Commercial CD/digital sourced from vinyl

First, let me de-limit my query by excluding pre-magnetic-tape-era acetate discs (78s, etc). A lot of these -- esp. classical -- have been "CD'd".

Specifically, I'm curious about commercial (official) CD or digital releases that were sourced from vinyl, roughly 1960s-1980s. Anyone know of examples of such releases?

As I noted in another thread, I have a Buddy Rich CD (Rich and Famous; Tko Magnum Meteor, 1996) that was sourced from vinyl. And the mastering is superb.

Perhaps Tidal, HDTracks, or other streaming services are using vinyl sources.

 

Vinyl is a format not a sound.
How would we know 100% that zero EQ'ing or adjustment was not done for compact disc?
Sure I have many compact discs that sound identical to their LP counterparts where both were released simultaneously.
Is this what you mean?
CDs "remastered" from vinyl

 

Sparks - Introducing Sparks

"Please note that the CD is remastered from a vinyl LP and not the original studio master tapes."

 

So a 'needledrop' ?

 

Yep, that's what the Discogs quote suggests!

 

Nice!

 

A major (or minor) label might resort to a vinyl copy (for producing digital file, for CD or streaming) if, e.g., the master tapes were lost/damaged (fire, flood, etc.).
In another thread, I noted Fortune--Fortune (1985, MCA) remastered for CD in 2004 by small label (Gypsy Rock) sounds as if most tracks were vinyl-sourced.

 

There are a lot of them. Just a couple of examples - I just got through listening to The Hollies' Head Out of Dreams collection and the song Let Her Go Down was sourced from a fairly noisy New Zealand 45 b-side.
String Driven Thing's Keep Your 'And on It and Please Mind Your Head full albums were also unannounced needledrops. I made my own CDRs of these two from my flawless still-sealed vinyl and they sound 100% better.
Some artists are upfront about it and let you know that certain songs are cleaned-up needledrops when the only surviving sources are vinyl, acetates or even old cassette tapes. The Pretty Things and The Move are both very honest about it, and the songs involved are very welcome additions to their discographies.

 

My memory of the Buddy Rich album noted in OP was a bit vague so I found my flac playlist and gave it a listen. I found it to be not as good as I (mis-)remembered !! The LP source is quite worn and apart from numerous scratches/pops, there is that awful "fuzzy" distortion (like an amplifier clipping) easily heard during loud passages (e.g., trumpet blasts).

 

Most of mine are PD discs, pirates or simply releases of stuff that no longer has a surviving master tape. And when I say pirates, I generally mean stuff that was OOP for decades and would also fall under the "lost tape" category.

For instance, I know the masters for Jake Holmes' two albums on Tower are lost and that the CD's he sells on his web cite are needledrops. I haven't heard them, since I invested in the original records.

 

Mickey Newbury's entire catalog was only available on vinyl--sourced CDs. As far as I remember the master tapes were said to have been accidentally destroyed in a fire.

 

Convulse - World Without God was sourced from the original LP for the Relapse Records and Svart Records releases. The latter is a major improvement over Relapse as it was tastefully tweaked properly. The master tape is still missing, unfortunately. Though the included demo tracks from Svart is taken from the original analogue reel and sounds absolutely killer.

Sepultura's Bestial Devastation was taken from the a poorly pressed second pressing split with Overdose and was also EQ'd to death for all subsequent releases through Roadrunner Records on both CD and LP, resulted in not sounding very good. From what I read, the master tape was completely erased and gone for good by Cogumelo Records. Best to either get the original split pressing with Overdose or the newly minted 2017 LP press from Mutilation Records, which uses a clean original pressing as its master.

Sepultura's Schizophrenia and Morbid Visions through Germany's Shark Records was sourced from an LP for its CD releases, I believe.

 

Lewis Baloue first album L'Amour (1983) on Light in the Attic.

The master is long lost, the album was rediscovered circa 2014 by a vinyl collector thanks to a vinyl record in a flea market.

 

No wonder the master tabes are missing. Probably someone at the tape storage facility saw the labels on the boxes and thought this is some sort of weird porn and recycled them. He wasn't far wrong, IMO )))

 

For the 1997 reissue of Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy, some of it was mastered from an original vinyl copy, because the master tapes were long gone. Some of it came from tapes George Avakian had assembled for an EP release.

 

Wasn't one of the quadraphonic mixes from Rick Wakeman a few years back sourced from SQ vinyl?

 

Yes, although the label denied it.
Also the Quad mix of Black Sabbath's Paranoid. It was a pretty bad transfer and decoding.

 

Anybody out there have the 'remastered' CD released by Imperial Records in 09? Was it truly remastered or the same needledrop as the first CD issue?

 

Would like to know this as well. I see it is "remastered by Bill Inglot" but maybe that's an erroneous credit?

 

I listen to a lot of obscure music online which is ripped from vinyl. Not a commercial product though.

 

I believe a few tracks on the CD that came with the Fire Records collection of recordings by the band The Moles are taken from long out of print 45s. Complete with heart-warming crackle.

 

Supposedly the Trapeze Threshold CD issues from the mid 90's was sourced from vinyl. Sounds good though!