Just in from www.theseconddisc.com :The Turtles have announced there will be TWO Box Sets Planned this Year! One is going to be called "The Complete Albums" and will feature Every White Whale Lp,and will feature even more Bonus tracks than the previous issues Flo & Eddie Inc. had come with! Also on the Boards: a 2-CD Collection "All The Singles" featuring Complete White Whale 45 sides,both A-And-B Sides Represented in Original Mono! Both sets will be Remastered from Original Source Tapes by Bill Inglot,along with liners by Andrew Sandoval! This will be a Blessing for All Turtles Fans! Both will be out,according to the article,on August 19th! Mark Your Calendars!
An answer to our prayers!!!! Hopefully, they'll reproduce the album sleeves, especially for "Battle Of the Bands" and use the "White Whale" logo and labels....
So...Will the albums box (which is described as including rarities) include everything that has been previously released, outside of perhaps some single versions and b-sides that will be on the singles set? Kind of sad that at this point, neither Rhino nor Shout Factory can be bothered...and this is on Manifesto... It would also be nice to get an updated "History of Flo & Eddie" box, which would try to round up all the odd/stray stuff that F&E did after the Turtles (minus, of course, the Zappa stuff which is controlled by the Zappa estate).
Wow. That's certainly out of left field. And very, very welcome at that. It has become pretty tough to find original Turtles albums in nice shape and they now trade for pretty expensive prices. I'm in.
But *where* are the CD versions of the songs from Dirty Duck? AFAIK, the only place those (most of them) ever surfaced were on that (excellent) 3-LP "History of Flo and Eddie" vinyl comp. Yes, it's not "The Turtles", but c'mon guys!
I'm "ALL IN" for that "All The Singles" set! Bill Inglot mastering and involvement by the great Andrew Sandoval is all that I need to read … THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! Also, a round of thanks to Flo & Eddie (Howard & Mark) for allowing these single mixes to finally get completely released on CD!
There were the 1990's Repertoire,Sundazed CD's and the most recent reissued Single CD-R's that were Custom Made by FloEd,inc.,but were made from the same Muddied Masters,sadly...these have been def improved!
These are the guys who recorded the Dirty Duck songs. And while they were in The Turtles, they aren't really The Turtles, if you know what I mean. Those Dirty Duck songs (and all the other Flo & Eddie ephemera) should be reissued on CD. But not on THESE CDs...
Wow. I have three Sundazed cds and they are prized possessions. I wonder if the albums will be released individually at some point.
