Bill Parsons - ’The All American Boy’

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   I timed my U.S. commercial 45 of 'The All American Boy' (Fraternity 835), which is credited to Bill Parsons And His Orchestra (although the actual artist is Bobby Bare) at (2:51). On the various CDs listed in the database, the run times range from (2:51) to (2:59). I have three of these CDs, the Curb CD Hard To Find Hits Of Rock 'N' Roll Volume One (2:52), RCA's The Essential Bobby Bare (2:58), and Varese Sarabande's 25 All-Time Novelty Hits (2:58).

Only about a second or two of these run time variations are due to speed. The run time differences are primarily due to the 45 fading out ealier than on the RCA and Varese CDs.

The sound on all three CDs is remarkably different. As the database points out, on the RCA CD the song is rechanneled, and horribly so. On the Varese CD, it sounds like the high end was filtered out, and the resulting sound is also quite poor. Quite surprisingly, the Curb CD sounds the most like my 45. (Although the Curb CD is slightly, slightly longer than my 45, it actually fades out slightly, slightly earlier, due to a slight, slight speed differnce.)

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Paul C Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 23 October 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote Paul C Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Bill Parsons - ’The All American Boy’ Posted: 16 March 2012 at 12:19pm
	I timed my U.S. commercial 45 of 'The All American Boy' (Fraternity 835), which is credited to Bill Parsons And His Orchestra (although the actual artist is Bobby Bare) at (2:51). On the various CDs listed in the database, the run times range from (2:51) to (2:59). I have three of these CDs, the Curb CD Hard To Find Hits Of Rock 'N' Roll Volume One (2:52), RCA's The Essential Bobby Bare (2:58), and Varese Sarabande's 25 All-Time Novelty Hits (2:58). Only about a second or two of these run time variations are due to speed. The run time differences are primarily due to the 45 fading out ealier than on the RCA and Varese CDs. The sound on all three CDs is remarkably different. As the database points out, on the RCA CD the song is rechanneled, and horribly so. On the Varese CD, it sounds like the high end was filtered out, and the resulting sound is also quite poor. Quite surprisingly, the Curb CD sounds the most like my 45. (Although the Curb CD is slightly, slightly longer than my 45, it actually fades out slightly, slightly earlier, due to a slight, slight speed differnce.)

Yah Shure Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 11 December 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Yah Shure Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 March 2012 at 12:55pm
	I wonder whether the horribly rechanneled track on the RCA CD might have been the same one used on Capitol's 2-LP various artists Super Oldies/Vol. 6 compilation, released in 1969 (STBB-401.) While most of the Capitol-sourced material on it sounded okay, the rechanneled cross-licensed tracks such as "All American Boy," "Let The Little Girl Dance," "Laugh, Laugh" and "Duke Of Earl" (from Vee-Jay... ha!) sounded pretty abysmal. (The compilation also inadvertently included the instrumental Stack-O-Tracks version of the Beach Boys' "In My Room" instead of the vocal hit. Whoops.)

edtop40 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 29 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote edtop40 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 July 2012 at 3:18pm
	my vinyl 45 for the bill parsons song "all american boy" issued as fraternity 835 states the run time on the label as 2:49 but actually runs 2:58 and is identical to the version on the varese cd "25 all times novelty hits"....the run out groove info is machine stamped "J 08 W 2323- 1C"....they're may be two commercial 45's?
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