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LunarLaugh 
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 Posted: 15 September 2020 at 2:21pm |
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My recommendation for the stereo mix of "You've Lost
That Lovin' Feeling" on CD is the 1999 expanded edition of the Top Gun soundtrack. Remastered by Vic Anesini using Sony's superior mastering equipment which resulted in a slightly cleaner transfer than the Rhino discs. Also available on SACD if you happen to still have one of those players handy. Also mastered by Vic Anesini is Sony's "The Essential Phil Spector" which contains the mono mix in EXCELLENT sound quality. This or the slightly louder Bob Ludwig- mastered "Wall of Sound Retrospective" contain better transfers than the Back to Mono box, IMHO. I prefer the Anesini disc over the Ludwig personally. |
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PopArchivist
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Posted: 15 January 2022 at 9:45pm |
Nor have I. Whoever did the transfers for these did not give it the love and attention this legendary song deserves. I now have to check out LunarLaugh's suggestion on the better source material. |
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Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD."
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LunarLaugh
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Posted: 16 January 2022 at 12:30pm |
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You can only do so much with the source material, which
just comes down to the way the tracks were recorded. It's Spector so a good stereo mix was never the intended result of the producer. |
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aaronk
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Posted: 16 January 2022 at 12:38pm |
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I actually think the transfer done by Rhino sounds quite nice, despite having a bit of tape hiss. It's not muddy, not distorted, and has nice EQ.
There are a couple "thumps" in the right channel as the song fades to silence, but it's likely that way on the tape. |
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Bounder's Bay
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Posted: 20 January 2022 at 3:07am |
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I would heartily echo (pun not intended) the recommendation for the Anesini-mastered Essential Phil Spector as a preferred source for the hit mono mix of this one (and others) over Back To Mono. If ordering the CD, make sure to get the original 2011 US version, with the title across the top, which includes "River Deep, Mountain High" where the 2012 international versions with the title at lower left omit it!
See here: The Essential Phil Spector - Discogs Also available in 16bit lossless at Qobuz, although this particular track is among those you must download entire album to get: The Essential Phil Spector - Qobuz Edited by Bounder's Bay |
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AdvprosD
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Posted: 24 January 2022 at 9:23pm |
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I just happened to drop by my local used record store and picked up a copy of the Righteous Brothers greatest hits on CD. This is on the Verve label and was issued from
Germany in 1984 according to Discogs information. It's kind-of unique since the first 12 tracks are the same as the original 1967 vinyl release of the same name in the USA. YLTLF is right up at the top on this collection and is in stereo. I'm not sure if any of the other tracks are in mono. It has a fairly clean rendition of YLTLF which sort-of sounds like the way Aaron described his Rhino disc above. I didn't hear any of the odd NR effects at the end either. For tracks 13 -22 on this disc they are apparently from a second greatest his collection released in 1968. I didn't see any hits I recognized for this band in tracks 13-22. I'm going to have to look over the 45s there at the store and see if I can find an original mono 45. This CD appears to be fairly common as one can pick it up for under ten bucks. I wasn't expecting to see the label "Verve" though. I usually think of jazz and such when I see that label. (Verve 823 119-2.) I'll be listening through to hear the engineering by Val Valentin. |
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<Dave> Someone please tell I-Heart Radio that St. Louis is not known as The Loo!
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Hykker
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Posted: 25 January 2022 at 8:44am |
Verve was primarily, but not exclusively a jazz label. In addition to the Righteous Brothers' post-Philles hits, among others the Mothers of Invention (!) and the Hombres (Let It All Hang Out) were also on that label. They also had a folk subsidiary, Verve-Folkways. |
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AdvprosD
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Posted: 27 January 2022 at 10:35pm |
OMG! I just happened to pick this up on CD as well. (Essential Phil Spector.) I was going into this believing that I wasn't going to be impressed by a mono recording. Again, as I have been so often persuaded by folks on this forum, I have now actually heard a version of YLTLF that sounds great! I simply had to experience this for myself, and I'm so glad I did. Included are a number of Ronettes and Crystals songs I don't remember. They sound pretty good too! Thanks for the post Bounders Bay! |
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<Dave> Someone please tell I-Heart Radio that St. Louis is not known as The Loo!
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