[Vintage-Audio] Vinyl making a comeback?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Yo Sheldon,

I have 890 original songs from 45 rpm singles by 356 different Artists. 
About 90% of the Billboard top 100 from 1956-1966 plus some other favorites 
from 1970-1990. All recorded with a professional DJ turntable to DAT using 
new original 45 rpm singles. Then recorded to CDR. A total of forty CDS. 
None are enhanced! I did use some special filtering on the SONY DAT deck 
called "emphasis" to clean up noise behind the music. Not like Dolby! This 
does nothing to the music and does not trim off the highs etc. No computer 
and software involved, all hardware equipment. My goal was the authentic 
original sound. In some cases, it was hard to resist not enhancing the lack 
lustur audio!

I also put all the top instrumental hits from that 1956-1966 time period by 
themselves on three CDS.

It is expensive, time consuming and a lot of work. I think the results are 
worth it.

Remember Ray Stevens "Ahab The Arab"? I knew there was another verse to the 
one we always hear, or at least I thought I remembered one! One day I pulled 
out one of my several "Best Of" by Ray Stevens, the lead song was the 
original "Ahab The Arab" and there was that missing verse! Do any of you 
remember the original song as released?



Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
hhrp.w9wze.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sheldon Daitch" <sdaitch at mor.ibb.gov>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Vinyl making a comeback?


>I may even have the same CD of Nelson, and I realized some of the songs 
>also did not sound
> quite right.
>
> One has to real the fine print on a lot of collections releases.  Many 
> times, a cut, or sometimes
> many of the cuts on a collection are remastered versions performed by "one 
> or more" of the
> members of the original group.
>
> 73
> Sheldon
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I was recording some Oldies several years ago, Ricky Nelson, to be 
>> precise. The song was "Travelin' Man". It did not sound right to me. But 
>> I could not decide exactly what was wrong. Finally it came to me. His 
>> voice was slightly lower. I pulled up the original 45 rpm of the hit 
>> single and played it. Bingo! He was older when this collection was 
>> recorded and what I heard was not the original "Travelin' Man"!
>>
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