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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 15, 2020 19:15:22 GMT
OK. Got it. I was typing and didn't read your previous post.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 15, 2020 19:16:59 GMT
OK. Got it. I was typing and didn't read your previous post. Unacceptable response. We will fight this out. See you at the flagpole after school!
Seriously my posts weren't very well thought out. As B.E. and you posted again, that had me thinking through it and helped me clarify what I'd want (and in what circumstances). First, as usual, I was talking out my ass...
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 15, 2020 19:35:56 GMT
Just a couple of things on re-recordings. I know everybody knows this, but artists in the past, and popular ones at that, have done entire albums of re-recordings. Now, it might not be an entire original album re-recorded, but rather a compilation of songs. One that comes to mind is Sinatra's Sinatra. In 1963, Frank recorded a twelve song album of re-recordings, and many of them were previously big hits. And you know what's funny. I'm usually not a fan of re-recordings, but I actually prefer many of the Sinatra's Sinatra re-recordings to the originals.
I also found this out in researching some Christmas albums from the 1950's. When stereo recording first came out, artists were encouraged to re-record their mono songs/albums into stereo. One such artist was Percy Faith. In 1954, Percy recorded his wonderful holiday album, Music Of Christmas, in mono. Then in 1959, Percy re-recorded the identical album and arrangements from scratch, in stereo. There are subtle differences, but differences nevertheless, and most music historians/critics actually praise the re-recorded version as being better. And I agree.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 15, 2020 19:38:33 GMT
One reason for historical re-recordings has been about the financials and licensing. Prince famously rerecorded "1999" (the song, not the album) in that year, at least partly so he could capitalize more fully on it. He had reportedly rerecorded some (many?) of his albums around the same time with the intention to rerelease them, but I think that might be more about vague intentions than actual occurrences. Prince scholars would know better than I do about that.
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