Creedence on vinyl

@tylermunns: Good news! Analogue Productions has reissued the debut Buddy Holly LP, and it is spectacular! Considerably better than the version issued by MCA Records in 1988. AP has issued the Crickets LP as well, and it is not far behind.

As for the From The Original Master Tapes LP on MCA, if you go to the credits on the back of the cover (near the bottom), you’ll find this statement: "Digitally transferred from the original stereo and mono master tapes." That LP was issued in 1985, when digital was still in it’s infancy. I own it for the music, not the sound.

And if you like 50's Rock 'n' Roll in general, The Everly Brothers were also recorded well. I have originals (on Barnaby and Warner Brothers), and reissues done by both Rhino Records and Ace records (a great U.K. label), and they all sound great. Fantastic music too, of course. No Everly Brothers = no Beatles. ;-)

I have AP early pressing with Steve Hoffman/Kevin Gray etched in the dead wax. I compared that to a record show find original years ago and preferred the original. That Was, several years ago. Many nice improvements since. 

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@bdp24 Oh my gosh, do Everly Brothers recordings sound amazing!

With fear of sounding cliched and “grumpy-old-man,” so many recordings of that time period sound absolutely gorgeous.

I have a mono Warner Brothers vinyl Golden Hits of the Everly Brothers LP that is such a treat.  Man alive, what vocal abilities, what wonderful songs, what wonderful recordings!

Ace Records is a wonderful thing.

When I went through a heavily diligent period of excavating as many “songwriter/scribe-only,” ‘60s songs by Carole King (Goffin/King) and Randy Newman as I could find, Ace Records CD compilations were as good a source as any.

They made several voluminous compilations for both Carole and Randy of their early, songwriting-only tracks from the ‘60s.  They sound great, are loaded, and provide the listener with several super-obscure 45s I would have never heard otherwise, several of which are simply tremendous songs.

Excellent @tylermunns! Analogue Productions also has fantastic LP’s of Elvis and Roy Orbison titles featuring glorious 1950’s sound, recordings made with tube equipment, vocals often captured with the legendary Neumann/Telefunken U47 tube microphone. Far better than most 1960’s Rock ’n’ Roll recordings, just as is true of Jazz and Classical recordings, most notably Blue Note and Prestige for the former, RCA and Mercury for the latter.

In the late-80’s I met and spoke with Bill Inglot, the engineer responsible for most of the Rock ’n’ Roll LP reissues and compilations Rhino released that decade. I risked offending him by saying I found the Ace LP’s of the same titles he had made for Rhino to sound better than his. He was cool, and admitted he agreed with me. He attributed it to the superior equipment Ace provided their engineer, Bob Jones. By the way, another good UK reissue label is Edsel (appropriate name ;-), an offshoot of Ace if I’m not mistaken.