George McCrae - Rock Your Baby

Doug,

The 45 has either a different drum carrying the beat, or it's just mixed so much
louder/heavier it sounds so. If you play both the 45 and LP versions, you will
know if you have the 45 as you will hear the difference.

Edited by davidclark

crapfromthepast wrote: A nice rhythm-box soul hit from 1974, and the first taste of success for the guys who would later form KC and the Sunshine Band. Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 15 1974 Take Two (1991) uses the same analog transfer as Get Down Tonight, but adds noise reduction! Listen to the hi-hat completely disappear on the fade of the Time-Life disc, and compare to the Rhino disc, where the hi-hat stays intact to the end of the fade. Avoid the Time- Life disc for "Rock Your Baby". And also avoid these discs, which are based on the mastering of the Time- Life disc and also have noise reduction: Warner Special Products' 18 Disco Superhits (1996) JCI's Only Dance 1970-1974 (1996) Madacy's Rock On 1974 (1996) - digitally exactly 1.9 dB louder Time-Life's Solid Gold Soul Vol. 9 1974 (1996) - differently-EQ'd digital clone Time- Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 43 '70s Dance Party 1972-1974 (1997) - differently-EQ'd digital clone Time- Life's AM Gold Vol. 29 #1 Hits Of The '70s '70- '74 (2000) - digitally identical Time- Life's 2-CD Seventies Music Explosion Vol. 1 Sunshine.

Oh my!! I just picked up a set of the Time-Life '70s
Music Explosion series just this week. I was listening
through and noted on this song the ending sounded
really funky!

So that's some of the pitfalls of adding noise
reduction. Sometimes I hear stuff like this and wonder
just WTF has happened. It sounds like the song fades
out and then somebody clipped on a little tag of more
content
which sounds totally different than the rest of the
song. I'll have to keep my ears peeled for this kind
of stuff. It's pretty interesting to find. Especially
considering exec's at these studios are supposedly
paying these engineers big bucks for continuity across
a series. (Well, I hope they are paying big bucks!) Or
were, in this case in 2005.

Edited by AdvprosD