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Posted: Oct. 23 2022, 06:06 |
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| Quote (torbenyj @ Jan. 03 2004, 08:14) | http://www.bide-et-musique.com/song/4231.html
is it this one |
Indeed, that is that one!
[Oh dear, I am very embarrassed that my response to someone's kind posting is so very, very late. I'll just say that ... ermm ... life got in the way and distracted me. Apologies. ]
On top of my embarrassment, it feels really odd returning to a brief thread I began over 19 years ago. Am I just being too darn hopeful in thinking that, in the intervening years between the release of The Champs' Boys Orchestra disco version of 'Tubular Bells' (1976), a CD featuring this version imight just have made it out into the world?
Mike Oldfield's music ranks highly all over the world, with many covers, so I would be surprised if label Vogue didn't feel it worth making this version available in a modern format. Perhaps there is a CD version out there, but it is buried away on some obscure Disco compilation that very few people know about? I live in hope.
But, I am no expert on the business, and perhaps there are show-stoppers in the recording contract that prevent it's re-release, or contractual disagreements between the people involved, or maybe Vogue have lost the tapes.  Ho hum.
Finally, I have an allied question - has anybody ever seen any published comment by Mike Oldfield about this Champs' Boys Orchestra version of Tubular Bells, coming as it did just 3 years after Mike's ground-breaking original? I am curious to know if he has an opinion about it.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. I have ticked the "track this topic" box for this thread, and sincerely hope it won't be another couple of decades before useful information, one way or the other, comes to light.
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