These are all included in this Mac Wiseman CD box: 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered (6-CD) | Bear Family Records
The label has no real web presence to speak of. It's supposedly owned by Australian ambient/industrial musician David Thrussell. Guess he likes the label's projects being a complete surprise. Very true. Most of their releases seem to go out of print very quickly, so they're a get-it-or-regret-it kind of thing. I recently managed to find one such compilation of theirs called The World is a Monster. As always with Omni, the title and cover photo are rather ostentatious for a collection of hardcore 50's hillbilly music from Columbia Records, but there are a bunch of great rarities to be heard. Apologies if I've linked to this delightfully sparse bit of boppin' gospel before:
Gloomy cold war music from OMNI: https://www.amazon.com/Age-Worry-Va...TF8&qid=1541234574&sr=1-7&keywords=worries+cd
The First time I ever saw that was in a review in "Country Music Magazine." I looked for it for years and years as it was like the only cd that had Mac's classic songs on it. One day I was on ebay and found a listing that was titled "Big CD Boxed set." It was Mac Wiseman "Tis Sweet to Be Remembered" and was buy it now for $7.00. Ha!!!!!!!!
A cowboy cd with Frankie Laine: Frankie Laine - Rocks And Gravel (CD) - Western | eBay Songs on this is not on the 2 released by Bear Family.Great if you do not wanna buy a whole CD box set.
I wish there was a Roy Clark box set. All those 60s and 70s albums on Vinyl only...I want them on cd!
Here are the 2017 releases from Bear Family: Promo: BCD 17004 Wild 1950s Punk, Rockabilly And Rock’n’Roll (Free CD with „Big Beat“ magazine, Finland) 12“ Vinyl: BAF 18025 Jerry Lee Lewis: In The Beginning BAF 18027 Jerry Lee Lewis: I Can't Seem To Make You Mine BAF 18029 Bobby Bland: Dreamer BAF 18031 Geater Davis: Sweet Woman’s Love BAF 18034 Percy Sledge: The Percy Sledge Way BAF 18053 Tages: Studio (incl. DVD) 10“ Vinyl: BAF 14002 Ric Cartey: Heart Throb 10“ Limited Vinyl: BAF 11005 Louis Jordan: Somebody Up There Digs Me BAF 11006 Wanda Jackson BAF 11007 Bill Haley & His Comets: Crazy Man Crazy BAF 11008 Jerry Lee Lewis & His Pumping Piano BAF 11009 Ella Mae Morse: Barrelhouse Boogie & The Blues BAF 11010 T-Bone Walker: Classics In Jazz BAF 11011 Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps: This Is Gene Vincent BAF 11012 Ricky Nelson: Sing Ricky Sing! 7“ Vinyl: BLX 015 Art Adams: Memphis Dream BLE 016 Willie B.: Bad Mouthin’ BLE 017 Ben Hewitt & Ray Ethier: My Search CD: BCD 16100 George Jones: Birth Of A Legend BCD 16148 Great Guitars At Sun BCD 16273 Great Drums At Sun BCD 17300 Roy Acuff: The King Of Country Music BCD 17329 Woody Guthrie – The Tribute Concerts BCD 17507 Easter Bunny Hop BCD 17508 Christmas On The Countryside BCD 17538 That’ll Flat Git It! Vol. 28 BCD 17555 Arthur Big Boy Crudup Rocks BCD 17556 Ric Cartey: Oooh-Eee! The Complete Ric Cartey BCD 17558 The Platters Rock Cree: CLP 1211 Lancelot Wayne: Blow ‘Way (Vinyl) CCD 1211 Lancelot Wayne: Blow ‘Way (CD)
Hello Mychael. I've been looking at buying the Ray Price 10-cd set, and have tried to look at some reviews and discussions. On a forum a few years ago, this set was being discussed, and there was apparently some missing harmony vocals on a couple of the discs. One of the posters confirmed that Bear Family was aware of this, and BF said they would check on it. There was no responses on that forum about what became of this issue. Have you heard anything, or can you ask? One of the songs missing harmony vocals was HEARTACHES BY THE NUMBER, and I can't imagine this song with no harmony.
I have brought it up a few times in this thread and never get any acknowledgments, I figured I was the only one that noticed. Under Your Spell Again is missing the harmonies also. It’s been a while since I listened to it I forget the others I noticed. It was so disappointing listening to it the first time, that was the last time I really got into it.
This release is obviously not for the musical purpose but for the historical one and political one. Who would want to listen to atrocious sound of music scraped off the wax cylinders ? I would bet that either the New World Order government of Germany or a NGO / foundation for liberal and multi-kulti causes helped to finance this release.
This was actually happening in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The communist morality and ideology squad of state secret police could come to one's home and take away all LPs harmful to the socialist state - which means anything from Western Europe or America. If one somehow managed to get a few samples of "degenerate capitalist music" the best thing to do would be to keep quiet about it. Some citizen swine jealous of what you have could go and report you to the police.
I just now went back and read those posts. Hard to believe there was no response. That's a pretty big oversight.....very surprising for bear family. I found a good price on a local set, but I'm now likely to pass on it. That's too bad.
Only five single-artist CD releases (six if you count the Cree one), two of which are compilations of material from existing box sets (Arthur Crudup and Platters). A far cry from the Bear Family of 20 years ago, but better than nothing of course. Releases like that are like a musical documentary, bringing to life a rarely-documented facet of history. Not my cup of tea or yours, but some would surely find it fascinating. There's definitely a market for noisy cylinder recordings as proven by labels like Archeophone and Dust-to-Digital. Bear Family has produced similar sets in the past such as Beyond Recall: A Record of Jewish Musical Life in Nazi Berlin 1933-1938 and Spain in My Heart: Songs of the Spanish Civil War.
And today, Russian websites are the purveyors of downloads of just about every record ever made in the west (I know, not all of them, but a very big portion)
Yes, as I mentioned in our conversation, it’s amazing no one else on this forum has noticed that Same Old Me, Heartaches By the Number, Under Your Spell Again and probably others had the background vocals removed.
This 5CD issue sounds like the same digital masters used for the original This One's For You box set. Never heard the Japanese CD"s but would be shocked if they accessed the masters and made new digital transfers just for Japan. All CD's sound great for Studio which sounds very dull compared to original vinyl. The Bear Family reissue of 'Studio' is the best that lp has ever sounded
Price drop alert! Amazon.co.uk have the Merle Travis 5 CD box set on for £41 at the mo, that is a genuine bargain and I'd buy this excellent set myself but I already have it. From experience when they drop the price on a BF set there's usually just one.
Not at all. There is no "atrocious sound" on the Black Europe set – the first 23 discs (the "musical part" of the set) are even on Spotify and other streaming services, and they present some quite enjoyable ragtime and early jazz bands.. (And no-one "helped" to finance this release....)