Frankie Valli-"Can’t Take My Eyes..."
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Topic: Frankie Valli-"Can’t Take My Eyes..."
Posted By: jimct
Subject: Frankie Valli-"Can’t Take My Eyes..."
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 4:24pm
| My commercial 45, which is mono and confirmed as Philips 40446, has a listed time of (2:58), but an actual time of (3:20). |
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 04 January 2022 at 9:20am
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Are there any good sounding CDs with this song? The 25th Anniversary box set on Rhino and the Time-Life collections all sound abysmal. I have a copy of "Very Best Of" on MCA from 1979 (vinyl, obviously), and it sounds significantly better than what I have on CD. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: LunarLaugh
Date Posted: 04 January 2022 at 10:11am
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I think all sources for any stereo mix that Rhino has
released since the 80s stem from a stereo vinyl dub. Could be a tape that got misfiled or junked somewhere along the way. From what I understand, The Four Seasons Partnership only owns the master tapes to Seasons and Valli solo works and not the multi-tracks (if those even still exist, which I assume they don't or else they would have made an attempt to acquire them). This is why all the Four Seasons Rhino discs generally use all the same digital transfers give or take a few tracks. They were one of the few acts that didn't get the Bill Inglot remix treatment off the multis in the Rhino glory days of the mid to late 80s. ------------- https://thelunarlaugh.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to The Lunar Laugh! |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 04 January 2022 at 10:33am
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That makes sense. The CD copies do sound like they have vinyl distortion, although I don't necessarily hear any ticks/clicks or vinyl rumble. It's just very distorted. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 04 January 2022 at 11:21am
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One more small observation. The CD version seems to have a small amount of reverb and compression added to it that the stereo Very Best Of LP does not have. I also pulled the mono 45 and compared it to the stereo versions. The mono version is a fold-down of the stereo version that's on my MCA vinyl Very Best Of LP. The 45 doesn't seem to have the extra reverb, but it does have a heavy dose of bass added to it. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: TallPaulInKy
Date Posted: 04 January 2022 at 5:04pm
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There is a new 40 plus CD box set beginning prepared by
Snapper Records in England. Titled, The Four Seasons Catalogue Box Set, it will include all their albums (in mono and stereo) plus bonus tracks of the 45 mixes. Can't Take My Eyes Off You (the original single) should be on disc 13 with the stereo copy of the Frankie Valli Solo album. Everything is being remastered for best sound by Snapper's Engineers. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 04 January 2022 at 7:08pm
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I've read about that box set, which has been in the works since 2018. It keeps getting pushed back, although I can't say I'd spring for a 40-disc box set of the 4 Seasons. With any luck, maybe the masters they uncover will be used for other smaller "hits" projects and/or digital download. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 04 January 2022 at 8:41pm
My impression is there are so many compilations out there that a box set spanning 40 discs would be overkill. IMHO of course. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
aaronk wrote:Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 07 April 2022 at 7:47pm
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I noticed the song (as famous as it is) doesn't appear domestically on CD in MONO.
Is the MONO a fold down of the STEREO? The mono I have suffers from the same distortion everyone is talking about. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 07 April 2022 at 9:44pm
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Posted By: TallPaulInKy
Date Posted: 03 July 2022 at 5:11am
The box set contents have been announced and though there maybe a few changes between now and release date, in December. No mono Can't Take My Eyes Off You will be found as they could not locate a mono mastertape. But if the song is a fold-down (as reported here) I guess it doesn't make much difference. |
Posted By: Steve Carras
Date Posted: 03 July 2022 at 7:46am
Only OBVIOUS reason...to get it on the air! And I've seen that one before.. ------------- You know you're really older when you think that younger singer Jesse McCartney's related in anyway to former Beatle Paul McCartney. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 03 July 2022 at 9:40am
Hopefully they located the stereo master tape instead of using the bad-sounding vinyl dub that's been reissued on every CD. I can say with 100% certainty that the stereo mix on the MCA LP folds down to the mono 45 perfectly. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |