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[moviemaker]

I recently found an original 1st pressing CD of Rendez-Vous (Catalog # DCO 2005) and the tracklisting is sorta strange. The 1st track is named 1st Rendezvous part 1 and only 54 seconds and then Track 2 combines 1st rendezvous part 2 & 2nd rendez-Vous (part 1) together!

1.) First Rendez-Vous (part 1) 0:54
2.) First Rendez-Vous (part 2) & Second Rendez-Vous (part 1) 4:35
3.) Second Rendez-Vous (part 2) 3:16
4.) Second Rendez-Vous (part 3) 2:18
5.) Second Rendez-Vous (part 4) 2:43
6.) Third Rendez-Vous 3:34
7.) Fourth Rendez-Vous 4:00
8.) Fifth Rendez-Vous (part 1) 3:01
9.) Fifth Rendez-Vous (part 2) 1:11
10.) Fifth Rendez-Vous (part 3) 3:45
11.) Last Rendez-Vous “Ron’s piece” 5:47

The regular polydor CD release has the following:

First Rendez-Vous 2:54
Second Rendez-Vous (Part I) 2:36
Second Rendez-Vous (Part II) 3:16
Second Rendez-Vous (Part III) 2:18
Second Rendez-Vous (Part IV) 2:43
Third Rendez-Vous 3:34
Fourth Rendez-Vous 3:57
Fifth Rendez-Vous (Part I) 2:58
Fifth Rendez-Vous (Part II) 1:12
Fifth Rendez-Vous (Part III) 3:45
Fifth Rendez-Vous (Ron's Piece) 5:47

[moviemaker]

Not a pressing error.

But what is interesting is before, when I had listened to all the other pressings of this CD, they have that sort of gap between First Rendez-Vous and Second Rendez-Vous (Part 1) which was very annoying. On this edition there is no gap because the track is merged on the CD (I hope this makes sense?). And then when it goes into Second Rendez-Vous (Part 2) it still sounds smooth.

Beautiful album! One of my favorites!