14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Tee-Vee Records and re-recordings!,
July 2, 2003 Ronald George Reagan (Steele, MO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 22 Greatest Hits of Sheb Wooley Or Do You Say Ben Colder (Audio CD)
Well, Tee-Vee/Gusto/whatever they are records is at it again, passing off re-records as the genuine article. They go and find a lesser known country artist or one who is out of the prime of their career and these artists re-record their hits (or sometimes non-hits) for Tee-Vee. This is a quite common case with many of Red Sovine's "hits" as well.
Not a one of these songs are the original recordings and most suffer from a lack of quality. "Purple People Eater" comes off quite good but that's where it ends. The recordings are just not good.
Mercury Nashville/Polygram Records, where are the original MGM recordings? They've taken on a new life in the "shareware" world and you would do well to do something other than license a few masters to Bear Family and do something domestically. Of course, Mercury is too busy worrying with their lap dancer Shania Twain and too many others who CLAIM to be country to worry about treating their...Read more
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Re-recordings,
February 13, 2001 Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 22 Greatest Hits of Sheb Wooley Or Do You Say Ben Colder (Audio CD)
Beware... these are re-recordings and lame ones at that. Some of Sheb Wooley's earlier recordings ("Purple People Eater") can be found on a Bear Family single-CD release. "That's My Pa" can also be found on both single and box set CD's by Bear Family. His later stuff has yet to show up in its original (MGM) form.
See my comment below this review for updated information about availability of these Sheb Wooley (Ben Colder) recordings.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
re-recordings,
May 16, 2000 By A Customer
This review is from: 22 Greatest Hits of Sheb Wooley Or Do You Say Ben Colder (Audio CD)
The only reason I purchased this CD was to get the track "That's my Pa". I have plenty of CD's with the original version of "The Purple People Eater". This CD's tracks of "That's my Pa" and "The purple People Eater" are not the original recordings and are not even very good re-recorded versions. This CD was very disappointing and is being returned.
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