Columbia Records To Release O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits
PRNewswire
06/10/2002
Definitive Career-Spanning 2 CD Collection Combines The Absolute Best From
America's Greatest Rock & Roll Band's Columbia Records and Geffen Records
Catalogs PLUS Two Brand New Songs
In Stores Tuesday, July 2
NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia Records is releasing O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits, the first-ever Aerosmith hits collection to include the absolute best from America's Greatest Rock & Roll Band's Columbia Records and Geffen Records catalogs as well as two brand-new tracks -- "Girls of Summer" and "Lay It Down" -- recorded specially for this monumental compilation. Available in four different 3-D action covers, O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits is in stores Tuesday, July 2.
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the group's first signing with Columbia Records, O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits brings together 30 indisputable rock classics from a band that remains as potent and viable today as they were on their very first records. In addition to hits running from 1972's "Dream On" through 2001's "Jaded" and beyond, O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits includes all four of Aerosmith's Grammy-winning singles -- "Janie's Got A Gun" (1990), "Livin' On The Edge" (1993), "Crazy," and the "South Beach Mix" of "Pink" (1998).
O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits comes at another peak in the amazing career of Aerosmith. Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, Aerosmith was recently selected for an MTV "Icon" event and is the subject of a special VH1 2-hour "Behind The Music" episode, premiering July 5. Aerosmith is one of only five artists to have received the American Music Awards prestigious International Artist Award. The group will perform live at the World Cup in Japan on June 27 and will embark on a major tour in August.
Having sold more than 75 million albums in the U.S. over the course of a career spanning three decades, Aerosmith has not merely survived and thrived, they've transcended the fads and follies of their times to become the most enduring, and perpetually exciting, force in American rock music. Obliterating the generation gap, Aerosmith has a rabid fan-base ranging in age from six to sixty and are the only rock & roll band to get consistent airplay on MTV and the classic rock radio outlets.
For the past 30 years, Aerosmith has spearheaded some of the most important trends in pop music--from groundbreaking early 70s heavy metal to the invention of the power-ballad (1972's "Dream On") to the first rock/rap synthesis (1986's "Walk This Way" with Run-DMC). And, as the years rock & roll by, Aerosmith continue to rack up awards, RIAA platinum sales, honors and hit records, a feat made all the more remarkable by the fact that they're still doing it all with the original line-up--Steven Tyler (vocals), Joe Perry (guitar), Brad Whitford (guitar), Tom Hamilton (bass) and Joey Kramer (drums)- -that came together to cut the very first Aerosmith album some thirty years ago.
O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits
Track Listing
"Mama Kin"
From the Columbia Records album AEROSMITH (1972 - 1973) (2x RIAA platinum)
Produced by Adrian Barber
"Dream On"
From the Columbia Records album AEROSMITH (1972 - 1973) (2x RIAA platinum)
Produced by Adrian Barber
"Same Old Song And Dance"
From the Columbia Records album GET YOUR WINGS (1973-74) (3x RIAA platinum)
Produced by Jack Douglas and Ray Colcord "Seasons Of Wither"
From the Columbia Records album GET YOUR WINGS (1973-74) (3x RIAA platinum)
Produced by Jack Douglas and Ray Colcord "Walk This Way"
From the Columbia Records album TOYS IN THE ATTIC (1975) (6x RIAA platinum)
Produced by Jack Douglas "Big Ten Inch Record"
From the Columbia Records album TOYS IN THE ATTIC (1975) (6x RIAA platinum)
Produced by Jack Douglas "Sweet Emotion"
From the Columbia Records album TOYS IN THE ATTIC (1975) (6x RIAA platinum)
Produced by Jack Douglas "Last Child"
From the Columbia Records album ROCKS (1976) (4x RIAA platinum) Produced by Jack Douglas and Aerosmith
"Back In The Saddle" From the Columbia Records album ROCKS (1976) (4x RIAA platinum) Produced by Jack Douglas and Aerosmith "Draw The Line "
