Website: Ripete Records
From: Pinebluff, N.C.
Time: 1997-09-18 01:37:00
Comments: We Just Released a new LP on Jimmy Jones, and it has been selling well for us. I asked Jimmy if "Handyman" was recorded in stereo, and he said it was done two track. He has no idea of the whereabouts of the masters. I would like to see Polygram come out with a greatest hits package on Jimmy. He is a super person, still in great voice. You can reach him thru me at cammy@pinehurst.net. Also Mike, is there a way for you to highlight all the titles and artist listed on the stereo chat page, and we then can search them via index? Keep up the excellent work!
[ -- Actually, they're searchable now, by using the "find" or "search" utilities on your web browsers. There is no index, however, so you'll have to know who you're looking for ahead of time. (We haven't yet got the resources to do a "DejaStereoNews" thing.) On the "current" chat board, you have to search only ten postings at a time (I know, a pain), but with the chat board archives, you can search a month's worth of messages at a time. As you may have noticed, I will try to highlight artists' names on the postings so they're easier to find, but this may take a while for the historical postings. -- MC]
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Name: Paul
Stoddard From: Boston, MA Time: 1997-09-19 16:03:00 Comments: The new Ray Stevens greatest hits package from Rhino is yet another example of how the mono freaks at Rhino continue to mess up their releases. All of the Mercury material on this package is in mono, even though it was recorded in stereo. I had sworn that I would never buy another Rhino package and I didn't buy this one: I borrowed a promotional copy from a friend just to see if, maybe, Rhino had gotten it right. They didn't! Stereo collectors should also beware of all of the Rhino/Flashback releases that contain Atlantic/Atco material: if it's pre-1970, it's mono. [ -- I will be reviewing many of the Flashback CDs in issue #45 of The Both Sides Now Stereo Newsletter. -- MC] |
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Name: Dan Baxter From: Upstate New York Time: 1997-09-20 07:33:00 Comments: A few posts ago, Alan from Austin recommended the services of Tom Daly's Skyline Productions. I also have had a very positive experience with them. I had them do some work on a CD for me. The disc arrived in a very timely fashion, and Skyline guaranteed that if there was ANYTHING about the disc that I was unhappy with, it would be re-mastered again to my liking. The CD itself is quite attractive, and comes with customized liner notes booklet. It even has my name on the liner notes. In closing, I'd like to publicly thank Tom Daly, and recommend that STEREO lovers check out http://www.channel1.com/users/mediaace |
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Name: Mike Arcidiacono From: NYC Time: 1997-09-20 11:57:00 Comments: Just spoke to Eliot at Taragon about the upcoming Cascades (its about time) and Gary Lewis comps. These are two of my favorite groups, so I'm pretty excited about them. The Cascades is interesting... 6 tracks from the Valiant/WB years, and 14 from the RCA days. In terms of stereo, "Rhythm of The Rain" and "Let Me Be", the first two hits, will be mono, which is a dissapointment to me, but the other 18 will be stereo, which is great...I've wanted to get the RCA stuff in stereo for years, as it mostly appeared only on 45s.... The Gary Lewis will be the first two LPs, This Diamond Ring and Session, plus bonus tracks. This is very good news because there are some great tracks on the first two LPs that have never been released since the LP in 1965. I've mentioned to Eliot to try to get "Mailbu Run", a song Gary cut for the movie Out Of Sight in late 1964. It's the great "lost" Gary Lewis track. I also wanted him to include "Ice Melts In The Sun", a flop single, and "Lets Be More Than Friends", from Gary Bonner and Alan Gordon. Still, Im really happy with these two releases. Eliot is a Godsend for us ultra oldies fans. I'd buy anything his label puts out, he is that good a guy!!! -- Mikey |
