Sinatra / Capitol 180g LPs: Wee Small Hours, Come Fly with Me, Come Dance with Me*

I wonder if the new Stereo 'Come Dance' is going to be from an echoey mono source tape as well?

 

Amazing - they went to the trouble to do all that great artwork/label reproduction, and they matched it to the wrong version(s).

 

Agree. It promotes NICE 'N' EASY on the back. The side with the two U47's is similar to an older variant.

 

Are you sure it's not "BN"?

 

well something has to be wrong, its a Sinatra re-issue...

 

Ok, so Come Fly With Me is in mono, correct?

That saves me the trouble, since i have the EMI 100 version already.

I'm still thinking about getting the 180g 'In the wee small hours', although at this point I'm confused as to whether it's supposed to be good or not. I also went ahead and ordered the Walsh cd from Amazon UK, it has to sound better than my lousy noisy LP pressing.

This thread is costing me some money, but at least I know now to avoid the Norberg CDs...

 

+1 on this. How many people here have now heard the 180g Small Hours? How would they rate it against the average gray label that one is likely to see for sale at a reasonable price (i.e., a "well-loved" copy). From the clip posted a few pages back, it sounds to me like there's some reverb on there, but it's definitely better than the 1998 CD. It'd be helpful if someone who's heard more than 30 second clips of both the Walsh CD and the new 180g release could tell us how the two compare, as it's hard for me to tell what would be worse—an album's worth of stereo reverb murk, or an album's worth of unnecessary mono reverb.

PS I like that tweaked clip of the new LP, MLutthans. Probably better that the Capitol folks didn't try to do any such mastering, though, given their track record…

 

Can't Capitol do ANYTHING right with its FAS catalog?

 

Not many it seems. Or they're staying mum.

Miles better.

I posted some pithy commets a few pages back. But since no one else has weighed in, I'd take the new LP over the Walsh. It's real mono, with what appears to be the ca.1961 reverb job, which, like it or not, sounds more natural.
And the biggest plus is the greater sense of depth, with stuff that jumps out at you. On the Walsh CD everything stays locked behind this sort of gauzy 'digital curtain' if you will.

 

Should be.

 

Has anyone gotten the 2009 COME DANCE, and if so, is it stereo or mono?

 

someone must know the answer to this question...

 

Sheesh does anyone have any idea what you guys are talking about anymore?

This thread is just a muddled mess.

 

Just like Frank Sinatra's Capitol catalog.

 

The thread has meandered and lost direction from the original discussion of the Capitol "From the Vault" vinyl re-issues of "In The Wee Small Hours", "Come Fly With Me" and "Come Dance With me". It's evolved into a discussion about any re-issue of Sintra's Capitol label material.

At one point someone asked how many people who had posted actually had heard the re-issued record being discussed. I went back and read the entire thread and counted two whom definitively had and one other person who might have. There's little informed opinion or confirmed information about the Capitol re-issued vinyl.

 

I've been trying to follow along as well but it's pretty damn near impossible.

I just keep waiting for a simple 'not bad' or 'it sucks stay away' or anything! Geesh.

Heck, it's only $20...I should just buy 'Come Fly With Me' and hear it for myself. If it sucks then I can still spin it as background music during gatherings or whatever.

I've grown really tired of the obsessive compulsive nature of this stuff.

dan c

 

Exactly my experience. These titles arrived at a local store last week, which was having a sale this weekend. I looked to this thread for some information, but unfortunately other than a post that loved the Capitol re-issue of 'Wee Small Hours' (later moderated to a "like it very much") and a second rating of B+ by someone else, there's not much else on topic.

 

you can hear 30 seconds of Come Fly With me from the new vinyl issue here

http://web.mac.com/mlutthans/iWeb/Site 37/1958 - Come3.html

realize, it's actually the mono master though.

 

we've had the ability to hear samples from two of the new vinyl reissues and many members have shared all sorts of samples that Matt has compiled for all of us to decide what version is best for each ear.

what more does anyone need but their own ears and the samples from these new vinyls to decide if they are worthwhile.

Curious why people need a list of other people's comments if they are worthy. We've got samples, use your ears...samples are available in this thread....