection

Rotary Connection was an American psychedelic soul band, formed in Chicago in 1966. The highly experimental band was the idea of Marshall Chess, son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess. Marshall was the director behind a start-up label, Cadet Concept Records, and wanted to focus on music outside...

 (That would come later in 2001 on the 2-CD set Petals: The Minnie Riperton Collection). This album only covers her tenures with both Epic Records

Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...

 and Capitol Records

Capitol Records

Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

.

Track listing

SIDE ONE

1. Moment With Minnie (Unreleased dialog)
2. Perfect Angel (from the album Perfect Angel
   Perfect Angel
   In 1973, a college intern for Epic Records found Riperton in semi-retirement. She had become a homemaker and a mother of two in Gainesville, Florida. After he heard a demo of the song "Seeing You This Way", the rep took the tape to Don Ellis, VP of A&R for Epic...
   
   )
3. Memory Lane (new 1981 mix; original mix from the album Minnie
   Minnie (album)
   Minnie is the fifth and final studio album by Minnie Riperton. She died of cancer two months after its release. It was also her first album for Capitol Records....
   
   )
4. Lovin' You (from the album Perfect Angel)
5. Can You Feel What I'm Saying? (Unreleased live version, Original studio version from the album Stay in Love
   Stay in Love
   Stay in Love is Minnie Riperton's fourth solo album. It features the hit "Young Willing & Able" and the Stevie Wonder collaboration "Stick Together". Unlike her previous works, the soft soul elements here tend to fade, replaced by a more upbeat sound. This was her last album for Epic Records before...
   
   )
6. Here We Go (from the album Love Lives Forever
   Love Lives Forever
   Love Lives Forever is the sixth and final studio album by American soul singer Minnie Riperton. Released posthumously, it was co-produced by her husband Richard Rudolph and released on her then-label Capitol Records. It consists of unused vocal sessions, put in music and vocally completed by...
   
   )
7. Inside My Love (from the album Adventures in Paradise
   Adventures in Paradise (Minnie Riperton album)
   Adventures in Paradise is the third studio album by Minnie Riperton, produced by Stewart Levine with music by The Crusaders. Joe Sample co-wrote the title song "Adventures in Paradise". The album was a modest success, but didn't match the success of Perfect Angel. After Lovin’ You and Perfect...
   
   )

SIDE TWO

1. Lover And Friend (Unreleased live version, Original studio version from the album Minnie)
2. I Am A Woman of Heart And Mind (Unreleased, recorded during the Minnie sessions)
3. Young, Willing, & Able (Unreleased live version, Original studio version from the album Stay In Love)
4. You Take My Breath Away (from the album Love Lives Forever)
5. Another Moment With Minnie (Unreleased dialog)
6. Adventures in Paradise (from the album Adventures in Paradise)