Pure Gold
Released: Mar. 1, 1974
A good example of what RCA could, and would, do, freed from all pre-1973 royalty obligations to the artist. Pure Gold was not so pure in any sense. It was made up of what could only charitably be described as a serendipitous collection of sides spanning his entire pre-1973 career, but it eventually sold 2.5 million copies, its absence from the charts attributable only to the fact that it was not a full-price album.
