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Reply #30 posted 10/30/07 10:09pm

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David Bowie maybe!?!


i think prince and bowie are just about neck-in-neck in terms of officially released material, but bowie - even though he has a pretty impressive amount of bootleggage out there - has far less circulating in his "fan underground" than prince does. for whatever THAT'S worth... lurking
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Reply #31 posted 10/30/07 11:33pm

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Miles Davis has a large catalogue as well. He's been dead for 16 years now and they're still releasing box sets filled with unreleased jams (though none of it with Prince unfortunately lol).
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Reply #32 posted 10/30/07 11:37pm

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Anxiety said:

andykeen said:

David Bowie maybe!?!


i think prince and bowie are just about neck-in-neck in terms of officially released material, but bowie - even though he has a pretty impressive amount of bootleggage out there - has far less circulating in his "fan underground" than prince does. for whatever THAT'S worth... lurking


That's a really good point also. I think Prince is hands down the most bootlegged artist ever (in terms of the number of concerts and outtakes circulating among fans). He's been constantly on the road for almost his entire 30 year career in an era filled with accessible technology. Plus it doesn't help that his music has a quality about it that attracts an 'obsessive' audience.
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Reply #33 posted 10/31/07 1:05am

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Slim Dusty - Australian C&W artist - at least 106 albums
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Reply #34 posted 10/31/07 1:51am

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Smillan said:

Hey, can anyone think of a musician who has recorded / released more material than Prince. I don't know how many albums Frank Zappa released, could he have done more. Although maybe Prince has recorded a lot more, just like at the Work.


Whereas most of Prince's official releases are pure studio tracks, many of Frank Zappa's releases are live albums. Some of them are a mix of live and studio tracks. And some of the albums that are considered traditional studio releases have songs where the basic tracks are from live concert recordings, then those basic tracks are "built up" to studio quality with overdubs and editing. Zappa's vault is still in the process of being explored by designated vaultmeister Joe Travers, and Frank's wife Gail Zappa stated that about forty completed album masters have been identified so far. There's also orchestral compositions committed to paper as well as tons of digital synclavier compositions in various states of completion.

Most of Frank's stuff is on analog tape which, if you include his studio work before The Mothers of Invention, dates back to the early 1960s. Some of his earliest analog tape recordings have been baked and transferred successfully, so anyone worried about the preservation of Prince's analog material shouldn't be too worried....although Gail did say that when Joe bakes Frank's tapes they only get one pass at it, if they fuck up, then the recordings are lost forever!
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Reply #35 posted 10/31/07 1:58am

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toejam said:

Anxiety said:



i think prince and bowie are just about neck-in-neck in terms of officially released material, but bowie - even though he has a pretty impressive amount of bootleggage out there - has far less circulating in his "fan underground" than prince does. for whatever THAT'S worth... lurking


That's a really good point also. I think Prince is hands down the most bootlegged artist ever (in terms of the number of concerts and outtakes circulating among fans). He's been constantly on the road for almost his entire 30 year career in an era filled with accessible technology. Plus it doesn't help that his music has a quality about it that attracts an 'obsessive' audience.

im not sure, maybe the beatles have more bootlegs
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Reply #36 posted 10/31/07 2:02am

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what about Elvis?
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Reply #37 posted 10/31/07 2:17am

iloveannie

Bruce Springsteen perhaps? 150 cd releases between 1990 and 2007. That's a fair few. He writes for other people a lot too. Can't stand the stuff personally but hey...

Umm how about Bob Dylan? A LOT of tunes from that guy.

I think there are probably quite a few artists that can compare with output volume. No point mentioning 'the vault' as I'm sure every artist has many songs they've chosen to scrap, keep or just hold back. Hell, even I have one or two.
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Reply #38 posted 10/31/07 3:20am

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Reply #39 posted 10/31/07 4:37am

