''Past to Present 1977–1990'' is the first compilation album by
Toto
Toto may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters Pets
* Toto (Oz), Toto (''Oz''), a dog in the novel and film ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz''
* Toto, in Japanese ''The Cat Returns#Plot, The Cat Returns''
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, released in 1990. It contains nine hit songs from the band's first seven albums, and four new songs recorded with new singer
Jean-Michel Byron
Jean-Michel Byron (born Jean-Michel Byron DuPlessis) is a South African-born funk and rock vocalist. The singer-songwriter is best known for serving for a time as the lead vocalist for the rock band Toto for new material on their first greatest ...
.
According to the band, it was Toto's record label
Columbia
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* Columbia (personification), the historical female national personification of the United States, and a poetic name for America
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* Columbia Plateau, a geologic and geographic region in ...
who proposed the band work with Byron. Ultimately the band was not happy with his onstage antics and was asked to leave the band. Steve Lukather became Toto's lead vocalist in 1991.
Track listing
Some CD inlays and LP sleeves may have the song '99' wrongly dated as a 1988 track. It dates from 1979. Also on this album, the only Toto member that wasn't named in the credits was
Fergie Frederiksen
Dennis Hardy "Fergie" Frederiksen (May 15, 1951 – January 18, 2014) was an American rock singer best known as the former lead singer of Trillion, Angel, LeRoux and Toto, as well as providing backing vocals for Survivor. He contributed to hit ...
, Lead vocalist on the album; ''
Isolation'' (1984).
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
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References
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Toto (band) albums
1990 compilation albums