Gawd, I must be getting old!! I only recogize Dion & Neil Diamond!! And, I have the original Dion release.
No, not really. Those are all relative unknowns(with some noted exceptions), some only well known in Europe, some Jazz, Easy listening, etc. It appears to me that Sony was testing the waters with these. If they did the same thing with a big release and it ended up screwing the pooch as this has, it probably would be a very expensive legal problem. Better to introduce this quietly into the slipstream and limit exposure initially and see what happens.