CDs with songs mastered from vinyl

Citizen wrote: A number of tracks on Rhino's Have a Nice Day series are from vinyl, including Ronnie McDowell's "The King is Gone," Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight," and all three of Gallery's hits ("So Nice to Be With You," "I Believe in Music," "Big City Miss Ruth Ann").

For anyone who has the various artist CD Gone But Not Forgotten (Risky Business 66394), does Ronnie McDowell's "The King Is Gone" sound like it was mastered from vinyl or from a tape source?

On the various artist CD Best of Ace Records, Volume 1 (Rock N' Roll/Scotti Brothers 75266), the following Top 40 tracks by Jimmy Clanton are taken from very poor sounding vinyl dubs:

Venus in Blue Jeans
Just a Dream
My Own True Love

Incredibly, the CD's liner notes claim the following:

Each of the tracks in this compilation has been mastered from the best available original source. By going to each original master recording and by utilizing the best available modern technology, we have attempted to preserve the essence, quality and integrity of each of these historic recordings.

What a crock! Overall, this CD is a sonic disaster and is not to be confused with the high quality work of the Ace Records UK label.

aaronk wrote: "Jump Around" by House Of Pain. I'm amazed at how many vinyl sources they used for this disc. You can plainly hear the turntable rumble and vinyl crackle right after the first note. On other CD copies, there is not any crackle or noise. There's even a couple of pops in the right channel on the very tail end of the fade out.

This is one of those hip-hop recording that has surface noise from vinyl dubbed into the original digital recording. It was that way on the original House of Pain CD. "Lose Yourself" by Eminem from the 8 Mile soundtrack is another.

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Citizen wrote: A number of tracks on Rhino's Have a Nice Day series are from vinyl, including Ronnie McDowell's "The King is Gone," Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight," and all three of Gallery's hits ("So Nice to Be With You," "I Believe in Music," "Big City Miss Ruth Ann").

Also the Hudson Brothers' "Rendezvous."

anthology123 wrote: On another note, isn't the 45 mono version of Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf on Dick Bartley's comp also a vinyl sourced track?

Yes, because the 45 master tape is long gone. Also, "I Saw Her Again" by the Mamas & Papas on that same CD (On The Radio Vol. 1) would be a vinyl transfer as well, since there are no known surviving mono tapes for M&P.

On another front, there was a thread, I believe on the Hoffman board, where someone asserted that the mono CD appearances of Lovin' Spoonful songs were needledrops. These would be:
"Summer In The City": Varese Sarabande 302066148 25 All-Time Greatest Summer Songs
"Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind": Varese Sarabande 5803 Sunshine Days - Pop Classics Of The '60s Volume 3

"Summer In The City" sounds like a tape source on the Varese CD, but I haven't listened to it critically. It has been a long time since I have listened to the Sunshine Days CD so I can't remember if the other song sounded like a vinyl transfer or not.

Anyone else have any insight on these two CDs?