"Henry Mancini PURE GOLD" CD from 1987. 24 minutes of heaven?

you gotta laugh!

better than cryin...

 

I agree. It's always possible to look around for a good price, but first we need to know which CDs to be looking for!

Walmart has new copies in stock now for $13.88.

 

not anymore...

Out of Stock Online

 

Here are a couple more that can be tried:

http://rateyourmusic.com/buy?album_id=168634

http://www.musicstack.com/album/henry+mancini/pure+gold

 

I know that there may be an initial surge but I doubt this item is going to stay like this as far as price. Who do you think is grabbing all the cheap ones and leaving the higher priced ones behind?

It isnt like the price went up or the sellers said "oooo this is rare now and important lets gouge them from now on". Its simply that the cheap ones were bought by us. Those discs that are 80 and 100 bucks were already there. Once this thread dies off the title next month will be fairly easily found for not too much.

Steve doesnt like for us to have to pay a 100 bucks for a cd that he mentions and when the idea is pushed that its becoming rare now and prices are going to become crazy because of Steve mentioning the cd it gives him the idea that he is making things worse for us and he then doesnt like to mention great sounding cds as often. Which isnt true to give him that impression.

He mentioned the Hank Thompson cd awhile back and yes for a bit it was pricey. I held off wrote it down and came back to it a month later. No problem. Found it for 5 bucks.

Let's not give wrong impressions and cheat ourselves of future suggestions by our host please.

 

Yep, I got an email back for the Amazon seller today stating that the Mancini "pure Gold" CD was Out of Stock now. So I guess I was too late in ordering mine yesterday as the order has been cancelled now.

 

One of the best sounding box sets in my entire collection.

 

...or he decided to keep it!

maybe a reader here...

 

I love that record, probably my favorite.

My Mom and Dad drug me to a Mancini concert in Philly when I was 10...I haven't stopped thanking them.

 

guess I'll be waiting a month or two for prices to come down...on a side note, I believe "Half-Price Books" has new cd copies of some RCA gold series albums, they look like bootlegs (and, for some reason, they have lots of Stevie Wonder's "Talking Book" bootlegged), not sure if they have the Mancini, but I almost bought Perry Como's Gold cd..untill I added up the minutes, around 26, and decided it wasn't worth it

 

Why does this always happen?



Another CD to add to the CDs you'll never purchase because they are way out of your price range.

Be interesting to get a response from these sellers and ask why their price is in the $100. range when this CD was 2 bucks the other day.

 

prices will come down eventually

 

If I wasn't such a capitalist that would aggravate me.

Regardless, they're friggin' ________ (anatomical expletive).

 

At least my seller didn't cancel out on me, he emailed that it was being shipped yesterday.

Uh, in an earlier post I gave the wrong source for the information on Hatari's Baby Elephant Walk: "...he credits a forties song by Will Bradley/Ray McKinley for his idea behind "Baby Elephant Walk".

It wasn't the autobiography, but in another book I read: Gene Lees Arranging the Score; Portraits of the Great Arrangers. Here's the quote:

"Hank soon was working on Hatari!, a 1962 film with an African setting directed by Howard Hawks. One scene in the picture was purely fortuitous. Three baby elephants took a great affection to actress Elsa Martinelli and started following her. Hawks simply shot footage of it without knowing whether he even wanted to use it in the final picture. Hank looked at it, at Hawks' request, and remembered a Will Bradley boogie-woogie hit record, "Down the Road A-piece." He used it as a model, and the boogie-woogie piece he wrote, played on a calliope, Baby Elephant Walk, became yet another hit."

 

The latest link for cheap copies of this CD: http://www1.gemm.com/search/artist/HENRY-MANCINI/MANCINI-c-HENRY/PURE--GOLD/CD/

 

great service there Bradley!

 

I agree. The Manicini sounds really nice.
But didn't "DH" also engineer Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come"?
I thought he did a wonderful job on that one.

 

What's bizarre is, I just checked the product page on Amazon, and the $108 one is gone and the one for $88 is still left

I think some people said those were the prices originally before the buying binge started.

But as people have said, the initial demand will fall and supply will increase as people decide it's a good idea to sell their old copies to take advantage of this new demand

 

That is right.

 

After seeing this thread, I could'nt pass up a vg+ mono " Music from Mr Lucky" on rca vinyl. After hearing this, I need more Mancini.

 

A few more on GEMM left and some had sold already: http://www1.gemm.com/search/artist/HENRY-MANCINI/MANCINI-c-HENRY/PURE--GOLD/CD/

For vinyl, start out with the multi volume "The Best of Mancini" series, especially the first 2 volumes.

 

Out of Stock?

Here is an interesting development I ordered this CD and received this following e-mail confirmation.

June 5 @ 6:09AM

Hi,

I'm just writing to thank you for your recent order for Pure Gold and to pass along my email address in case you need to contact me for any reason. You can email [email protected] and either myself or one of my associates will get back to you as soon as we can.

If you have a problem, please don't hesitate to email. Also, I would ask that you please contact us before leaving negative feedback. A negative feedback really hurts our business and I am confident that we can resolve any problem you may have.

Thank you for your business!

Woody's Books

SURPRISE, much later the same day the following e-mail arrived, but the seller still had the CD available but for $100.00 USC

June 5 @ 3:55PM
I am so sorry to be writing you for this reason! We are out of stock on the item you ordered (104-6541114-9734660) so I have no choice but to cancel your order. You have been refunded for this purchase. Please accept my sincerest apologies and I hope to better serve you on your next order with us. The out of stock title is Pure Gold.

Thank you for understanding!

Woody\'s Books:thumbsdn:

Hmmmmm, I’ve decided I’m not in the mood for Mancini anymore. I’ve waited since this collection was first released in 1975 I can wait a LOT longer. After all the content is out there in many different forms. I politely suggest you guys do the same.

 

Hope this helps some of you as well...

http://www.musicstack.com/album/henry_mancini/pure_gold-woc-s

Cheers,

Dan

 

Vinyl Rules anyway! Thanks.

 

More GEMM copies have been sold thanks to me mentioning it, and a dealer on MusicStack does have a $11.67 plus S&H copy listed here: http://www.musicstack.com/item/39556497/mancini,henry/pure+gold+.

BTW, Pure Gold does select 10 of the "best" tracks from the first 2 "Best of Mancini" LPs and combines them into one compilation with only a few tracks not on either of these 2 comps, "Moment To Moment," and "Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet" *=On Pure Gold

Vol. 1. Side 1:
Peter Gunn*
Timothy
Lujon
March of the Cue Balls
Fallout!
Mr. Lucky*
Side 2: Moon River*
Experiment in Terror
Baby Elephant Walk*
Days of Wine and Roses*
Theme from "Hatari"
Charade (vocal)*

Vol. 2. Side 1
The Pink Panther Theme *
Alright, Okay, You Win
The Brothers Go to Mother's
Breakfast at Tiffany's
A Shot in the Dark

Side 2
The Sweetheart Tree (vocal)
A Cool Shade of Blue
Soldier in the Rain Dear Heart (vocal)
It Had Better Be Tonight (vocal) *
How Soon (vocal)
Cheers!