I've been on a several year search for Elton John tracks, inspired by the member of the old ICE board that put together a 4-disc (later updated to 6!) collection of Elton rarities and b-sides. Right now I'm working on collecting 12" remixes. I don't do vinyl anymore so for the remixes that pre-date cd, I have been resorting to YouTube, but of course there are still gaps.

Currently I'm looking for digital copies of "Crystal (Extended Remix)" and "Believe (Urban Turban Mix)"? Crystal was on vinyl. Believe was a promo only cd single.

And as long as I'm on the topic, does anybody have an extra copy of the Bunbury Tails cd they want to sell?

Thanks for any assistance. And of course, if anyone wants to start discussing Elton John minutiae, count me in.

Vince

Elton recorded a song for Baz Luhrmann's movie Australia titled "The Drover's Ballad" but there was no physical release of the soundtrack.

He also contributed two news songs to the animated feature Gnomeo and Juliet. They're both on the soundtrack CD, but the movie version of "Hello, Hello" was a duet with Lady Gaga, while the album version is Elton solo.

For things like that, I've bought the dvds and ripped the audio.

Another soundtrack oddity that Elton is on is the charity song in the movie Bruno.

Do you think he knows there are obsessives like me out here, buying movies just to rip the audio?

Ah well. It's a hobby!

Vince,

Just curious about how you felt the first time you may have seen "Dog Day Afternoon" with "Amoreena" playing?

I was about 15 when the film came out and I remember saying to my sister "That's Elton", but I had never heard the song before that day.

DanO,

I only saw Dog Day Afternoon recently, the last 5 years or so. When Amoreena came on I was mostly confused. What is this song doing here? This wasn't a hit. Hmmm.... Then after a few minutes, the delayed reaction.

I turned to my boyfriend:

"Hey! This is Elton!"
"Yes. I know."
"Oh... You know this song?"
"I bought this album when it came out."
"Oh..." I was so disappointed that my superior knowledge of music didn't amaze him.

He's just enough older that he was a teenager at the time. I was only 7 in 1972 and not buying my own records yet.

It was pretty funny at the time.

Thanks for the memory.

Vince

Amoreena might not have been a hit but as I recall it got a lot of airplay on "freeform" radio back in the 70s. I know I was already familiar with it when I finally bought Tumbleweed Connection a few years ago.

I think he may still drop by now and then.

Howdy.