To Be Continued... [Box]

構成数 : 4枚
合計収録時間 : 05:10:00
This collection includes 3 previously unreleased tracks and 18 that were previously not available in the U.S. It also contains a 40 page booklet with liner notes by Eric Lustbader and interviews with Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Personnel includes: Elton John (vocals, piano); John Lennon (vocals, guitar); France Gall, Kiki Dee, Millie Jackson (vocals). Digitally remastered by Tim Young (Townhouse, London, England) and Gus Dudgeon (Tape One, London, England). Personnel: Elton John (vocals, piano, Mellotron, keyboards, drums); Davey Johnstone (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, background vocals); John Lennon, Millie Jackson (vocals); Caleb Quaye (guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals); Richie Zito, Frank Clark (guitar, acoustic guitar); Fred Mandel (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer); Colin Green, Dr. Winston O'Boogie, Tony Bell, Leroy Bell, Michael Landau, Nik Kershaw, Paul Jackson, Jr. , Steve Lukather, Stuart Brown, Tim Renwick , Bobby Eli (guitar); Les Thatcher (acoustic guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar); Chris Spedding (electric guitar); Clive Hicks (12-string guitar); Gordon Huntley (steel guitar); Johnny Van Derek (violin); Jim Horn (piccolo, alto saxophone); Stevie Wonder, Ian Duck (harmonica); Carl Fortina (accordion); Dave Murphy, Jean Louis Chautemps, Alain Hatot (saxophone); Lenny Pickett (tenor saxophone); Chuck Findley (trumpet, trombone); Ivan Julian (trumpet); Jerry Hey (flugelhorn); Jacques Bolognesi (trombone); James Newton Howard (electric piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Mellotron, synthesizer); Brian Dee (harmonium, organ); David Paich, Rick Wakeman (organ); Guy Babylon , Thom Bell (keyboards); David Hentschel, Ken Scott , Diana Lewis (synthesizer); Michael Mason (Synclavier); Ray Cooper (vibraphone, congas, cymbals, shaker, tambourine, percussion); Nigel Olsson (drums, background vocals); Alvin Taylor, Jonathan Moffett, Mick Inkpen, Roger Pope, Terry Cox, Barry Morgan, Mel Gaynor, Charles Collins , Steve Holly (drums); Lenny Castro (congas); Victor Feldman, Dennis Lopez, Larry Washington, Paulinho Da Costa, Jody Linscott (percussion); Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews, Sunny, Sue, Dusty Springfield, Tony Barrows, Jessie Mae Smith, Alan Carvell, Gordon Neville, Julia Waters, Kenny Passarelli, Kiki Dee, Lesley Duncan, Liza Strike, Madeline Bell, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters, Ann Orson, Roger Cook, Shirley Lewis, Sir Harry Bowens, Sweet Pea Atkinson, The Spinners , Tony Burrows, Tony Hazzard, Barry St. John, Bill Champlin, Mortonette Jenkins, Marlena Jeter, Kay Garner, Dee Murray, Donald Ray Mitchell (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Ed Cherney . Audio Remixers: Clive Franks; Elton John. Recording information: Berkshire, England (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); Colorado (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); Cookham, England (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); France (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); London, England (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); Los Angeles, CA (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); Madison Spuare Garden (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); Mantserrat (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); Nice, France (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); Seattle, WA (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); Stawberry Studios, France (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); Sydney, Australia (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); The Netherlands (06/03/1965-07/??/1990); Toronto, Canada (06/03/1965-07/??/1990). Arrangers: Marty Paich; Paul Buckmaster; Thom Bell. This four-CD set has had a somewhat confused history, mostly owing to licensing changes and the mergers and acquisitions of various record labels. Prepared in the late '80s by MCA Records, which had the rights to Elton John's U.S. catalog, To Be Continued... marked a major improvement over the sound of his extant CDs of the period. But MCA's rights lapsed in the 1990s, and the Elton John catalog reverted to Polydor Records, which put it back out in upgraded editions on the Island Records label. This set was deleted by 1994, and was soon selling for serious amounts of money as a collector's item. Then, in 1999, MCA's parent company, Universal Music, bought Polydor, and su
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