Sinatra / Capitol Sound Quality and General Discussion: Come Fly with Me (recorded 1957)*

The other three albums are:

Come Dance With Me
9 O'Clock Label W1 - 1069 - D5 #2
W2 - 1069 - D9 #2

Point of No Return
12 O' Clock Label W1 - 1676 - D4
W2 - 1676 - D1 #2

This Is Sinatra!
Gold Starline Label T1 - 768 N36
T2 - 768 N35

Like I said all are from the Scranton plant with the old style logo in the deadwax as seen
in my picture earlier.

 

Great info, thank you Steve. Interesting that they noted the distortion on there.

Re not releasing this in stereo until 1961, I've wondered if they decided to finally do it because Frank was leaving Capitol and wanted to milk all they had, distortion or not. Why not have stereo "spread its wings" (as it said on the back cover) on this album?

 

Nice score! The matrix info is super close to my two copies:
(yellow label promo)
W1 - 920 N2
W2 - 920 D4#3

(gray label)
W1 - 920 N2
W2 - 920 D3

Weird that it's that way on all three! Anyone have LA ("D" cut) side 1 gray label?

 

Thanks so much for this 'distortion' list, it matches my findings on listening so at least I now know that I don't need to buy every version to find something without distortion as it's on every release except the mono.

On a technical note the distortion sounds like a mic pre-amp to my ears and not a U47, I'm a recording engineer and very familiar with the U47 and that is not the kind of distortion I've heard from that mic and to my ears it sounds like amplifier type distortion.

 

Duly noted at the Sinatra Family Forum, Steve:

Early Capitol Recording Dates - Addendum: COME FLY WITH ME Album Sessions​

 

It was close (71 weeks on Billboard album chart), but ONLY THE LONELY and COME DANCE WITH ME were probably more popular (120 and 140 weeks, respectively). It's amazing to consider that all three albums and several others by Sinatra were all on the charts nearly simultaneously in 1959.

 

I have to agree with Steve in the sense that "Come Fly With Me" was almost always available on vinyl. It was constantly re-issued while the other Capitol LPs drifted in and out of print and sometimes were out of print for decades.

 

Yes. I have a D6/D5 gray and an early 9 o'clock rainbow which is a D2 #2/D14.

Jayson

 

I've just managed to buy the British 'Capitol Years' box set and the first disc I played was 'Come Fly With Me' not only did the sound immediately blow me away but the distortion didn't appear to be there or if it was it had been worked on at Abbey Road, now a thought had occurred to me that this British mastering was from duplicate copies of the original Capitol masters which were reduced from three track in the 50's through tube technology which may have disguised the distortion in some way and when the new remasters were made from the three tracks through digital technology the problem is more apparent. I have heard many nice things about the British box set on this forum which is why I went looking for a set and I can't believe how great these CD's sound ......rich open sound, plenty of depth and presence without being harsh and no noise reduction making the sound muddy, I recommend this set highly and certainly the best I have ever heard these Capitol masters.

 

Good for you, mikrt17!. The 21 cd EMI set is a great one-stop-shoping option for purchasing good sound quality Capitol Sinatra. The other is the MFSL LP set, but the EMI set has more titles.

Enjoy!

 

Thanks rangerjohn, yes it's superb.

 

Check out Matt's Capitol "scorecard" to see which titles from the set it might be worthwhile upgrading on elsewhere:

http://web.me.com/mlutthans/Site_55/Capitol_Scorecard.html

 

Thanks for the link to the Capitol score card rangerjohn, very interesting I shall be using this as my guide.

 

I picked up a Scranton "D13" gray label of "Come Fly With Me" today for $10 that is a beauty! Listening to it now and have yet to hear any surface noise.
And for a 13 the sound is balanced and warm and rich.

 

As far as I can tell, the least treacherous option on cd it the Walsh. Is this the cat. no. CDP 7 48469 2?

 

Yes, that's it. Get it, if you haven't.

 

Thank you, I did get it and just listened to it. The first thing that grabbed my attention was the vocal on the title track ... it seems different to me but I can't explain why on one listen. There were a couple of other tracks I felt the same about but again, I don't know exactly why. On a couple of occasions I thought it was a different vocal take to what I remembered.

But I'm being extremely picky! Overall it's a great sounding album and my absolute favourite track is "April In Paris".