Hits! (Boz Scaggs album)

1980 greatest hits album by Boz Scaggs

Hits! is a compilation album by Boz Scaggs, first released in 1980. It focuses primarily on material released in 1976 and 1980. The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA.^[1]

Reception

In a retrospective review by Jason Elias for AllMusic, he criticized the album's lack of comprehensiveness, particularly the omission of "What Can I Say". Elias deemed that the later release My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology makes Hits! completely redundant.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Lowdown" (Boz Scaggs, David Paich) – 4:27
2. "You Make It So Hard (to Say No)" (Scaggs) – 3:32
3. "Miss Sun" (Paich) – 5:33
4. "Lido Shuffle" (Scaggs, Paich) – 3:41
5. "We're All Alone" (Scaggs) – 4:11
6. "Breakdown Dead Ahead" (Scaggs, David Foster) – 4:01
7. "Look What You've Done to Me" (Scaggs, Foster) – 5:17
8. "Jojo" (Scaggs, Foster, David Lasley) – 4:06
9. "Dinah Flo" (Scaggs) – 3:03
10. "You Can Have Me Anytime" (Scaggs, Foster) – 4:56

The Australian release of Hits! replaced Track 9 "Dinah Flo" with "What Can I Say" (B. Scaggs, D. Paich).

Re-release

In 2006 Hits! was re-released with additional tracks and a new cover.

1. "What Can I Say" (Scaggs, Paich)
2. "Jojo" (Scaggs, Foster, Lasley)
3. "Miss Sun" [Long Version] (Paich)
4. "Hard Times" (Scaggs)
5. "Slow Dancer" (Scaggs, George Daly)
6. "Harbor Lights" (Scaggs)
7. "Dinah Flo" (Scaggs)
8. "Look What You've Done to Me" (Scaggs, Foster)
9. "Breakdown Dead Ahead" (Scaggs, Foster)
10. "You Make It So Hard (To Say No)" (Scaggs)
11. "It's Over" (Scaggs, Paich)
12. "We're All Alone" (Scaggs)
13. "Heart of Mine" (Bobby Caldwell, Dennis Matkosky, Jason Scheff)
14. "Lowdown" (Scaggs, Paich)
15. "Lido Shuffle" (Scaggs, Paich)

Personnel

"Lowdown"

• Boz Scaggs – lead vocals
• David Paich – keyboards, strings and horns arrangements
• Fred Tackett – guitar, guitar solo
• Louie Shelton – guitar
• David Hungate – bass
• Jeff Porcaro – drums
• Carolyn Willis – background vocals
• Marty McCall – background vocals
• Jim Gilstrap – background vocals
• Augie Johnson – background vocals

"You Make It So Hard (to Say No)

• Boz Scaggs – lead vocals, guitar
• James Gadson – drums
• James Jamerson – bass guitar
• Joe Sample, Clarence McDonald – keyboards
• David T. Walker, Dennis Coffey, Wah Wah Watson – guitar
• Carolyn Willis, Julia Tillman Wate, Lorna Willard, Myrna Matthew, Pat Henderson - background vocals
• H.B. Barnum - string arrangements, conductor

"Miss Sun"

• Boz Scaggs – lead vocals
• Jeff Porcaro – drums, percussion
• David Paich – keyboards, moog bass, synthesizers
• Steve Lukather – guitar
• Steve Porcaro – synthesizers
• Lisa Dal Bello – vocals

"Lido Shuffle"

• Boz Scaggs – lead vocals, guitar
• David Paich – keyboards, horns arrangements, synthesizers solo
• Jeff Porcaro – drums
• David Hungate – bass guitar
• Fred Tackett – guitar

"We're All Alone"

• Boz Scaggs – lead vocal
• Jeff Porcaro – drums
• David Hungate – bass guitar
• David Paich – keyboards, strings and horns arrangements

"Breakdown Dead Ahead"

• Rick Marotta – drums
• Boz Scaggs – lead vocals, guitar
• David Foster – keyboards
• Don Grolnick – electric piano
• Lenny Castro – percussion
• David Hungate – bass
• Steve Lukather – guitar, guitar solo
• Ray Parker Jr. – guitar
• Paulette Brown, Venetta Fields, Bill Thedford – background vocals

"Look What You've Done To Me"

• David Foster – keyboards, strings and horns arrangements
• Don Felder, Steve Lukather – guitar
• Mike Porcaro – bass guitar
• Jeff Porcaro – drums
• Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit, background vocals

"JoJo"

• Boz Scaggs – lead vocals, guitar
• David Foster – keyboards, synthesizer, strings arrangements
• Jerry Hey – horns arrangements
• Ray Parker Jr., Steve Lukather – guitar
• John Pierce – bass guitar
• Jeff Porcaro – drums
• Lenny Castro – percussion
• Adrian Tapia – saxophone solo
• David Lasley, Sharon Redd, Charlotte Crossley – background vocals

"Dinah Flo"

• Boz Scaggs – vocals, electric guitar
• Barry Beckett – piano
• Pete Carr – electric guitar
• Charles Chalmers – saxophone, background vocals
• Sandra Chalmers – background vocals
• Roger Hawkins – drums
• Eddie Hinton – acoustic guitar
• David Hood – bass guitar
• Clayton Ivey – organ, keyboards
• Jimmy Johnson – electric guitar
• Donna Rhodes – background vocals
• Muscle Shoals Horns – horns, horns arrangements

"You Can Have Me Anytime"

• Boz Scaggs – lead vocal
• David Foster – piano, synthesizers
• David Hungate – bass
• Marty Paich – strings arrangements
• Jeff Porcaro – drums
• Carlos Santana – guitar solo

Production

• Boz Scaggs – producer
• Johnny Bristol – producer
• David Foster – producer
• Roy Halee – engineer, producer
• Joe Wissert – producer
• Tom Perry – engineer
• Al Schmitt – engineer
• Bill Schnee – engineer, producer
• Greg Venable – engineer
• Mike Reese – mastering
• Lois Walker – mastering

Charts

References

1. "RIAA – Searchable Database: Boz Scaggs". Retrieved April 23, 2021.
2. Elias, Jason. Hits! at AllMusic. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 266. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
4. "Charts.nz – Boz Scaggs – Hits!". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
5. "Boz Scaggs Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
6. "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1981". Billboard. Retrieved October 30, 2021.