Posted by Paul mechem on October 10, 2016, 12:28 pm
I've just received my copy of the new BGO release and i must say that I am not impressed with the sound quality considering it is meant to have been remastered (according to the liner notes). It still contains all the distortion and hiss of the original LP's.
Re: New BGO release
Posted by Larry Jordan on October 10, 2016, 2:44 pm, in reply to "New BGO release "
As I predicted Paul, but some people didn't want to believe me.
However, I will say this: I thought the liner notes, by John O'Regan, were better than most. He made an earnest attempt to tell Jim's story (to supplement the original liner notes that are reproduced off the LP releases).
In fact, I was pleasantly surprised to find he quoted me extensively, set the record straight about the plane crash (based on my book), and even credited VoiceMasters for having released a lot of new material on Reeves.
So thank you Mr. O'Regan. I was unaware he was going to do that but obviously he has done his homework.
A few things were in error, but it wasn't the writer's fault. He cited a Chet Atkins quote that Jim wanted to be a TENOR, which is preposterous. Mary Reeves told me the first time we met many years ago that Jim was frustrated by having to sing in a higher key but that sometimes when you start out, you have to do what your bosses tell you to do -- and that was the case with Jim. Chet had nothing to do with Reeves developing the more intimate, crooning style he adopted; Bea Terry is the "woman behind the man," as I explain in my book, "Jim Reeves: His Untold Story." Chet didn't even back Jim when Reeves got into an argument with an engineer who insisted he stand several feet away from the microphone instead of getting up close, like Jim wanted to do. Eventually when the engineer left, Jim got his way.
I had noticed a big surge in my book sales lately and I surmise it's due to the mention in the liner notes of this CD. So thank you BGO!
Re: New BGO release
Posted by Mike Slater on October 11, 2016, 8:44 pm, in reply to "Re: New BGO release "
It's too bad that a better job wasn't done with the remastering, but I'll still be very happy to own these LP's on CD. I bought copies of the LP's a few years back and had them transferred to CD, and even though the vinyl was like new on all these, they still showed many imperfections. Even without the best remastering on this CD, it would still have to sound better than the discs I made from the LP's. I got a new copy of "A Touch Of Sadness" and some of the songs had a lot of surface noise, which I know is not on the original tapes. It was just a bad vinyl copy. I've yet to receive my copy of the CD because BGO and amazon had two different release dates. BGO claimed it was being released in September and amazon had a release date of October 7th, which was later changed to October 28th. Does anyone know what this is all about? Apparently the CD is already available if some fans already have it...
on October 10, 2016, 12:28 pm