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Dolly Parton?
1967 "Hello, I’m Dolly" (#11 COUNTRY)
1967 "Just Between You And Me" (with Porter Wagoner) (#8 COUNTRY)
1968 "Just Because I'm a Woman" (#22 COUNTRY)
1968 "Just the Two of Us" (with Porter Wagoner) #184 U.S. (#5 COUNTRY)
1969 "In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)" (#15 COUNTRY)
1969 "Always, Always" (with Porter Wagoner) #162 U.S. (#5 COUNTRY)
1969 "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy" #194 U.S. (#6 COUNTRY)
1970 "As Long as I Love" (Monument)
1970 "The Fairest of Them All" (#13 COUNTRY)
1970 "Porter Wayne and Dolly Rebecca" (with Porter Wagoner) #137 U.S. (#4 COUNTRY)
1970 "A Real Live Dolly" (live album) #154 U.S. (#32 COUNTRY)
1970 "Once More" (with Porter Wagoner) #191 U.S. (#7 COUNTRY)*1971 "Two of a Kind" (with Porter Wagoner) #142 U.S. (#13 COUNTRY)
1971 "Golden Streets Of Glory" (#22 COUNTRY)
1971 "Joshua" #198 U.S. (#16 COUNTRY)
1971 "Coat of Many Colors" (#7 COUNTRY)
1972 "The Right Combination/Burning The Midnight Oil" (with Porter Wagoner) (#6 COUNTRY)
1972 "Touch Your Woman" (#19 COUNTRY)
1972 "Together Always" (with Porter Wagoner) (#3 COUNTRY)
1972 "My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner" (#33 COUNTRY)
1973 "We Found It" (with Porter Wagoner) (#20 COUNTRY)
1973 "My Tennessee Mountain Home" (#19 COUNTRY)
1973 "Love and Music" (with Porter Wagoner) (#8 COUNTRY)
1973 "Bubbling Over" (#14 COUNTRY)
1974 "Jolene" (#6 COUNTRY)
1974 "Porter ‘n‘ Dolly" (with Porter Wagoner) (#8 COUNTRY)
1974 "Love Is Like A Butterfly" (#7 COUNTRY)
1975 "The Bargain Store" (#9 COUNTRY)
1975 "In Concert" (live album with Chet Atkins, Ronnie Milsap, Charley Pride, Jerry Reed and Gary Stewart) (#19 COUNTRY)
1975 "Dolly: The Seeker/We Used To" (#14 COUNTRY)
1975 "Say Forever You‘ll Be Mine" (with Porter Wagoner) (#6 COUNTRY)
1976 "All I Can Do" (#3 COUNTRY)
1977 "New Harvest - First Gathering" #71 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
1977 "Here You Come Again" #20 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
1978 "Heartbreaker" #27 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
1979 "Great Balls of Fire" #40 U.S. (#4 COUNTRY)
1980 "Dolly, Dolly, Dolly" #71 U.S. (#7 COUNTRY)
1980 "Porter & Dolly" (with Porter Wagoner) (#9 COUNTRY)
1980 "9 to 5 and Odd Jobs" #11 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
1982 "Heartbreak Express" #106 U.S. (#5 COUNTRY)
1982 "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Soundtrack" #63 U.S. (#5 COUNTRY)
1982 "The Winning Hand" (with Kris Kristofferson, Brenda Lee, and Willie Nelson) #109 U.S. (#4 COUNTRY)
1983 "Burlap & Satin" #127 U.S. (#5 COUNTRY)
1984 "The Great Pretender" #73 U.S. (#7 COUNTRY)
1984 "Rhinestone (film soundtrack)" #135 U.S. (#32 COUNTRY)
1984 "Once Upon a Christmas" (with Kenny Rogers) #31 U.S. (#12 COUNTRY)
1985 "Real Love (#9 COUNTRY)
1986 "Think About Love" (#54 COUNTRY)
1987 "Trio" (with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt #6 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
1987 "Rainbow" #153 U.S. (#18 COUNTRY)
1989 "White Limozeen" (#3 COUNTRY)
1990 "Home for Christmas" (#74 COUNTRY)
1991 "Eagle When She Flies" #24 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
1992 "Straight Talk (film soundtrack)" #138 U.S. (#22 COUNTRY)
1993 "Slow Dancing With the Moon" #16 U.S. (#4 COUNTRY)
1993 "Honky Tonk Angels" (with Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette) #42 U.S. (#6 COUNTRY)
1994 "Heartsongs: Live From Home" (live album) #87 U.S. (#16 COUNTRY)
1995 "Something Special" #54 U.S. (#10 COUNTRY)
1996 "Treasures" #122 U.S. (#21 COUNTRY)
1998 "Hungry Again" #167 U.S. (#23 COUNTRY)
1999 "Trio 2 (album)" (with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt #62 U.S. (#4 COUNTRY)
1999 "The Grass Is Blue" #198 U.S. (#24 COUNTRY)
2001 "Little Sparrow" # 97 U.S., #30 UK (#12 COUNTRY)
2002 "Halos & Horns" #58 U.S., #37 UK (#4 COUNTRY)
2003 "Just Because I'm A Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton" #55 U.S. (#6 COUNTRY)
2003 "For God And Country" #167 U.S. (#23 COUNTRY)
2004 "Live and Well" (live album) #161 U.S. (#22 COUNTRY)
2005 "Those Were The Days" #48 U.S. (#9 COUNTRY) UK POP #35 (#2 UK Country)
2008 "Backwoods Barbie"
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Reply #40 posted 10/31/07 4:41am

