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Topic: Duplicate Ray Price CDs |
Al Gershen
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Grants Pass, OR, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 27 Dec 2001 8:26 pm |
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Hi SGF:
I just bought a new CD on eBay titled, "Ray Price: Greatest Hits." It's on the Front Row Entertainment, Inc. label (album # 1308-2) and it is copyrighted in 2000. The album is under license from Dominion Entertainment, Inc.
Upon further inspection and comparison to another older CD I have with the same title as above on the Dominion label (album # 3142-2) and pressed and copyrighted in 1993, I find that both albums are identical.
The new album says, "All selections are new stereo recordings by the original artists..." while the older album says, "All selections are new stereo recordings."
In 1993 the first album was in fact "new." Now a reissue comes out in 2000 and they still call it "new" and they don't mention that it's a reissue. Isn't that stretching the language a little bit? I think it's called "puffery" in the advertising business.
Both albums contain 10 of Ray Price's best songs but I wouldn't have bought the newer album if I had known it was a reissue.
I guess...buyer, beware! 
Regards,
Al Gershen
Grants Pass, OR
aldg@mail.rvi.net
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[This message was edited by Al Gershen on 27 December 2001 at 08:26 PM.] |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 28 Dec 2001 12:22 am
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Well Al, I guess the tip-off was that both albums had the same title, and were on the same label. Sometimes, they will re-process or re-mix a recording, and assign it a new number. The differences aren't always significant or necessary, and sometimes amount to just new artwork.
I have a similar problem when I buy music. When a CD cover says "Original Hits", I naturally expect the original versions of their songs. But a lot of them are new versions (re-recordings) of the original songs. If this is stated on the outside of the package, I won't buy the CD. But in some cases, it only says it on the inside (in the liner notes). IMHO, any artist (Price, Haggard, Jones, etc.) that thinks they can redo a song now, and improve it (or even do it as well) is sadly mistaken. I suppose the artists and producers think all we listen to (and want) to is the singer! The fact that someone might have bought a Price record just to hear Buddy Emmons, or a Haggard record just to hear Ralph Mooney, never entered their mind!
Little do they know important the sidemen were to the original success of the songs. |
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Craig A Davidson
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Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2001 7:58 am
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Speaking of Ray CD's, I bought Ray's 16 greatest hits on Sony some time back and the cut of "The Other Woman", is terrible. Sounds like only one side mixed to two. Caan't hear the steel at all. I wrote to Sony, but they never responded. Go figure. They got my money.
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