That’s possible, if MB has the exact same recording for both the later releases and the original 1955 release. If that’s the case the variable %_recording_firstreleasedate% can be used for setting the date.
See the docs for details:
https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/en/extending/scripts.html#use-original-release-date
And the following threads also contain some discussion around this feature:
I’m cleaning up metadata on some of my compilations, but don’t understand how to do set the original recording date
Here’s an example from Heartbreak Hotel released on the ‘Elvis Presley Years’ Release “The Elvis Presley Years (disc 1)” by Various Artists - MusicBrainz
It’s a CD, released in 1991, Picard (2.6.3) is showing Original Release Date and Year as 1991
Heartbreak Hotel is track 12, and is listed as 'recording of Heartbreak Hotel on 1956-01-10.
Picard does not list the original recor…
We have some debate over at the code review to add support for per track original release date to Picard.
This is a feature that is come up a couple of times here in the forums. Current versions of Picard use the first release date provided by the release group (the earliest release date of all the releases inside the group) to fill the originaldate tag. For many use cases this is fine. But it not always reflects the actual first release of each track. E.g. a compilation might have been release…
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