Hard To Find 45s On CD, Vol. 17

Hard To Find 45s On CD, Vol. 17: Late Sixties Classics

This volume covers 1965-1970. Total of 21 tracks with plenty of new stereo. Street date for this release is Feb. 17th, 2017 but you can order direct at www.ericrecords.com for early delivery. You can also hear sound samples at the Eric Records site.

1. Incense And Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock [Stereo Debut, DES] 1967
2. Psychotic Reaction - The Count Five [Stereo Debut, DES] 1966
3. You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators [Stereo Debut, DES] 1966
4. Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group [Stereo Debut] 1967
5. The House Of The Rising Sun - Frijid Pink [Stereo 45 Debut] 1970
6. A Groovy Kind Of Love - The Mindbenders [Stereo Debut] 1965
7. Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band [Stereo Debut, DES] 1966
8. Lil' Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs [Stereo Debut, DES] 1966
9. Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection [Mono 45 Debut] 1970
10. I Live For The Sun - The Sunrays 1965
11. The Pied Piper - Crispian St. Peters (Mono) 1966
12. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) - Manfred Mann [Stereo Debut] 1968
13. You Were On My Mind - We Five [Stereo 45 Debut] 1965
14. Elusive Butterfly - Bob Lind 1966
15. Indiana Wants Me - R. Dean Taylor [Stereo 45 Debut] 1970
16. One Tin Soldier - The Original Caste (Rare On CD) 1970
17. Color Him Father - The Winstons [Stereo Long 45 Debut] 1969
18. Reflections Of My Life - The Marmalade 1970
19. Here It Comes Again - The Fortunes [Mono 45 Debut] 1965
20. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield 1966
21. MacArthur Park - Richard Harris 1968

Note: Digitally Extracted Stereo (DES) is a technological advance that uses the original mono recording to produce an authentic stereo listening experience.

Edited by Santi Paradoa

Edison - I'll email you about "Digitally Extracted
Stereo" and how it's done. It's bit lengthy for this
forum but short answer is it's done by something called
"spectral editing" and it takes many many hours to do one
song. There are only a few people we know of that know
how to do this effectively. I've tried it and it's too
difficult for me. Most of the DES on our CD's are created
by German engineer Eckhard Büttner (pronouced "Bittner").

Re: the rest of the stereo debuts, we often mean "debut
to CD", but in this case they are debut in any format.
They were mixed from multi-tracks. In two cases we also
had to synchronize into the multi-track some element that
was only recorded direct to the mono single.

And on another topic ... "Color Him Father" is the CD
debut of the first-pressing longer Metromedia 45 version
that runs (3:14). It is stereo and the mix was unique to
this 45. Special thanks to Jim Abbott and John Pratt for
their research and assistance with that one, as well as a
few other tracks.

Lastly, I must say this part. If you like new stereo,
great. If you like those 2 mono single debuts (from
master tapes!) .. great. But folks, if you're even the
slightest fan of "Mac Arthur Park" - you must own
this CD. This is the CD DEBUT of the *original* master
tape, from deep within Iron Mountain. This tape hasn't
been touched since 1973. All CD issues until now,
including imports, are from higher generation tapes that
suffered some damage, and sadly in all cases were laden
with noise reduction. Only owners of original Dunhill LP
pressings know how well this song was recorded. You
should hear every note crystal clear from the famous
Wrecking Crew. Every guitar strum, every sparkly bit of
percussion and every horn note...all open and
dynamic with the lush and full EQ as it was heard
in 1968. And you'll hear some gentle tape hiss too, just
the way it was meant to be - NO NR. Remember the horror
of those early Simon & Garfunkel CD's? Then how great it
was when we finally got to hear the REAL master tapes?
This is that.

Mark M
    



Edited by MMathews

Nice! I just placed my order.

Hykker wrote: And the question on everyone's mind...which version of "Indiana Wants Me" finally make the cut?

I've been informed that it will be the shorter "hit" single version running (3:03) minus the siren (this new wide stereo mix comes courtesy of the multi-track). Just a reminder, you can listen to the sample of this track plus the other twenty on the Eric Records site.

Edited by Santi Paradoa

Hykker, The Winstons is the mix with the vocals centered and almost no reverb on his vocal. That weird "wide" mix was the 2nd pressing and sadly more common 45.

On that second single they bathed his vocal in reverb, moved him to the right channel(??) and made the mix out of phase as well. I'll bet it it sounded horrid on the radio if any DJ's played that pressing.
We wanted the *original* single because several folks who remembered hearing it on the radio told us they remembered it well and the first mix was what they heard - not the "reverby" one.
MM