Saturday, May 17, 2008
Hard-to-find, and rare recordings
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Now, you know in the last three previous posts, I brought to you (all my imaginary readers) extremely rare songs that are completely out-of-print.
Well, not exactly.
Herb Alpert's 'Street Life' is on the "Rise" album, which was just released in a completely remastered version just last year !
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(New 2007 release of the classic 1979 album ! The classic sound of 'Street Life' but also give a listen to the very funky 'Rotation'. )
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As for the Ann G. 'On A Mission' album (1989) which has my favorite 'Love's Here' song.....(See yesterday's post, beneath)
I don't know how to get ahold of that album, other than that fantastic song on YouTube.
Contrary to what everybody says, it's not on Ebay---that I've seen currently.
I remember buying the cassette in 1990. Around that time, CDs were still a new thing. I remember being so impressed with her sound. Her songs: "Rain" and "Love at Dawn" were spectacular also.
Hers (Ann G.) was a new sound for the time. That was right when digital was beginning to take hold, yet the old analog (electric) recordings were still in force.
Ann G. was kind of like a half analog, half digital sound, but extremely sultry and smoldering.
Disco will always be an analog (electric) sound for me. You really lose something when disco, or a smoldering jazz gets put into a digital audio format......
Again....give a listen to Herb Alpert's 'Street Life' (two posts back) to see what I'm talking about----that electric base, and electric piano, in an all-analog format has kind of an immediacy, and accessibility that a Digital sound loses.
The cold, robotic sound of Digital Audio, which sort of blurs everything together. The old analog recordings (Stereophonic) were much more glamorous and romatic.
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http://maxinesplace.blogspot.com/2007/06/audio.html
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Nothing beats High-Fidelity !!!!
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.....which brings us to Percy Faith, and this very rare recording:
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(Click 'Pop-out Player, then click the 'standalone' thingy, and you can close the larger window)
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The first song you'll hear Percy Faith's "First Light". See what I mean about the great sound of an Analog recording in Stereo? ! You really hear those Percy Faith strings flourish in the misty background.
That's kind of a Bossa Nova jazz, and Percy Faith has lots of those, which I have no idea how to get ahold of.
It's true.
Percy Faith did so many fabulous instrumentals, like that one, which are completely out-of-print. Don't even get me started on all the Percy Faith out-of-print Christmas recordings. Nobody, and I mean nobody had such classic Christmas music, like Percy Faith. Some of it's on my Christmas Playlist.
I need to do a completely separate post on hard-to-find, and rare, Christmas songs. Hint: David Rose Christmas Album, anyone ?
Don't you love how on my 'Pop-up' playlist.... Frank Sinatra comes crooning in, (swinging in) right after Percy Faith? That was kind of genius on my part to open with Percy Faith, and then go straight into Sinatra......all in STEREO by the way !!!!
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Lastly, lets talk 'Wings'
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(1978)
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Do you remember the Paul McCartney song--- 'With A Little Luck' ? And, not the short version, either.
'With A Little Luck' has a longer, extended version, which is over 5 minutes long. I'd had a hard time, for many years, finding that longer, extended version that was standard in the 70s. That longer version was the one which was always played on the radio in the 70s.
Somewhere along the line, it got shortened, but a completely new, remastered 'Wings Greatest' from 1978 contains that longer version of 'With A Little Luck'.
I could do a completely separate post on extended (promotional) versions of songs no longer in print.
But that was back in the days when society treasured depth, instead of today's soundbites.
It's true. Many songs in the 70s, told a story and went as long as 15-20 minutes sometimes.
If you like story-songs, early Genesis (young Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel !) is great for that.
I loved listening to Genesis 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway' (1974)....so edgy and funky, and the whole album's songs tell a surreal story set to edgy progressive rock melodies !gggg
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(1974--- Look at the classic 'Genesis' logo !)
That one's still available, I think. It's really an incredible album, with a totally new sound for the time. Anyone who is a collector should have that one, but you need to take a day to listen to it. 1974, that was back in the day when people sat down and actually listened to the music, and did nothing else. There was nothing called "multi-tasking" back then......you focused on the music only, which meant the sound had to be great, and Lamb Lies Down is !!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lamb_Lies_Down_on_Broadway
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