Product Description
Duncan Faure has sold over 40 million records in his lifetime and is best remembered for being the lead singer for the Bay City Rollers and the founder of Rabbitt with legendary guitarist Trevor Rabin, who went on to fame with YES with the song Owner of A Lonely Heart.

Duncan is one of the most successful artists ever in South Africa, his home country, and has consistently had singles on the charts since 1972. The Duncan Faure Anthology collects 40 years of Duncan's music. Starting with Orange Cashboat in 1972 to Nightfall, his latest single. Take a listen to the magic that is the music of Duncan Faure. Duncan is a true master of writing a pop tune.

"Duncan is one of the greatest performers and songwriters I have ever known." --Sir Elton John

CD 1
01 Nightfall [2010]
02 Racing Car [1981]
03 Lovely Is The Woman [1980]
04 Come Back - Karu
05 World Stood Still - Karu
06 In The Right Place - Karu
07 Finally In Love [1985]
08 I'll Always Be There
09 In A Hundred Years
10 Dad's Town
11 Tear In Her Eye
12 Around The Corner
13 Tonight I Pray for A Miracle
14 Oh You Make Me Blue
15 Where Is The Music
16 Lovelight
17 Come Dance With Me
18 Seen The Way You Look At Me

CD 2
01 Feels Like A Day
02 This Is Love This Is Real
03 Wouldn't It Be Good
04 Better Than Ever
05 Man Of A Thousand Dreams
06 Get Inside Your Heart
07 You Know Me So Well [Alternate Mix]
08 Not Enough Hours [Alternate Mix]
09 Timilu
10 Galaxy
11 Forever
12 Kings Anthem
13 Christmas Song
14 This Is The Christmas
15 Brother [Live WPLJ Radio]
16 Eyes Of The Innocent [Demo]
17 I Won't Give Up - Orange Cashboat
18 Girl On Her Own - Orange Cashboat
19 Feels Like A Day [2010]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0043CT8RC/?tag=imwan-20

Added the tracklisting for you, Chris. The description says it "collects 40 years of Duncan's music" but that's not quite true, I don't see any Rabbitt or Rollers material included. That said, I'll be getting this because it has loads of solo stuff which had never made it to CD before.

I'll be getting this WAN too, Linda. Never bought a Duncan Faure CD before, so this seems like a good place to start.

Just ordered mine through AmazWAN. Most of this will be new to me, so that's always cool.

This track ...


... would have been a gold record in a just world. Or a world where it was still 1974. Either/or.

Just a word of warning...

I picked up this comp at my local Indie store this weekend and it is a "Blue Back CD-R". I returned it...

Thanks, Denis. That's too bad ....

Mine just got shipped. I'll probably keep it anyway, but this is cheesy that it's a CDR and not disclosed as such.

Linda, do ya think Duncan was inflenced by Lennon by just a smidge...?

Perhaps a scoche.

I'm going to keep mine too, but backup copies will be made.

He definitely brought the Beatles vibe to tracks like "Hello And Welcome Home" on The Rollers' Elevator album, to be sure.

Some great stuff here and the Lennon/Beatles influence runs throughout, so don't hold it against Duncan that he's an ex-Bay City Roller.

Hi Chris,

Did your copy of Anthology look like a cd-r?

Yes. And when I loaded it into iTunes, I got confirmation, because it pulled up no track titles from the database.

The cd should be a silver cd not a cd. The very first run was a cdr pressing but those were pressed to be used as early promotion for Duncans Anthology. Are you sure it is blue on the bottom and not Silver? The ones that are shipping out now are defintely silver cds
I worked on this cd for Almost 2 years with Duncan, It was meant to be a 40 year restrospective of his solo work. For various liscensing reasons we only put solo material on the cd. It was never our intention to try and cover his rabbitt and rollers years. We may look at separate compilations in the future that will cover that but at the moment there are no real plans for that. The Orange Cashboat material dates back to 1972 and the christmas song was 78 and few of the demos are from the 70's. We were hoping to make it the most comprehensive set of Duncan solo material every gathered in one place. I think we achieved that goal of presenting a good mix of material that covers duncan's career. As with any retrospective there is always a few gems that get left behind. Most of those that were left behind were once again do to the liscensing of the tracks.
It was quite a challenge to gather up all of this material after so many years. There were so many tracks that were virtually lost and in the course of two years we mangaged to get some many together. It was quite a journey on this project and Ducnan and I were both very happy with final outcome of it.
Next we will be finishing up the kick of the rhino cd. It will be a cd of all new material for duncan and hopefully we will have him out on the road again with his own band soon.
Thanks for listening and supporting duncan and his work.
Oh yeah I own Global recording artists the label that puts out that cd along with many others http://www.gragroup.com

Thanks GRA for your posting. Myself and a friend cancelled our orders based on the CD-R notification.

Now where can we order to assure the "real" CD that we want to purchase?
From your website and/or will Amazon have the CD.

Thanks,
Rick A.

PS Also Thanks to Dr. Chris Evil for keeping the post alive. Both I and my friend wanted this CD so it looks like we can after all.

The music is great, Rick, and you won't regret purchasing it. Makes me want to delve more into Duncan's other solo albums.

Question to GRA:
Are there any plans for 'Digital' releasing of Anthology on the likes of Amazon, 7Digital and iTunes as I noticed Pronounced Four-Uh was.

GRA - thanks for the posting.

Clearly some of the CD-R's have made it into the retail channel. There's one customer review on Amazon where they received a CD-R:

http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Duncan- ... g=imwan-20

How is it Amazon selling these if they're intended as promo items?

If I go ahead and order Anthology from Amazon and receive a CD-R copy what recourse if GRA offering?

That review is from our own Dr. Chris Evil above. So the questions to Chris would be: was this posted based on Denis' warning earlier in the thread, or did you yourself receive CD-R's from Amazon as opposed to real CDs? I got real CDs (just opened it now ... it was sitting in the "to be listened to" stack), and I think I ordered the Anthology right after you did, Chris.

Wrote my review after I got, opened up and listened to my discs, Linda.

Good to hear from everyone. If you buy it at http://www.gragroup.com you will definitely get a silver cd version. The anthology is in the process of being uploaded for digital distribution. It will be available on i-tunes, Amazon, Virgin, Snocap, napster and a few hundred other outlets. We had to work out a deal with EMI South Africa before we could do the digital distribution on the title.
We will be working on more titles for Duncan and hopefully we will be reissuing more titles as things progress. Right now we are pushing the anthology and will be doing so in South Africa this week. Duncan will be there and we will be lining up some radio interviews.
Just contact me if you got the cdr version at karl@gragroup.com and we can work out getting a silver one out to you. It is good to hear everyone is enjoying the music. It was quite a journey for me to get this all together. Many of these tracks were almost lost and it is good to finally gather them up into one collection

Karl

Karl, it's very cool you are correcting this and doing the right thing.