Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr albums. All the tracks from Ringo's first compilation "Blast From Your Past" appeared on "Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr". The compilation debuted at number 26 on the UK Albums Chart on 2 September 2007. This achievement represented Starr's highest peak on that chart since 1974, when "Goodnight Vienna" reached number 30. "Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr" stayed in the UK top 100 for three weeks. The album also had a two-week chart run in the United States, where it debuted at number 130 with 5,426 copies sold during the first week of release. The track listing
Sentimental Journey (Ringo Starr album) and other members of his family to choose the tracks. Starr engaged the services of Beatles producer George Martin to helm his solo debut, shortly after the Beatles' "Abbey Road" (1969) came out. Starr had one song each arranged by different musicians, ranging from fellow-Beatle Paul McCartney, and Martin himself to Richard Perry, Quincy Jones, The Bee Gees' Maurice Gibb, Klaus Voormann, and Elmer Bernstein among others, as Starr thought the album would have a flavour to it. Author Bill Harry states that on 1 October 1969, Starr asked Count Basie to write an arrangement score for "Night and Day";