adam faith it’s alright

The mix on the mono Amy 45 absolutely smokes any attempt to replicate it from the stereo cut.

"It's Alright" - which was the B-side of the UK single - provided perhaps my biggest "oh, wow!" moment while watching Good Morning Vietnam in the theater. When the song came along, I found myself singing along to it without giving it a second thought... until about a minute into it. It suddenly dawned on me that not only had I not heard the song in years, I had no clue as to the title or artist. By the time the credits ran, I'd sorted it out: back in the day, I'd assumed I was hearing the latest Dave Clark Five single. Its all-too-quick disappearance from the airwaves never allowed a title-artist connection to cement in the memory. Turns out it was listed on a 1965 KDWB survey I'd picked up, but neither the title nor artist rang any bells then or later on.

Neither the rechanneled Canadian Underground label 45 reissue nor the true stereo Rhino CD track (or a fold thereof) have the same DC5-like percussive and bass impact of the Amy single. The 45's got the groove... some noticeable hum during the intro and fade, and... what sounds like someone beginning to stop the tape at the very end of the fadeout! Might that explain the slightly earlier fades on subsequent releases?

Yah Shure wrote: The mix on the mono Amy 45 absolutely smokes any attempt to replicate it from the stereo cut. By the time the credits ran, I'd sorted it out: back in the day, I'd assumed I was hearing the latest Dave Clark Five single.

Never really thought about it, but it does sound like a DC5 song. My copy is pretty beat up (on a Bell subsidiary, who'd a thunk?), but in no way does it detract from this powerful tune.

this one slipped through my re-reviewal in march of
2012.....john was able to edit the cd version to match the
vinyl 45, but by doing that, the file runs 0:04 short at
2:19, versus the vinyl 45 at 2:23.....close enough until
mark matthews gets this song on his radar for the next rare
singles cd compilation he's to put together!!

It wasn't until long after the movie came out that I connected the two...during Good Morning Vietnam, Robin Williams introduces the song as by The Dawnbusters or Dawnbreakers or some such fictional group. As for why it wasn't on the soundtrack, one would have to assume it to be a copyright issue.

I finally compared the stereo track from Rhino's The British Invasion - The History Of British Rock, Vol. 1 CD and the U.S. Amy 913 45 and found that there's a marked difference in the bass playing between the two. The stereo mix's bass part is pretty basic from the start, with the same note being struck for several beats at a time. But on the Amy 45, the bassline is much more fluid; going up and down and changing with every beat.

Here's another reason the 45 sounds more Dave Clark Five-like than the Rhino track: the drumming is much more upfront in the mono mix (although still not as prominent as what you'd hear on an actual DC5 hit.) In the stereo version, the drums are only in the right channel, and pretty deeply buried at that. Summed to mono, they're not a factor at all. The busier bass part and the louder drums give the 45 a lot more driving energy.