CDs with songs mastered from vinyl

Not exactly "top of the charts" material, but for those who might be looking for the 1987 "classic" by Ron & The D.C. Crew called "Ronnie's Rap," the version on CD / mp3 on Amazon is from a vinyl source.

...Having said that, it's reasonable fidelity for a parody record, and where else are you going to find a copy of this song, digital or otherwise? :-)

If you're looking for the link, here it is.

Ringmaster_D wrote: Just catching up now (4 years late) on the news that the beginning of "One Night In Bangkok" was sourced from vinyl on Just Can't Get Enough 14. You know, I always thought I heard a slight tempo change at the edit point. Has there been a consensus on the best- sounding non-vinyl-sourced version? Calling Ron...

As far as I know, all the CD versions of the 45 are digital
clones of the Rhino disc. It's a little dull-sounding, but
it's as good as you'll find. In my own library, I used a
cleaned-up needledrop of the 45 from Aaron.

I have spent a lot of time combing two boxes of reel to reel tapes given to me by Ronnie Dove, and have thus far found only one tape that contains Diamond era recordings, but it's a 7.5 ips mono tape and at least one of the songs has different vocals than the released version. As soon as the DAT player I bought on ebay arrives I will dig into the DAT's I got from Ronnie, which supposedly contain dubs from the master tapes he once had, but which Collectables destroyed in the dubbing process (at least I will be able to tell from there if all Ronnie had was reel tapes of disc dubs...)

crapfromthepast wrote: Ringmaster_D wrote: Just catching up now (4 years late) on the news that the beginning of "One Night In Bangkok" was sourced from vinyl on Just Can't Get Enough 14. You know, I always thought I heard a slight tempo change at the edit point. Has there been a consensus on the best- sounding non-vinyl-sourced version? Calling Ron... As far as I know, all the CD versions of the 45 are digital clones of the Rhino disc. It's a little dull-sounding, but it's as good as you'll find. In my own library, I used a cleaned-up needledrop of the 45 from Aaron.

   I
don't know the story on that, but perhaps a tape with
the 45 intro doesn't exist, and that's why the 45 was
used.

As many on the board know, anything that was on Private Stock records needs an "extra listen" to determine the source. Frankie Valli of
course owns his own masters. Others apparently were lost. I read somewhere that Jai Uttal might have the rights to some of the catalog (that
weren't leases) but he doesn't have any tapes. Maybe someone else knows for sure.