Righteous Brothers (You're My)Soul and Inspiration
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Topic: Righteous Brothers (You're My)Soul and Inspiration
Posted By: martinb
Subject: Righteous Brothers (You're My)Soul and Inspiration
Date Posted: 31 March 2026 at 2:17pm
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Hi, I'm new here! I'm interested in The Righteous Brothers' (You're My) Soul And Inspiration in mono and see from the database that it has appeared in that form on one CD, though it runs longer than the single. Does anyone here have this CD and know if it's a) the single version b) the mono album version or c) a possible fold-down of the stereo version? It runs 3:05 according to the database (like the stereo version), whereas the single ran 3:00. The CD it appears on is called 'Motown, Soul & Rock 'n' Roll Volume 1.' It is available on eBay but I'd only be buying it for that one song (I think I have everything else already). Thank you. Martin
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Posted By: Kevincafe1966
Date Posted: 31 March 2026 at 10:29pm
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Martin, hello and welcome to the forum. I have the disc you're taking about. The actual run time for this track is just under 3:03 and I believe it is the mono single, though I could be wrong about that. For what it's worth, many of the tracks in that series sound much better to me than any other masterings I've come across. |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 31 March 2026 at 11:38pm
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That whole CD, TJL's "Motown, Soul, & Rock and Roll," which is mostly mono, is unfortunately lossy. It's all upconverted from MP3s -- I ran it through Cool Edit Pro's spectral view. I think only one track on the set is lossless, but I forgot now which it is. This is also true of Volume 2 in this set. Volume 3, the Motown stuff, is mostly lossless. This has been an issue with CDs licensed from Universal for other labels. The entire two-fer series from Ray Stevens on the Oldies label is entirely lossy, all four two-fer discs that they did. I've run across another two-fer from the Oldies label that is also lossy, but I forgot what it was. And this was true of the old Robert Palmer box set in England 15 or 20 years ago... the whole thing was lossy. Again, licensed from Universal. Fortunately, that one got a re-release a few years ago and it was done right this time. Someone at Universal mastering is doing something wrong. Either they don't know the difference between lossy and lossless or they are doing something in error to cause this on the tapes they provide to independent labels. |
Posted By: martinb
Date Posted: 01 April 2026 at 5:42pm
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Thank you both for your replies, you've been very helpful. I decided to purchase the disc - actually discs because it was a set of Motown, Soul & Rock 'n' Roll Volumes 1 & 2 as well as Soul & Rock 'n' Roll - after looking the tracks up on the database here and finding that there are a few that only appear on those CDs in their original mono single versions (including 1-2-3 by Len Barry, You'll Never Walk Alone by Patti LaBelle & The Blue Belles, and It's My Party by Lesley Gore). I'm happy that it appears that this is the correct version of Soul And Inspiration as it famously is unavailable on any other CD; however, it's disappointing to learn that they used lossy sources for most of the tracks. I don't understand major labels, who have access to masters, doing this. It's bad enough when PD labels do it, though more understandable perhaps, but Universal?
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