Janis Ian – songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and author -first entered the folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-sixties; most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century.

Best known for her signature song ‘At Seventeen’, which was released in 1975, Janis won a Grammy Award for the single, which sold over two million singles in the United States alone, upon release. Later in the decade she was selected to sing the main theme tune for the Jodie Foster film ‘Foxes’. ‘Fly Too High’, which was produced by electro disco genius Giorgio Moroder, gave Janis her first UK hit in November 1979 but became an international hit. The record went to #30 in the Billboard Hot Dance / Disco Chart.

“Best of Janis Ian” consists thirty-one tracks, including the two mentioned above along with several rarities, such as her first demo which she recorded as a 13 year old, a lo-fi version of ‘Hair of Spun Gold’, ‘Jesse’, which was a Top 30 hit for Roberta Flack, along with Sesame Street’s ‘Ginny the Flying Girl’.

Also included in this package is a twelve-track DVD filmed during her peak period in 1979 in Japan and Australia.

Disk 1
1. Hair of Spun Gold
2. God & the FBI (Live)
3. Silly Habits (Live)
4. Society's Child
5. Haven't I Got the Eyes
6. Jesse
7. Stars
8. Thankyous
9. This Train Still Runs (Live)
10. At Seventeen
11. Love is Blind
12. Fly too High
13. Arms Around My Life
14. His Hands
15. When Angels Cry

Disk 2
1. My Tennessee Hills
2. Every Love (Demo)
3. Some People's Lives
4. Stolen Fire
5. Days Like These
6. Tattoo (Live)
7. Through the Years
8. I Hear You Sing Again
9. Joy
10. My Autobiography
11. Hair of Spun Gold (Demo)
12. I Long For You
13. Ginny the Flying Girl
14. Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
15. Today You're Mine
16. At Seventeen (Single Version)

Disk 3
1. Let Me Be Lonely (Live in Japan)
2. At Seventeen (Live in Japan)
3. I Would Like to Dance (Live in Japan)
4. Get Ready to Roll (Live in Japan)
5. Will You Dance (Live in Japan)
6. Fly Too High (Live in Japan)
7. Silly Habits (Live in Japan)
8. Here Comes the Night (Live in Japan)
9. I Remember Yesterday (Live in Japan)
10. Memories (Live in Japan)
11. Love is Blind (Live in Japan)
12. In the Winter (Live in Japan)

 Label : Edsel