CD Album - Elton John - Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player - Rocket

CD Album

Artist:	Elton John
Title:	Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player
Label:	Rocket
Country:	USA
Date:	20 Feb 1996
Catalogue:	314-528 154-2
Barcode:	731452815422
Format:	CD Album
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	Elton John	Daniel	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
02	Elton John	Teacher I Need You	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
03	Elton John	Elderberry Wine	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
04	Elton John	Blues For My Baby And Me	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
05	Elton John	Midnight Creeper	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
06	Elton John	Have Mercy On The Criminal	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
07	Elton John	I'm Gonna Be A Teenage Idol	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
08	Elton John	Texan Love Song	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
09	Elton John	Crocodile Rock	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
10	Elton John	High Flying Bird	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
11	Elton John	Screw You (Young Man's Blues) [Bonus Track]	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
12	Elton John	Jack Rabbit [Bonus Track]	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
13	Elton John	Whenever You're Ready (We'll Go Steady Again) [Bonus Track]	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate
14	Elton John	Skyline Pigeon (Piano Version) [Bonus Track]	Elton John, Bernie Taupin	Rate

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Produced by Gus Dudgeon

The Classic Years series

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Beggars Road 12th Aug 2017		@PhilMH: Many thanks.



PhilMH 12th Aug 2017		ICE (International CD Exchange) Newsletter was published monthly by Pete Howard in California from sometime in the late 80s (the first issue I have is issue 55 from October 1991) up to March 2006. It listed new CD releases for each month, as well as articles about new and forthcoming CD's, and special columns like "The CD Watchdog", which addressed issues/defects that affected particular discs. The earlier issues tended to be mostly text, and mostly monochrome (or at least black text on buff-coloured paper) but later issues introduced more graphics and even adverts, frequently from the record companies who provided the release data. That latter fact makes the magazine one of the more reliable sources around (if you can find any copies - there might be some on ebay), though sometimes actual release dates might have changed after publication (brought forward, pushed back, sometimes even cancelled). That January 1996 issue had quiet a lengthy article (chiefly an interview with Gus Dudgeon) discussing those EJ remasters.



Beggars Road 12th Aug 2017		@any member down under: What is an ICE Newsletter?



Lee Wrecker 11th Aug 2017		Thanks Phil, excellent work as always.



PhilMH 11th Aug 2017		Hi guys, contemporaneous issues of the ICE Newsletter (January and February 1996) have 13th February 1996 as the issue date of this and 5 other Elton albums, with a further 6 to be issued in March, but notes that these remasters had already been released overseas, "earlier this year", which I take to mean "earlier in 1995", because the January 1996 issue of the newsletter would have come out in December 1995. I also checked the March 1996 issue to see if there was any mention of the date being pushed back a week, but there wasn't. Haven't found any mention of a release date for the box set yet, I may have to dig a bit more. Anyway, it would seem to be that UK, etc releases were in 1995, and US in 1996.



Lee Wrecker 11th Aug 2017		So I was just intrigued by the discrepancies in the name of the label across the pond. On the date Discwrongs are not to be trusted at all just as they don't trust us at all (see link). My view is that an Island catalogue or Billboard entry would be a more reliable indicator. The also unreliable Wikipedia has the dates of release the opposite to way you have listed them below. So, I suppose we need to wait for more conclusive evidence before we decide to alter the date here.



Beggars Road 11th Aug 2017		@Lee Wrecker: I didn't research that, Lee. So ?



Lee Wrecker 11th Aug 2017		Seems "The Rocket Record Company" relaunched (cringe) as just Rocket Records in 1995 when distribution changed from RCA to Island in the USA. Or was the label just known as "Rocket" on RCA as well? The Mercury releases would most likely be from the UK (could be EU but let's not get intro that) as they took over distributorship from Phonogram in 1995 but kept the name "The Rocket Record Company" the same as it always was.



Beggars Road 11th Aug 2017		@ Mod Squad: Amazon.com shows a pic's of the Mercury release and a date of February 20, 1996 & label as The Rocket Record Company. Discogs.com shows the release year of 1995 for the US 13 CD box set 'The Classic Years'. US releases: 1995 UK releases: 1996 We're probably talking only a diff. of a few months with a New Year in between.

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