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Quote:Originally Posted by Radioking59 The Beatles - Mono Box Set Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks B.B King - Live at the Regal Muddy Waters - Folk Singer Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old...

Perahia is best with Mozart.

Here is an example of what I was talking about...   http://www.vintageip.com/xfers/princesband_porkupinerag.mp3   If you just listen to this song without knowing anything about it, it sounds strange and primitive. But...

Most music that kids listen to is ephemeral... intended just for today and tomorrow it will be out of style. But older music allows us to enter a time machine to the past. It doesn't matter if the window we're peering out of is a little...

"Clean versions" aren't important. "Good performances" are. In old stuff, if you chase sound quality instead of performance, you'll end up thinking old music is boring. That's the mistake most kids make.   "Chatanooga Choo...

Yes, but it's live versions of the hits, not the master takes that everyone knows. Get a collection of the RCA/Bluebird stuff first. They're the real deal. I linked to a dirt cheap four CD Proper Box above that has everything you'd...

I meant peformances, not sound quality. Glenn Miller had some great hits, but he also put out plenty of musical popcorn peanuts.

Not everything Glenn Miller recorded was of the same quality. There was a lot of filler in there. The hits are what most people would want.

http://www.amazon.com/Swing-Essentials-Vol-Billy-Orchestra/dp/B004XTOKW8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1365478787&sr=8-4&keywords=Billy+may Billy May's trademark was the "slurping saxes". That scooping the note from below and sliding up to it.

I have that too... and the direct to disk LP. Those performances are kind of tired sounding even if the sound quality is good. Billy May is a lot better. Any Billy May album with "Brass" in the title will blow your socks off. The Sorta...