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  Fred (fred) 2-Debutant Username: fred Post Number: 24 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 205.188.116.138 |
http://www.wired.com/news/digi wood/0,1412,63351,00.html About two-thirds of the way down: "Motown Records also struck a deal to put the first 45 Motown singles and 45 classic albums on iTunes in honor of Motown's 45th birthday. "ITunes is currently the leader and it seemed like a good fit," said Harry Weinger, vice president of artist and repertoire at Universal Music Enterprises, the catalog arm of Universal Music Group. More than half of the singles chosen had not been in any digital format before, Weinger said. The company elected to put 16 albums like Moods of Marvin Gaye -- which had been available overseas but not in the United States -- in the music store. Six albums had never been on CD and 23 albums had been printed on CD at one time, but were now out of print. Despite the iTunes collaboration, 95 percent of the vast Motown catalog is still unavailable to the public, Weinger said. Thanks, Harry. | ||
Robb_K (robb_k) 5-Doyen Username: robb_k Post Number: 217 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.81.19.97 |
Wow! This is great news! I hope these really sell well, so Weinger will consider releasing more of the tremendous volume of high quality recordings never released. I've heard hundreds of them, and they were just a small fraction of the tapes and acetates that existed during the early-mid '70s. I hope none of them were destroyed since then. |
