WTD: Johnny Mathis album (A Personal Collection)

mark25787

Wanted: A copy of this album, which seems only to be available in the UK as import. I realise it's available at Amazon, but the 2-4 weeek delivery time is too long.

There is 1 particular song we need, called "Smile" and it appears this is the only album it is on.

Any offers would be hugely appreciated as this is needed for massive sentimental reasons.

Syman

the obvious place to look would be ebay, but i guess you have checked.

littlebighorse

You don't say exactly how quick you need the item/song or what it's needed for unfortunately.
If you just need the song I would imagine that there are several download sites, itunes being most obvious, where it is available.
I personally use Woolworths for downloads (they only have his song "A Certain Smile" though) but I believe itunes have a far bigger catalogue and I would think are almost certain to have the song. Especially on the US version.
If the song is needed as a gift and therefore you require a properly released compilation then I would definitely use Amazon Marketplace to buy the one ("A Personal Collection") you mentioned.
Whilst Amazon itself only dispatches in 3 weeks for the item the Marketplace seller in the USA will despatch mext day and you should get the CD in 7-10 days at the latest hopefully. You also only pay standard UK postage rates.
Not only that it also works out a lot cheaper. It's only £14.51 plus postage which is only just over half Amazon's own price.
The company offering this is called Caiman. I have ordered from them around a dozen times and have found their service to be superb. The feedback they have pretty much backs this up.
Though with a short time span there is always a slight worry that there could be problems with customs delays etc.
If money is no object then there a couple of UK based marketplace sellers who would get the item to you within 2-4 days but I'm afraid the price is double that of the US sellers.
There appears to be nothing doing on Ebay and I checked a shopbot and no other retailer appears to stock it.
I've not gone to the trouble of finding out if the song is on any others CDs but I presume that you have done this yourself.
Hope this helps.

mark25787

littlebighorse wrote:

You don't say exactly how quick you need the item/song or what it's needed for unfortunately.
If you just need the song I would imagine that there are several download sites, itunes being most obvious, where it is available.
I personally use Woolworths for downloads (they only have his song "A Certain Smile" though) but I believe itunes have a far bigger catalogue and I would think are almost certain to have the song. Especially on the US version.
If the song is needed as a gift and therefore you require a properly released compilation then I would definitely use Amazon Marketplace to buy the one ("A Personal Collection") you mentioned.
Whilst Amazon itself only dispatches in 3 weeks for the item the Marketplace seller in the USA will despatch mext day and you should get the CD in 7-10 days at the latest hopefully. You also only pay standard UK postage rates.
Not only that it also works out a lot cheaper. It's only £14.51 plus postage which is only just over half Amazon's own price.
The company offering this is called Caiman. I have ordered from them around a dozen times and have found their service to be superb. The feedback they have pretty much backs this up.
Though with a short time span there is always a slight worry that there could be problems with customs delays etc.
If money is no object then there a couple of UK based marketplace sellers who would get the item to you within 2-4 days but I'm afraid the price is double that of the US sellers.
There appears to be nothing doing on Ebay and I checked a shopbot and no other retailer appears to stock it.
I've not gone to the trouble of finding out if the song is on any others CDs but I presume that you have done this yourself.
Hope this helps.

This is for a funeral, which is going to take place at some stage next week, hence the 10-14 day turnaround is cutting it too fine.
Was hoping someone may have bought a copy which they didn't now need before going for the UK marketplace sellers, but is looking like that's the way to go.

Thanks for the info

Labman_2

CD is available from amazon.co.uk with 3-4 day delivery from music-by-mail-uk