Lilith

Franco Battiato

Mozart (i know at the end of 18th centure Recording Studio didnt still exist).
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Reply #41 posted 10/31/07 4:44am

Horntooter

Bob Dylan...

Modern Times
2006
The Best Of Bob Dylan
2005
Live at the Gaslight 1962
2005
No Direction Home: Bootleg Volume 7
2005
Oh Mercy/time Out Of Mind/love And Theft (3 Pak)
2004
The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964
2004
The Bootleg Volume 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert At Philharmonic Hall
2004
Greatest Hits Vols. 1, 2 & 3
2003
Best of Rescue Records: Rock 1993-2003
2003
Blood on the Tracks [Remastered]
2003
Oh Mercy [Remastered]
2003
Bringing It All Back Home [Remastered]
2003
Planet Waves [Remastered]
2003
Slow Train Coming [Remastered]
2003
Highway 61 Revisited [Remastered]
2003
Masked And Anonymous
2003
Live 1975
2002
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975
2002
Blonde On Blonde/Blood On The Tracks/...
2001
Love and Theft
2001
The Essential Bob Dylan
2000
Greatest Hits Volume 2
1999
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
1998
Live 1966
1998
Time Out Of Mind
1997
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan/The Times They...
1995
MTV Unplugged
1995
Greatest Hits Volume 3
1994
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 3
1994
World Gone Wrong
1993
Good As I Been To You
1992
The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3...
1991
The Bootleg Series
1991
Under The Red Sky
1990
Oh Mercy
1989
Dylan and The Dead
1989
Down In The Groove
1988
Knocked Out Loaded
1986
Guitar Town
1986
Empire Burlesque
1985
Real Live
1985
Biograph
1985
Infidels
1983
Shot Of Love
1981
Saved
1980
Slow Train Coming
1979
At Budokan
1979
Street Legal
1978
Hotel California
1976
Hard Rain
1976
Desire
1976
The Basement Tapes
1975
Blood On The Tracks
1975
Before The Flood
1974
Planet Waves
1974
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
1971
Self Portrait
1970
New Morning
1970
Nashville Skyline
1969
John Wesley Harding
1967
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
1967
Blonde On Blonde
1966
Highway 61 Revisited
1965
Bringing It All Back Home
1965
Another Side Of Bob Dylan
1964
The Times They Are A-Changin'
1964
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1963
Bob Dylan
1962
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Reply #42 posted 10/31/07 4:47am

iloveannie

!!!STATUS QUO!!!
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Reply #43 posted 10/31/07 7:10am

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Ella Fitzgerald has almost 90 released albums.

Decca (1934-1955)
1950
Pure Ella (originally Ella Sings Gershwin)
Souvenir Album
1954
Lullabies of Birdland
Songs in a Mellow Mood
1955
For Sentimental Reasons
Miss Ella Fitzgerald & Mr Gordon Jenkins Invite You to Listen and Relax
Sweet and Hot
The First Lady of Song
Song's from "Pete Kelly's Blues"

Verve (1956-1966)
1956
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
Ella and Louis (with Louis Armstrong)
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook
1957
Ella and Louis Again (with Louis Armstrong)
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (with Duke Ellington) – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist
Ella at the Opera House (Live)
Like Someone in Love
Porgy and Bess (with Louis Armstrong)
1958
Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (Live) (Reissued with tracks featuring Carmen McRae in 2001)
Ella Swings Lightly – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook – Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert (Live) (Released in 1988)
1959
Get Happy!
Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook – Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
1960
Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife (Live) – Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
Hello, Love
Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph (Available on CD as The Intimate Ella)
1961
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook
Ella in Hollywood (Live)
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
Ella Returns to Berlin (Live) (Released in 1991)
1962
Rhythm Is My Business
Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson – Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Ella Swings Gently with Nelson
1963
Ella Sings Broadway
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook
Ella and Basie! (with Count Basie)
These Are the Blues
1964
Hello, Dolly!
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook
Ella at Juan-Les-Pins (Live)
1965
Ella at Duke's Place (with Duke Ellington)
Ella in Hamburg (Live)
1966
Whisper Not
Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur (Live) (with Duke Ellington)
1967
Sunshine of your Love (Live)

