MCA vs. EMI, etc.

[Marc/Carolyn Hurwitz <MHurwitz@compuserve.com>]

ML,

Sorry I'm so late getting back to you, but better now than never....

>TKAA had damned well better include the live JT/MG/MG Blues segment on
it this time, but of course if it does there'll be no room for more. I'd
suggest they leave off the tracks released elsewhere (MB, ICSFM) but I'm
SURE they won't "for integrity's sake."<

Sad, isn't it, the peabrains that these people have?  Maybe it'll
be a double disc?  We could hope.

>The remixed MG, if we ever get
it, will probably just have tracks from that period. I'd love to get the
alternate vocal AAA and Substitute, not to mention a remixed Substitute
in the first place.<

Hadn't heard of the alternate AAA (took me ten minutes to place that
song, BTW <g>), but I'd like the long version of MB which I don't
believe has turned up yet on CD.  Hey, do you or anyone else
here have a complete track list for ODDS?  I'd like to see "Dr.
Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" on it, plus maybe "Instant Party" (Talmy's
version--I know, I know, it won't happen) and the live "Baby
Don't You Do It".

>The early Beatles albums clock in at right around
30 minutes, leaving plenty of time for (maybe) the singles or another
entire album (which they did for the Beach Boys).<

Exactly.  I couldn't comprehend why Capitol did such a great job
for the Beach Boys and such a crappy one on the Fabs' discs.
Well, at least they went with the UK releases; as someone else
here pointed out, it could've been worse.  But even if they'd in-
cluded the stereo mixes on the first four discs.... <sigh>

>Even the ANTHOLOGY
disc were only 60 minutes long, and there is plenty of yet unreleased
Beatles stuff which could have been included.<

Not to mention wasting some valuable space on "karoke" versions
of Eleanor Rigby and Within You, Without You. <g>

>Still, I would be happy if they released 3 double sets of unreleased
Who. I once figured up the Who cuts (the ones *I* know of) which are
unreleased + the original O&S, and it came to about 3 discs (and this
not counting any BBC tracks). This included all of the WHO'S & TWO
MISSING material, which is currently out of print.<

I constantly thank God that I was able to snatch up WHO'S and TWO'S
on CD before they were discontinued.  I almost spent $40 on the
UK RARITIES double CD just for the two tracks mentioned above,
but since I'm no longer single & childless, I can't do silly things
like that anymore. <g>

>I also compiled an imaginary 5 disc live boxed set of unreleased
material...once again, of the material I know exists. It seems that
every Who tour from 1968 on was recorded.
So it's not a lack of material which is to blame here.<

That's a dream that I think will never become reality, sadly;
but you never know as time goes on.

Oh, and I forgot Columbia, which has done fairly well by
Dylan but not as well as it could have--whatever has happened
to the promised BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 4 and on?
Ah, well....

--Carolyn
"First chance, I blew it; better start it all again"