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EdisonLite
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Posted: 13 December 2020 at 5:22pm | IP Logged Quote EdisonLite

I've noticed a trend for the majors to release albums (which have never been released on CD) to be released digitally (from master tape) on sites like qobuz, 7 Digital, Tidal, iTunes, etc. I thought I'd create a list/post here, for people to add to, because a lot of people who are looking to upgrade their vinyl albums to tape sources can do so, even though the albums were never released on CD.

No requirements for this list. Although I'm mostly including artists who've had top 40 hits (though not necessarily on these albums), I've made exceptions - just in case someone finds something on here they're interested in buying:

Smokey Robinson - Yes It's You Lady, Touch the Sky, Essar
Commodores - 13
Barbara Mandrell - Get to the Heart, In Black & White, Just for the Record, Love Is Fair, Moments, Spun Gold, Moods + more
Dottie West - Full Circle, High Times, New Horizons, Wild West + more
Spinners - Grand Slam
Four Tops - Back Where I Belong, Magic
Stacy Lattisaw - Young and in Love
BW Stevenson - Lifeline
Billy Swan - You're OK, I'm OK
Mark Lindsay - You've Got a Friend
Brotherhood of Man - Singing a Song, Good Fortune, B for Brotherhood, Higher than High
Deborah Allen - Cheat the Night
David Geddes - Run Joey Run
Helen Reddy - Reddy, Take What You Find
Richard Kerr - Richard Kerr

Actually, all these artists had top 40 hits except Richard Kerr who wrote 5 for Barry Manilow & Dionne Warwick

Beware of these - they are not on CD, are available digitally, but from VINYL:

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - Hallway Symphony
Billy Preston - Pressin' On
Al Wilson - I've Got a Feeling
Burton Cummings - Sweet Sweet
Lulu - Don't Take Love for Granted, Lulu, Take Me to Your Heart Again
Leslie Pearl - Words and Music
Oak - Oak
Orleans - One of a Kind

Edited by EdisonLite on 24 December 2020 at 4:09pm
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Posted: 13 December 2020 at 5:37pm | IP Logged Quote Brian W.

On the "from vinyl" list, I'll add:

Helen Reddy - Play Me Out
Helen Reddy - Imagination

There are two releases of each, one is on Geffen, and
one is on the Wizard label (an Australian label). Both
are clearly from vinyl.
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Posted: 13 December 2020 at 10:55pm | IP Logged Quote AutumnAarilyn

Billy Preston is by far the most under represented on
disc. How could somebody who was the only artist ever
billed as a feature on a Beatles song be forgotten?
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Posted: 19 December 2020 at 2:44pm | IP Logged Quote Glenpwood

Brian W. wrote:
On the "from vinyl" list, I'll add:

Helen Reddy - Play Me Out
Helen Reddy - Imagination

There are two releases of each, one is on Geffen, and
one is on the Wizard label (an Australian label). Both
are clearly from vinyl.


I'm pretty sure its due to those tapes being lost in
the Universal fire. Each album partially was issued as
a comp back in 1995 by Varese Sarabande called, "When
I Dream." Those tracks were sourced from tape so if
you're a Reddy fan track that disc down. They could at
least get better vinyl rips up. The ones I did on
basic equipment are far better than the crackly mess
represented online.
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Posted: 19 December 2020 at 3:33pm | IP Logged Quote Brian W.

Glenpwood wrote:

I'm pretty sure its due to those tapes being lost in
the Universal fire. Each album partially was issued as
a comp back in 1995 by Varese Sarabande called, "When
I Dream." Those tracks were sourced from tape so if
you're a Reddy fan track that disc down. They could at
least get better vinyl rips up. The ones I did on
basic equipment are far better than the crackly mess
represented online.


Yeah, I've had that CD for many years. But there have
to be tape dubs in foreign countries. I'm
particularly surprised that Wizard Records in
Australia didn't have one.
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Posted: 19 December 2020 at 3:47pm | IP Logged Quote Brian W.

From BMG

Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass - Christmas With...
Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass - Movin' On
Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass - Play More Nashville Sounds
Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass - You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet
Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass - Down Homers

From Cameo Parkway

Chubby Checker - Twistin' Around the World
Chubby Checker - Chubby's Folk Album
Chubby Checker - Let's Limbo Some More
Chubby Checker - Chubby Checker's Beach Party

Bobby Rydell - Bye Bye Birdie
Bobby Rydell - Sings Wild Wood Days
Bobby Rydell - Sings Forget Him
Bobby Rydell - The Top Hits of 1963
Bobby Rydell - All the Hits Volume 2

Dee Dee Sharp - Happy 'Bout the Whole Thing
Dee Dee Sharp - Down Memory Lane
Dee Dee Sharp - Songs of Faith

The Tymes - Somewhere
The Tymes - People

From Disney (some of these were previously burn-on demand only at Disneyland & Disney World)

Annette Funicello - Danceannette!
Annette Funicello - Italiannette

Camarata - Alice in Wonderland
Camarata - Lady and the Tramp

Cliff Edwards - Addition and Subtraction
Cliff Edwards - Multiplication and Division

Clyde Rige - Summer Magic Player Piano Sing-Along

Dee Fisher - Echoes of Disneyland

Elliott Brothers Orchestra - Date Nite at Disneyland

Fess Parker - Cowboy and Indian Songs

George Bruns - Deep in the Heart of Dixieland
George Bruns - Tinpanorama

Jimmie Dodd & Darlene Gillespie - Perri (A Story With Songs)

Maurice Chevalier & Hayley Mills - ...Take You to Main Street

The Mellomen - Meet Me Down on Main Street

Paul J. Smith - Secrets of Life soundtrack

Paul Frees - Professor Ludwig von Drake

Walt Disney World Band - Self-Titled

Soundtrack - Summer Magic
Soundtrack - Silly Symphonies
Soundtrack - Babes in Toyland
Soundtrack - Saludos Amigos
Soundtrack - Westward Ho The Wagons!
Soundtrack - The Happiest Millionaire
Soundtrack/Various - The Parent Trap!

Various Artists - The Thrilling, Chilling Sounds of the Haunted House
Various Artists - The Country Bear Jamboree
Various Artists - Musical Highlights from The Mickey Mouse Club TV Show
Various Artists - Songs from the Mickey Mouse Club Serials
Various Artists - Mickey Mouse and his Friends
Various Artists - A Child's Garden of Verses
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Posted: 19 December 2020 at 11:38pm | IP Logged Quote NightAire

It is worth clarifying that the Disney "Thrilling Chilling Sounds of the Haunted House" is the original release from 1964. This is the one most of us will think of, with Laura Olsher setting up the first half of the sound effect tracks with her wonderful narration.

If you remember, "you are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hilltop near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you NEVER return...," then you remember this classic Disneyland recording. :)

Disney released another "Chilling Thrilling..." album in 1979 with a different album cover, but confusingly it was all new sound effects, no narration, and to my ears not nearly as entertaining.

Edited by NightAire on 19 December 2020 at 11:39pm


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