Elton John's Greatest Hits Vol. 3 is a compilation album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1987 only in the United States and Canada. It contains some of his biggest hits released from 1979 through 1986. The album was released at a time when Elton John had just moved back to his old U.S. label, MCA Records. Geffen's last-ditch compilation was met with some disdain from the artist, who resented the competition against his new live album on MCA, which eventually bought Geffen in 1990.
In 1992, this album was deleted and replaced with Greatest Hits 1976-1986. MCA had taken over Geffen Records, and control of copyrights had shifted such that 1977's Greatest Hits Volume II could no longer be presented as before. Two songs from it, Don't Go Breaking My Heart and Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word , were shifted to the new third volume, which also now included 1984's Who Wears These Shoes . To make room for these additions, the 1986 non-hit Heartache All Over The World and 1983's album-only track Too Low For Zero were eliminated.
Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II is a compilation album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1977. The original 1977 US version features one song from 1971 that wasn't on the first greatest hits album, two songs from 1974 that weren't on the first greatest hits volume. It also features several hit songs from 1975 and two hit singles from Elton's last year of performing in 1976.
There are several versions of the album. There were two original versions, one in the United States and Canada and another for Great Britain and the rest of the world, both released in 1977. The British version, released on DJM Records, included Bennie and the Jets , a song that had appeared on the 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road but had only recently been released as a single (1976) in Elton John's home country. In North America, where the album was released by MCA Records, this song had already appeared on the first volume of Greatest Hits. It was replaced with Levon , an even older song (from 1971's Madman Across the Water album) that had not yet been collected.
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