Amii Stewart CDs
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Topic: Amii Stewart CDs
Posted By: EdisonLite
Subject: Amii Stewart CDs
Date Posted: 11 March 2023 at 2:13pm
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I've been exploring Amii Wood's songs beyond "Knock On Wood" and found
she has a number of good pop songs (not even disco). So I bought her "Best Of" on Hot Productions CD, but it's all from clean vinyl. Her music was on Ariola (at least much of what I'm looking for), which is owned by BMG/Sony, so I don't think it would be a lost tapes issue. There's also a digital anthology called "Knock On Wood: The Anthology" on a subsidiary of BMG, but I haven't been able to find that it exists CD, and I couldn't tell if this one was from vinyl or not. (The Hot Productions one is definitely vinyl.) Does anyone know any CDs of hers (more likely import) that come from tape sources? |
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Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 25 November 2023 at 4:04pm
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Does anyone have this Amii Stewart CD, "The Greatest Hits":
https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hits-Amii- Stewart/dp/B000A0GOY6/ref=sr_1_3? crid=3PN88R079IMJ&keywords=amii+stewart+greatest+hits&qid=17 00953 072&sprefix=amii+stewart+greatest+hits%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-3 If so, could you possibly send me a few mp3s (other than Knock on Wood) so I can see if this is from vinyl or tape? Like I said, the CD above is from vinyl - "Best Of" on Hot Productions CD. Mark M (or anyone) - do you know anything about her masters and if they'd still be in existence? I just ordred her S/T 1983 album on Funkytowngrooves. I've only started liking her music, so I don't know but did FTG release anything else of hers on CD? |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 25 November 2023 at 6:48pm
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Gordon:
Your trace of ownership of those tapes is accurate. Her hits were a German production for Hansa records, distributed by Ariola here in the states. BMG Germany purchased Hansa and Ariola so the entire thing is now under Sony/BMG. The U.S. masters should be somewhere in Sony's vaults, but they may not have been filed correctly which makes them hard to find. In fact most of the Ariola America masters ended up in shambles. What was the license credit on the Hot Productions CD with the disc dubs? I think your best bet for master tapes on CD it to locate a CD that is credited to BMG Berlin Musik GmbH or at very least Sony/BMG Europe. MM |
Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 26 November 2023 at 12:27am
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Thanks for the info. Mark, I just checked the Hot Productions CD and it
doesn't say where they licensed it from! I guess we shouldn't be shocked. It has the 1996 credits (the release year of the CD), like the compilation producer but nothing about the original. Speaking of German releases, I just ordered a CD by Ramona Wulf (the other lead singer of Silver Convention besides Penny McLean). I previously only had a very well cleaned up vinyl CD from that ebay seller in Mexico who does good cleanings but still.. I want tapes. Anyway, this CD I ordered today on Discogs is a Japanese CD on Victor. And someone noted in the credits "Licensed by Jupiter Records, Germany". So there's a good chance, given the licensing credit being Germany, and the CD label being Victor/Japan (generally, a reliable source), that this CD will be from tape. UPDATE: I just checked the original 1977 LP of this Ramona album on Discogs - and it was on Jupiter Records! That's a good sign. I also ordered that Amii Stewart 1983 CD today, released on funkytowngrooves. And I've never known them to release anything from vinyl. I'll now look for some Amii Stewart comp CDs or straight reissues from Germany. |
Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 26 November 2023 at 12:29am
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BTW, do most of the US CD releases of Amii's Knock on Wood come from
master tape? And where do they say they're licensed from? |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 26 November 2023 at 3:27pm
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Out of curiosity, I dug around to what's currently available on Qobuz from Amii Stewart. Here's a summary, including release dates that may not be reliable:
1984 - "Friends (Extended Version)" - 1 track 1990 - Pearls - 7 tracks 1994 - "Don't Stop" - 2 tracks 1999 - Knock On Wood - 14 tracks, "Knock On Wood" is 4:11 1985 remix 2005 - The Greatest Hits (blue cover) - 10 tracks, "Knock On Wood" is 4:10 1985 remix 2010 - "Together (Extended Version)" - 1 track 2011 - The Many Sides Of Amii Stewart - 16 tracks, including most of Pearls but no "Knock On Wood" 2011 - Amii Stewart : Great Classics Revisited - 20 tracks, all covers, including a "revisited" version of "Knock On Wood" that's new to this collection but adheres pretty closely to the 1979 arrangement 2012 - four (!) collections that have identical tracks listings: Greatest Hits (tan cover), The Complete Collection (lavender cover), The Ultimate Collection (yellow bar at top), and The Very Best Of (blue-green cover) - all have 14 tracks, "Knock On Wood" is 4:11 1985 remix on all four 2016 - Knock On Wood: The Anthology (fire on cover) - 27 tracks, four (!) different edits of "Knock On Wood", all labeled appropriately, including a "German Edit With Intro" that includes the flyover intro! 2022 - "Perfectly Beautiful" - 1 track I was impressed with the sound on the 2016 Knock On Wood: The Anthology, at least on the various versions of "Knock On Wood". The four versions are the 1985 remix, and three hit edits of the 1979 mix. I didn't hear any vinyl artifacts on any of them (but I'm not the best at picking out vinyl artifacts). I don't know if this set exists in the real world on CDs, though. It's 2+ hours long. ------------- There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one http://www.crapfromthepast.com - Crap From The Past . |
Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 27 November 2023 at 9:32am
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Notable that the version labeled '7" Edit' is not the US 45 version with the flyover intro, but
probably the UK 45 version with the drums intro (which got airplay on some US stations anyway). ------------- Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken. |
Posted By: smallworld
Date Posted: 27 November 2023 at 11:05am
Unfortunately the CD release omits the "German Edit With Intro." https://www.discogs.com/release/18508660-Amii-Stewart- Best-Of-Knock-On-Wood Barcode: 8718627233023 Music On CD – MOCCD14052 |
crapfromthepast wrote:Posted By: mburt1
Date Posted: 30 November 2023 at 3:30pm
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The CD released by Music On CD appears to be from the master tapes, from
what I can tell. Both the Hot Productions and Empire Musicwerks (The Greatest Hits) releases are from vinyl I suspect. As for the Funkytowngrooves release, that one sounds pretty good and I'd say it's from the tapes. |
Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 02 December 2023 at 7:28pm
| Thanks for the info, guys. |