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Varèse Vintage Records, specialists in catalog reissues, proudly
announces the following upcoming releases for 2008:
April 22, 2008
Roy Acuff “Hand-Clapping Gospel Songs” 302 066 872 2 (CD)
This classic Roy Acuff album includes six bonus tracks (two previously
unreleased). The album features “The Great Speckled Bird,” “Turn Your
Radio On” and “I’ll Fly Away,” as well as “I Saw The Light” and “Jesus
Died For Me,” both written by Hank Williams. The CD also features the
original cover art, and is mastered from the original tapes.
June 17, 2008
Genesis “From Genesis To Revelation,” 302 066 895 2 (CD)
Reissue of their first album from 1969. Features the original cover art
and four bonus tracks, including the single version of “The Silent Sun.”
June 24 2008
The Best Of Julius LaRosa, 302 066 896 2 (CD)
Includes the hits “Domani (Tomorrow),” “Anywhere I Wander,” and
“Suddenly There’s A Valley.” Mastered from the original tapes (17
tracks).
July 1, 2008
The Ventures “Play Their Greatest Hits” 302 066 879 2 (CD)
Features all the big hits, including “Walk-Don’t Run,” “The Cruel Sea”
“Secret Agent Man,” “Hawaii Five-0,” and more. All tracks were recorded
during 1999 and 2000.
Coming soon:
John Phillips “Half Stoned”
The never released 1977 album recorded with The Rolling Stones.
Bing Crosby “Crosby Classics:
Performed on His Famous Radio Broadcasts (CD)
Includes such hits as “Blue Hawaii,” “Dolores ,” “Far Away Places,” “Home
On The Range,” and “The Whiffenpoof Song.”
John Phillips “Space (Man On The Moon)” (CD)
Highlights from the off-Broadway musical “Man On The Moon,”
produced by Andy Warhol. Most of the tracks have never been issued
Gene Autry “Cowboy Hymes and Songs Of Inspiration” (CD)
First of a kind Gene Autry collection. Includes “Peace In The Valley,”
“Bless This House,” “Rounded Up In Glory,” Old Rugged Cross,” and
“When It’s Prayer Meeting Time In The Valley.”
Roy Clark “Timeless: The Classic Concert Performances”
Combines his two best selling live albums from 70s, “Roy Clark Live,”
and Roy Clark In Concert.”
All dates are subject to change.
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Also, we have added 17 more out of print Varèse Vintage CDs. A
complete list is on the Varèse Vintage blog.
www.varesevintage.wordpress.com
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Cary Mansfield
Vice President of Catalog A&R
Varèse Sarabande Records
mansfield@varesesarabande.com
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Carye wrote:
Varèse Vintage Records, specialists in catalog reissues, proudly
announces the following upcoming releases for 2008:
July 1, 2008
The Ventures “Play Their Greatest Hits” 302 066 879 2 (CD)
Features all the big hits, including “Walk-Don’t Run,” “The Cruel Sea”
“Secret Agent Man,” “Hawaii Five-0,” and more. All tracks were recorded
during 1999 and 2000.
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Dumb question perhaps, but why would we want remakes of their songs when we can have the originals? How many of the original members were even still around in 1999?
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I'm sure glad I picked up all the great Varese titles in the 90's.
Sunshine Days, Lost 45's, On the Radio with Dick Bartley, etc.
Its been big time lackluster ever since.
Who wants rerecorded stuff.
That smacks of 80's KTel stuff.
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"Dumb question perhaps, but why would we want remakes of their songs when we can have the originals? "
It's not a matter of us not wanting the remakes. It's a matter of Varese getting re-recordings for much cheaper than they can get the original hit versions.
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The real explanation is much simpler: the Varese CD is marketed to those who don't want or need the originals. Cary Mansfield has a long, successful track record with his company's releases, and not every disc is geared to those who want the original recordings.
GM
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This still makes no sense to me. As bwolfe said, this is something K-Tel, Gusto, Dominion or one of the other ripoff labels would do. I expected better from Varese.
The Ventures haven't had a chart hit in almost 40 years...it's not like this is a mass-appeal release that you're gonna find in Walmart. Anyone who's gonna buy a 2 CD set by this band is likely to be a fan...why disappoint them with retread recordings? Why disappoint ANYONE with retread re-recordings?
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There are real diehard Ventures fans out there who want every single track ever laid down by the group, re-recordings included (i do know someone like that, for this group). And to answer a previous question, i believe that in 1999, there were still 3 original members in the group.
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Rhino was "the" great reissue label in the early days of compact discs.
Them came Varese who blew their doors off with outstanding artist and various collections.
I'm still hoping that Cary has more up his sleeve.
I've read that acquiring rights to tracks is becoming more difficult.
Maybe with all the work involved the return just isn't there.
Plus with the lack of true "music stores" the shelf space just isn't there.
Those who really want them will find them somehow.
Unfortunately, the casual music fan loses.
I noticed that there is a K Tel website saying that they'll soon have a music store.
They had some wild original artists discs fifteen years ago that weren't bad.
They were abbrviated versions of their old 20 track LP's.
Wonder what's up their sleeve this time?
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Let's just hope that K-Tel offers the original recordings and not re-recordings like they currently do on iTunes, Napster etc.
In a perfect world, they'd offer the 45 versions they used to on their vinyl LP's way back.
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A couple of comments:
First, I have tried to access the varesevintage.wordpress.com page in order to find out what out of print CDs are being re-released and every time the site comes up, it immediately knocks me off internet explorer. This is the only internet problem I'm having so I'm wondering if this is a problem with the site itself.
Second, there are a number of Varese compilations that are out of print and incredibly hard to locate on ebay, GEMM or other internet outlets (and when you do find them, the prices are absolutely outrageous.) For example, I've been trying to find a copy of "On The Radio" Volume 4 because it's the only place to get Wadsworth Mansion's "Sweet Mary" with the cold ending. Haven't seen it posted anywhere. Why on earth wouldn't Varese put this item back into its catalogue??? There's obviously a market for them out there and even if the price Varese charged were a bit inflated, in a limited release, there would clearly be buyers. Everyone would benefit because Varese would get the profit and those of us looking for these out of print items wouldn't get gauged by re-sellers.
If Cary reads the postings in response to his recent one, I would hope that he'd take this information back to his team so that they could consider this.
In fact, wouldn't it be great of other forum participants posted their "want list" on the out of print Varese items so he'd know the items that we're looking to purchase if Varese made them available once again?
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satchdr:
I'm able to access the website in question without getting knocked off Internet Explorer, so I'm not sure why you're having the problem on your end. As for the On the Radio series, Varese is currently stocking Volumes 3, 5, and 6 on its website, but unfortunately no Volume 4. I do know Varese purchases the rights to license many of its tracks for only a few years because sales of their CD releases tend to drop dramatically beyond that time frame. (Varese's primary audience are collectors like us and we tend to buy their product quickly after its released.) Therefore, these titles don't stay in print for very long. And if I had to guess, I'd say the supply of out-of-print titles the website is currently stocking may have come from a recent warehouse clearout.
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