Capitol (1967-1968)
1967
Brighten the Corner
Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas
1968
30 by Ella
Misty Blue

Reprise (1969-1970)
1969
Ella
1970
Things Ain't What They Used to Be

Atlantic (1972)
1972
Ella Loves Cole (Released on the Pablo label as Dream Dancing)

Columbia (1972)
1973
Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall (Live)

Pablo (1970-1989)
1966
The Stockholm Concert, 1966 (Live) (with Duke Ellington)
1970
Ella in Budapest, Hungary (Live)
1971
Ella A Nice (Live)
1972
Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 (Live)
1973
Take Love Easy (with Joe Pass)
1974
Fine and Mellow (Released in 1979) – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal
Ella in London (Live)
1975
Ella and Oscar (with Oscar Peterson)
Montreux '75 (Live)
1976
Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (with Joe Pass) – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal
1977
Montreux '77 (Live)
1978
Lady Time
Dream Dancing (First released on the Atlantic label as Ella Loves Cole)
1979
Digital III at Montreux (Live) – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
A Classy Pair (with Count Basie)
A Perfect Match (Live) (with Count Basie) – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
1981
Ella Abraça Jobim
1982
The Best Is Yet to Come – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
1983
Speak Love (with Joe Pass)
Nice Work If You Can Get It (with André Previn)
1986
Easy Living (with Joe Pass)
1989
All That Jazz – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female


Boxed sets and collections

1994
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks
1997
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve
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Reply #44 posted 10/31/07 7:57am

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SCNDLS said:

Ella Fitzgerald has almost 90 released albums.

1994
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks


I've heard these recordings....they're phenomenal.
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Reply #45 posted 10/31/07 8:52am

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A better question would be who has had more releases in the writer/producer/performer category. NOT MANY!
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Reply #46 posted 10/31/07 9:12am

Anxiety

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Anxiety said:



i think prince and bowie are just about neck-in-neck in terms of officially released material, but bowie - even though he has a pretty impressive amount of bootleggage out there - has far less circulating in his "fan underground" than prince does. for whatever THAT'S worth... lurking


That's a really good point also. I think Prince is hands down the most bootlegged artist ever (in terms of the number of concerts and outtakes circulating among fans). He's been constantly on the road for almost his entire 30 year career in an era filled with accessible technology. Plus it doesn't help that his music has a quality about it that attracts an 'obsessive' audience.


i'd be interested to see how prince's circulating bootleg list compares with dylan, springsteen and the grateful dead. nod
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Reply #47 posted 10/31/07 10:41am

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I suppose it is important in this discussion to go over studio albums. Mind you, I would put in the Warner Bros, best of for the B-sides which would have been a great release on its own. James Brown has loads of live albums but then again, if Prince wanted to he could put out loads too.

Also, with all of the hundreds of unreleased material, in theory Prince doesn't have to write any more music and could keep on releasing albums for the next 20 years or so.

Miles Davis must be ahead of Prince but he first released an album in 1949 and released his last one in his life time in 1991 (42 years). Prince has been going for around 29 years so long may he continue. wink
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Reply #48 posted 10/31/07 12:53pm

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Anxiety said:

andykeen said:

David Bowie maybe!?!


i think prince and bowie are just about neck-in-neck in terms of officially released material, but bowie - even though he has a pretty impressive amount of bootleggage out there - has far less circulating in his "fan underground" than prince does. for whatever THAT'S worth... lurking


I'd say for every album there is at least an albums worth of unreleased material. I would say this is probably the case up to Rave.

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Reply #49 posted 10/31/07 5:30pm

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Xodus said:

SCNDLS said:

Ella Fitzgerald has almost 90 released albums.

1994
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks


I've heard these recordings....they're phenomenal.


I've got them too. nod thumbs up! Ella was a ridiculously crazy talent that I adored. Which is why when these heffas like Beyonce, Britney, and Christina get called divas I wanna scream. Ella should be required listening for all these chicks to see what a real vocalist does, and it doesn't include screaming at the top of yo damn lungs. disbelief sigh

Also, I think Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin have more released recordings than P.
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