Question: ] Greatest Hits: 1980–1994 is the RIAA Platinum-certified first greatest hits album released by an artist born in which year ?

full_context: Document 1: The Electrifying Aretha Franklin: The Electrifying Aretha Franklin is the third studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on March 19, 1962 by Columbia Records. The album which also known under its working title "The Incomparable Aretha Franklin", was recorded at Columbia Recording Studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York. It was produced by John Hammond and arranged by Richard Wess.
Document 2: Songs of Faith (Aretha Franklin album): Songs of Faith is the debut studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released in 1956 by JVB/Battle Records. The album was recorded live when Franklin was aged 14 at New Bethel Baptist Church, the church of her father Reverend C. L. Franklin. The album was originally issued on JVB LP 100 and Battle LP 6105. It is always known on Checker Records as Checker LPS-10009. Songs of Faith has been reissued many times under various names. It is known also as "The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin", "Aretha's Gospel", "Precious Lord", "You Grow Closer", "Never Grow Old", and "The First Album".
Document 3: Greatest Hits: 1980–1994: Greatest Hits: 1980–1994 is the RIAA Platinum-certified first greatest hits album released by Aretha Franklin since she signed with Arista Records in 1980. As it can be read in the title, it compiles her hits from 1980's "Aretha" all through her last album at the time, 1991's "What You See Is What You Sweat".
Document 4: Greatest Hits 1974–78: Greatest Hits 1974–78 is a compilation album by the Steve Miller Band released in November 1978. It has sold 14 million copies in the United States and is ranked 37th on the Recording Industry Association of America list of best selling albums. It also achieved Diamond certification in Canada (1,000,000 units) in 2003. Two singles that reached No. 1 are "The Joker", which topped the charts on January 12, 1974 and "Rock'n Me" on November 6, 1976. As a sign of the album-oriented rock times, all but one track came from their last two albums even though they had eleven studio albums at the time. A prior greatest hits album, 1972's "Anthology", contained songs from the first five albums. The more comprehensive "Young Hearts: Complete Greatest Hits" in 2003 added early hits "Living in the U.S.A.", "My Dark Hour", "Space Cowboy", and "Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma" and later hits "Abracadabra", "Who Do You Love", "I Want to Make the World Turn Around", "Wide River", and "Cry Cry Cry", but dropped this album's "True Fine Love" and "Winter Time". On this 1978 album/CD release, the shorter 7-inch single versions of "Jet Airliner", "Swingtown", "The Joker", and "Fly Like an Eagle" are used. On the 2003 compilation, the original album versions are used (although the track "Fly Like an Eagle" still fades out earlier than its album counterpart).
Document 5: Aretha Franklin: Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at the church of her father, minister C. L. Franklin's church. In 1960, at the age of 18, Franklin embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only achieving modest success. Following her signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Spanish Harlem" and "Think". By the end of the 1960s decade she had gained the title "The Queen of Soul".
Document 6: (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman: "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" is a 1967 single released by American soul singer Aretha Franklin on the Atlantic label. The song was co-written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, with input from Atlantic producer Jerry Wexler. The record was a big hit for Franklin, reaching number 8 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and became a standard song for her. Franklin also included a live recording on the album "Aretha in Paris" in 1968. Versions have also been performed and recorded by King herself, Mary J. Blige, Celine Dion, and many others. At the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, Aretha Franklin performed the song to honor award-recipient Carole King.
Document 7: Greatest Hits (Diana Ross album): Greatest Hits is a 1972 compilation album released by American singer Diana Ross on Motown. Due to Ross' strong popularity in the UK, Motown's UK label Tamla-Motown, issued this best-of only in England and Australia. A compilation album of Ross' early solo hits wouldn't be issued in her homeland America until 1976; "Diana Ross' Greatest Hits".
Document 8: Soft and Beautiful: Soft and Beautiful is the seventeenth studio album by the American singer Aretha Franklin, released on June 20, 1969, by Columbia Records. The album was recorded when Franklin was 22 years old between July 9 and 16, 1964, It was her last album on Columbia before she moved to Atlantic Records and until 1969, unreleased, although an alternative version of "A Mother's Love" appeared on Franklin's 1966 Columbia LP "Soul Sister". It reached Number 29 on "Billboard"'s R&B chart. Mark Bego, in "Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul", called it "the most consistently paced album of her later Columbia years". Originally released by Columbia Records, the album was reissued on CD with her 1962 album "The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin".
