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[Fritz The Cat]

Listen to the jazzy B2 "White Russia": Country-jazz-hillbilly-russ'nroll. Perfect harmony vocals.
Jeff Hanna guitars and nitty-gritty production.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street
(1972, Warner Bros) WLP -1A/-1A

[Fritz The Cat]

Jelly is the brainchild of actress Amy Madigan. What a powerful voice: listen to B1 "Dr. Jazz".
And what musicians' name dropping: Jim Gordon, Russ Kunkel, Chuck Rainey, Wilton Felder, Jai Winding, Lee Sklar, Jim Horn, Dennis Budimir, Jeff Porcaro, Chris Darrow!
So it's a sure thing this one......

[Fritz The Cat]

Listen to Alan Price's "Lucky Man" B2. Hammond, Les Paul Gibson sounds and a powerful shouter voice by Bob James.
Simply and purely produced by Ronnie Montrose...

[Fritz The Cat]

Some beautiful flowers in the dirt. If you like Paul McCartney/Elvis Costello-collaboration on 1989 album "Flowers in the dirt", you will love this one! Listen to a cool version of Chuck Berry song "Come on" track A4 (not noted on backcover song-list). Herbie Flowers (what a beautiful name!!!) knows how to play the Beatles-bass guitar.....
Happy summer holiday to every fan of vinyl albums and to every visitor of this thread!

Same tracks on this Canadian Stiff/Epic pressing. Listen to the superb mixed bass guitar by Herbie Flowers (a McCartney clone). Which Höfner club guitar model (with the strange whammy bar) is shown on back cover?

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Kinks - Greatest Hits
(1989, Rhino) Monarch delta, Kdisc KP in the deadwax, mastered by Ken Perry, K-Disc




all mono recordings except Stop Your Sobbing. very crankable.

[Fritz The Cat]

The Kinks - Greatest Hits
(1989, Rhino) Monarch delta, Kdisc KP in the deadwax, mastered by Ken Perry, K-Disc




all mono recordings except Stop Your Sobbing. very crankable.

What's the meaning of "crankable"? (Not found in dictionaries) Whimsical notion? Kinkable.....

[SpeakerLabFan]

What's the meaning of "crankable"? (Not found in dictionaries) Whimsical notion? Kinkable.....

it's probably not a real word, Fritz. It's based on crank - which might be shortened form of "crankshaft" - which was used to start an engine, "turn the crankshaft". So "crank it up" became a term for turning up the volume on the HiFi.

This Kinks Rhino pressing does very well when the volume is "cranked". :P

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jameson - Color Him In
(1967, Verve) MONO




singer/songwriter. a california pop psychedelic 66/67 time warp.

[Fritz The Cat]

Funky jazz stuff. Larry Carlton guitar. Superb bass playing by Wilton Felder (not mentioned on back cover credits). Produced by Stewart Levine.
Listen to B3, the majestic "Southern Comfort".

[Fritz The Cat]

Debut of Perre Moerlen's Gong. Guitar: Allan Holdsworth. He was not the man for blues or rocknroll. Definitively not! He died April 15, 2017. RIP!
Sparkling progrockjazz.
Listen to the dreamy cheerful "Mireille" B3.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Vanilla Fudge - s/t
(1967, Atco) -MO; Bell Sound in the deadwax

[Fritz The Cat]

Vanilla Fudge - s/t
(1967, Atco) -MO; Bell Sound in the deadwax

German 1973 Alsdorf pressing reissue. Hippieflowerpowertimes.

[Fritz The Cat]

The masterpiece of VF and a milestone of psychedelia poprock. The group's monument is shown on front cover art by Jim Visconti. A dedication to the saints of Liverpool is noted on back cover.
Listen to the fantastic ice-cold slow-down-version of Donovan's "Season of the witch".
Fine original US mono-stereo original pressing.
Anybody knows the technical charcteristics of mono-stereo?

[Fritz The Cat]

Notice on back cover: "Madrugada" is a special Portugese name for the time between midnight and dawn.
Anybody interested in listening to a lullabye-version of Jagger/Richards' "Wild horses"?
Hugh McCracken, guitars. Alan Schwartzberg, drums. These studio cracks had played on hundreds of albums.