Lovin’ Spoonful in mono on CD!

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 Bwci Bo wrote:

However, I played Younger Girl from Do You Believe In Magic as this is probably the song I am most familiar with.  (I don't see it listed in Pat's database so I'm guessing it didn't crack the Top 40 over there?)  Anyway, I'm pretty sure that something's not quite right with this track on the CD.  The song sounds rather dull throughout, but at 2:05 (just before the fade starts), I'm sure I can detect a splice where the audio becomes slightly brighter and there may also be a very slight pitch increase too.  So perhaps this is another case of a folded down stereo intro/outro tacked onto a mono vinyl dub?  If so, I have to admit that I'm a little disappointed, although not entirely surprised given the earlier comments about the lack of photographic evidence of a tape master for this album. 

I just listened to "Younger Girl," and there is definitely a major change in sound quality at the point you mention, just before the fade.  It doesn't sound like the earlier part of the track is a vinyl dub, but the high frequencies are rolled off at around 14kHz.  The only possible explanation I can give is that the mono tape they had sounds like this (highs rolled off) and perhaps the fadeout on the tape was damaged, so they spliced on the stereo version folded to mono to replace a damaged section.  It certainly does appear to be two different sources, but both sources sound like tape.