Nat King Cole experts, tell me about "Every Time I Feel The Spirit" LP, 1959, amazing stereo sound!

Glad it showed up in one piece. I don't think the other thing I sent you is in good shape at all, and yet it was the best of three or four copies.

 

Drowning in it. One of the big reasons - aside from the music itself - that folks want you to remix that puppy.

 

it does

 

Bingo! That and the fact that Nat is so far back in the mix that he's almost secondary to the music.

 

I got a mono D3/D1 pressing of 'Every Time I Feel The Spirit' as part of a NKC LP lot on ebay. It sounds ok except for a couple of skips at the beginning of "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep". I may have played it just once when I got it. Listening again today, it just doesn't do much for me. If I wanted to turn someone on to NKC this would not be the album I chose.

 

Then you play them the version on Steve's The Nat King Cole Story and blow them away. At least we got that one song done right!

 

Did you check out the King Cole Teleportation™ show in Poinciana? Apparently operated by faders on the 3-track to stereo mixing console and ignored for all of its 3 subsequent remixes...

It'd be great to hear the Touch album with a richer, less coldly cavernous remix and feel some auditory spirit every time I play Every Time I Feel the Spirit.

 

Ahh, yes, that would do it!

 

So, has anyone fiddled around with their recording of "Every Time I Feel The Spirit"?

 

I've been redoing my needle drops now that I have a better cart/stylus/software and naturally I started with Nat King Cole. I'm midway down my list and I pull this album out (the stereo reissue LP). Out-of-phase stereo mix notwithstanding, I am impressed with the headroom of this recording. You can turn it way up (crankin' the gospel music!) and it sounds great. I can only imagine how good this must sound going back to the master tapes and correcting the phase issues. At least we have "Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep" from the APO The Nat King Cole Story.

 

Resurrecting this year old thread for a moment...

Might the engineer have been Bernie Clapper?

 

Here's an acetate from July 9, 1959. We have take #2 documented for this (don't know if that came from you or not, Steve), but this at least says take #10.



This one, also take #10, we have as take #9....

 

Released on an EP, but not a single.

 

I doubt that, though I've not heard the EP.

 

I have a Canadian mono LP of this, but I expect it's from US stampers:

http://www.discogs.com/Nat-King-Cole-Every-Time-I-Feel-The-Spirit/release/6258729

 

I was listening to The Nat King Cole Story SACD tonight and something struck me while listening to "Oh, Mary Don't You Weep". No matter how many times I play that song, I'm always dazzled by the presence and dynamics of this groovy church recording. But tonight, I heard something that made me wonder if Nat was wearing the same bracelet during this recording that he was playing with during the outtakes of "I Thought About Marie". I've heard it before, and always assumed that it was a tambourine in the choir or something in the rhythm section, but after repeated listens tonight, I realized that it's sometimes off beat throughout the song, and damned if it doesn't sound A LOT like Nat's bracelet! If so, he's really bouncing around and grooving during this recording and it makes me love the song (and him) even more. Every time Nat feels the spirit...he moves!

Thoughts, anybody? Paging all NKC experts!