The EP above is in Columbia's Hall of Fame reprint series from the late 50s. I've only included "Blue Velvet" and "Sing You Sinners," because the other two numbers were in the earlier post on Tony. But the two songs that are here are outstanding. "Blue Velvet" was a good seller for Tony, and predates the Clovers and Bobby Vinton versions. A lovely song. And Bennett really gets into "Sing You Sinners."
The other EP, a request by Scoredaddy, is presented in full. It's from 1955 and finds Tony working with Sid Feller rather than his usual mate, Percy Faith, who was in charge of the other items herein, save one. That is "Sing You Sinners," which is with Marty Manning. For whatever reason, Bennett does not sound at his best here, in a program of two songs from Damn Yankees, Johnny Mercer's "Something's Gotta Give," and "A Blossom Fell," which was a big hit for Nat Cole.
More to my taste are the two unfamiliar songs on an early 78 (from 1952) - "You Could Make Me Smile Again" and Irving Berlin's "Roses of Yesterday."
Note (July 2023): These recordings have now been remastered in ambient stereo.
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5 comments:
Thank you! It's really joy for Bennett's fans.
One question: what tools do you use to remove clicks and noise? As I see, the sound's volume is a little low. (in case of "Because Of You" EP)
This archive is .7z. It can be extracted with 7-zip (www.7-zip.org), Total Commander and sometimes WinRAR.
THANKS Buster! You erally filled a void in my Bennett collection. Warmest Regards!
@ Paulo,
I record a stereo signal, then use ClickRepair, Equalizer (to correct for RIAA equalization), DeNoise LF (to remove rumble), DeNoise (at a very conservative setting, otherwise you get ugly artifacts), and ClickRepair again to convert the signal to mono. I try to keep the levels well under 0db because digital signals do not clip gracefully. If the line-level signal is low in the digital realm I do not boost it digitally because in my experience the sound gets fatiguing if you do. This is all trial and error by an amateur but the results are getting better.
Ambient stereo version, Apple lossless format:
https://mega.nz/file/mc8VSbzT#Wczdt5DihBdOBRymHXObP7GtVktrexsluE9l-yIMh7A
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