On Sat, 12 May 2018 18:30:37 -0700, The Bad Samaritan
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Just listened to HOTEL HAPPINESS by Brook Benton -
posted by TMD 1963 Rock Roll & Remember.
It's clearly a remake by Brook.
He tries much as he can to sing it exactly the same way, but
there are far too many differences from the single played on Mercury
records back in '63 for this hit song.
I'm hearing many other examples of recut hits but there's no point in
trying to compile a list that I can see.
BAD SAMARITAN -
There's another reason so many songs in "hit packages" are recut.
The dreaded K-Tel label used to engage in this one.
In order to ease the copyright costs of putting together so many hits
from disparate labels and sources, it's cheaper to go to the artists
recut versions, many of whom do this in their later semi-retired
years, often on small time labels. So using the recut versions is a
cost saving measure in many cases.
Just now hearing another recut version:
LIE TO ME by Brook Benton 1963
Another point:
In many cases, the recut versions are SUPERIOR in overall sound and
production quality than the original mono versions we heard on 45rpms.
This is due to use of stereo in the recut versions and better studio
quality all round.
In the above case, LIE TO ME sounds in some ways better than the
original mono version by Brook Benton.
Brook cut the song in stereo for Mercury, of which I have a copy. It
was good BUT, Mercury in 1963 insisted on separating the channels,
putting Brook mostly in one channel while mostly putting the rhythm
section in the other channel? Strange? And other labels did this too
for their stereo versions, but fortunatley the novelty of playing
around with Stereo passed and most record companies resumed
just producing the split sounds in a normal listening fashion.
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