https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 01 May 2026 21:45:00 +0000 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:12:07 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=10172 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=67389&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#67389 Author: LunarLaugh
Subject: 10172
Posted: 16 October 2025 at 8:12pm

Sadly, Seals and Crofts never got the Bill Inglot treatment in the heydey of Rhino. A well done career-spanning retrospective from theirs is notably absent. ]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:12:07 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=67389&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#67389 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=66632&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#66632 Author: eriejwg
Subject: 10172
Posted: 10 May 2025 at 4:02pm

The original Get Closer album is on Qobuz. It's labeled as beibg from Rhino - Warner Records.]]> Sat, 10 May 2025 16:02:21 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=66632&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#66632 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=66629&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#66629 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 10172
Posted: 10 May 2025 at 2:27pm

I didn't realize the "Get Closer" album never came out as a stand-alone CD. I have the 5-CD box "Original Album Series" which contains 5 albums, which AutumnAarilyn pointed out. And I checked out the upcoming 10-album, 5-CD collection that Santi linked to. And I think that's it for the album being on CD. Looking at the 10-album collection, I didn't realize S&C had 3 albums before their breakthrough with 1972's "Summer Breeze" album. I think Cherry Red advertises this as all their WB albums. But I have a 1977 WB album by Seals & Crofts "One On One" (the one with "My Fair Share". Granted it's considered a soundtrack album but S&C sing all or most of the songs. So I'm surprised the Cherry Red box didn't include it.]]> Sat, 10 May 2025 14:27:31 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=66629&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#66629 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=66579&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#66579 Author: Santi Paradoa
Subject: 10172
Posted: 04 May 2025 at 3:04pm

In July 2025 a box set will be released on the UK's Cherry Red Records that includes the Get Closer album plus nine other albums by the duo originally released on Warner Brothers.

You can read more info on that upcoming release here: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/seals-and-crofts-gold-and-rainbows-the-warner-bros-years-1969-1978-5cd-box-set

Edited by Santi Paradoa - 04 May 2025 at 3:07pm]]> Sun, 04 May 2025 15:04:54 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=66579&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#66579 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=66577&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#66577 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 10172
Posted: 04 May 2025 at 2:09pm

That's a bit odd that the "Get Closer" album only appeared on CD on the Flashback label. I know Wounded Bird released a lot of their albums on CD, and I thought "Get Closer" was one of them, but I guess not.]]> Sun, 04 May 2025 14:09:00 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=66577&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#66577 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=65854&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#65854 Author: Todd Ireland
Subject: 10172
Posted: 02 March 2025 at 11:30pm

FYI, I found what appears to be an uploaded rip of "Get Closer" from the 1976 parent CD of the same title on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBUHdy8g8S4&list=PL5rzl4Wi2U 7ukUI3VlLxuVKbdTa2eky4d&index=3

To my ears, it sounds like the same mastering that's on all my other CDs, so Ron may be correct that noise reduction was possibly used as part of the song's original mixing process. It's not that "Get Closer" sounds "bad", mind you... It's just that the noise reduction makes the the track's higher frequencies sound somewhat subdued and muddied (in my opinion, anyway), but that could be by design. I suppose I can always fiddle with the EQ myself to try to better optimize the overall sound.

By the way, the only other instance I can recall of a Top 40 hit possibly containing heavy noise-reduction as part of the original mixing process is Neil Diamond's "Walk on Water". I have that song on two CDs, and both contain normal level of tape hiss throughout the song, *except* during the bongo passage from 1:10 to 1:19. Those 10 seconds strangely lack any trace of hiss, and it's especially apparent when listening through headphones.

Edited by Todd Ireland]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2025 23:30:14 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=65854&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#65854 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=65813&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#65813 Author: Todd Ireland
Subject: 10172
Posted: 25 February 2025 at 12:34am

Ah, I didn't think to check the Seals & Crofts compilation releases on Discogs. Good catch, AutumnAarilyn.]]> Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:34:05 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=65813&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#65813 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=65812&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#65812 Author: AutumnAarilyn
Subject: 10172
Posted: 25 February 2025 at 12:27am

It's also here on the original album series:

https://www.discogs.com/release/8188170-Seals-Crofts-
Original-Album-Series]]> Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:27:19 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=65812&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#65812 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=65811&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#65811 Author: Todd Ireland
Subject: 10172
Posted: 25 February 2025 at 12:01am

I went on YouTube and found a user upload of "Get Closer" from what appears to be either a very clean-sounding 1976 parent vinyl LP copy of the same title or perhaps even a CD release:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aSvzT7nuF4

As I listen to the song here, it seems to have the brighter, more airy sound quality that I would expect this recording to have. However, it's also interesting to notice how the hiss seems to suddenly diminish significantly at the :03 mark of the intro, as if someone suddenly pushed a button to switch on Dolby NR. (Remember those? :-) Still, "Get Closer" on this upload seems to "sparkle" overall more than on any CD copy I have. (Maybe even perhaps a tad overly bright. Of course, it's also possible that the YouTube user could have tinkered with the EQ and therefore this may not be a direct transfer from the original source.)

Incredibly, according to the Discogs website, the 1976 Get Closer parent album has only been issued on CD one time ever, and that was the 2007 U.S. release on Rhino's budget subsidiary label, Flashback (catalog #R2-290684). Perhaps someone in the message board community might have a copy who can comment on the sound quality?   If not, I might take a chance on trying to snag a copy online for under $15 and will report back with my findings.

Edited by Todd Ireland]]> Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:01:24 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=65811&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#65811 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=65808&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#65808 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 10172
Posted: 24 February 2025 at 2:24pm

I think it's a mixing choice. All the CDs I have with the song all lack any type of hiss on the intro.

I gave a detailed listen to the Rhino, Sessions, and Time-Life discs. The high end didn't disappear on the fade on any of them. (In other words, the EQ remained the same all the way down the very long fade. You can hear the hi-hat right until the music ends.) That tells me that there wasn't any noise reduction added during the mastering phase.

I don't have any CD copies that sound different on the intro. I suspect that it's just mixed that way.]]> Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:24:41 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10172&PID=65808&title=get-closer-seals-crofts#65808