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Posted by Doris Gath
on December 5, 2008, 1:30 pm, in reply to "Re: But you love me Daddy"
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Hi: Once, while visiting Jim and Mary in their home, Jim was playing tapes of songs he had cut at home and not yet released. I cannot remember any of them except "But you love me daddy". It was getting late (like 1 am) and we were wanting to leave. Jim said "I've got one more song I want you to hear. I love this little song but RCA won't let me release it as they say it won't sell".
Much to my surprise and tears RCA did release it several years after Jim's death. I remembeered it when he played it for us!!
Always for Jim,
Doris
--Previous Message--
:
: When Mary decided to do an overdub of this
: song, the original tape master could not be
: located in the RCA files. So she had to rely
: on an acetate dub that Jim himself had
: played once too often. He loved the song and
: often played it for friends. Unfortunately,
: it had some pops and clicks on it through
: wear.
:
: In the days when Mary was doing overdubs --
: which was still the "analog age"
: (before digital) -- engineers were rather
: limited it what clean-up techniques they
: could employ. So the overdubbed version
: ended up containing some surface noise from
: the acetate.
:
: When Owen Bradley and his engineer did the
: Jim Reeves/Patsy Cline "duets" --
: mixing the two artists' separate vocal
: tracks together and then overlaying new
: instrumentation -- there is also an awful
: lot of tape hiss apparent on Jim's vocal. In
: fact, it is very distracting to listen to.
: All of that could now be cleaned up, of
: course, and on one re-release I've heard in
: recent years (I can't remember from whom),
: that has been accomplished, so it sounds
: better.
:
: Sad to say, so much of Jim's catalog of
: studio masters, has still not been given the
: sort of clean up that is currently possible,
: or that his great artistry deserves.
:
: The non-RCA recordings we have worked with
: for the VoiceMasters CDs have, however, been
: put through our own proprietary clean-up
: efforts and of course 24-bit digital
: remastering. The results speak for
: themselves.
:
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