Nice. How does the sound compare to the better Columbia CD sets? Would be interesting to know what you think on this.
I do recall that. I'm wondering how this LP sounds compared to the Voice in Time and Best of Columbia Years CD sets.
I actually wish that was not the case. I would prefer even a transfer from a clean original pressing, just for this edition. Make it a purist reproduction, as close to the sound of the first LP as possible, but with better materials (vinyl)
Yeah, though I like this release very much, I don't think I will play it very often. Somehow the magic and the warm rich sound of the original pressing isn't there.
Finally got mine today. Such a wonderful release that sounds great too. Mine is #118. The booklet is great too.
Goes to show that the limited edition numbers have no relation to date of order/shipment. Mine came last month with #471.
If the number matches the security code on your credit card, I suggest returning it. You don't need that trouble.
Chuck Granata posted today at the SFF that only 100 copies remain of the 1,000 pressed by Vinyl Me, Please: THE VOICE OF FRANK SINATRA (Columbia) 1946 - Page 7
Just shows they could easily and very quickly sell 1,000 copies (and very many more) of a Complete Columbia Sinatra CD box set. Many specialty boxsets these days start off with an initial pressing of about 1,000 copies, even when they plan 5,000 copies. I don't think the Complete Columbia Sinatra box should be a limited edition. But if they can do a very large Johnny Mathis box, they can do a Sinatra box
I came across this thread yesterday and then dug my original out to listen to it last night. I notice that I bought it at Recycled Records in San Francisco for $30--that would have been somewhere between 1998 and 2005. So I saved $3 by getting the original! By the way, my is not the "vinylite" version with the flap that closes. Does that mean it is a later printing?
They say the vinylite was the first one, but I really don't know, because both were released in 1948! The first re-release came in 1950 and had the green cover.
Thanks--mine is pink so at least it from the initial release year, I suppose. (The folding of the paper cover, BTW, reminds me of the Parlophone Beatles releases--I'm not sure I have other albums in my collection folded like that.)
I bought a copy of the big blue box at eBay this week. All 12 discs are still sealed and this appears to be the wooden box version. Only the J card photo is missing. Looking forward to getting more familiar with Frank's Columbia years as I only have a few of the LPs. I'm hoping there is no overdubbed instrumentation or fake stereo reverb on this box set. Assuming not if original lacquers and metal parts were used. Reading about this set, I appreciate the producer's use of alternates (when necessary) instead of 78 transfers to maintain commercial quality. Alternates only bother me when they are used unknowingly, or without good reason.
Before this set came out, you had to be a very serious collector of 78s to fully appreciate Sinatra on Columbia. Big Blue was a godsend, and made it all so easy to hear (but now it still lingers without an honorable reissue in print)
