Steve Sidoruk said:I would really like to read this article for myself. Every rendition of it so far has been a slightly different tune!
Exactly!
We've heard "Whipped Cream" will be an expanded edition from one source, while others have said all the CDs will contain original material only.
We've heard Herb recorded new trumpet parts only for the unreleased tracks that HAD no trumpet parts, and yet now I've heard from a "well placed" source who confirms the Billboard article saying that some of the trumpet parts on the original albums were also rerecorded.
We've even heard a different number of CDs to be released (either 14 or 16). And we're not even sure ALL of the albums will be released, as "Volume 2" has already been skipped over, and we now see that the "You Smile--The Song Begins" may be represented by five tracks on "Lost Treasures."
Shout!Factory won't tell us squat; Steve and I have both tried, and I think Steve got a little farther with it than I did. (And all I got was the same e-mailed press release that half the planet also got.) Nothing from Herb's office.
So basically, all *I* can do at this point is treat everything as a rumor and sit it out (none too happily, I might add) while everyone speculates on something that is still vaporware until February. For all the traffic we generate (busiest A&M and Alpert collector site on the 'net) and FREE publicity we create for these new releases, we don't even get table scraps. I could care less for MY sake, but I know all of YOU are here looking for some scrap of information amidst all the conflicting reports we've heard so far.
Damned frustrating.