Top 40 Music on CD Forum : George McCrae - Rock Your Baby

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby : This is one of the big issues...

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:58:50 +0000

Author: aaronk
Subject: 8710
Posted: 11 August 2020 at 9:58pm

This is one of the big issues with TM Century�s GoldDisc library. They
used noise reduction on everything! The other big issue, of course, is
that TM often had wrong edits/versions. Thankfully, noise reduction on
commercial CDs is far less common. Ron does an excellent job at
finding the offending discs.

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby : crapfromthepast wrote:A nice...

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:23:24 +0000

Author: AdvprosD
Subject: 8710
Posted: 11 August 2020 at 9:23pm

crapfromthepast wrote:

A nice rhythm-box soul hit
from 1974, and the first taste of success for the guys
who would later form KC and the Sunshine Band.

Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 15 1974
Take Two (1991) uses the same analog transfer as
Get Down Tonight, but adds noise reduction!
Listen to the hi-hat completely disappear on the fade
of the Time-Life
disc, and compare to the Rhino disc, where the hi-hat
stays intact to the end of the fade. Avoid the Time-
Life disc for "Rock Your Baby". And also avoid these
discs, which are based on the mastering of the Time-
Life disc and
also have noise reduction:

Warner Special
Products' 18 Disco Superhits (1996)

JCI's Only Dance 1970-1974 (1996)

Madacy's Rock On 1974 (1996) - digitally
exactly 1.9 dB louder

Time-Life's Solid Gold Soul Vol. 9 1974
(1996) - differently-EQ'd digital clone
Time-
Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 43 '70s Dance
Party 1972-1974 (1997) - differently-EQ'd digital
clone
Time-
Life's AM Gold Vol. 29 #1 Hits Of The '70s '70-
'74 (2000) - digitally identical
Time-
Life's 2-CD Seventies Music Explosion Vol. 1
Sunshine.

Oh my!! I just picked up a set of the Time-Life '70s
Music Explosion series just this week. I was listening
through and noted on this song the ending sounded
really funky!

So that's some of the pitfalls of adding noise
reduction. Sometimes I hear stuff like this and wonder
just WTF has happened. It sounds like the song fades
out and then somebody clipped on a little tag of more
content
which sounds totally different than the rest of the
song. I'll have to keep my ears peeled for this kind
of stuff. It's pretty interesting to find. Especially
considering exec's at these studios are supposedly
paying these engineers big bucks for continuity across
a series. (Well, I hope they are paying big bucks!) Or
were, in this case in 2005.

Edited by AdvprosD

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby : Harry Wayne Casey and Richard...

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 21:01:48 +0000

Author: The Hits Man
Subject: 8710
Posted: 15 July 2019 at 9:01pm

Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch produced the song
using scrap tape during night time off-hours at TK
Studios.

The single sounds as if the drums were dubbed over the
drum machine.

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby : Doug, The 45 has either a different...

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 04:17:26 +0000

Author: davidclark
Subject: 8710
Posted: 09 July 2019 at 4:17am

Doug,

The 45 has either a different drum carrying the beat, or it's just mixed so much
louder/heavier it sounds so. If you play both the 45 and LP versions, you will
know if you have the 45 as you will hear the difference.

Edited by davidclark

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby : Is there a telltale sign that...

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:49:49 +0000

Author: sriv94
Subject: 8710
Posted: 08 July 2019 at 6:49pm

Is there a telltale sign that determines the 45 mix? I have a short version, but I'm not sure whether it's the correct short version or the LP version simulated (my guess is the latter).

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby : Yes, and also bear in mind, this...

Sun, 07 Jul 2019 20:50:06 +0000

Author: KentT
Subject: 8710
Posted: 07 July 2019 at 8:50pm

Yes, and also bear in mind, this was another Henry Stone
low budget recording. I still get a smile on my face when
I hear it, and I play it every so often.l

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby : The database needs to be corrected....

Sat, 29 Jun 2019 23:39:41 +0000

Author: eriejwg
Subject: 8710
Posted: 29 June 2019 at 11:39pm

The database needs to be corrected. The lone 45 mix fades
out 3 seconds earlier than the 45 vs. 5 seconds.

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby : Make that 3:15.7 since I just...

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:14:30 +0000

Author: eriejwg
Subject: 8710
Posted: 20 June 2019 at 2:14pm

Make that 3:15.7 since I just dug out the actual
45. So, looks my timing of 3:17 in incorrect or there waa
silence at the beginning.

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby : I went back and re-timed my 45....

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:50:37 +0000

Author: eriejwg
Subject: 8710
Posted: 20 June 2019 at 1:50pm

I went back and re-timed my 45. It's close to 3:17,
running 3:16.7. I'll send a dub to Mark Matthews for his
analysis.

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby : <My guess is that Rhino (now...

Sat, 04 Mar 2017 11:18:32 +0000

Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 8710
Posted: 04 March 2017 at 11:18am

Hmm... has anyone compared this version with the single version on any import CDs? I recall there was at least 1 import (UK or Germany) that has the single version of this.