Purchased a copy of Universal Music's latest James Last release on CD - The America Album, which for once is not a compilation album. In fact it is an unreleased album from 1969, that was produced for the American market, but only ever released as a promo record to the marketing executives in Polydor Hamburg and New York, who for some reason deemed it unsuitable for release, which is a pity as it could have been the album to launch James Last in the USA.
This CD features 11 songs, including 4 written by James Last himself, 1 by Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay and some other great tracks including Ballard of Easy Rider, Is That All There Is and Evie.
This release is fantastic as it shows that Universal can do good things with the James Last back catalogue. It would be fantastic if they released more original albums on CD rather than the endless compilation albums we seem to get, as I'm probably not the only James Last fan who would like to hear more of his original albums.