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Member	Item		Review/Comment
George Slv 8th May 2015		DVD Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow - Paramount	The actors were appearing in front of computer-generated backgrounds in this film. Something taken farther by Sin City.
George Slv 8th May 2015		Cinema Mob Story (1989)	The producers were two Jewish brothers of Winnipeg, who took advantage of federal government grants to aid Canadian content production. A New York film crew was used, and filmed around Winnipeg. It's not top class, but of historical interest.
George Slv 8th May 2015		Magazine TV Week (Chicago Tribune)	Significant for those who know this movie. Filmed in 1982, not shown on network til 1985, this shows how it was shown on local stations before that. It was to have been Candice Bergen's US network TV debut, but was put off too long for that. A shortened video was titled Merlin and the Sword.
George Slv 8th May 2015		Vinyl Album The Knightsbridge Strings - Big Beat	An interesting observation about how the beat influenced pop music, in this Youtube video that starts with Fats Domino's The Big Beat, which I assume is the song in this album. [YouTube Video]
George Slv 29th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Everly Brothers - 15 Everly Hits	But is it from digital masters???
George Slv 18th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is?	What's the difference between the linked releases? Catalog no. written differently. Should be merged and second cat no added on same page? Moderator?
George Slv 18th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Jackie De Shannon - Trouble With Jackie Dee	A8 is really Back Talk. B7 means Did He Call. Anyway these are collector tracks from before 1963 or so.
George Slv 15th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus - Ukrainian Bandurist's Chorus #1	By The Rustling Grove is the first of 3 songs. [YouTube Video]
George Slv 14th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Ivan Romanoff - Ukrainian Rhapsody	Hear archive audio of My Bandura. A lament about lost love. Bandura is the Ukrainian stringed instrument. Soloist Oskar Raulfs, an ethnic Swede.
George Slv 12th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Ivan Romanoff - To Life, To Love, To Music	Raphael Nunez sings La Llama live on a 1978 Ivan Romanoff TV special. Video from Sergei Romanoff, son of Ivan Romanoff. [YouTube Video]
George Slv 12th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Ivan Romanoff - To Life, To Love, To Music	Oh Gypsy Dance with Me - Angela Antonelli - Ivan Romanoff Male Chorus & Orchestra [YouTube Video]
George Slv 12th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Ivan Romanoff - Ballads Of The Cossack	Cossacks were found both in Ukraine and southern Russia, sharing similar cossack dances. This album pertains to the Russian. The Red Army Chorus included cossack songs and dances. The Ukrainian spelling would be KOZAK, more phonetically correct.
George Slv 11th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Ukrainian Sweethearts - A Dream	Hear Helen on Youtube, 2nd of 3 songs posted by GSilverWorld.
George Slv 4th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Steve And Eydie - This Is Steve & Eydie	The first and last songs on each side are duets. Which solos are by which can be researched and corrected.
George Slv 28th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Al Caiola - Golden Hit Instrumentals	Complete album on Youtube from mr armandomusical [YouTube Video]
George Slv 25th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Teresa Brewer - Portrait	For a year or two Bob Thiele and Teresa were using the RCA label, and they brought over their rights to previous recordings with them. On RCA they rerecorded about ten of her Coral hits, plus reissued other 1970s material. By the way her RCA recording of Music Music Music is my favorite. It's not on this comp, this is her 1973 rock version. And the spelling of Theresa is German, so it's not an error.
George Slv 22nd Mar 2015		CD Album Duke Ellington - The Essential Duke Ellington	I notice that this same set was reissued in later years too. Sony here had the rights to his RCA recordings as well as Columbia.