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Name: Tom Daly Website: Skyline Productions From: Malden, MA Time: 1997-09-22 08:13:00 Comments: OK... I need some help on this one... The other day, I pulled out my original pressing 7" 45rpm single of the Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five." Granted, the 45 is mono, but I was amazed at what I was hearing! The sound was crisp, and had a presence I couldn't remember hearing in the song. I then played the same track from the Columbia Time Out compact disc. While the audio was stereo, and the disc was supposedly digitally remastered, the crispness was gone and so was the presence along with it. The 45 sounded like it was mastered from a 30 ips session master, while the CD sounded like it might as well have been mastered from a cassette. Does anyone know of a CD issue of "Take Five" that sounds like the original 45? It doesn't matter if the CD contains the single version or the LP version (the single is edited differently, and has a playing time of 2:53, whereas the album version plays over 5 minutes; the album version also has an irritating splice somewhere around 1:52). Thanks for your help on this matter! -- Tom -- |
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Name: Marty
Natchez From: Michigan Time: 1997-09-22 14:24:00 Comments: Just heard Taragon's all-stereo CD of The Very Best of Peggy March and it is a phenomenal compilation of her her best-known RCA hits, B-sides and imports the Japanese version of "I Will Follow Him." On the new CD, Taragon owner and producer Eliot Goshman even treats collectors to the English hit's studio slate (Take 9) and lets the master roll into an extended ending. Never before in stereo, "The Impossible Happened" sounds astounding and is longer than the length of the original 45. As March became a major hit-maker in Germany, Bear Family has previously issued stereo mixes of a few standout tracks that reappear on the Taragon package. They are sung in German, but are well worth seeking: "Watch What You Do with My Baby" is found as "Ich hab' ein Herz zu verschenken" (Englsh translation: "I Have a Heart to Give to You") on Bear Family BCD 15536 ("mit 17 hat man noch Traume"). Taragon's remix separates a harpsichord into the left channel that is not heard on the German mix. The 1966 single "This Heart Wasn't Made to Kick Around" was released on Bear Family BCD 15602 ("Memories of Heidleberg") as "Male Nicht Den Teufel An Die Wand" (English translation: "Don't Paint a Portrait of the Devil on the Wall"). Lyrically and musically, the song is better heard in its German origin. I'd also like to warn potential purchasers of the forthcoming Dusty Springfield box set Wishin' and Hopin'. All the early tracks by the Springfields and "I Only Want to Be with You" appeared on the advance reviewer cassettes in the same horrible rechanneling of the Philips LPs in the '60s. Maybe things were changed by production time. If not, thank goodness Taragon did a world class job on its recent Dusty Springfield CD. It's high standards make anything less unacceptable. |
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Name: Tom Daly Website: Skyline Productions From: Malden, MA Time: 1997-09-22 17:22:00 Comments: In reply to Marty Natchez's post, I only have this to say: Oh, come on! The Dusty Springfield CD on Taragon is a travesty! Dusty's voice is all awash in trashcan reverb that wasn't on the original mono mixes! Whoever mixed that thing had reverb on the brain! I've heard of WET before, but that Taragon package is SATURATED! Compare "Everyday I Have to Cry" with its mono counterpart. The mono mix, albeit from an LP master, is at least CLEAN and the lyrics intelligible. The stereo remix is unintelligible and sloppy. -- Tom -- |
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Name: Marty
Natchez From: Michigan Time: 1997-09-22 21:11:00 Comments: For the sake of "instrumental accuracy," a closer comparison of "Watch What You Do with My Baby" by Peggy March on the new Taragon CD and her German version reveals that a piano track -- not a harpsichord as previously suggested -- is more prominently heard on the left channel of the new remix. Moreover, the piano CAN be heard on the Bear Family mix, but it is layered with the other "Spectorian" instrumentation. |
