Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 21:59:09 -0400
From: Joseph Brennan <brennan@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Joe Brennan still reading the book?
"Turning Tide" finally arrived today here in the wilds of New Jersey.
Amazon.com, where was it?
What a let-down. Could they PLAY the songs any slower? (Chandler Bing
intonation). HIgh and WIndy Mountain is almost unlistenable... no,
scratch "almost". I could not finish it. I hear distinctive Barry Gibb
guitar on the ones he wrote, but no Maurice, and no Barry either on
Spinning Wheel and You've Made Me So Very Happy. Bill Shepherd's
musicians must have been hired at a second rate wedding reception.
The stereo mix does not sound right for the period. The vocals and
instruments are mono except for the string sections that drift left
and right. When I find our microscope (I really am married to a
scientist) I will be able to read the liner notes and see whether they
have any comment on whether the mixes are recent.
Now that I know what P P Arnold sounds like, I wonder whether the
vocals on the Bee Gees' Bury Me Down by the RIver are Maddy Bell, not
P P.
The song Turning Tide: B & R on the 1968 copyright (US), B & M on the
Cu Cas album, and now just B here. As if it matters.
-- Joe Brennan
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From: compoccia@aol.com
Subject: Re: Joe Brennan still reading the book?
Joe wrote:
>The song Turning Tide: B & R on the 1968 copyright (US), B & M on the
>Cu Cas album, and now just B here. As if it matters.
>-- Joe Brennan
At some level it still matters, no? At least with respect to the Gibb brothers songwriting, in general.
Sal
Salvatore Compoccia
compoccia@aol.com
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