George Slv 22nd Mar 2015		CD Album Duke Ellington - The Essential Duke Ellington	Amazon.com review (June 8, 2010) "I own the original 78s and if people could hear what these records are supposed to sound like, they would angry with remasters like this. ... More odd remastering tricks that died in 1962. What is wrong with these people?!! This music is supposed to be monaural, bright and punchy with deep bass. Yes, there is surface noise. However, if re-mastered properly, there is also great music. This is over filtered and processed, and it sounds like rubbish. As Louis Jordan said, "BEWARE". "
George Slv 22nd Mar 2015		CD Album Duke Ellington - The Essential Duke Ellington	Review Amazon.com review (July 30, 2006) Fantastic compilation...pretty good (not great) sound. ... In late 2004, Sony acquired distribution of the BMG catalog. Which means Sony controls nearly all of Ellington's output. As far as I know, this is the only CD collection out there of this post-merger thing that CAN condense nearly his whole career into a comprehensive set (without buying one of those dubious sounding bootlegs out there, imported from other countries...RUN from the Proper UK box set). Ok, now on to the SOUND of the music. When compiling and remastering music from the pre-tape era (everything up until the late '40's), engineers need to combat surface noise (distortion, clicks, pops, hiss). Generally, the older the recording, the more surface noise on the original master. The worse the surface noise, the more distracting it is while listening to the music. However, as you remove surface noise, you also lose a little bit of the clarity and "airiness" to the music. So, engineers have to walk a fine line between making the music sound tolerable by removing noise, but not take off too much, so as to lose the punch & clarity to the music. In the early CD era, they failed miserably. In the last 5 or 6 years, nearly all results have been good, but some better than others. So, on to this collection. The tracks on this collection certainly have less surface noise than any other Ellington collection i've heard. And although they've done a pretty good job maintaining much of the musical integrity, i believe the sound has been a little over-reduced. A little too much of the clarity is lost. If you weren't comparing it (which I was doing) to other semi-recent collections, you may not notice the difference. So, yes, there is very little noise, but the music sounds a tad too rounded, and not as vibrant. Also, this set has deepened the bass some, but it seems a little unnatural, and takes away from a tad of the clarity of the bottom end of the music. Maybe some of the difference in sound from different compilations also comes from this: In the liner notes to this collection, it says that songs have been remastered from 78's from private collections. Nowhere does it mention "original masters/parts" or anything like that. However, on a couple box sets that came out around 2000 from BMG & Columbia, it is indicated that THOSE were remastered from original metal & glass parts & some early safety tests. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 21st Mar 2015		CD Album Duke Ellington - The Essential Duke Ellington	With Sony now owning the RCA catalog they can provide all of Duke's hits in one release. These were "remastered" [phoney term] from 78s. (digitally copied and then processed for noise). Previously Columbia and RCA had issued sets of their own which they digitally mastered from original hard masters (whatever the right terms are). Columbia had The Duke: The Essential Recordings (1927-1962), RCA had The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition.
George Slv 20th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Teresa Brewer - The Best Of Teresa Brewer	This RCA recording was also her fourth of Bo Weevil, this being the least of them. Hear all four at http://teresafans.org/m.html.
George Slv 19th Mar 2015		CD Album Nancy Sinatra - The Essential Nancy Sinatra	That's the name I found at Discogs. It's a combination of entities, mergers etc. Someone should change it if it's wrong, submit correction.
George Slv 19th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Nancy Sinatra - Nancy Sinatra's Greatest Hits	A cover you could only use in Europe.
George Slv 19th Mar 2015		CD Album Nancy Sinatra - The Essential Nancy Sinatra	The booklet contained a few of her personal photos, otherwise unavailable. The CD has become scarce.
George Slv 19th Mar 2015		CD Album Nancy Sinatra - The Hit Years	This would parallel to the LP "Boots: Nancy Sinatra's All-Time Hits". So I just got to know if the LP was made from this same digital master. I'm giving up hope of them using analog masters for analog releases.
George Slv 15th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Pat Boone - Moody River	Moody River was completely omitted on his Greatest Hits albums. I had to buy this LP, which was really miserable in its interpretations of other singers' hits like I've Told Every Little Star by Linda Scott.
George Slv 15th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Pat Boone - Pat Boone's Golden Hits	This was a third volume of his hits, quite scarce. Lost in the series was Moody River completely, another mystery for the ages.
George Slv 15th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album The Beach Boys - Surfer Girl	TheDroid: The site accepts more than one number for one page. I thing it's far better than separate pages.
George Slv 12th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Danyel Gerard - Danyel Gerard	This Butterfly single did chart in US at #78.
George Slv 12th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - In The Summer Of His Years	A tribute to President John F. Kennedy after his assassination. A scarce and neglected album and song because it does not suit the agenda of the "powers that be".

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