Smash Hits (The Jimi Hendrix Experience album)
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| Greatest hits album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience | |||||
| Released | April 16, 1969 (US) | ||||
| Recorded | October 1966 – July 1967 (UK) October 1966 – May 1968 (US) |
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| Length | 44:31 | ||||
| Label | Reprise | ||||
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Chas Chandler (UK) Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix (US) |
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Smash Hits is a compilation of singles by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and the very first compilation album for Jimi Hendrix, released in re-channeled stereo "Enhanced for stereo from original mono recordings" in the United Kingdom in 1968 on Track Records 612004, and a year later in stereo in the United States on Reprise Records, catalogue MS 2025. It peaked at number four on the British album chart and number six on the Billboard 200, and has been certified double platinum by the RIAA.
The 'rest of the world outside of US/Canada' (and in this unique case Barclay France who released their own choice of 'Greatest Hits') version appeared only four months after the second studio album, Axis: Bold as Love, while the band worked on their third. It contained their first four UK hit singles, "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", "The Wind Cries Mary", and "Burning of the Midnight Lamp", along with respective B-sides, supplemented by four tracks taken from the debut LP Are You Experienced: "Fire", "Can You See Me", "Manic Depression", and "Foxy Lady". It marked the first appearance on album of "Burning of the Midnight Lamp", five months ahead of its placement on Electric Ladyland.
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