The Platinum Collection (Chaka Khan album) explained

The Platinum Collection
Type:greatest
Artist:Chaka Khan
Cover:Chaka Khan - The Platinum Collection.jpg
Released:June 26, 2006
Recorded:1978–1993
Length:69:16
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The Platinum Collection is a compilation album of recordings by American funk/R&B singer Chaka Khan, released by the Warner label in 2006.

The Platinum Collection was the second career retrospective of Khan's work to be released, and also the second one-disc set, following 1996's (re-released in 1999 and 2005, also under the title ), which included sixteen tracks: eight solo hits, two with Rufus and six tracks from the shelved album Dare You to Love Me, recorded between 1993 and 1995.

The fourteen-track Platinum Collection includes more or less the same selection of songs as Epiphany, but with a few important alterations; the set omits the Rufus track "Tell Me Something Good" as well as "And the Melody Still Lingers On (A Night in Tunisia)" from 1981's What Cha' Gonna Do for Me, along with five of the 1993-1995 recordings. These are replaced with "Love of a Lifetime" from 1986's Destiny and "Love You All My Lifetime" and "Don't Look At Me That Way" from 1992's The Woman I Am.

The Platinum Collection also features two of Khan's biggest chart hits that were not included in the Epiphany set, both from her best-selling album I Feel for You: "This Is My Night" and "Eye to Eye" – the versions used on The Platinum Collection are, however, not the original recordings but are remixes dating from 1989 and the compilation Life is a Dance - The Remix Project.

Track listing

  1. "I Feel for You" (Prince) - 5:46
  2. "I'm Every Woman" (Ashford, Simpson) - 4:08
  3. "Ain't Nobody" (Wolinski) - 4:41 (With Rufus)
  4. "This Is My Night" (1989 Remix Version) (Frank, Murphy) - 5:06
  5. "Eye to Eye" (1989 Remix Version) (Sembello) - 8:21
  6. "Papillon (a.k.a. Hot Butterfly)" (Diamond) - 4:08
  7. "I Know You, I Live You" (Khan, Mardin) - 4:28
  8. "Love of a Lifetime" (Gamson, Gartside) - 4:16
  9. "The End of a Love Affair" (Redding) - 5:13
    • From 1988 album CK
  10. "Love You All My Lifetime" (Klarmann, Weber) - 4:41
  11. "Don't Look at Me That Way" (Warren) - 4:50
  12. "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me" (Doheny, Stuart) - 3:53
  13. "Every Little Thing" (DeVeaux, Gamson, Khan, Thomas) - 5:12
    • 1993 recording, first released on 1996 compilation
  14. "Through the Fire" (Foster, Keane, Weil) - 4:47