''The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie'' is a

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taken from her first six albums with

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, released in 1970.

History

Originally issued as a double-LP set after the financial disaster of ''

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'', the album contains material from all her previous albums but not one track unavailable elsewhere at the time of its release. The compilation was a very modest chart success, returning her to the Top 200 after the failure of ''Illuminations'', from which it does however extract five tracks. Because '' Many a Mile'' has been issued on

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only in Italy, and ''Illuminations'' and '' Fire & Fleet & Candlelight'' were not issued on CD until many years after ''The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie'' became her first-ever release on CD in 1990, the compilation has always been of considerable value despite containing no hits except the extremely minor #98 "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again" (which actually only reached even that position after being re-released after "Soldier Blue"). An abbreviated single-LP version was also released in 1972 with the catalogue number Vanguard 73113.

Track list

Charts

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(North America)

References

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