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Current Availability/Copyright issues[edit]

Should there not be some mention of the fact that this album is not currently available for purchase, due to copyright issues?

[I think this is the case - it's certainly not available on vinyl in the UK, and is reaching very high second-hand prices on eBay). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quarkmonkey (talk • contribs) 11:06, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes! This section is sorely needed! Morganfitzp (talk) 12:41, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Release date[edit]

The currently listed release date of March 3, 1989 is a little too late - it was released mid-February. I checked Billboard magazine for that month. In the Feb. 4 issue, Nelson George wrote that the album was about to be released. After it was released, Bill Coleman gave it a rave review in the February 18 issue. It also got a good review in the standard Album Reviews section in the Feb. 25 issue. Would have been nice if one of them had given an exact date. In my own collection I just catalog it as Feb 11 (halfway between those 2 issues), but for Wikipedia I can only accurately say February. PatConolly (talk) 23:00, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And now the date has been changed back with the comment "That's not a real reference"; using the March 3, 1989 date with NO reference or cite. I think I'm wasting my time correcting release dates in the articles. In the future I'll just put the information in the Talk sections. PatConolly (talk) 22:45, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Schoolhouse Rock?[edit]

Is it worth linking "The Magic Number" somewhere to Schoolhouse_Rock!#Multiplication_Rock? Bob Dorough is named as a writer. Maybe link to the original song as a sample, at least? Canute (talk) 18:20, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]