Fleetwoods - Mr. Blue

I picked up an original Dolton 45 on "Mr. Blue" and notice that there is reverb right from the start of the song, unlike CD versions I've heard, like the Come Softly To Me Compilation and the 10 Best Series. On those CDs the vocal is completely dry as the song starts. Does anyone know if the dry version is an album version, or if the version with reverb on the vocal start has made it to CD anywhere?

How interesting! I don't recall ever hearing a version with reverb at the start. While my collection doesn't include a 45 of Mr. Blue, it does have several LPs with the track. All but possibly one have the dry vocal.

Here are the titles I checked:

Original Hits: Past & Present Liberty Mono 1960
Fleetwoods Greatest Hits Dolton Stereo 1962
Original Golden Greats Volume 5 Liberty Stereo 1968
Very Best of the Fleetwoods United Artists Stereo 1975

Mr. Blue is fake stereo on all three (and very muddy on Greatest Hits), but the 1968 LP seems to have a very small amount of reverb at the beginning.

Should I be hearing a lot of reverb on the Dolton 45? And does your original Dolton single have the 6th Avenue or Union Street address?

GM

Yah Shure wrote: Nice catch, Bill! Gary, I listened to the reprossesed stereo version on Original Golden Greats Volume 5 (Liberty 7575) and it sounds like that touch of reverb - which is only in the right channel - was added during the stereo simulation process. I folded that mix to mono and compared it with the Dolton 45, and it's still noticeably drier than the 45; not that the 45 is overly wet. If you were to compare the Dolton 45 with the mono 45s of "Summertime, Summertime" or "Blue Moon," it is drier than those. I have an RCA-pressed vinyl copy and the styrene pressing shown below, and both have the 6th Avenue address on the label.

According to the BSN discography for Dolton, the label moved from 6th Avenue to Union Street in 1960. I was wondering if only the first press of Mr. Blue had reverb and the dry version was perhaps substituted after the move. Does anyone have the Mr. Blue 45 with the Union address?

GM

Bumping up this thread to see if anyone has yet found a Dolton 45 copy of Mr. Blue without the reverb.

Wow, don't know how I missed this thread from four years ago. This is a great discovery. I'm not sure I've ever heard the reverby 45 version before. There seems to be reverb all through it, not just on the intro. Is it on CD anywhere? Here it is on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE6OkqFv5PM