Best of Shooting Star explained

Best of Shooting Star
Type:	greatest
Artist:	Shooting Star
Cover:	Shooting Star (Best of Shooting Star Album Cover).jpg
Released:	July 1989
Genre:	Rock Hard rock
Label:	V&R Distribution
Prev Title:	Silent Scream
Prev Year:	1985
Next Title:	Shooting Star/Hang On for Your Life
Next Year:	1991

Best of Shooting Star (aka Touch Me Tonight) is a compilation by American Rock band Shooting Star. The album predominantly consists of songs taken from the band's first four studio albums, all of which charted on the 'Billboard Top Album' chart at the time of their release; along with two songs ("Christmas Together" and "Touch Me Tonight") which had never before featured on a Shooting Star album prior to the release of Best of Shooting Star.

Track listing

• Tracks 1-4 are taken from Shooting Star (1980).
• Tracks 5-8 are taken from Hang On for Your Life (1981).
• Track 9 is taken from III Wishes (1982).
• Tracks 10 and 11 are taken from Burning (1983).
• Track 12 was previously a single-only release in 1985.
• Track 13 was previously unreleased.

Personnel

Shooting Star

• Van McLain – lead vocals, guitars (all tracks)
• Steve Thomas – drums, percussion (all tracks)
• Gary West – lead vocals, piano, keyboards, timpani drums (tracks 1–12)
• Charles Waltz – backing vocals, violin, keyboards (tracks 1–12)
• Ron Verlin – bass guitar (tracks 1–11 and 13)
• Bill Guffey – keyboards (tracks 1–8)
• Norm Dahlor – bass guitar (track 12)
• Keith Mitchell – lead vocals (track 13)
• Dennis Laffoon – keyboards (track 13)

Additional personnel

• Unidos – backing vocals (track 12)
• Baby Lee – backing vocals (track 13)