You got a great deal my friend! I picked up a "like new" copy of the wooden bread box version of Concepts for about $200 on an auction and I thought it was a steal. I love that beauty with the great Larry Walsh remastering. I thank Mr. Bob F for steering me to the Larry Walsh remasters for the U.S. version of the Concept albums.
The later version from around 2008 or so. It came in a cardboard box instead of wood. Later released in mini LP packaging but revised. I’ve never run across the Walsh version in all my years of searching.
Yes indeed, the key is the Walsh remastering is in the wooden bread box vs. the cardboard packaging of the Norberg remasters. It was very hard to find the bread box version on eBay, but I secured one in February of this year for $205 and I was thrilled to death.
I’ve never seen one of those Walsh bread boxes. In fact, I’m not sure I even knew they existed! They sound pretty nifty.
That is beautiful! I really miss the height of the CD box set era. Those were good times. There’s a really good deal on a NM version of the cassette box set on eBay right now. You know, in case anyone is interested.
The Walsh and Norberg “booklets” are the same, basically a reformatting of the LP liner notes: 4 pages of poetry (one poem for each tune with a thumbnail portrait of its composer) and a session photo in the Capitol Tower. No real text to speak of, other than a brief introduction about the poet, Norman Sickel. Thread suggestion: Frank Sinatra Conducts
I got mine from a platform called catawiki for 55,-€ plus 25,-€ P&P from Austria. Great deal. Everything is near mint. I already had 8 Walsh CDs so I‘ll try to sell the duplicates on eBay. It’s so great to have all those furniture box sets from the 1990s now: BBB, Trunk, Concepts and UK-Box.
Thanks! At some point I think I’ll try to nab Tone Poems on CD. I bought it on iTunes, but a physicals CD would be nice.
Yes indeed, and some of us our hoping that one of his last projects might have been the remastering of the upcoming deluxe release of Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely.
To me "Tone Poems" is simply some of the most beautiful music ever recorded. Definitely one of my most favorite records of all time. For years I've been trying to find any similar album. No luck. It's unique. Very underrated album. It's a masterpiece. The compositions sound like great film music and yet it's even more beautiful because you have complete pieces that stand by themselves. With film music you get mainly little movements or a single theme that repeats itself. Like I said, a very unique approach and another testament to Sinatra's genius. What an artist. Frank simply had no peer.