Questions For Steve - New S&P Roy Orbison All Time Greatest Hits

Hi Steve,

Just a couple of questions about this release.

Did you use the LP masters or session masters (I am not sure what tapes are available) for this release? Are they the same tapes as the DCC release?

Does Acoustech have two tape machines for cutting hits LP's or do you and Kevin bring in an additional/different tape machines for these jobs?

Did you do anything diferent for this release vs. the DCC LP?

I can't wait for this one! I am a big Roy fan!

 

As always, thanks for the reply. Nice news about Oh, Pretty Woman!

You answered my main question, which I guess really was that the two track tapes recorded at the sessions were spliced together for the LP masters. I didn't phrase that correctly.

 

Wow Steve! I can wait for this new release with the original mix.
Hope I win the test pressing....

 

Any chance of this being on SACD?

 

Or even CD for that matter?

 

I would buy the CD in a heartbeat! Even, if only, to get the original 1963 mix of "Oh! Pretty Woman". I have always wondered why it sounded different than other Roy tracks...

Bob

 

Got it! Hmmm! Maybe a really cool S&P/SONY joint venture with you and Rob at the helm....I suppose I am dreaming?

Thanks Steve!

Bob

 

Hi Steve,

The infinitely helpful Nick Shaffran told me that the reason why the mono single of "Oh, Pretty Woman" has the line as "come TO me" is for radio. They knew that radio would never play the line "come WITH me" back then...

My how times have changed, huh?

 

Based on what Ive heard comparing the DCC CCR and Acoustech CCR Willie LPs, the new lathe/ cutting system kills the old one! Night and day IMHO (admittedely based one A/B sampling). I cannot wait to hear this!! I hope more DCC LP titles get redone! Pet Sounds, or Elvis perhaps...

 

For some weird reason that come to me line has stuck with me ever since hearing it on the radio in 1964. Even though I havn't heard it in years whenever I hear this song and try to sing along I say come to me instead of come with me.

 

But a hybrid SACD would be welcome.

 

So is an SACD a possibility? Now that would be interrrrrresting!

 

Thanks for finding this Rob and Nick!

Steve, this original 1963 stereo mix is the "live" 2-track mix made as the session was happening? Do you think you may have to add some bass "oomph" to it?

 

WWBPD???

 

Thanks Steve!

 

Two cents worth: Oh Pretty Woman does not appear on the Monument vinyl versions of Greatest Hits or More Greatest Hits, but it IS on three other Monument LP's: "Orbisongs" (1965), "The Very Best of Roy Orbison" (1966), and "Monumental Pop Hits (1968). All have the original stereo mix with the "with" lyric. This means the mono 45, which came out in late summer of 1964, already had the substituted "to" lyric.

In the early 70's, CBS Records distributed, and later purchased, the Monument catalog and apparently remixed or remastered the 1965 mix. That newer version is found on all three Monument/CBS issues and reissues of "The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roby Orbison," which first appeared in 1972. It's too bright and tinny, and that's almost certainly the master used for all later cd releases.

Steve's right, as usual, you'll love the original 1965 mix!

GM

 

Thanks Gary! - very insightful. I would have to believe the original mix is more open, imaged and dynamic than the re-mix?

Bob

 

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