https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:55:43 +0000 Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:23:08 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=6744 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=47847&title=adam-faith-its-alright#47847 Author: MMathews
Subject: 6744
Posted: 05 August 2017 at 3:23pm

I can add that if one cannot find the BGO CD, there is now
a digital best-of on I-tunes and other download services
called "Complete Faith [His HMV, Top Rank & Parlophone
Recordings 1958-1968]" courtesy of Warner/Parlophone.

It contains both the stereo and mono mix, unedited.

MM
]]> Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:23:08 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=47847&title=adam-faith-its-alright#47847 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=47845&title=adam-faith-its-alright#47845 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 6744
Posted: 05 August 2017 at 2:14pm

Yah Shure wrote: I finally compared the stereo track from Rhino's The British Invasion - The History Of British Rock, Vol. 1 CD and the U.S. Amy 913 45 and found that there's a marked difference in the bass playing between the two. The stereo mix's bass part is pretty basic from the start, with the same note being struck for several beats at a time. But on the Amy 45, the bassline is much more fluid; going up and down and changing with every beat.

I scrutinized these two mixes more carefully some months ago and found that both the basic bass line *and* the more fluid one are present on the stereo mix. However, the fluid one is pushed way into the background. It's still audible, but doesn't have any significant impact. The simple bass part is far more prominent.

On the mono mix, it's the other way around. The fluid bass part is the driving force, and if the simple bass is on this mix at all, it's very difficult to detect.

Good news! The mono mix was issued on CD by BGO in the UK in 2000, on a "2-on-1" pairing of Adam Faith's two albums he recorded with the Roulettes as his backing band. On The Move, from 1964, is in mono and includes the unedited "It's Alright." 1965's Faith Alive! is in stereo. The catalog number is BGOCD477, and I'm happy to report that "It's Alright" sounds outstanding on this CD, and without any of the noticeable hum on the Amy single.

I don't have my original editing notes handy, so I can't detail the speed adjustment needed to match the Amy 45. But the edit is simple and seamless: just delete the portion between the beginning of Adam's third "it's alright" and the same spot before the sixth one. Done!]]> Sat, 05 Aug 2017 14:14:10 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=47845&title=adam-faith-its-alright#47845 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=41402&title=adam-faith-its-alright#41402 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 6744
Posted: 11 May 2014 at 8:10pm

I finally compared the stereo track from Rhino's The British Invasion - The History Of British Rock, Vol. 1 CD and the U.S. Amy 913 45 and found that there's a marked difference in the bass playing between the two. The stereo mix's bass part is pretty basic from the start, with the same note being struck for several beats at a time. But on the Amy 45, the bassline is much more fluid; going up and down and changing with every beat.

Here's another reason the 45 sounds more Dave Clark Five-like than the Rhino track: the drumming is much more upfront in the mono mix (although still not as prominent as what you'd hear on an actual DC5 hit.) In the stereo version, the drums are only in the right channel, and pretty deeply buried at that. Summed to mono, they're not a factor at all. The busier bass part and the louder drums give the 45 a lot more driving energy.]]> Sun, 11 May 2014 20:10:40 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=41402&title=adam-faith-its-alright#41402 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=39655&title=adam-faith-its-alright#39655 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 6744
Posted: 10 November 2013 at 7:12pm

That's right, Ed. I went to the mall next door to the theater as soon as the film credits ended, and was not happy to discover that the OST was missing "It's Alright," which wasn't available domestically at the time (Rhino's The British Invasion series was still some months in the future.) All I could find in the stores was the Underground reissue 45, which was a re-channeled fold of the stereo mix. Bleah.

Bitman, speaking of the "Dawnbusters," the B-side of that Underground 45 was "Behold" by the Blues Busters. So close. :)]]> Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:12:23 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=39655&title=adam-faith-its-alright#39655 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=39650&title=adam-faith-its-alright#39650 Author: bitman
Subject: 6744
Posted: 10 November 2013 at 4:38pm

It wasn't until long after the movie came out that I connected the two...during Good Morning Vietnam, Robin Williams introduces the song as by The Dawnbusters or Dawnbreakers or some such fictional group. As for why it wasn't on the soundtrack, one would have to assume it to be a copyright issue.]]> Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:38:44 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=39650&title=adam-faith-its-alright#39650 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=39645&title=adam-faith-its-alright#39645 Author: edtop40
Subject: 6744
Posted: 10 November 2013 at 2:02pm

yah shure....if this song was in the movie 'good morning
vietnam' as you state, why isn't is listed on the movie
ost?.....was it omitted form the cd soundtrack?]]> Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:02:07 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=39645&title=adam-faith-its-alright#39645 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=39644&title=adam-faith-its-alright#39644 Author: edtop40
Subject: 6744
Posted: 10 November 2013 at 1:58pm

this one slipped through my re-reviewal in march of
2012.....john was able to edit the cd version to match the
vinyl 45, but by doing that, the file runs 0:04 short at
2:19, versus the vinyl 45 at 2:23.....close enough until
mark matthews gets this song on his radar for the next rare
singles cd compilation he's to put together!!]]> Sun, 10 Nov 2013 13:58:36 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=39644&title=adam-faith-its-alright#39644 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=33517&title=adam-faith-its-alright#33517 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 6744
Posted: 30 March 2012 at 1:06pm

Hykker wrote: Never really thought about it, but it does sound like a DC5 song.

I don't think there was any doubt that this was EMI's attempt to clone the DC5 sound, except that the drums weren't front row center in the mix. :) But everything else was there: compression to the Nth degree, double-tracked Mike Smith-like vocals and the harmonica (which, come to think of it, may have led to Dave Dexter, Jr.'s having rejected the original May '64 Parlophone 45 at Capitol.)

Hykker wrote: My copy is pretty beat up (on a Bell subsidiary, who'd a thunk?)

Weren't they shipped from the factory that way? Kind of the broken-in, pre-washed jeans of their day? :)

That Good Morning Vietnam incident led me to re-examine my survey collection, which resulted in a list of unfamiliar titles and artists I took with me on an auto trip to Arizona. At a shop in Oklahoma City I'd regularly patronized while living there, I found two new old stock copies of "It's Alright" and picked up some others (Freddie & The Dreamers' "A Little You" and The Three Dimensions' "Look At Me") that were instantly recognizable once I heard them. Oh, to have had YouTube twenty-some years ago... ]]> Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:06:08 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=33517&title=adam-faith-its-alright#33517 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=33514&title=adam-faith-its-alright#33514 Author: Hykker
Subject: 6744
Posted: 30 March 2012 at 6:33am

Yah Shure wrote: The mix on the mono Amy 45 absolutely smokes any attempt to replicate it from the stereo cut. By the time the credits ran, I'd sorted it out: back in the day, I'd assumed I was hearing the latest Dave Clark Five single.

Never really thought about it, but it does sound like a DC5 song. My copy is pretty beat up (on a Bell subsidiary, who'd a thunk?), but in no way does it detract from this powerful tune.]]> Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:33:53 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=33514&title=adam-faith-its-alright#33514 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=33513&title=adam-faith-its-alright#33513 Author: davidclark
Subject: 6744
Posted: 30 March 2012 at 1:24am

I would guess that the U.K. 45 did not have the edit. Can anyone confirm?
Several U.K. artists's 45s were edited for the U.S. at the time (Spencer Davis
Group "I'm A Man" comes to mind). Often, the Canadian 45 matched the U.K.
Good luck with the editing, ed.

Edited by davidclark]]> Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:24:17 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6744&PID=33513&title=adam-faith-its-alright#33513