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Name: John K. Walker From: Springfield, IL Time: 1997-09-23 01:55:00 Comments: To Marty Natchez: Thanks a million (or about $40) for warning buyers off the newly released domestic Dusty Springfield boxed set. That the sound quality on her early tracks are, according to your report, still beyond the threshold of pain as they are on UK compilations is particularly irritating in light of the comment one of PolyGram's people made a few years ago in ICE that they weren't releasing her import CDs here because they wanted to track down better sound sources.... On the same subject, Taragon's true stereo two-fer, while not perfect (yes, her vocals aren't mixed quite upfront enough, blah blah), nonetheless represents a tremendously impressive and rare effort by an independent company which, unlike the megalopolises, actually thought of consumers first. (You know, like Rhino used to be before they took over Atlantic's catalog and went mono-maniacal; thankfully, they released Dusty in Memphis and A Brand New Me early enough to escape their revisionist clutches.) Bravo, Taragon, and I can't wait until you continue with more Dusty stereo material, as promised (perhaps a three-fer of Everything's Coming Up Dusty, Where Am I Going, and ...Definitely?)... BTW, can anyone name a female pop vocalist during the rock era with a more impressive catalog than Miss O'Brien? Just speaking personally here, it includes both my favorite solo female studio album (In Memphis), and my absolute favorite individual track, vocal performance, and even single sung note (all on her exquisite rendering of Goffin-King's "Goin' Back"). Not to mention "I Only Want To Be With You," "Wishin' and Hopin'," "The Look Of Love," "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me," "Am I The Same Girl?," etc. Magnifique.... |
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Name: Steve Massie From: Franklin, TN Time: 1997-09-23 22:02:00 Comments: Mike: Just wanted to pass on a little info on the two Dick Bartley CDs coming out on Varese. The theme is the original "single" versions, which means some cuts will be in mono; a couple of those cuts include "I Saw Her Again" by the Mama's & Papa's, which, as we all know, has never been on CD, and the stereo cut is a completely different version; "Magic Carpet Ride", "Little Black Egg", and others. They are trying to recreate the promo single version (in stereo) of "Sky Pilot". And, as you mentioned before, the four track of "Romeo & Juliet" has surfaced and has been mixed into true stereo. |
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Name: Tom Daly Website: Skyline Productions From: Malden, MA Time: 1997-09-24 21:05:00 Comments: Just wanted to drop a line to inform readers that Skyline has added several new titles, among them "Westbound #9" from Flaming Ember, "Somebody's Been Sleeping" from 100 Proof Aged in Soul, "Big Bad John" (the "one hell of a man" version) from Jimmy Dean, and "A Must to Avoid" by Herman's Hermits, all in stereo. Check out the list of available titles at http://www.channel1.com/users/mediaace/index2.html - there're quite a few surprises! -- Tom |
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Name: boppin' brian From: californy Time: 1997-09-26 06:17:00 Comments: Hi, just discovered your site via mention in Discoveries. Remember looking forward to your columns years (12? 15? ..!?!?) ago in GM, but "lost" you in the mix somewhere there...... I am really interested in finding some of the '60s hits I've been hearing recently on the radio for the 1st time in stereo... stuff like "Rag Doll" by the 4 Seasons, "Come Softly to Me" by the Fleetwoods (May be post-Hollywood instrumental overdubs..), "5 O'clock World" by the Vogues, "Tell It Like It Is" by Aaron Neville, "Oh How Happy" by the Shades of Blue, & any & all DC 5 (to name but a few off the top of my head...). Oh yeah, ANY & ALL Red Bird/Blue Cat... The Ad Libs' "Boy from NYC" appears on a Ripete colllection (may be alt or from vinyl source, haven't gotten around to a/b-ing this one yet), Shangs' "Leader of the Pack" (in Era Brill Building box it is the censored/expurgated/edited version), & that's really about it as for Red Bird/Blue Cat stereo on CD that I have (& can remember offa the top of my head) I have the slim Jerry Reuss/Whitburn "CD Guide", which is OK, but it has overlooked a lot that I think you would know about (in the way of "stereo where-ee-o"s...). Will try to "visit" again soon... bye! |
