Nat King Cole "Love Is The Thing" DCC Gold CD bonus track

[Henry Love]

I finally found a CD of Nat King Cole's Love Is The Thing.It's fantastic like the other two.My question,there is an unlisted version of Stardust(what a song!)tacked onto the end of track 15.Is this common to all CD's?Thanks.

[RetroSmith]

"Stardust" is on all the DCC versions of Nat's "Love Is The Thing" Gold CD's.

And I agree, this CD sounds amazing. To me, nothng beats that late 1950s Capitol Records stuff. All Tube, engineered to perfection, Scotch 111 tape.

I believe its ONLY on the DCC versions because it was a mistake, I think Steve said that it was a happy accident that Stardust was tacked onto the end of the tape reel and it got thru everyone.


Mikey

[John Oteri]

Yes, Steve was mastering the DCC Gold CD of Nat Cole's "Love Is The Thing" in the studio with CNN doing an interview, filming as it was happening.

Steve gave them a clean"feed" version of "Stardust" without the echo for their "B Reel" Betacam audio (I know all the lingo!) Since "truth in broadcast news" is a rule with CNN (bless 'em), Steve mastered this dry version on camera at the end of the "Love Is The Thing" CD master tape.

Neat story, eh?

[Steve Hoffman]

Yeah, that really happened, just like that.

I mastered that CD under hot lights, with a camera stuck in my face, wired for sound with a tiny microphone in my shirt and wearing make up, trying to act like I knew what the hell I was doing!

A very weird morning.

[Henry Love]

Great story,thanks for the background.Steve,please feel free to do more Nat King Cole.