Vinyl Me Please Classics

NewsFedora said:
So going back to this from a while ago, I just noticed that it says it'll be a 2 LP reissue. I wonder how that'll work out... would they be bold enough to include additional songs? Are they going 45 RPM even though the title song is nearly 19 minutes long? Or will we just end up with a couple of sides that are about 10 minutes long and a lot of dead wax?
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The original album is about 58 minutes I think
 
I guess the path of least resistance would be to just have Sides A and D be really short and call it a day...

Here's the original sequencing/track length:
A1 Come Get It 11:22
A2 It Gets Better 9:47
A3 Speak 8:24
B1 Star People 18:44
B2 U 'n' I 5:55
B3 Star On Cicely 4:23

So I guess the logical sequence would be :

Side A 11:22
-Come Get It

Side B 18:11
-It Gets Better
-Speak

Side C 18:44
-Star People

Side D 10:17
-U 'n' I
-Star On Cicely


Having a side be only 10 minutes is a bit disappointing, which is why I wondered if there might be the possibility of a bonus track or two. If they went the 3-side/etching route they'd definitely have to re-order the songs, just because the nearly 19-minute-long Star People is right in the middle of the album's much shorter tracks.
 
It's been a while since I did an "obsessively looking for anything and everything from Nat Turner Rebellion" post, so today I thought I'd share a recent finding!

First, here's a link to a post earlier in the thread compiling pretty much everything I've uncovered if you need to get caught up/re-acquainted.

We're gonna talk a bit more about "The Robot" Parts 1 and 2. A recap: in my earlier research, I found these two instrumental songs on a Japanese compilation from the mid-1990s. The songs were funky and had a bit of an early disco vibe to them. It was also a bit puzzling that Part 1 fades out and then Part 2 seems to fade back in at the exact moment, almost as if it was a single song that got broken in two -- possibly as a 45 A-Side and B-Side, I originally speculated. Anyways I used some audio editing software to splice them back into a single track, which you can listen to here:



Also if you're a fan of Nat Turner Rebellion, you may get a sense of... deja vu with this song. That's because the backing instrumentation was used in the NTR song "Right On, We're Back"!



Now, remember that while "Right On, We're Back" was recorded in the early 1970s, it didn't see a release of any kind until VMP's inclusion of it (on a bonus 45) with the Classics edition of "Laugh to Keep From Crying." But it appears Joe "Nat Turner" Jefferson found a way to still use the backing arrangement even after his band's breakup.

Remember how I speculated "The Robot" was broken up to be a 7-inch single? That's exactly what happened. It became a single for a band called The Family (which later morphed into MFSB on the Philadelphia International Records label), where it was titled "Do the Robot" Parts 1 and 2. Part 2 remained the same instrumental that we found on that Japanese compilation, but here is Part 1 with a completely new set of vocals:



This isn't the first NTR song I found that was later re-purposed for a different band. An alternate take of Can't Go on Livin' found its way onto a Delfonics album, for example. Who knows what else is hiding in plain sight?
 
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1983
1959
1960

One of them is someone who's already had to billing (star people)
One of them is considered one of the most important jazz albums every made (Shape of jazz to come?, Mingus Ah Um?)
One has been on multiple vmp exclusives in the past
 
duke86fan said:
1983
1959
1960

One of them is someone who's already had to billing (star people)
One of them is considered one of the most important jazz albums every made (Shape of jazz to come?, Mingus Ah Um?)
One has been on multiple vmp exclusives in the past
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Wonder if they would do another Impulse title that did not make the cut for the Anthology?

Edit: Forgot Impulse started in 1961 not 60
 
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How many jazz artists who put out albums in '59 and/or '60 have had multiple VMP exclusives?

Art Blakey (Just Coolin', Chippin' In)
Charles Mingus (Presents, Experiments)
Chet Baker (It Could Happen to You, In New York, Mr. B)
Ella Fitzgerald (Sunshine, Swinging Christmas, Hollywood Bowl)
Idris Muhammed (Black Rhythm Revolution, Peace and Rhythm)
Ray Charles (Message for the People, Modern Sounds in C&W)
Sonny Rollins (Bridge and Sax Collossus)
Sun Ra (Lanquidity, Fireside Chat, Celestial Love)
Thelonious Monk (Palo Alto, Palais de Beaux Arts)
Vince Guaraldi (CB Christmas, Great Pumpkin)
Yusef Lateef (Before Dawn, Eastern Sounds)

Think that's it. No matter what that seems like we are in for a great last two months. (Still have jazz fatigue a bit though.)
 
Have they said they wouldn't break that "rule" for Classics? They already broke it for at least RHH and probably something else I'm forgetting.
 
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