CCR stereo

Hykker wrote: So as to not further hijack the "Mr. Sun Mr. Moon" thread.... Brian W. wrote: "The important thing to remember was that Fogerty only mixed these songs ONCE. This, he felt, was the "fairy dust mix," the one that had the soul. He didn't think he could get that again, so that one mix had to do for everything. where did that awful echo-y stereo mix of "Bad Moon Rising" come from? Back in the 90s when we first automated our classic rock station this version was part of the library-on-hard-drive that came with it. I replaced it immediately with the (essentially) mono version from "Chronicle". I think the echo-y version was on a TM-Century GoldDisc.

There was a Quad LP of Creedence Gold issued, it is also where Proud mary turned up in wide-ish stereo for the first time, too....but it's a straight turntable dub of that quad LP that yielded the echoey Bad Moon Rising, based on how they mixed it for the LP.

I just came across the full stereo, double-tracked-vocal version of "Bad Moon Rising" on a Westwood One Radio Networks CD of the show "New Gold on CD" from 1990, which despite its name contained many tracks transferred from vinyl, including this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF-0zgK58ys

It just sounds like a plain stereo mix, not matrixed quad (like SQ or QS).

The CDs from this show have many creative edits, such as splicing in the missing verse of the stereo version of "Leader of the Pack" from the mono version, shifting extended single-channel passages to the center of the stereo image, blending wide stereo mixes (like James Brown's "I Got You (I Feel Good)") to narrow stereo, fading out "Hey Jude" early (around 4:30), etc. I also found on them a clean stereo copy of "Bobby's Girl", not drenched in reverb like the version I had from a commercially released CD.


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