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Does anyone know if David Gates "Come Home for Christmas" has ever been released officially on CD (and has it on the CD)? Seems like it might have been licensed by Sony for some XMas CD. I thought I had it on 2-CD Bread Anthology - it has "Take Me Now" from the same album and I thought it included this, too. But I remembered wrong.
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It seems the album "Take Me Now" was only issued on CD
in the Phillipines and Far East.
Like yourself can not find any Holiday CD it was on here
in America.
All I have is a pretty clean vinyl dub.
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The "Take Me Now" CD was also released in the UK for a while, on Sony I believe. It was out-of-print after a short while, and now the CD goes for $100 or more when it IS available. I didn't know of its existence until long after it was released. I also didn't know about the Asian releases of this CD.
Mark M's done quite a good clean up of this album from his LP.
But when albums that I like exist on CD from tape, I always try to seek them out.
Since this has been digitally transferred already, I'm hoping Sony/Legacy puts it up on the digital sites so I can at least buy a lossless version on qobuz, 7Digital or elsewhere.
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Just saw that David Gates LP 'Take Me Now' is being released in Europe on CD on a label, 'Classics France' in the next
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days with his follow-up, 'Love Is Always Seventeen' as a two-fer. Don't know the legitimacy of this label, but I might
go ahead and order it before it disappears, if you know what I mean....-Bill.
Edited by ChicagoBill on 27 January 2022 at 12:55pm
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I would be careful when buying any release on the "Classics
France" label. I've read online that it will probably be a
CD-R and not a factory pressed CD. You also don't know if
the source used was worn vinyl, a previously released CD
mastered from tape or something in between.
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Thanks for the heads-up, Santi! I kind of suspected that they could be CD-R's. I have been burned (pun)
by countless purchases in the past. I went through as much of the 'Classics France' catalog and they
have titles that have already been released on reputable labels and then discontinued, and now go for
big bucks as Gordon alluded to in an above post. I guess I would rather have a CD-R made from a
discontinued reputable source, but I guess I'll have to wait and see what online sources say about each
individual title. A bunch of those pre-1962 reissue labels (Acrobat, Jasmine, Sepia) some can be better
than others. I don't go online to see what others say, but maybe I'll start. -Bill.
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So, I took a look at the booklet that came with the 2 CD set, Bread 'Retrospective', Rhino 73509. The
licensing information says that 'Take Me Now' was licensed through David Gates. There are a lot of
sketchy Various Artist CD's in Europe and Asia that have 'Take Me Now' on them, but I'll bet they were
not properly licensed. This leads me to believe that the 'Classics France' that I mentioned a few days
ago is also not properly licensed. Whether or not the UK CD was licensed properly is up for speculation.
I guess I'll make my own CD from my L.P. and give up on the others. -Bill.
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