Rick Springfield je austrálsko-americký rockový spevák, gitarista a herec. V rokoch 1969–1971 pôsobil v pop-rockovej skupine Zoot, potom sa venoval sólovej kariére. V USA dosiahol výrazný úspech v 80. rokoch, keď patril k popredným predstaviteľom power popu a melodického rocku.
Box set Original Album Classics na piatich CD prináša kolekciu kľúčových albumov z jeho tvorby. Obsahuje kompletné nahrávky Comic Book Heroes, Working Class Dog (1981), Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (1982), Living in Oz (1983) a Tao (1985). Album Working Class Dog zahŕňa hit Jessie's Girl, ktorým získal v roku 1981 cenu Grammy v kategórii Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, a ďalšie úspešné skladby ako I've Done Everything for You a Love Is Alright Tonite. Popri štúdiových verziách nechýba ani demonahrávka Jessie's Girl. Ďalšie významné hity zastupujú Don't Talk to Strangers, Affair of the Heart a Human Touch.
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CD1 Comic Book Heroes
1 Comic Book Heroes
2 I'm Your Superman
3 Weep No More
4 Why Are You Waiting
5 Believe In Me
6 Misty Water Woman
7 The Liar
8 The Photograph
9 Bad Boy
10 Born Out Of Time
11 Do You Love Your Children
CD2 Working Class Dog
1 Love Is Alright Tonite
2 Jessie's Girl
3 Hole In My Heart
4 Carry Me Away
5 I've Done Everything For You
6 The Light Of Love
7 Everybody's Girl
8 Daddy's Pearl
9 Red Hot & Blue Love
10 Inside Silvia
11 Easy To Cry
12 Taxi Dancing (Original Version)
13 Jessie's Girl (Demo Version)
CD3 Succes Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet
1 Calling All Girls
2 I Get Excited
3 What Kind Of Fool Am I
4 Kristina
5 Tonight
6 Black Is Black
7 Don't Talk To Strangers
8 How Do You Talk To Girls
9 Still Crazy For You
10 The American Girl
11 Just One Kiss
12 April 24, 1981
CD4 Living In Oz
1 Human Touch
2 Alyson
3 Affair Of The Heart
4 Living In Oz
5 Me & Johnny
6 Motel Eyes
7 Tiger By The Tail
8 Souls
9 I Can't Stop Hurting You
10 Like Father, Like Son
CD5 TAO
1 Dance This World Away
2 Celebrate Youth
3 Ride 'Em B Do Jr.
4 State Of The Heart
5 Written In Rock
6 The Power Of Love (The Tao Of Love)
7 Walking On The Edge
8 Walk Like A Man
9 The Tao Of Heaven
10 Stranger In The House
11 My Father's Chair
