WThe Alberts, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Temperance Seven is a singles compilation album released in 1971, notable for the first time both sides of the first two Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band singles were released in stereo.
WAll Good Clean Fun was originally a promotional sampler issued by United Artists Records in 1971. This original release was a double album containing 23 tracks by 20 different artists, with three artists having two tracks each. Most of the artists had been signed by Andrew Lauder at Liberty Records, which was rebranded as United Artists in 1971, the year this sampler was issued. Both labels had been part of Transamerica Corporation since 1968.
WBarrel Full of Monkees is a compilation album of songs by the Monkees, released by Colgems Records in 1971. The double album was produced and marketed for children, after the success of the Monkees' television show being rebroadcast on Saturday mornings by CBS, and was the last LP ever issued by Colgems.
WBBC Radiophonic Music is the first compilation of music released by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It featured music by three of the Workshop's most prominent composers, John Baker, David Cain, and Delia Derbyshire. The album was originally released by BBC Radio Enterprises in 1968 to coincide with the Workshop's 10th anniversary and later re-released in 1971 on the BBC Records label.
WThe Best of The Guess Who is the fourth compilation album by the Canadian group The Guess Who. It was originally released by RCA Records in April 1971 and contains recordings made between 1968 and 1970. The album reached number 12 on the Billboard top LPs chart in the United States.
WBlack Magic Woman is a compilation album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1971. It is a double album, composed of songs from two Peter Green-era albums, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and English Rose, as well as several non-album tracks. The U.S. Epic double album contains a different cover photo of a gypsy woman.
WC'mon Everybody is a compilation album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley released by RCA Records on July 1, 1971. The album was certified Gold on January 6, 2004 by the Recording Industry Association of America.
WCatch the Wind is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United Kingdom in 1971 and did not chart. This 1971 release bears little resemblance to the 1965 version of What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid released as Catch the Wind in the United States.
WCocker Happy is a "best of" compilation album by English rock/blues singer Joe Cocker, released in Australia, Spain and New Zealand in 1971 on Interfusion Records. It spent 8 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts in 1971.
WThe Dave Clark Five is a US-only compilation double-album by The Dave Clark Five. The double-LP was released in 1971 three years after the group's last US studio album entitled Everybody Knows. It features 20 studio tracks in true stereo.
WDel mio meglio is a compilation album by Italian singer Mina released in 1971. The first in a series of compilation albums released under the "Del mio meglio" title.
WGimme Dat Ding is a split album by The Sweet and The Pipkins, released on EMI's budget record label, MFP in 1970. It is named after the 1970 song "Gimme Dat Ding" by the Pipkins.
WGimme Shelter is a compilation by The Rolling Stones, released on Decca Records in 1971. It reached #19 on the U.K chart.
WGolden Hour of Donovan is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United Kingdom in November 1971 and did not chart.
WThe Great Band Era is a compilation album featuring Swing music from 1936-1945. Reader's Digest released the album in 1965. In 1988, the Recording Industry Association of America certified 9 million sales of the album – making it one of the top selling albums ever within the United States. The album was released as a ten LP album box set. The album included many swing favorites, as well as new recordings.
WGuitar Boogie is a blues rock compilation album featuring Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page together with the Allstars and members of The Rolling Stones.
WHear Me Now is a compilation album by the Scottish singer/songwriter Donovan. Released in the US in 1971, it did not chart.
WI Got Lucky is a compilation album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley. The album, released in October 1971 on the RCA Camden label, is a follow-up to the C'mon Everybody album as it features the remaining tracks from the soundtrack EPs of the same four films from the first compilation plus one non-movie/non-LP track. It was certified Gold on January 6, 2004 and Platinum on September 15, 2011 by the RIAA.
WI'll Paint You a Song is a compilation of the vocal tracks from the soundtrack albums Norwood and True Grit, plus "Private John Q," previously released as a 1965 Capitol single.
WThe Impossible Dream is a double compilation album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in late 1971 by Columbia Records. Unlike his most recent compilation, Andy Williams' Greatest Hits, this 2-LP set focused exclusively on covers of songs made famous by other artists and included four tracks that had previously only been available on his UK album titled Love Story. In 2003 these tracks were released on the Williams collection from Collectables Records titled B Sides and Rarities.
WThe Life and Times of Country Joe and the Fish is a compilation album by the American psychedelic rock band Country Joe and the Fish and was released on Vanguard Records in September 1971. The album provides a summary of Country Joe and the Fish's history from their formation in 1965 to their disbandment in 1970, and also serves as a survey of their recording career during that span. Although the track listing is not in a specified chronological order, it does encompass a mixture of their most celebrated experimental and traditionally-structured compositions. All of the songs included on the original The Life and Times of Country Joe and the Fish album can all be found on the band's first five albums, Electric Music for the Mind and Body, I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die, Together, Here We Are Again, and CJ Fish.
WThe Love Album is a two-LP collection of previously recorded songs by Vinton, released in 1971 by Epic Records. This collection contains songs that are all about the subject of love. Only four singles are featured on this collection: "No Arms Can Ever Hold You", "Please Love Me Forever", "There! I've Said It Again" and "My Heart Belongs to Only You".
WMama’s Big Ones is the third solo album released by Mama Cass. It was also the last studio album she released for Dunhill in order to fulfill her three-album deal.
WMcKinley Morganfield A.K.A. Muddy Waters is a compilation album by blues musician Muddy Waters featuring tracks recorded between 1948 and 1953 released by the Chess label in 1971.
