Matt Monro - The Rarities Collection

Hi All

Due to the recent takeover of EMI by Universal and the subsequent sell off of the Parlophone Music Group to Warner's, some of the recent Matt Monro collections which were wonderfully compiled and remastered by Richard Moore have now been deleted, including both the 2 CD collections of "The Rare Monro" & "Uncovered - The Rarer Monro", the two collections will now be replaced with a 3 CD "The Rarities Collection" minus all the Capitol songs that remain with Universal .



The info below is taken from Michele Monro's August blog...

Warner now officially owns EMI UK. The bad news is that all the new titles including The Rare Monro, Rarer Monro, Matt at the Movies, The Complete Singles Collection and The Greatest have been taken by Universal and deleted from EMI’s catalogue list. This is disastrous for us and if I’d had any inkling that this could happen I wouldn’t have released the new one when I did. The solution – I have persuaded Parlophone to release a "Rarities Collection" and if all goes well it will be available on 7 October. This will take the form of a three CD set and include the best of the ‘Rare Monro’ and ‘Matt Uncovered” plus a few new tidbits to add extra interest. By taking away all the Capitol tracks, it will give us something exciting to offer the British market.

A little more from the September Blog.....

The big news on the "Rarities Collection" is that we have finally, after years of arguing been able to include ‘Bound for Texas’ and as always Richard has done the impossible and mastered it all to perfection. A real treat for the avid Matt Monro fan.

As I explained last month Warner now officially owns EMI UK. The bad news is that all the new titles including The Rare Monro, Rarer Monro, Matt at the Movies, The Complete Singles Collection and The Greatest have been taken by Universal and deleted from EMI’s catalogue list. This is disastrous and no amount of emails to Universal has resulted in a reply. I think it is a bloody disgrace and makes me realise that we will probably never be able to license any Capitol tracks again. It would seem no one at the company knows how to write an email!! If you are missing any of the past gems in your collection I urge you to trawl the websites for any left over stock. The Complete Singles Collection is especially brilliant and includes literally every track dad ever released a s a single together with the B-side but it the remastering that has hailed it as a real ‘gem’. One of Richard’s finest hours.. well actually months.. it did take a long time to work on the five CD set but the blood, sweat and tears were worth the wait. Because dad is on a Budget label none of the albums are particularly expensive so the time to buy is now. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

The new remastered collection is due out on 7th October all being well so make sure to support Matt's music so that hopefully Parlophone will see fit to release more goodies from Matt.

 

I spent Monday looking through the track listings for the previous "Rare & Rarer" collections along with the upcoming "Rarities Collection, what I did was to compile a CD consisting of the songs included on "Rare & Rarer" but omitted from the new "Rarities collection", so if you would like to compile your own CD to slot into the new set for completeness and ease of listening then I've listed the missing tracks below..........

Edited due to corrections and updated info in post #3 from Richard Moore, for Updated CD track list see post #6

For those interested, I've also created a CD label adapted from disc two of "Rarer Monro"

 

Thanks for that info Richard, I'll change my CD to omit "These Things Happen" and to include the most recently remastered songs from "The Singles Collection"

 

I've updated the List for the "Missing Tracks CD" as per Richards corrections in post #3 and vzok's post #29, see below................

Matt Monro - The Rarities Collection (The Missing Tracks) Disc 4 ...... UPDATED as Per Richards post #3 & vzok's Post #29

1. Other People
2. All of a Sudden
3. Yours Alone
4. Only The Night Wind Knows
5. No Puedo Quitar Mis Ojos De Ti (Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)
6. Love Song
7. Try To Remember
8. The Lady Smiles
9. Don’t Answer Me
10. Cuando Miro En Tus Ojos (When I Look into Your Eyes)
11. Where In The World
12. All That Remains
13. Lovers Caravan
14. Picking Up the Pieces
15. The World I Used To Know
16. Pretty Polly (Soundtrack Version)
17. Maria (Spanish)
18. If You Go away
19. Lovin’ You Again
20. If You Go Away
21. Two People (Film Version)
23. Nothing To Lose

This CD is made up of Songs taken from the now deleted "Rare" & "Rarer Monro" collections, 23 of which are missing from the "Matt Monro Rarities Collection"

Tracks Sourced from..............

Tracks 1,3,4,7,8,9,11,12 - "The Complete Singles Collection" Disc 3

Tracks 2 & 14 - "The Complete Singles Collection" Disc 4

Tracks 5, 6, 10 - "The Rare Monro" Disc 1

Tracks 15 - 22 - "Uncovered The Rarer Monro" Disc 2

Track 23 - "The Rare Monro" Disc 2

 

Your outburst is fine by me and I couldn't agree with you more!

With artists struggling to sell their product or even get it re-released as Michele Monro managed to do with her fathers music, only to have the rug pulled from underneath them like this is quite frankly disgusting.

Pulling the rug like this benefits no one, certainly not Universal who had they allowed these releases to stay in print, would have with no financial layout as the product is already out there, continued to receive royalties, its no wonder the music business is in such a lousy state with actions like this.

 

Thanks for all your hard work and the fascinating info Richard it is much appreciated around these parts.

 

Richard, on the MM website Michele gave a 7th October release date for "Rarities", has this been moved back a little? I ask because so far its not showing up on Amazon UK.

 

OK Richard thanks for the feedback,

It's a shame about Steve Woof leaving, I can't say I blame anyone for taking early retirement though, I just hope his replacement is just as good and sympathetic to both artists and fans alike.

 

Now listed on Amazon UK with a release date of 21st October.........

The Rarities Collection

 

Due to finances I've not got mine yet because I've had to choose the slower free delivery for all my orders this month, but even though I've got the two earlier collections after your mini review I'm now looking forward to this new set more than ever, for the material we keep from the earlier two sets it sounds like this will be a nice upgrade in terms of both sound quality and sequencing.