Document 9: Crystal Gayle albums discography: American country artist Crystal Gayle has released twenty four studio albums (one of which was collaborative), seventeen compilation albums, two video albums, one live album, one soundtrack album, and has appeared on sixteen additional albums. Gayled signed with United Artists Records in 1974 and began recording albums. Her self-titled debut album was issued in 1975, peaking at number twenty five on the "Billboard" Top Country Albums chart. After releasing two similar studio albums, Gayle issued "We Must Believe in Magic" in 1977. Reaching number two on the country albums chart and number twelve on the Billboard 200, it became the first album by a female country artist to certify platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. "When I Dream" (1978) also peaked in the second position of the Top Country Albums survey and certified platinum in the US. Her seventh studio album, "Miss the Mississippi" (1979), was issued on Columbia Records and certified gold in the United States. "These Days" achieved similar status in 1980. Her ninth studio album entitled "Hollywood, Tennessee" (1981) contained several cover versions of pop music songs. In 1983, Gayle issued her first greatest hits compilation, "Crystal Gayle's Greatest Hits" before leaving Columbia. The album was certified gold from the RIAA a decade later.
Document 10: Greatest Hits (1983 Ray Stevens album): Greatest Hits is a collection of ten previously released singles by Ray Stevens, released in 1983 by RCA Records. This collection contains three singles that were released by Monument Records, four by Barnaby Records, and two by RCA. One of the selections is not an original recording; "Ahab the Arab" is a re-recording of Stevens' 1962 hit for Mercury Records that was included on his album "Gitarzan", which was released by Monument in 1969. Additionally, there are two selections featured on this collection that are album versions; "Gitarzan" is the album version that begins with cheering and applauding with an audience; "Freddie Feelgood" is the version that contains audience noises and was first featured on the album "Gitarzan".
Document 11: Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits: Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits (1977) was the first compilation album released by Olivia Newton-John in the United States. (In some other regions, Newton-John released a 1974 compilation, "First Impressions". This album was therefore marketed instead as "Greatest Hits Vol. 2" and featured a different track listing.) The album collected all of Newton-John's American Top 40 singles released between 1971 and 1977. "Changes" was the only track not released as a single, but it was one of Newton-John's first self-written songs that she recorded. The album was Newton-John's first platinum certification peaking No. 13 Pop and No. 7 Country. It ended up being certified double Platinum in the US and Platinum in the UK and Canada, and also Gold in Hong Kong.
Document 12: Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo: Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo is the second studio album by American singer songwriter, Aretha Franklin, released on February 27, 1961 by Columbia Records. The album is Aretha's first release for Columbia, and is also known under its working title "Right Now It's Aretha" and sometimes simply as "Aretha". Following in the footsteps of her close friend Sam Cooke, Aretha was "discovered" by famed Columbia Records producer John H. Hammond, who on the cover notes of the 1973 edition of "The Great Aretha Franklin: The First 12 Sides" mentions, that she was in fact recommended by the composer Curtis Reginald Lewis. With the support of her father, Reverend C.L. Franklin, Aretha ventured out to New York City's Columbia Record Studios to record her debut album for the label. Hammond paired Aretha Franklin with Ray Bryant, and combo and arranger J. Leslie McFarland, while taking charge of the album's production, which was received to mixed reviews.
Document 13: Greatest Hits (The Supremes album): Diana Ross & the Supremes: Greatest Hits (also released as The Supremes: Greatest Hits) is a two-LP collection of singles and b-sides recorded by The Supremes, released by Motown in August 1967 (see 1967 in music). The collection was the first LP to credit the group under the new billing "Diana Ross & the Supremes". Although founding member Florence Ballard is pictured on all album artwork and sings on all the tracks, by the time the set was released, she had been fired from the group and replaced by Cindy Birdsong.
Document 14: Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits: Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits! is Frank Sinatra's first compilation released on his own Reprise Records. It concentrates on mostly single releases from the mid to late 60's, which fluctuates between adult contemporary pop and jazzy swing. The album opens up with Sinatra's recent number one hit "Strangers in the Night" and continues through the varied styles of music Sinatra recorded in the 60's, from easy listening ballads like "It Was a Very Good Year" and "Softly, as I Leave You" to contemporary pop like "When Somebody Loves You" and "That's Life". "Greatest Hits" was a modest hit, peaking at #55 on the album charts in late 1968. A second volume was issued in 1972, "Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2". Both albums have since been supplanted with newer and more cohesive compilations.
Document 15: Mahalia Jackson: Mahalia Jackson ( ; October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer. Possessing a powerful contralto voice, she was referred to as "The Queen of Gospel". She became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world and was heralded internationally as a singer and civil rights activist. She was described by entertainer Harry Belafonte as "the single most powerful black woman in the United States". She recorded about 30 albums (mostly for Columbia Records) during her career, and her 45 rpm records included a dozen "golds"—million-sellers.
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