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Before the Salt
Before the Beach
Jimmy Buffett (self – titled)
Best of the Early Years
Captain America
American Storyteller
There’s Nothing Soft About Hard Times

Did I miss any?

I don’t have any of the material yet, but I know when I do I’m going to get the CD issues from 1998 that have the original names and covers and avoid that mess of compilations.

It's got to be $$$$$. Distributors figure new fans who don't know better can be sucked into buying the early JB tunes they never hear at shows let alone on the radio.

Barnaby didn't do dick to promote Jimmy and the originals went virtually unsold. When he signed with ABC/Dunhill and made it reasoniblly big, Barnaby whored out and released them over and over again

ha- good question......

Cubbie's got it right...

Whomever owns the masters (master recordings) to those two records keeps trying to re-cash in on Buffett's popularity with different packages of the same songs.

Yea....I got sumpin right

Good theory. That record company probably wishes they owned more recordings, but they don’t. I bet they feel really bad about “loosing” the master tapes to High Cumberland back in 72’.

I could care less about these compilations, but they litter the CD racks! Where A-1-A or White Sport Coat could be (had to order them) there are so many copies of these senseless compilations. Why do the stores order so many?

This reminds me of something that kept happening here all the time a few years ago. I wasn't posting at the time, but I was lurking every day.

Anybody remember when Captain America came out: About once a week, someone would come on here and start a thread that read something like this: "I was doing a search on amazon and came across this album called 'Captain America.' What is this?" Everytime this happened, someone would post all the links to all the old threads asking the same thing! It got comical!

A reviewer on Circut City's website seems to have our answer:

http://ccity.thestore24.com/Music/Album ... ype=review

So basically any record company that wants the recordings from JB’s first two albums can have em’. Many labels are involved here, including MCA (Before the Beach), which explains why that compilation is the one we see in the MMIM discography.

Gypsy In The Palace wrote:This reminds me of something that kept happening here all the time a few years ago. I wasn't posting at the time, but I was lurking every day.

Anybody remember when Captain America came out: About once a week, someone would come on here and start a thread that read something like this: "I was doing a search on amazon and came across this album called 'Captain America.' What is this?" Everytime this happened, someone would post all the links to all the old threads asking the same thing! It got comical!

This was a few years ago??? Wow time flies.......

Here’s all the labels that helped to create this discographer’s nightmare:

Delta – American Storyteller
Madacy Records – Captain America & There's Nothing Soft About Hard Times
MCA – Before the Beach
Legend – Best of the Early Years

And then there’s Varese Records, who took advantage of this the right way and released both albums in their original from with the original cover artwork. I congratulate them , although I can’t figure out why they put the bonus tracks right in the middle of it all instead of at the end.

The same is true of a lot of Bob Marley's early albums where virtually anyone can release them, thus the market is flooded with them.

Cubbie Bear wrote:Yea....I got sumpin right

Chalked up a 1 on the old board for ya dude!

LesPaul30 wrote:

Gypsy In The Palace wrote:This reminds me of something that kept happening here all the time a few years ago. I wasn't posting at the time, but I was lurking every day.

Anybody remember when Captain America came out: About once a week, someone would come on here and start a thread that read something like this: "I was doing a search on amazon and came across this album called 'Captain America.' What is this?" Everytime this happened, someone would post all the links to all the old threads asking the same thing! It got comical!

This was a few years ago??? Wow time flies.......

I was thinking the same thing!! That doesn't seem like it was that long ago!