Fats Domino - Greatest Hits: Walking To New Orleans
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Artist: Fats DominoEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-08-14
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- The Fat Man
- Goin' Home
- Going To the River
- Please Don't Leave Me
- Something's Wrong
- Ain't That a Shame
- All By Myself
- Poor Me
- I Can't Go On (Rosalie)
- Bo Weevil
- Don't Blame It On Me
- I'm In Love Again
- My Blue Heaven
- When My Dreamboat Comes Home
- So Long
- Blueberry Hill
- Honey Chile
- Blue Monday
- I'm Walkin'
- It's You I Love
- Valley Of Tears
- Wait And See
- Whole Lotta Loving
- I'm Ready
- I Want To Walk You Home
- I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday
- Be My Guest
- Walking To New Orleans
- My Girl Josephine
- Let the Four Winds Blow
Music reviews of Greatest Hits: Walking To New Orleans
Music Review: MOST ARE REMASTERED "SINGLE-TRACKS"
Rating: 4 Stars
I'm a little disappointed in this CD even though it contains almost all of Fat's great tunes ("I Hear You Knocking" and "Kansas City" are missing).
The cause of my disappointment, I must own up, was my ignorance about the term "remaster." I bought this CD because other reviewers had given it an average score of a perfect five, and because one reviewer reported that all 30 hits had been digitally remastered. That is accurate. My problem was that I didn't realize that the first 24 songs were remasters of the original SINGLE channel recordings -and that does NOT translate to STEREO sound.
Since buying this CD, I researched and discovered that the first stereophonic phonograph records didn't become available to the general public until 1958. This Fats Domino CD arranges the songs in the order that they were recorded, starting with "The Fat Man" (1951) and ending with "Let The Four Winds Blow" (1961). I'm happy to say that this CD does contain five post-1958 (stereo) songs: "I Want To Walk You Home," "Be My Guest," "Walking To New Orleans," "My Girl Josephine," and "Let The Four Winds Blow." These five have a rich a sound with the instruments and voices sounding clear -and out of separate speakers.
Because of this CD's good remastering, even some of the pre-1958 tunes seem to have at least "a suggestion" of stereo separation. That's some consolation to a stereophile like me. I love Fats Domino tunes, they have a beat that make you itch to jump up to the floor to move those feet! They're works of a musical master and a true gentleman with a sweet spirit. It's just too bad that EVERY song wasn't able to be recorded in multi-track stereo. As the Fat Man sang, "Ain't that a shame."
*My ignorance about the limits of modern re-mastering technology led me to expect a fabulous stereo sound on all 30 tunes...silly boy! Now I understand the reality of remastering and hope this is helpful to you too. To further your savviness of "remastering," I'm adding the following information:
Digital Remastering is a term that is often believed to mean "made better." Not necessarily true! Remastering simply refers to some process of modifying one of the recorded versions. The success of that product actually sounding better to us depends on: 1. The skill and experience of the mastering engineer staff; 2. The equipment used for the process; 3. The quality of the original source recordings; 4. Our personal taste -ie: does addition of "reverberation" improve the song for you or annoy you? It usually annoys me.
Note that several different levels of masters often exist for any one audio release, so many different CD qualities can result. In the 1960s, instruments and vocals were recorded on multi-track tapes. Then these tapes were mixed to create a stereo or mono master. Further, a secondary master tape would likely be created from this original master recording consisting of equalization and other adjustments and improvements to the audio to make it sound better on vinyl, 8-track tape, etc.
Adding to the problem of different levels of master copies being used, is the fact that different levels of skills and/or equipment can be employed to create different songs in the SAME CD! This results in varying qualities among the song selections. An example of this is on the "The Beach Boys -Sounds of Summer" CD. All 30 songs were recorded during the stereo recording era, yet a couple of the songs like "Surfin' Safari" barely sound stereophonic. Moreover, the 1965 "California Girls" has much better stereophonic voice/instrument isolation than the 1988 "Kokomo" which is 13 years younger.
Another problem is that many of the remastered CDs from the late 1990s onwards have had the average volume of the recording raised -at the expense of dynamic range! This makes the new remastered version sound very different than the original song. Many of the individual instruments and/or voices can nearly disappear among an irritating garble of racket. This is unnecessary, and any reduction in dynamic range totally turns me off. I need to be able to savor the lowest and the highest notes that the musicians played!
The modern era gives publishers almost unlimited ways to touch up, doctor, and "improve" their media. As each release promises improved sound, producers hope these upgrades will entice people into making another purchase. If I get a superbly done copy then I'm glad I spent the extra money. Otherwise, I feel that both I and the artists themselves are being ripped off.
USER REVIEWS can help save the rest of us from falling prey to buying copies of music with inferior recording. Let's all put pressure on record producers to create recordings that do full justice to the amazing vocal and instrumental talents of the artists! We all can do this by writing reviews that always discuss such qualities as the degree of stereo isolation of voices and instruments, their clarity and robustness, and the fullness of dynamic range, etc.
Then, only buy CD's with high marks in those areas. Let's end the junk copies!
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