This four-CD set has had a somewhat confused history,mostly owing to licensing changes and the mergers and acquisitions of various record labels.Prepared in the late '80s by MCA Records,which had the rights to Elton John's U.S. catalog,To Be Continued marked a major improvement over the sound of his extant CDs of the period.But MCA's rights lapsed in the 1990s,and the Elton John catalog reverted to Polydor Records,which put it back out in upgraded editions on the Island Records label.This set was deleted by 1994,and was soon selling for serious amounts of money as a collector's item.Then,in 1999,MCA's parent company,Universal Music,bought Polydor,and suddenly this box reappeared.Disc one opens with the first original song that Elton John ever recorded,a solo composition called "Come Back Baby," cut with Bluesology,his mid-'60s band,and also includes the solo demo of "Your Song" and a previously unissued outtake of "Gray Seal";their presence alone ensures that most fans will regard this set as a must-own item.