Me too. I enjoyed it a the time. I pulled it out some years later, and the instrumentation sounds dated and even amateurish for my liking these days. May be just the 90's digital sound that puts me off. Still love 'Amnesia' though.
Ray Harris was a first generation rocker who recorded for Sun Records and later started Hi Records. Harris has his own thread on this forum and it's a big hit. Ray Harris - rockabilly legend recorded for Sun, Hi Records founder The Ray Harris recording 'Greenback Dollar' (alternate version) was featured on Vol. 17 of the "That'll Flat Git It" compilation series.
I saw an article that said we are in a golden age of box sets. The writer seems to be talking about premium priced sets of superstars like Dylan and The Beatles. It seems to me that we are in the dark ages of collector's box sets, with only an occasional set being issued by anyone not a superstar. I am glad that I ordered the Bobbie Gentry set from England, as Amazon does not appear to stock it at all now that the official USA release date is here. Richard Weize, where are you?
True, with BF slowing and Mosaic all but folding earlier this year. And it looks like they might be focusing their efforts on larger names, as with the upcoming Herman set.
I always find it interesting to "meet" people with interest in BOTH Bear Family and Mosaic. You have to be open-minded. Most music fans tend to have fairly narrow taste, though they may allow a few representatives of other styles in their collection. I have a sense that the thing that may be killing both Bear and Mosaic is not the general decline of CDs, but rather a limited availability of licenses to reissue at a reasonable cost to Bear and Mosaic. The corporate owners are getting greedy.
I have Mossaic and Bear Family both Excellent Re-issuers , this week finally got one I've been after for a few years Mosaics Django Rinehart , brilliant sound quality
I think we need to clone Richard Weize , he had the Knowledge and Verve and Drive and Passion to follow through over many years to get these sets off the launch pad , and completed . and Charles Woolfe was a Genius in Box Set Liner Note Writing.. as George Jones Sang ... "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes ?
It must be very frustrating for reissue companies like Bear and Mosaic, etc., these guys are really keen on the music they want to put out there and if they're stifled by corporate execs just looking at the cash element then that's a real shame. It's called 'the music business', I just wish the emphasis was on 'music' and not 'business'.
It's not so much that they're getting greedy. The majors are so immensely big now that they often simply can't cope with demands for licenses. When Bear Family did the Complete Chuck Berry box it did get delayed because Universal couldn't come up with the paperwork for the license contract (which was already signed). US offices didn't "have the time" to list the details for 300+ titles, and the European office didn't want to do two weeks of number crunching for something their US partners get paid for. Another company recently requested 180 songs from Universal, and they OK'ed 90 of these. They would love to license the rest also – but due to the recent mergers with other companies they didn't have the required paperwork for these tracks in their archive. (The project got cancelled as a result.)
Definitely. I'd be curious to learn more about Richard. Does he have any children and if so, are they continuing his legacy in the world of reissues?
Scientists will tell you that clones may look alike, but will have completely different personalities