Climax-Precious & Few And Other Favorites

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   Have seen a CD on Amazon called Precious And Few And Other Favorites. Even though the song didn't fare well on the charts, was hoping finally being able to find "Life And Breath" on CD. What a disappointment! Sounds like it came from vinyl with a fair amount of NR. Even "Precious And Few" sounds bad.

Has "Life And Breath" ever appeared on CD? Was the 45 mono?

The MP3 from the aforementioned CD is definitely mono.

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eriejwg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 10 June 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 74	Post Options Post Reply Quote eriejwg Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Climax-Precious & Few And Other Favorites Posted: 30 June 2009 at 9:27pm
	Have seen a CD on Amazon called Precious And Few And Other Favorites. Even though the song didn't fare well on the charts, was hoping finally being able to find "Life And Breath" on CD. What a disappointment! Sounds like it came from vinyl with a fair amount of NR. Even "Precious And Few" sounds bad. Has "Life And Breath" ever appeared on CD? Was the 45 mono? The MP3 from the aforementioned CD is definitely mono.

Bill Cahill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 27 June 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bill Cahill Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 July 2009 at 5:58am
	I believe the 45 was mono. Precious and Few is one of the original masters that K-Tel owns, I assume they also own the Climax album and "Life and Breath". You'd think they would have put out a CD release or Collectables would have licensed a Climax CD that contained Life and Breath. I haven't seen one. The K-Tel website says they will soon be distributing its library on I Tunes, so maybe then they'll at least have it as a download.

Gary Mack Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 06 February 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Gary Mack Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 July 2009 at 6:00am
	The Rocky Road promo 45 of Life and Breath is mono/stereo....true stereo. GM

jimct Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 07 April 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote jimct Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 July 2009 at 12:25pm
	Like John did, I also recently picked up a "gray-area" disc by this band, albeit a different one. Titled "The Best Of Climax Featuring Sonny Geraci: Precious & Few" (Carousel CCD-550), it clips off the first milli-second from "Life And Breath", and sounds like it was probably dubbed from a very clean LP, so I'm still looking for a pristine, from-tape digital source for that song. I took a chance on the disc, however, because a couple of other personally-desired band tracks were also included on this CD. One was their last "Bubbling Under" tune, under their old band name, shown as by "The Outsiders Featuring Sonny Geraci", 1970's "Changes" (on Bell/Carousel), as well as it also featuring Climax's pre-Righteous Brothers, Top-10-on-KPOI-Honolulu-in-June-'73 version of the classic "Rock And Roll Heaven". All in all, I'm glad I went for the disc. Edited by jimct