John Phillips - Mississippi

Just recently Varese Sarabande released the original John Phillips album with the hit song "Mississippi." In addition to the original LP, the disc also includes the 45 version of the hit.

BEWARE!!!

While the LP tracks sound good, the single version of "Mississippi" is not a clean copy from the master tape. It is a less-than-desirable vinyl cleanup. There's plenty of groove distortion (especially toward the end of the song), and it just doesn't sound good.

Hi All,
All 45 masters for anything on the Dunhill label are long lost. Legend has it this happened when MCA took control of the label and I've heard various stories about it.
Bottom line is all they have in the vaults are stereo LP masters. Any 45 versions that appeared on CD have been dubs of original Dunhill 45's.
Also too bad that most of those 45 pressings were very noisy and grungy.
-MM

MMathews wrote: Hi All, All 45 masters for anything on the Dunhill label are long lost. Legend has it this happened when MCA took control of the label and I've heard various stories about it. Bottom line is all they have in the vaults are stereo LP masters. Any 45 versions that appeared on CD have been dubs of original Dunhill 45's. Also too bad that most of those 45 pressings were very noisy and grungy. -MM

From what I've been told by someone who asked Andy McKaie about this directly, many, but not all, 45 masters were tossed out. Also, if the songs appeared on a mono lp, Universal should still have the mono lp tapes as those shouldn't have been tossed out. The only tapes that did get tossed were the mono 45 masters IF (and only if) there was a version (whether it matched the single or not) that appeared on an lp of any kind, then the LP masters were kept. If the mono 45 was special to 45 and never on an lp in mono or stereo, Universal kept the mono 45 tape.

TomDiehl1 wrote: MMathews wrote: Hi All, All 45 masters for anything on the Dunhill label are long lost. Legend has it this happened when MCA took control of the label and I've heard various stories about it. Bottom line is all they have in the vaults are stereo LP masters. Any 45 versions that appeared on CD have been dubs of original Dunhill 45's. Also too bad that most of those 45 pressings were very noisy and grungy. -MM From what I've been told by someone who asked Andy McKaie about this directly, many, but not all, 45 masters were tossed out. Also, if the songs appeared on a mono lp, Universal should still have the mono lp tapes as those shouldn't have been tossed out. The only tapes that did get tossed were the mono 45 masters IF (and only if) there was a version (whether it matched the single or not) that appeared on an lp of any kind, then the LP masters were kept. If the mono 45 was special to 45 and never on an lp in mono or stereo, Universal kept the mono 45 tape.

Very interesting... So if I'm understanding correctly, does this mean that the Dunhill 45 mixes actually all do still exist on tape somewhere???

My commercial 45 for this, which is mono, has a listed time of (2:59), but an actual time of (3:09).

Edited by jimct