Dot recycles its hits again. A few in stereo.
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old record nut 21st Jan 2020
| | So to reply to your question edlongus, I think it could be a a remake but i'm not sure what they did here because Dot may have bought the recording when they signed Dodie.. The hit 45 was not a Dot record. It was on Crystalette records #724. I don't have an original mono version.The Stereo version is also on another CD I have (Chills & Fever The Dot Story, One Day 3CD050 ,British) The song runs 2:21 on that CD & the 45 label pictured on 45cat has 2:20 as the time.Another member on 45 cat posted the track from the Brussels CD It has a Black and white photo on the cover you can check it out.It is very common for an artist to remake their hits when they change labels.Dot was selling stereo albums in late '58. |
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edlongus SUBS 20th Jan 2020
| | So old record nut, now I have another question: That "Dodie Stevens Ultimate Collection" CD - is the true stereo "Pink Shoelaces" the original Dot Records hit version on a remake?!? When Dot got into Stereo, they sometimes re-recorded hit songs into new Stereophonic versions. Early Pat Boone hits comes 2 my mind. One odd (off-subject) Dot hit available in true Stereo but hard 2 find is Lonnie Donegan's "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor (On The Bedpost Overnight)", which I downloaded via .mp3 from Napster in the early 2000s. It's the exact hit version, not a re-recording... |
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old record nut 19th Jan 2020
| | In my opinion the Stevens track on this album is reprocessed into stereo. A radio station in Boston (WROR) was playing oldies in the 70s (from the 50s) and it was automated meaning the station had tape machines mixing and airing music. The station was Stereo-FM and the tape suppler made the music sound stereo even if it wasn't and you could tell it wasn't as good.The CD Dodie Stevens Ultimate Collection (Marginal Records CDMAR 051, Brussels) has the true stereo version on it and I used that for comparison. |
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edlongus SUBS 19th Jan 2020
| | I hope the version of Dodie Stevens' "Pink Shoelaces" is the original Mono version?!? Many years ago (when there was an oldies station in the Washington DC area that actually played oldies from the 1950s - 1960s), they used 2 play a much later Stereo remake that just wasn't as good as the original... |
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old record nut 18th Jan 2020
| | ... and it's good they did because if you missed the 45 it wasn't easy to get the old songs before the great CD reissue of anything you could want. Now if you want an artist in your collection it only takes a few clicks at C. C. Music . com or Oldies . com or whatever. |
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