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Name: Steve
Elders From: Orange, CA Time: 1997-09-26 01:31:00 Comments: To Steve Massie: Can you tell us what else will be on the coming Dick Bartley/Varese discs besides what is mentioned in the Golden Gallery ad in Goldmine? Any other previously unreleased or hard-to-find stereo like the Reflections' "Romeo & Juliet"? |
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Name: curt lundgren Time: 1997-09-26 09:31:00 Comments: Just listening to Razor & Tie's new Sonny James Classic Hits Of Sonny James CD, and HERE'S a surprise.......True Stereo from 1956! "For Rent (One Empty Heart)", Capitol 3357, debuted 3/24/56 and reached #7 CW charts. This is stunning! To begin with, the session included the Jordanaires...and the sonics are out- standing. If this really is a 1956 recording, it sets the standard for best-sounding early True Stereo. Liner notes say nothing about this being a re-make. Does anyone have input? Mike? |
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Name: Tony Waitekus Website: All Hit 98-9 WHTS/Quad Cities From: Davenport, IA Time: 1997-09-26 13:32:00 Comments: Some record folks one time asked here what intrumentals have not been put out on CD. A few that come to my mind: "Swingin Sweethearts" by Ron Goodwin, "Groovy Grubworm" by Harlow Wilcox, and "Lapland" by the Baltimore and Ohio Marching Band.... A '70s song not reissued (as far as I know) is "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by Blue Haze. |
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Name: Steve Massie From: Franklin, TN. Time: 1997-09-27 15:52:00 Comments: Here is the info on the upcoming Dick Bartley Varese CDs: Volume 1: "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" - Jonathan King (original mono single)/ "Judy In Disguise" - John Fred & Playboy Band (original single version)/ "No Sugar Tonight" - Guess Who (original stereo single)/ "I Saw Her Again" - Mamas & Papas (original mono single)/ "Crimson & Clover" - Tommy James & Shondells (stereo single version)/ "The Letter" - Box Tops (original mono single)/ "Shape of Things To Come" - Max Frost & Troopers (stereo single version)/ "Hitchin' A Ride" - Vanity Fare (original stereo single)/ "Hang On Sloopy" - McCoys (stereo single version)/ "Sky Pilot (pt.1)" - Eric Burdon & Animals (original stereo single)/ "Get Together" - Youngbloods (stereo single edit)/ "Little Black Egg" - Nightcrawlers (stereo single version)/ "Magic Carpet Ride" - Steppenwolf (original mono single)/ "Baby It's You" - Smith (stereo single edit) Volume 2: "Timothy" - Buoys (original stereo single)/ "Friday On My Mind" - Easybeats (original mono single)/ "Romeo & Juliet" - Reflections (FIRST TIME STEREO SINGLE)/ "I Don't Know How To Love Him" - Yvonne Elliman (stereo single edit)/ "Sweet Home Alabama" - Lynyrd Skynyrd (stereo single edit)/ "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog" - Norma Tanega (stereo single version)/ "Theme From 'Shaft'" - Isaac Hayes (original stereo single)/ "Susan" - Buckinghams (stereo radio single edit)/ "A Lover's Concerto" - Toys (original mono single)/ "Amie" - Pure Prairie League (original stereo single)/ "Spinning Wheel" - BS&T (original stereo single)/ "Angel of the Morning" - Juice Newton (original stereo single)/ "Woodstock" - Matthews Southern Comfort (stereo single edit)/ "Year Of the Cat" - Al Stewart (original stereo single) I'll let everyone know the release date when it becomes available. BTW, Dick says that Bill Inglot did an outstanding job on the Reflections stereo mix!! |
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Name: John
Sellards Website: VanMeter Recordings From: Beckley, WV Time: 1997-09-28 13:40:00 Comments: In response to Boppin' Brian below, our reissue of the Mr. Blue album by the Fleetwoods on CD contains not only the original mono mix, but also a wide stereo mix that has bongos added. Gretchen Christopher of the group has told me that these were on the overdub session, and that she made the decision to release the single without the bongos. -- John Sellards |
