''The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3'' is a

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by Northern Irish singer-songwriter

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, that was released on 11 June 2007 in the UK with a digital version released in the U.S. on

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, on 12 June 2007. Manhattan/ EMI Music Catalog Marketing released the CD version of the album on 19 June 2007 in the United States. This new two-disc collection of 31 tracks has been compiled by Morrison himself. It offers an overview of his large volume of material since the release of ''

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'' in 1993. The album's thirty-one tracks include previously unreleased collaborations with

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("Cry For Home") and Bobby Bland ("

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") as well as duets with

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, B.B. King and

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. The 2003 duet with Ray Charles is " Crazy Love" a song originally recorded on Morrison's 1970 album ''

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''. "Blue and Green" was previously donated to be used on the charity album '' Hurricane Relief: Come Together Now'', which raised money for relief efforts intended for

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victims devastated by hurricane Katrina. The duet with Tom Jones, "Cry For Home" was taken from the same recording sessions that produced the " Sometimes We Cry" duet between the two artists, which featured on Jones' successful album '' Reload''. "Cry for Home" was released as a single on 4 June 2007 in the UK, and was followed by "Blue and Green" on 27 August. On 18 June 2007 it was listed as No. 23 on the UK Music Charts on the Official UK Top 75 Albums.The Official UK Top 75 Albums
retrieved 18-06-07

Track listing

Disc one

# "Cry for Home" (with

) (previously unreleased) – 4:10 # "Too Long In Exile" – 5:08 # "

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" (with

) – 5:19 # " Help Me" (with Junior Wells) (Live at the Masonic Auditorium) – 6:25 # "

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/4 O'Clock in the Morning (Try for Sleep)/Sooner or Later/When Will I Become a Man?/You Give Me Nothing but the Blues/Lonely Avenue" (with

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& Jim Hunter) (Live at the Masonic Auditorium) – 7:54 # " Days Like This – 3:14 # "Ancient Highway" – 8:52 # "Raincheck" – 5:53 # "

" (Jazz version) – 4:56 # " Centerpiece" (Live at Ronnie Scott's) (with

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& Annie Ross) – 3:16 # " That's Life" (Live at The Point) – 4:30 # "Benediction" (remix) (with Georgie Fame &

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) – 3:01 # " The Healing Game" (remix) – 5:17 # " I Don't Want to Go On Without You" (with Jim Hunter) – 3:27

Disc two

# " Shenandoah" (with

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) – 3:53 # " Precious Time" – 3:08 # " Back on Top" (remix) – 4:20 # "When the Leaves Come Falling Down" – 5:38 # "Lost John" (Live at Whitla Hall) – 2:57 # "

" (with Bobby "Blue" Bland) (previously unreleased) – 3:37 # "Meet Me in the Indian Summer" (Orchestral Version) (Remix) – 3:31 # " Georgia on My Mind" – 5:37 # " Hey Mr. DJ" – 3:49 # "Steal My Heart Away" – 4:11 # " Crazy Love" (with

) – 3:43 # "Once in a Blue Moon" – 3:30 # "Little Village" – 4:30 # "Blue and Green" – 5:41 # " Sittin' on Top of the World" (with

Carl Perkins Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998)#nytimesobit, Pareles. was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rockabilly great and pioneer of rock and roll, he began his recording career at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, Tennes ...

) – 3:20 # " Early in the Morning" (with B.B. King) – 4:50 # " Stranded" – 5:37

References

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