![]() ![]() ![]() No less than 12 of the 79-minute disc's 21 tracks have been licensed from other labels, including the major pop hit "Wildfire" and the number one country hits "What's Forever For?" and "A Long Line of Love." They've even dug up "I Feel Good (I Feel Bad)," the 1967 chart single by Murphey's early group, the Lewis & Clark Expedition. You've got to admit that they've made an effort. But Hip-O, Universal's reissue arm, is nothing if not ambitious, and so we have this Ultimate Collection. The least likely label to assemble a compilation would seem to be Universal, which possesses only two of his albums. ![]() (He has recorded independently since 1998.) For another, he has had at least three different careers, one in the 1970s as a pop singer/songwriter, another in the 1980s as a country singer, and a third as a Western artist. For one thing, he has recorded for several record companies, all of which have catalogs now controlled by different major labels: A&M (Universal) 1972-1973 Epic (Sony), 1973-1981 Liberty (EMI), 1982-1983 and Warner Bros. Michael Martin Murphey presents great challenges to anyone trying to construct a one-disc compilation of his work. ![]()
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