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Name: Ed Rothstein From: Baltimore, MD Time: 1997-09-29 01:31:00 Comments: I guess I must have missed something but have the Motown hits every been released in stereo on CD? Anyone help me out here?? |
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Name: Paul Bigelow From: Austin, TX Time: 1997-09-30 06:07:00 Comments: Has the Soul Survivors' "Expressway to Your Heart" ever been released in true stereo? Additionally, where might that Vouges' "Five O'Clock World" be found? (non Reprise). Thought I would try this out. [ -- The Soul Survivors song has never been in stereo to my knowledge. A few years ago, somebody I talked to (and I can't remember who at the moment) told me the tape was done in stereo, but the car sound effects and other sounds were overdubbed when the mono 45 master was made. It's another case of "we can have stereo, but not the whole song." Undoubtedly, that's what keeps the song from being issued in stereo.... The original [mono] Co&Ce version of the Vogues song is available on You're the One: The Best of the Vogues [Varese VDS-5680], which also has some stereo stuff from Co&Ce like "The Land of Milk and Honey." -- MC] |
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Name: Glenn
Sauter From: Wash D.C. Time: 1997-09-30 08:47:00 Comments: This is for Steve Massie --- Steve, is that a final track listing for the upcoming Dick Bartley CDs? I ask this because when I spoke to Dick a few weeks ago he mentioned that he was going to include the original single mono mix of "Words Of Love" by the Mamas & Papas. Anyhow it looks like two great packages. BTW, I purchased, what is referred to as the single radio edit, of "Susan" by the Buckinghams in the '70s on a Columbia Hall Of Fame reissue 45. |
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Name: Paul Bigelow From: Austin, TX Time: 1997-09-30 09:31:00 Comments: Some years ago I had read about Motown multitracks being found and cataloged. Were the tapes found to be usuable?... Some projected EMI packages that never saw the light of day (though I believe they were researched) are Little Anthony & The Imperials and Peter and Gordon.... Rhino used to remix songs for stereo (Gene Pitney, Shirelles, Dionne Warwick). Something changed. Management? Bill Inglot? Distribution? The "Bottom Line"? [ -- I think Bill Inglot "got religion" that mono sounds better, but I may be wrong. -- MC] |
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Name: Michael Fiedler From: Minneapolis, MN Time: 1997-09-30 21:23:00 Comments: I don't think you have reviewed it yet but I just picked up a CD called The Quill Records Story. I bought it figuring I might find some long lost gems from Chicago's past. I did the same thing with Sundazed on their two volumes of Dunwich records and was severely disappointed. My expectations were no higher this time; and I even considered that the CD could be a waste of $13; especially considering it was coming from Collectables, a label of mixed repute. Boy, did I strike gold! I am not an album person per se, and very few artists have ever turned me on album-wise over the years. I am strictly a chart item fan. One of the few artists that ever moved me on an album was the NC6 and their Colonization album. This CD struck gold like that time, except it's now 30 years later. This CD blows away anything that Sundazed ever put out from Dunwich. Sure, the sound quality varies. But this album more than any other I have ever heard represents the Chicago garage sound of the mid to late '60s. There really isn't a lemon in the bunch, and the ones that I consider near-lemons are still very listenable. I bought the CD three weeks ago and haven't quit playing it since. I tired to give Goldmine a review of the CD, but they weren't interested in it. Anyhow, maybe you have found the CD and have enjoyed it as much as I have. -- Mike [ -- It was actually discussed on this chat board some time ago, and then re-posted later. I did delete the re-post, as this chat board was not really meant as a PR outlet for record labels, but the earlier post is still in the archives. I will look for the CD for review purposes. -- MC] |
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