Whats on your turntable tonight?

Ray Charles "rock and roll"

Analogue Productions/Atlantic 75 Series 

45RPM , mono

#001249

.....I mean the gatefold still cracks when opened

recommended 

Dweezil Zappa-"My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama"

Chrysalis/Germany

The Big Chill (Origianl Motion Picture Soundtrack)

On top of every song being a hit or chart topper at one point, every song had between very good to outstanding sound quality, on both sides.

Perhaps I got lucky, because it is hard enough to find great sound quality on a single side -- let alone both sides, for any album title.

On two or three of the songs, you can hear that the studio overloaded the microphone or the reel-to-reel tape, when an artist’s voice got loud.  And on this pressing, they left it alone (they did not try to fix it).  So you get to hear it without the studio applying filters (or whatever else they do that diminishes sound quality).

Mine is a Motown pressing.  There are other labels, and I have no idea of their sound quality.

• Aretha Franklin with The Ray Bryant Combo
• Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley

Joe Satriani-"Surfing With The Alien"

Music On Vinyl, Limited Edition, 180 Gram