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Dexter's Second Blue Note Outing Gets Double 45 Treatment From Analogue Productions

Michael Fremer | May 01, 2008 | 0 comments

Dexter Calling , recorded May, 9th, 1961, just a few days after Gordon’s Blue Note debut session, opens with “Soul Sister,” a “chicken and biscuits” track the tenor saxophonist wrote for the West Coast edition of “The Connection,” which Freddie Redd had scored for the East Coast original. The tune’s slow, bluesy, Southern-tinged melody, played in ¾ waltz-time sounds like something Floridian Cannonball Adderley might have penned though Gordon grew up in Los Angeles, son of a prominent physician who tended to the likes of Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton.

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Diamonds Are A Guy's Best Friend: Transfiguration Proteus With Diamond Cantilever at C.E.S. 2017

Michael Fremer | Jan 17, 2017 | First Published: Jan 17, 2017 | 3 comments

This edition of Transfiguration's explosive low output moving coil Proteus phono cartridge features a diamond, not boron cantilever.

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Dick Dale's Surfing Singles Assembled on Two Slabs of 180g Vinyl!

Michael Fremer | Dec 01, 2010 | 1 comments

Dick Dale is widely acknowledged as the inventor of “surf music.” Most observers consider his first single “Let’s Go Trippin’” recorded July 21st 1961to be the first surf record. Certainly those of us old enough to remember hearing it on the radio back then had never heard anything like it before, though that could be said about virtually everything that showed up on pop music radio back then.

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Did "Andy's Gang" Call It Correctly?

Michael Fremer | Feb 08, 2014 | 8 comments

Did you compare the two files? The one that most readers identified as harsher and brighter was found to be running .1% faster than the other, so Mr. Distler, slowed it down and again posted the files. I both listened and I looked at them using Audacity. So you could say I "cheated" but it doesn't matter. Forget what I heard.

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Did Amazon Announce That Vinyl Sales Were "Up 745 percent" Since 2008? Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Sep 21, 2013 | 34 comments

Sorry to have mislead you but the endgadget.com story headlined "Amazon Announces Vinyl Sales Up 745 Percent" is as best as I can determine, a fantasy created by the writer. First of all, it wasn't "Amazon" that announced anything. It was "Amazon.co.uk" the UK Amazon affiliate that made an announcement, but it was that vinyl sales were up 745 percent though it was about a huge increase in vinyl sales.

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Dietrich Brakemeier's Apolyt Turntable Aims to be the World's Finest (And Most Expensive To Date) Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> May 06, 2016 | First Published: May 06, 2016 | 24 comments

Dietrich Brakemeier's gargantuan Apolyt turntable wows visually but more importantly, based on the description he appears to have gotten all of the design fundamentals 100% correct and equally well-optimized.

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Dinah, Backed By Quincy Jones Band and Arrangements Produces "Thriller" Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Oct 01, 2007 | 0 comments

Recorded June and December of 1956 in New York City, this match-up features a superb big band arranged by the then young Quincy Jones and the extraordinarily gifted Dinah Washington who belts them out here with breathtaking conviction.

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Dion Sings The Blues

Michael Fremer | Apr 01, 2007 | 0 comments

When this arrived I stated the obvious to myself “Why would I want to hear Dion sing the blues?” I can hear Robert Johnson do his own tunes, I can hear them “rock-a-fied” to great effect on any number of albums from the 1960’s, I can hear other blues greats, from Mississippi John Hurt to Howlin’ Wolf to Lightnin’ Hopkins, singing their originals and covers, some superbly recorded, and generally I was so down on this disc that I played it more to see how awful and/or pointless it was.

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Dire Straits Classic Resurrected As Double 180g LP!

Michael Fremer | Dec 01, 2006 | 2 comments

If you’re one of those who doesn’t “get” Brothers In Arms, originally issued in 1985, Robert Sandell’s liner notes accompanying this meticulously produced double 180g LP reissue provide a plausible, if not entirely believable explanation for its original and continued popularity.

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Dire Straits Debut Delivered as a 45rpm Sonic Spectacular

Michael Fremer | Dec 16, 2019 | 22 comments

When first released in America in 1978 Dire Straits’ debut was an immediate sensation, though cautious record labels at first rejected signing the group until Warner Brothers bit. The original Vertigo release hit the U.K. earlier. Eventually, propelled by the catchy single “Sultans of Swing”, the album was Top Ten throughout Europe and much of the world.

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