Vinyl Album - Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - MCA Special Markets

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Brenda Lee
Title:	Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
Label:	MCA Special Markets
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	MCA-15038
Barcode:	076731503813
Date:	1987
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Brenda Lee	Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree	Johnny Marks	Rate
A2	Brenda Lee	This Time Of The Year	Cliff Owens, Jesse Morris	Rate
A3	Brenda Lee	Jingle Bell Rock	Joe Beale, Jim Boothe	Rate
A4	Brenda Lee	Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town	J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie	Rate
B1	Brenda Lee	Winter Wonderland	Felix Bernard, Richard Smith	Rate
B2	Brenda Lee	Blue Christmas	Billy Hayes, Jay Johnson	Rate
B3	Brenda Lee	Frosty The Snowman	Steve Nelson, Jack Rawlins	Rate
B4	Brenda Lee	The Angel And The Little Blue Bell	Johnny MacRae	Rate

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PhilMH 13th Aug 2017		Hi ppint, I think a large part of the US angst over the price of those two Atlantic best-ofs was because of the age of the tracks, and so it was felt that, because they would have recouped their costs many years before, there was less justification for a full price, whereas the examples you cite would only have been within a couple of years of recording.



ppint. 13th Aug 2017		philmh: strange; yr hmbl srppnt. didn't expect to buy greatest hits/best of lps more cheaply than the standard "full price", whatever that happened to be - 22/6, 23/6, 25/-, 27/6, 29/11, 32/6, 35/-, 37/6... - at the time. but did feel the jimi hendrix experience "smash hits" lp was rather a rip-off, and was disgusted at/by greatest hits/best ofs that palmed off re-recordings° that were audibly not the same as the hit (or non-charting) singles - which was very often the case with the stereo best ofs/greatest hits lps. "live" lps always struck me as a rip-off, though - or almost always: poorer performances, poorer sound, fewer tracks... - but there were some exceptions, later on - especially memorably, two or three of the allman brothers band's albums, almost all of which i realised'd been taped live at the same concert, and yr hmbl srppnt. "restored" into one long recording on a reel-to-reel tape. ° - the young me didn't know of any reason why music & record companies should, or even might have needed to, do this and, after getting burned by this a couple of times°°, carefully stuck to mono for a long time - years and years, even °° - the stereo lps never warned that these were not the original recordings



PhilMH 12th Aug 2017		Probably cut down for publishing reasons; I think US publishing royalties around then were ten cents per track (as against the UK and elsewhere publishing regime of 6.75% of the price of an album), so the more tracks you have on an album, then that's more that has to come out of the revenue, so it was (and is) common in the USA to drop tracks if the album is sol at a lower price point. For the same reason, greatest hits compilations can often retail for full price, even if the tracks are 10-20 years old or more. I remember in the 1990s a big to-do about Atlantic selling new best-of compilations by Roberta Flack and Bette Midler at full whack; Ms. Midler apparently complained loudly about this, with the result being that Atlantic cut the track list for the US version of the CD (EXPERIENCE THE DIVINE) from 18 tracks to 12, whereas the international versions had the full track list.



make1968 12th Aug 2017		Reasonable, bought new for less than one pound in 1987, low price edition (as it should be!). But why was this released like this?



ppint. 9th Aug 2017		all composers added.



ppint. 9th Aug 2017		just 8/12ths of the 1964 album, reissued in full on mca as recently as 1980, merry christmas from brenda lee: i hope this 1987 chopped delivery was a cheap buy!

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