Remix of the original version from the album DRAW THE LINE (1977) (2x RIAA platinum)
Recorded at The Cenacle, Armonk, NY and Record Plant Studios, NYC, June - October 1977
Produced by Jack Douglas and Aerosmith Mix Producer: Don DeVito "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" From the Geffen Records album PERMANENT VACATION (1987) (5x RIAA platinum) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn Mixed by Michael Fraser "Angel" From the Geffen Records album PERMANENT VACATION (1987) (5x RIAA platinum) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn Mixed by Michael Fraser "Rag Doll" From the Geffen Records album PERMANENT VACATION (1987) (5x RIAA platinum) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn Mixed by Michael Fraser
"Janie's Got A Gun" (1990 Grammy winner: Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals)
From the Geffen Records album PUMP (1989) (7x RIAA platinum) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn Mixed by Michael Fraser "Love In An Elevator" From the Geffen Records album PUMP (1989) (7x RIAA platinum) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn Mixed by Michael Fraser "What It Takes" From the Geffen Records album PUMP (1989) (7x RIAA platinum) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn Mixed by Michael Fraser "The Other Side" From the Geffen Records album PUMP (1989) (7x RIAA platinum) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn Mixed by Michael Fraser
"Livin' On The Edge" (1993 Grammy winner: Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals)
From the Geffen Records album GET A GRIP (1993) (7x RIAA platinum) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn Mixed by Brendan O'Brien "Cryin'" From the Geffen Records album GET A GRIP (1993) (7x RIAA platinum) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn Mixed by Brendan O'Brien "Amazing" From the Geffen Records album GET A GRIP (1993) (7x RIAA platinum) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn Mixed by Brendan O'Brien Background Vocals: Don Henley "Deuces Are Wild" From the Geffen Records album BIG ONES (1994) (4x RIAA platinum) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn Mixed by Brendan O'Brien
"Crazy" (1994 Grammy winner: Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals)
From the Geffen Records album GET A GRIP (1993) (7x platinum) Produced by Bruce Fairbairn Mixed by Brendan O'Brien "Falling In Love" (Is Hard On The Knees) From the Columbia Records album NINE LIVES (1997) (2x RIAA platinum) Produced by Kevin Shirley Additional Production by Aerosmith Mixed by Kevin "Caveman" Shirley
"Pink" (The South Beach Mix) (1998 Grammy winner: Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals)
Different version from the Columbia Records album NINE LIVES (1997) (2x RIAA platinum)
Produced by Glen Ballard Mixed by Glen Ballard & Christopher Fogel "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing"
From the Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax album ARMAGEDDON: The Album (1998) (4x RIAA platinum)
Produced and Arranged by Matt Serletic
Mixed by David Thoener
"Jaded"
From the Columbia Records album JUST PUSH PLAY (2001) (RIAA platinum)
Produced by Tyler, Perry, Hudson & Frederiksen
Mixed by: Mike Shipley & The Boneyard Boys*
* The Boneyard Boys are Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Mark Hudson & Marti
Frederiksen
"Just push play" (Radio Remix)
Remix of the original version from the Columbia Records album JUST PUSH PLAY (2001) (RIAA platinum)
Produced by Tyler, Perry, Hudson & Frederiksen Re-Mixed by Marti Frederiksen & Steven Tyler "Walk This Way" (Performed by Run-D.M.C. with Steven Tyler & Joe Perry) From the BMG/Arista Records album RAISING HELL by Run-D.M.C.(1986) Produced by Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons for Rush Productions Co-Produced by Jason Mizell and Joseph Ward Simmons "Girls Of Summer" Produced by Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen Mixed by Bob Clearmountain Recorded April, 2002 "Lay It Down" Produced by Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen Mixed by Bob Clearmountain Recorded April, 2002
SOURCE: Columbia Records
CONTACT: Fran Defeo of Columbia Records, New York, +1-212-833-5784,
fran_defeo@sonymusic.com; or Dan Forman of Susan Blond, Inc., New York,
+1-212-333-7728, ext. 130, fax - +1-212-262-1373, dan@susanblondinc.com
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