For years, I've only ever owned Chuck Mangione's CLASSICS (Volume 6), the purple-covered entry in the 25th Anniversary A&M series.
It's generally served me well enough, except that there were times when I wished that the "hit" singles were the edited versions instead of the full, long album versions. Mostly, I like listening to full versions, but there have been occasions when I would like to get things moving along. "Feels So Good" for example, meanders along in its album version for more that two full minutes before the main part of the song kicks in.
So, recently, while perusing some older threads here, and checking with Discogs, I've finally gotten through my head that there are essentially four different A&M CDs of Chuck Mangione's hits. They're mostly even in much the same order, but they differ in song lengths.
This one, for instance,
was a carbon copy of the CLASSICS VOLUME 6 disc above, released in a later series from the 90s when Polygram had purchased the catalog. They just slapped a new label and cover on the same old disc.
Another disc that's out there was called THE BEST OF CHUCK MANGIONE. Again, same track list, but this one had shorter single versions of the "hit" tunes.
That one was reminiscent of an old European-issued A&M Gold Series from the early 1990s. That one too, featured all of the hit material in their shorter, edited, single versions. The track list was slightly changed, and three tracks were added. This is the one that I've recently acquired that has spurred on this post.
It's kind of refreshing to hear some of these tracks the way I remember them from radio. And I thought I'd detail what's where in a post here.
It's generally served me well enough, except that there were times when I wished that the "hit" singles were the edited versions instead of the full, long album versions. Mostly, I like listening to full versions, but there have been occasions when I would like to get things moving along. "Feels So Good" for example, meanders along in its album version for more that two full minutes before the main part of the song kicks in.
So, recently, while perusing some older threads here, and checking with Discogs, I've finally gotten through my head that there are essentially four different A&M CDs of Chuck Mangione's hits. They're mostly even in much the same order, but they differ in song lengths.
This one, for instance,
was a carbon copy of the CLASSICS VOLUME 6 disc above, released in a later series from the 90s when Polygram had purchased the catalog. They just slapped a new label and cover on the same old disc.
Another disc that's out there was called THE BEST OF CHUCK MANGIONE. Again, same track list, but this one had shorter single versions of the "hit" tunes.
That one was reminiscent of an old European-issued A&M Gold Series from the early 1990s. That one too, featured all of the hit material in their shorter, edited, single versions. The track list was slightly changed, and three tracks were added. This is the one that I've recently acquired that has spurred on this post.
It's kind of refreshing to hear some of these tracks the way I remember them from radio. And I thought I'd detail what's where in a post here.