Billy Vaughn - Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Greatest Hits on Curb is mono and has a single-tracked saxophone. If anyone has the mono LP of Sail Along Silv'ry Moon and can check what's on it, maybe the CD has the mono LP version. For now, I labeled the Curb disc "single tracked saxophone." My copy of the Varese CD is at storage, but if anyone has it handy and can check the version, please let us know. Otherwise, I'll grab my disc. I don't have the Collector's Choice disc at all, but the parent LP was issued in stereo in 1959 (according to Discogs), so perhaps it has the stereo LP version.

Todd, you've joined the 5-star member group (below your screen name) and not just because you sent me the file! I poked around in the panel, and I found a place where I could set this up. As such, we now have Music Fan (under 1,000 posts), Rising Star (1,000 to 2,499) and Shooting Star (2,500 and up).

Anyhow, regarding "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," the Varese CD has an alternate take compared with the 45 Prof's dub. You'll notice at the 0:21 mark of the 45 and Curb CD are six short notes played on the sax. On the Varese CD, those notes are slurred together, so it's an obviously different performance. I agree with you about the reverb, too, that the 45 has reverb not heard on any of the CD versions I've heard so far.

Thanks, Bob! You can send the files to me via email, or if you prefer, you can upload them to your YouTube channel and then post the links here. In any case, it appears we still do not have the hit version on CD. I appreciate you looking into it and for checking your mono LP!

aaronk wrote: Todd, you've joined the 5-star member group (below your screen name) and not just because you sent me the file! I poked around in the panel, and I found a place where I could set this up. As such, we now have Music Fan (under 1,000 posts), Rising Star (1,000 to 2,499) and Shooting Star (2,500 and up).

Hey, I guess now whenever I hear the chorus from the Bad Company song: "Don't you know that you are a shooting star?", I can now nod my head and emphatically reply: "YES!!!" 😀

Anyway, nice job with detecting that "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" on the Varese disc is a different take/recording altogether! It makes me wonder if the differences were so subtle that even the normally-reliable Varese label, whose folks are known for taking pride in seeking out the correct hit recordings from the best-sounding available sources, may have been fooled in this case. I could sense that something was different with the overall sound on the 45 but couldn't quite put my finger on it. Glad I sought out a second opinion on this and didn't just simply -- and thus, inaccurately -- conclude that the Varese disc contains the hit version but with less reverb!

On a related side note, I would really like to figure out how to extract audio from YouTube videos and import it into my Adobe Audition 1.5 software, so that I can more effectively perform A/B comparisons with CD tracks, rather than having to toggle back and forth between listening to YouTube and an audio file uploaded in Adobe Audition. Does anyone know how to do this who can advise me, perhaps off the message board?

Edited by Todd Ireland - 15 hours 42 minutes ago at 9:09am

Now I'm singing the Bad Company song since I'm a 'Shooting Star."

Thanks, Aaron!

David, I'll send them to you now.