George Harrison "Early Takes Volume 1" *

I just read about this on the forum at georgeharrison.com and posted it in another thread. According to http://www.directcurrentmusic.com/, there will be new George Harrison release titled on "Early Takes Vol. 1" on May 1. Has anyone else heard of this? Is this website credible?

Musictap had posted that May 1 will see the DVD release of Harrison's Living in the Material World documentary in the US. Could this date also see the launch of a new archival release campaign from the Harrison vaults? This might be great news for GH fans!

 

WOW!! One can only hope, but until I hear details & some confirmation...color me cautiously hopeful, but tempered by a dose of healthy skepticism...

 

It's on Amazon (both CD and vinyl!) with the full title "Early Takes Volume 1: Music From The Martin Scorsese Picture Living In The Material World".

Is this the same CD already out in Britain in the ultra-expensive deluxe edition of the documentary?

 

Yeah, this got me a bit excited.....but I agree that until we get some confirmation, I shouldn't be building too much hope.

 

It certainly could be - makes a lot of sense to release a soundtrack with the documentary. Here is the tracklist of the CD that was included in the deluxe edition of the documentary outside NA:

"My Sweet Lord" (Demo) – 3:33
"Run of the Mill" (Demo) – 1:56
"I'd Have You Anytime" (Early Take) (George Harrison, Bob Dylan) – 3:06
"Mama, You've Been on My Mind" (Demo) (Bob Dylan) – 3:04
"Let It Be Me" (Demo) (Gilbert Bécaud, Mann Curtis, Pierre Delanoë) – 2:56
"Woman Don't You Cry for Me" (Early Take) – 2:44
"Awaiting on You All" (Early Take) – 2:40
"Behind That Locked Door" (Demo) – 3:29
"All Things Must Pass" (Demo) – 4:38
"The Light That Has Lighted the World" (Demo) – 2:23

Could they add few more tracks? Will the CD include some remixed songs from the film? Why Volume I? Lots of interesting questions

 

I'm grateful to you for reporting all of this. The Amazon info certainly ups the ante. And hope will be built in the hearts of the beholders...impossible not to hope for the best really...and I am betting that this almost certainly is what was previously already out in the U.K., yes. But one can hope that's it's an expanded edition of that.
I'm glad to get anything, and will buy it, of course, but...wow it is ever paltry compared to what accompanied the Dylan doc. That was only a small slice of Bob's career & it was pretty large- double CD I think...this is from Harrison's whole career, and it's one single CD...
The most hopeful part is that it's listed as "Volume 1"...hopefully more to follow?

 

Well, color me intrigued! Hard to believe the "bonus CD" from the UK Bluray super-deluxe box would be deemed sufficient for a stand-alone release, so I'm going to have to wait for more news on this before I get excited. Best case scenario would be that the "bonus CD" will still be part of the U.S. super-deluxe DVD/BD set, and this is a separate (but related) release, and the beginning of George's own "Bootleg Series." Volume ONE!

 

I hope you are right and that it is part of a bigger release.

It is about time George got some outtake-demo-unreleased-deluxe-box-set love.

 

Hope so

 

Clipped from Amazon:

Product Details
Audio CD (May 1, 2012)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Hip-O Records
ASIN: B007IE4DSG
In-Print Editions: Vinyl
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,314 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

 

A GH Bootleg Series release has the potential to be the most exciting Beatles/solo release in history, to me.

 

Who are Hip-O Records?, could this just be a false listing, a bit of marketing to give publicity to help sell the DVD, i hope not

 

Hip-O is for real-- they have done a bang-up (if expensive) job with Motown vault releases.

 

Hip-O has been around for a decade or more and is Universal's reissue arm much like Rhino is Warner's...

 

Agreed. We can only hope something like this will really happen.

 

1996. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-O_Records

 

I just ordered a copy. I hope this is the beginning of a definative George retrospective..

 

Please Please Please

 

I'm hoping that this is true also. One question that crossed my mind is why is this on Hip-O and not Capitol or EMI? Nothing against Hip-O, I'm just wondering.

 

Yeah Sean, this would be cool enough as a one shot release but the hope that this is only volume ONE ... WEEEE !!

Note to self : calm down.

 

I think Olivia and Dhani will do this right. I have full confidence in them.

 

EMI and Capitol Records are now owned by the Universal Music Group and maybe that has something to do with these releases coming out on Hip-O. I could be wrong tho.....

 

Me too -- this little tiny bit of news just completely eclipsed all of my cumulative anticipation for the Ram deluxe set, the new Beach Boys record, and anything the Kinks may reissue this year. Combined. YMMV.

 

I'd like to see this on Apple and more than 40 minutes long.