Now, I agree that I’d LOVE to have CD re-releases by several groups, but I’m talking about songs that were recorded but never made it out of the can, so to speak. We hear of that in the secular world quite often, so that makes me wonder if, indeed any do exist in our field.

Example: Perhaps The Cats recorded 15 songs for a particular project, and only 12 were actually released on the album… Where are the other 3, and does anyone still have access to them?

For a long time, I thought someone should do a complete box set on the Oaks. At the very least they could do the gospel stuff from HeartWarming/Vista/ Columbia with the unreleased or singles only tracks too. That would surely sell in the gospel market and even in secular.

On the Vocal Band, besides the unreleased, I would like to see their first two (The New Gaither Vocal Band and Passin’ The Faith Along) released on CD. I have all the others on commercial CD whereas the first two on tape and lp (and homemade CD.) Gaither has his own customer list and distribution channels I would think he could sell them and the unreleased tracks. For that matter, some of the other stuff mentioned.

I wish on the Cathedrals, they would release Travelin’ Live, Land of Livingm Especially For You at least since those didn’t get the CD release from Riversong (although it seems like Kyle had remembered seeing one on the budget CD release (like they did Live In Atlanta I think.) For that matter, perhaps Old Convention Song is another as my double CD of that with Prestigious saw them cut off the last two songs or so from Old Convention Song due to lack of space. The rest of their Canaan stuff would be cool too.

What if Buck & Dottie Rambo taped some of their practice sessions at the house working on some of those great Dottie songs?

The possibilities are endless, really. And intriguing to say the least.