I've been meaning to post up this evergreen classic for some time now. Quite simply wonderful for many reasons-the words-the Skip S arrangement-and it's never ending popularity. Indeed I looked to post a you tube embed on Face book because frankly I'm even more ignored on there than here-but shock horror nobody has uploaded it to you tube !
Well I have the LP and a few years ago did a very classy recording of it. The LP12 (my turntable) back then was on song- plus I used wave repair to clean the file by hand painstakingly frame by frame (44 frames = 1 second). As bitching luck would have it though I can't find my recording-it's among the hundreds of back up CDR discs lying around. So I turned to the internet yet on every version of Secrets I downloaded this track sounded very poor indeed.
Tonight I gave up looking for the CDR instead I dusted off the LP12 which I've been informed needs £350.00 to make it sound like it used too- found the leads I need- and re-recorded it. It took not much time at all really (say 45 minutes)...even though it's untreated so complete with noise and pops-it's the best mp3 version out there ...
Sounds fantastic mate
ReplyDeleteA job well done!
Thanks !!
ReplyDeleteFor me it never gets old-those words are truly great-full of insecurity ("a lost and lonely man"),and yet suggesting that by reaching out and helping others somehow we might overcome....