Talk:Series/Orbis/Blues Collection

Have just made an addition (Blues at Xmas 2) to the end of the list - but before I registered. I have now registered as I have noticed that there are some more major additions necessary so I guess there may be future correspondence necessary. As noted on my (pre-registration) editing notes, I'm a complete beginner at wiki.

As a first step I'm outlining some of the omissions as I see them.

1. There is a whole extra CD in some version of the series; this appears as either #3 or #9: Ike & Tina Turner - The Queen of Rhythm'n'Blues.

2. There are 2 other numbering series that I am aware of: BLU CC 001 etc and BLU C 001 etc. The title/ref no relationships are different again from the variations in your table (and different from each other).

3. The second of these seems to have been used for the casette issues (check needed on this) but in addition some CDs were issued in this series (ie BLU C 001 onwards). I have copies of these in cardboard folders (as opposed to jewel cases). A seller on eBay told me that he bought them in a newsagent in Swansea (UK).

4. I have not found anything beyond #15 in either of the above 2 extra series.

5. The collection was apparently issued in Australia - this may account for one of these extra series.

6. I am currently trying to find the time to put the details of the variants that I have collected onto a spreadsheet, so if you can bear with me, I can send you a copy which should then give full details of these 2 additional numbering sequences.

7. Not really within the ambit of your article(?) - but there a couple of fairly well-known mislabelled items: the CD labelled as #83 Jimmy Johnson is sometimes in fact #57 (Eddie Vinson). Same applies to #54 Jimmy Rogers which is also sometimes EV.

Couple of other small points of possible interest: what happened to #91 and 92? Guess Orbis just pulled the plug prematurely. In any even the series seems to have been a fairly ad hoc bit of organisation - I've got a printed list of titles (?from about 1996 or 7) which lists JL Hooker twice (also in as #76) and also in the late numbers lists several artists who never appeared at all like The Animals, Canned Heat, Katie Webster.

BTW Thanks for your sterling efforts so far. Wish I'd found it b4 I started my spreadsheet! Chris