WThe Most of Lulu is a compilation album by British pop singer Lulu, released in 1971. It was the first of Lulu's albums to chart in the UK, reaching No.15. It was released on the MfP budget record label, which the following year followed this up with The Most of Lulu Volume 2 - a re-release of 1969's Lulu's Album with one extra track. This compilation featured Lulu's hits from the late 1960s which had been released on the EMI label, therefore missing out her most well-known song "Shout".
WMy Heart Has a Mind of Its Own is the third compilation album by American country artist Connie Smith, issued in May 1971 on the RCA Camden label and was produced by Bob Ferguson.
WNick Drake was an American only LP compilation release by Nick Drake. It was released in August 1971 as SMAS-9307, shortly after Island Records had started selling their own records in the U.S. At the time, they were distributed by Capitol records.
WOh! What A Carry On! was a 1971 compilation album of songs performed by actors from the Carry On... film series, and released on the budget Music For Pleasure label. Many were novelty songs with most, such as those by Jim Dale, having previously been released as singles. None were recorded specifically for this album or had any direct relationship to the Carry On films. For example, Kenneth Williams' songs as Rambling Syd Rumpo, which Gramophone magazine described as the best on the album, were taken from Round the Horne and Jim Dale's songs had been hits in the 1950s.
WOld Songs New Songs is a budget-priced compilation album by the British progressive rock band Family, released in March 1971. The title is taken from the title of a song that appeared on the band's 1968 debut album Music in a Doll's House, although that song does not appear on this record.
WThe Original Fleetwood Mac is a compilation album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, first released in May 1971. It consists of various outtakes recorded by the first incarnation of the band in 1967–68. The album was re-released in 2000 with four extra tracks, and re-released in 2004 with seven different extra tracks
WThe Other Sides – Elvis Worldwide Gold Award Hits Vol. 2 is a compilation album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley released on August 1, 1971. It was certified Gold on July 15, 1999 by the Recording Industry Association of America. Only six tracks had never been officially released in LP format prior to this release: "Let Me", "Tell Me Why", the single (studio) versions of "Patch it Up" and "I've Lost You", the undubbed version of "Lover Doll", and the title song for Wild in the Country.
WOut There is a compilation album by the American rock band Love, released in 1988 on Big Beat Records. It consists of tracks from the 1969 double LP Out Here and the 1970 LP False Start.
WPor Siempre Beatles is a compilation album by the English rock group the Beatles, released in 1971 in Spain and Latin America. It contains various songs from 1965 –1968 that had not appeared on a British studio album by the Beatles.
WRainbow Bridge is a compilation album by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix. It was the second posthumous album release by his official record company and is mostly composed of recordings Hendrix made in 1969 and 1970 after the breakup of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Despite the cover photo and subtitle Original Motion Picture Sound Track, it does not contain any songs recorded during his concert appearance for the 1971 film Rainbow Bridge.
WReflections is a compilation album by American pop group The 5th Dimension, released in 1971. It contains songs from while the band was recording for Soul City Records. It includes four songs that were originally released as A-side singles, although only one was a Top 20 hit. Bell Records released Greatest Hits on Earth the following year, which would include The 5th Dimension's biggest hits from both current label Bell Records and prior label Soul City Records.
WRelics is a 1971 compilation album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. The album was released in the UK on 14 May 1971 and in the United States on the following day. Initially released by Starline, the compilation was reissued by Music for Pleasure in the United Kingdom, while Harvest and Capitol distributed the album in the United States. A remastered CD was released in 1996 with a different album cover, picturing a three-dimensional model based on the sketch drawn by drummer Nick Mason for the album's initial release.
WA Satisfied Mind is a compilation of 9 of the 12 songs from the 1962 Capitol album Big Bluegrass Special plus "A Satisfied Mind" which had been released as flipside of Glen Campbell's 1966 Capitol single "Can’t You See I’m Trying".
WStone Age is a compilation by the Rolling Stones released on the Decca label in 1971. It reached number four on the UK charts.
WStraight from the Heart is a compilation album by David Houston and Tammy Wynette. It was released in December 1971, by Columbia Records on their Columbia Musical Treasuries imprint.
WThru the Years is a compilation album of music by John Mayall released in October 1971 by Decca Records in the U.K. and London Records in the U.S.A. The album was the second compilation to be issued by Decca/London with Mayall's blessing, although his contract with them had ceased. It features a mixture of previously unissued songs or non-album tracks that had only been released as singles.
WWinwood is the first compilation album of music featuring Steve Winwood. This two-record set was issued in 1971 by United Artists Records and features music which Winwood performed with The Spencer Davis Group, Powerhouse, Traffic and Blind Faith. UA Records issued this album after Winwood's band Traffic left UA when their home label Island Records set up their own American operation. Issued without Winwood's authorization as catalogue number UAS-9950, it was taken off the market after legal action by Winwood and Island Records. It was then reissued with minor changes as catalogue number UAS-9964. Currently out of print, it was issued on CD by Universal Music of Japan for the Japanese market.
WThe World of Lynn Anderson is a compilation album by country music singer Lynn Anderson released in 1971.
WThe Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach is a collection of works by Peter Schickele under his comic pseudonym of P. D. Q. Bach originally recorded on the Vanguard Records label by the composer. It includes "lowlights" from four different Vanguard albums: An Evening with P. D. Q. Bach (1807–1742)?, An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall, Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air, and P. D. Q. Bach's half-act opera The Stoned Guest. Wurst is the German word for sausage, with the album cover photograph set in a sausage shop.
WYou'll Never Walk Alone is a compilation album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in 1971 by RCA Records on their budget label, RCA Camden. The album contains primarily previously released gospel recordings by Presley dating back as far as 1957, plus two unreleased tracks.