"Henry Mancini PURE GOLD" CD from 1987. 24 minutes of heaven?

Thanks for the tip Steve! My first instinct would be that the vinyl (which I own) sounds better.

I think I might have seen a copy of this CD at my local library so I might be in luck.

dan c

 

Thanks, Steve for your input ...

Another Peter Gunn related LP worth giving a listen is the LP below ... on Crown (the budget label) ... in stereo ... I wouldn't have given it a second thought (because of the Crown label) if I hadn't heard it playing while I was looking through a very unusual collection of 5,000+ LPs.

 

Which is also about the same time that SOMEBODY TO LOVE (as Steve mentioned in his original post) was recorded. I wonder what was going on at RCA's Music Center of the World at this time? I don't think the Dynagroove process had anything to do with it, as the recordings done at RCA's New York studios during this time period sound fine.

 

Steve, you gotta quit recommending discs unless it's in a PM.

 

I was just thinking the same thing!!

Evan

 

Amazon has crazy prices on all kinds of sealed cds. Its nutty regardless of the forums effects. There was a sealed one for 88.00 before anyone had even posted on this thread. I dont think this one will go the "Ugly Pink" route. The Hank Thompson disc was a bit difficult for a time and then it cooled off. Fairly easy to find now for a decent price.

My point? Keep recommending great sounding cds Steve!

 

Isn't that on Rhino? Turn the treble down!

 

Price on Amazon has jumped to 88 dollars new!

 

It was already that before anyone posted on this thread. Like I said, discs on amazon are already at crazy prices when you look down at the new sealed items on many cds.


Let's not scare Steve off from recommending future discs that sound great!

 

Overall, I like the sound on this set.

It also has contains the "Theme from the Great Imposter" in first-time stereo.

 

I like the set, but when I'm really in the mood for Mancini, I don't want mine all over the map...I want an album like The Blues and The Beat, or the Christmas album, or a soundtrack. Having a comp in front of me is just begging for me to want a taste of something else before I've finished the track that's playing!

 

I have this one from yourmusic.com haven't listened to it in ages. http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hits...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1212700242&sr=1-3

I'm guessing it not good and suffers like the other later remixes? Or is it good?

 

That's the one that says it was produced by Paul Williams for House Of Hits on the back...the same guy who did the non-Anestisi Guess Who single-disc comp around that time.

Funny, I e-mailed Paul about it, and he wasn't aware of it...

I also asked about this one in the last big Mancini thread, but nobody responded.

 

I have this one and I think it's fine but what do I know? heh...

 

Love Mancini as well but don't have this one yet - Amazon here I come.

 

Wallet - here you come.

 

So do I...although at the time of that older thread, didn't remember that. It's still the 'rare' PETER GUNN cover, though it's funny that no other label in history(AFAIK)ever had an issue with not having enough original album covers/sleeves for their records...

There is also the possibility(however slight)that these were early record club issues?

 

My Mancini "Pink Panther" soundtrack album is one of the LPs that I use to demonstrate how good records can sound.

Guess I'll have to pick the "Henry Mancini Pure Gold" CD up so I can demonstrate how good CDs can sound.

 

The albums by the Bonanza cast members sound great and were recorded at RCA Hollywood, the same with Ssgt. Barry Sadler's RCA albums.

 

sad, but true.

 

Well the cheapest on Amazon is currently at $88.67.

 

Haven't heard it in ages, but the Molly Maguire (?) soundtrack was real nice...

Surreal.

Too few outlets.

The world that recorded classic pop seemed to be dying right and left by then. Living Stereo and Living Presence were over too. Different attitudes toward "older" music and recording, different policies, different engineers, multi-tracking, isolation, way way more extensive consoles, throwing out the old tube gear for more and cheaper solid state electronics, deader studios, stereo-only, a lot of things were going on. "Older" music styles with good sound still happened but it seems to me to have become more of an exception.

 

http://product.half.ebay.com/Pure-Gold_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ3114043

 

...or only recommend a disc if it's still in print!