Sinatra / Capitol Sound Quality and General Discussion: Songs for Swingin' Lovers - Released 1956*

Today, I gave my very-late-9:00-rainbow-era D47 pressing a spin. Holy cow! Getting a super-clean copy of a pressing along these lines is now a definite priority. The sound is gorgeous.

Matt

 

I've added a clip that compares a D1 pressing with a D34 pressing, most of the way down this page:

http://web.me.com/mlutthans/MitchMiller/1956_-_Songs_for_Swingin_Lovers2.html

Matt

 

Bump for the above audio clip, plus....

Matrix question for the experts:

Both the 15-song and 12-song versions had the same catalog number: W-653, at least during the rainbow-label era.

I have a 15-song version that has D47 in the deadwax. I have a 12-song version that has D20 in the deadwax. [No! See "EDIT" below.] Did the 12-song version really sell that many copies to mandate such a high number of stampers? Did the numbering get messed up somewhere along the way?. I see way more W 653 pressings in the 15-song version than the 12-song version.

Matt

EDIT: I double-looked-at the deadwax, and it actually says "D50," so I'm assuming they just kept going up when they transitioned from the 15-song version to the 12-song version, so......

Nevermind.

 

Below is a blurb from an Australian newspaper called "The Age," dated May 25, 1978. I saw a copy of this LP on Ebay once, and e-mailed the seller, who told me the LP was manufactured in New South Wales. It's Capitol #SENC-9455.

Has anybody heard this one???

 

"There is other kind knowledge????"

 

I'm doing a transfer to digital of a D2/D1 pressing that's been sitting out in my garage, unloved and forgotten, and I just noticed for the first time that somebody (Frank?) can be heard gently humming along under the instrumental intro to "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me," and there's also somebody going "phew" (or some such sound) right at the fade out of "It Happened in Monterey."

I've been playing this album in assorted formats for over 25 years, and never noticed either of those things before.

Matt

 

Continuing the "adventures in needledropping" on this title:

I have transferred 3 copies, as follows:

•D2/D1
•D46/D33
•D47/D34

I like them all just fine, and when comparing the D33 with the D1 cut of "I've Got You Under My Skin" a year or so ago, I commented that the early D1 and late D33 sounded very similar, but on the side one tracks, I have to say that the D2 sounds a tad dull compared to the D46 and D47 copies. Bass and vocal tones are essentially identical, but there is a noticeably extended high frequency range on the later copies, which I have come to prefer through this process, so I'm now working at putting together a very nice CD for myself using a mix of the D46 and D47 pressings, and leaving the D2 on the sideline for this transfer.

That's not to say that the D2 is bad -- it's not, at all. The later cuts just have a better HF range to my ears, at least on side one in these 3 versions. YMMV.

Matt