Gold City offers e-Tracks
Gold City recently announced (hat tip, MP) that they were offering their soundtracks as downloads from their website. Several groups (Kingdom Heirs, Greenes, Dove Brothers, etc.) have offered tracks from albums for download from their websites, and most Southern Gospel groups can be found on either iTunes or eMusic. But this is a new and encouraging move.
Currently, the only track available is “I Have Seen the Light,” from their most recent Christmas project. But they state that their plans include out-of-print and hard-to-find soundtracks: “So many have requested certain soundtracks that have long been out of production. Now you will be able to download many of these tracks from our store.“
Comment by Kyle (December 12, 2007, 9:11 am)
I know they have a lot of their original “greatest hits” tracks on a cassette, maybe those will make it to download.
I bought the original cassette (titled “Classics”) a couple years back. It actually includes the original tracks for “John Saw,” “Midnight Cry,” “I Think I’ll Read It Again,” and several others from the “glory days”). From what I understand, it was designed to accompany the “Classics” project, where the “new” GC (David Hill, Mark Trammell, Jay Parrack, and Tim) redid the “old” GC (Brian, Ivan, Mike) material. Essentially, they just replaced the vocals on the old tracks, and these are the tracks they used.
I just hope they offer “complete album” packages for download. Otherwise, a 10-song album download will get rather expensive compared to it’s “hard copy” counterpart on CD….
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Comment by MattPaasch (December 12, 2007, 9:56 am)
I’m hoping “Under Control” becomes available! Of course, there are so many titles I would love to have!
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Comment by Paul (December 12, 2007, 10:34 am)
Thanks Gold City!
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Comment by Bryce (December 12, 2007, 12:08 pm)
Maybe they will post the soundtracks for the “Acapella Gold” (sic) CD as well.
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Comment by Brandon Coomer (December 12, 2007, 2:29 pm)
Gold City released cassette tapes containing the complete soundtracks to at least six of their projects.
1. Pillars Of Faith
2. Renewed
3. Classics (did not include “When I Get Carried Away”)
4. Standing In The Gap
5. Preparing The Way
6. What A Great Lifestyle
And Bryce, several years ago, Daywind released a “Southern Gospel Acapella” project. It had classic songs performed by various artists (off the top of my head, Anthony Facello was featured on Daystar” and Jason Crabb was featured on “Midnight Cry”). You can purchase soundtracks to seven of the songs on the project from Daywind if you search their website for “a cappella”. So, you can purchase soundtracks to acapella songs.
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Comment by Kyle (December 12, 2007, 3:34 pm)
I have the Preparing the Way and Classics cassettes. “When I Get Carried Away” never had an official track for it, since it was originally from a live album.
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Comment by natesings (December 12, 2007, 4:57 pm)
Bryce, I have a copy of the soundtrack to the “Acapella Gold” project I can sell you. It’s actually a blank Memorex tape but it’s the same thing.
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Comment by Kyle (December 12, 2007, 6:04 pm)
I want it WITH background vocals…..
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