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I received in the post this morning a copy of Ron Goodwin's "Adventure and Excitement", it's one of those collections that I've wanted for ages, but somehow never got around to buying.
My favourite track is Goodwin's concert arrangement of Aces High, so I placed the cd in my player and cranked up the volume and sat back to listen.
The strumming guitar intro threw me, then when the solo vocalist started up, I figured there was something wrong!
I'm pretty sharp like that.
Well unbelievably I had purchased (cunningly disguised as a Ron goodwin album ) a collection of atrocious Folk songs.
The artwork is genuine, both booklet and tray liner, the disc is a factory pressed Studio 2 stereo cd with all the relevant track details on, 633 Squadron, Aces High, Where Eagles Dare etc.
So why/how is there no Goodwin music on here?
Is it a mistake at the disc pressing plant, that somehow they put a Goodwin label on a collection of Folk songs?
Or has someone, somehow recorded the Folk songs over the Goodwin tracks, although I thought that you couldn't reburn a pressed disc.
I have emailed the seller and suggested (politely) that he should listen to the discs he sells before posting them, though to be fair, I don't see how anyone could have anticipated that Ron Goodwin's Adventure and Excitement could possibly turn into a selection of Folk songs.
I await a reply.
I'm thinking of ordering Stylotones Khartoum, I really hope it doesn't magically turn into a Beatles greatest hits collection before I receive it, although after today I wouldn't be surprised.
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I can't remember who it was, but one famous musician who'd earned a golden record decided on a lark one day to take the golden LP out of its frame and actually play it, only to discover it was a record by another musician in a completly different genre.
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I purchased an LP of Born on the Fourth of July and inside was a record by Slam Jam. I figured the person who got the Born in a Slam Jam album got the better of the deal. Was taken care of by the company that sold me the album.
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Get a magnifying glass and check the master/catalog number on the play side of the disc and compare it to the number on the artwork and/or the UPC code...I'll bet they don't match. It sounds like a mispressed disc, not an unusual problem.
I've just followed your advice, the catalogue no. for Ron Goodwin is CDP7469292
The No. on the play side of the disc is CDP7460042
So there we are, mystery solved, they stamped Ron Goodwin's label on another cd.
The seller was very good about it and gave me a total refund.
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And the answer is the cd is,
Artist: Kenny Rogers
Title: Greatest Hits
Label: EMI America
Country: USA
Date:
Catalogue: CDP 7-46004-2 / DIDX413
Google came to my rescue.
Sorry Kenny, not my type of music at all, you are a very poor substitute for Ron Goodwin.
In my opinion anyway.
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Finally after several weeks of fruitless searching I've purchased a copy of Ron Goodwin's Adventure & Excitement, for the princely sum of £0.01 courtesy of Amazon. It was advertised as an ex library copy, it arrived with perfect artwork, no marks on the cd and it plays perfectly, not bad for a thirty year old disc.
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Did the seller acknowledge the error and offer to make it right?
The original seller gave me a full refund and apologised for not having checked the cd before selling it.
It all worked out well in the end.
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I can't remember who it was, but one famous musician who'd earned a golden record decided on a lark one day to take the golden LP out of its frame and actually play it, only to discover it was a record by another musician in a completly different genre.
And the worst part is, they are not even made of gold -- as Irish gangster Martin Cahill discovered when he robbed John Boorman's house and made-off with Boorman's gold record of the Deliverance soundtrack!
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