Sinatra / Capitol Sound Quality and General Discussion: In the Wee Small Hours (1955)*

Are you/we sure? Here's @bferr1 's D1/D1 promo copy, and there's no 3/4 circle:


My N3/N4 stock copies are both circle-free. Might it be dependent on which manufacturing plant a pressing came from?

 

@bozburn -

Can you confirm that this is the correct label style on your D2? (This matches my N3.)

 

FWIW, here's a photo (overly-lightened intentionally by me) from discogs.com showing what appears to be a D13 pressing (it's definitely two digits after the D, and the first digit is clearly a 1. Can't 100% make out what the second digit is.).
(In the lower right corner, you can just make out the "581-D13" or D11 or whatever that two-digit number is.)

 

By N20/N12, the album was sporting this label:

 

D15/D16:

EDIT: Used on a D12 cut on Ebay, as well.

 

Anybody have an actual D1/D1 stock copy?

 

Just for yuks, here's a super-handsome Japanese copy:

Interesting that they chose to put the Capitol logo and "HIGH FIDELITY" badge in the same corner.

 

This has been discussed here before, but if you are into collecting original copies because of the sound characteristics, there are some excellent circa 1960/61 pressings that still had all 16 tracks with NO ADDED REVERB on the rainbow label:

Don't be fooled into thinking "gray sounds better." It's not necessarily true.

 

Thanks, Britt. I've updated the artwork to accompany your N4 clip, but now look at where that leaves us:

...and I know that the artwork at left, for my own copy, is correct. To dig a bit further: The N4 on the left (my copy) is an N12/N4. If yours has a lower side one that N12, then logic would say your pressing is earlier than mine, no? Still curious about your D2 pressing, as well.

The N3 copy shown (from my collection):

....is an N15/N3.

@stevelucille and @Arkoffs -- would you mind confirming the photos on this page, as well, please? Thanks.

 

I think this is correct, yes, and, of course, the other clue that you'll have wet tapes is if it's only a 12-song edition, as four songs were trimmed off when the reverb was added, IIRC.

 

Some dude going by @stevelucille sold this one on Ebay in 2009:

It's a D1/D5.

A D2/D1 sold at Shugarecords:


I updated my post on the previous page to point out the error. My apologies, and thanks Martin for keeping things on the straight and narrow.