eBay to iPod

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 12:21 am

As well as leaving a Christmas wish list of CDs that still available (good old Amazon) lying around I have been buying up old stuff from eBay. Sure, it seems every one of Matt's CDs is a compilation and inevitably has the usual suspects on it (but think how great for those who've not heard Born Free or On Days Like These before).

Anyway, as I type the CDs are getting loaded onto the PC and from there to the iPod. I'll thin out the multiple tracks, but with one exception - Matt Monro Sings.

This is a 2 CD compilation from 1991, but the bulk of CD2 is the 1962 album, Matt Monro Sings Hoagy Carmichael. Utterly brilliant and seemingly rematsered as the quality of the tracks belies their early 60's origins. Isn't technology wonderful? Makes me wonder if I'm hearing these songs in a higher fidelity than Matt ever did at the time.

Terence Lee · Post by **Terence Lee** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:20 am

You're lucky to have Matt Monro Sings. I am still hunting for it.

Post by **Administrator** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:47 am

At the moment I am looking at doing a two CD re-release for next Autumn and am mulling over what are the two best deleted albums to do that with. You never know
God Bless
Enjoy the music

Terence Lee · Post by **Terence Lee** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:06 pm

Next Autumn is a long wait. Hopefully the Rare Monro will be out before then or The Ultimate Vol 2.

Terence Lee · Post by **Terence Lee** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:51 pm

Michele, how about these 2 albums?
1. The Long & Winding Road - Friend, Lover, Woman , Wife & Only Once are coveted tracks for a cd release.

2. If I Never Sing Anotehr Song - By Her Side & The Last Farewell are long awaited on cd.

Post by **Administrator** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:25 pm

This track is on the forthcoming CD release - 7th January
Matt Monro - The Finest - Marks & Spencer Exclusive Release

David M · Post by **David M** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:25 pm

Michele

I have considered the 14 original albums on EMI labels:

8 are currently available on CD:

This Is The Life! (Capitol 1966)
Here's To My Lady (Capitol 1967)
Invitation To The Movies (Capitol 1967)
These Years (Capitol 1967)
The Late Late Show (Capitol 1968)
Invitation To Broadway (Capitol 1968)
For The Present (Columbia 1973)
The Other Side Of The Stars (Columbia 1975)

3 have been issued on CD but are now deleted:

Love Is The Same Anywhere (Parlophone 1961)
Matt Monro Sings Hoagy Carmichael (Parlophone 1962)
I Have Dreamed (Parlophone 1965)

3 have never been issued on CD:

We're Gonna Change The World (Capitol 1970)
The Long And Winding Road (Columbia 1975)
If I Never Sing Another Song (Columbia 1979)

As a collector these last three would be good to have. I have found two of them on second hand vinyl, but The Long And Winding Road remains elusive.

As a music fan the three previously issued but now deleted represent, in my opinion, the better music. Many fans will have these already, so maybe some rare bonus tracks (single 'b' sides?) could be fitted on.

An alternative at some point, after Ultimate II, and Rare, could be a singles collection compiling all the 'a' and 'b' sides. (EMI produced a 4 cd set of this type for the Shadows last year.)

Does anyone else have any comments?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:34 pm

Great work!

I guess ultimately (excuse the pun) we want a definitive boxed set of all the old albums plus additional CDs of b-sides and other not-on-the-albums stuff, remastered on CD with repro original artwork, etc, etc.

Personally, if it has to be one album I'd go for a straight re-release of the Hoagy Carmichael album. It is timelessly brilliant and in these days of Michael Buble, Jamie Cullum and even Rod Stewart plundering the American Songbook it might catch the attention.

David M · Post by **David M** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 4:53 pm

Just adding to my pevious comments.

10 of the 12 tracks on Love Is The Same Anywhere (Parlophone 1961) are on the US release My kind of girl, which is still available. If that is excluded from consideration then two options would be:

2 albums on 1 CD of Matt Monro Sings Hoagy Carmichael (Parlophone 1962) and I Have Dreamed (Parlophone 1965). (At 79.42 minutes this would leave no room for bonus tracks.)

3 albums on 2 CD's of We're Gonna Change The World (Capitol 1970), The Long And Winding Road (Columbia 1975) and If I Never Sing Another Song (Columbia 1979). (Plus bonus tracks?)

Does anyone else have any comments?

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:46 pm

Having bought as many of the back catalogue on CD as I can find I'd certainly vote for the release of anything that owuld be new to CD.

However, I can understand that the market needs to see a lot of the usual suspects (Portrait, Born Free, etc) on any release.

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