Nelson Riddle - Playboy's Theme

[AndrewMeronek]

I ran across this recording and think it's worth sharing. I really like the tune and the arrangement. Nelson Riddle was the man. And of course that bass trombone can only be one person.

However, this is a TERRIBLE release. Unfortunately, tons of re-releases of music like this (very likely, to CD) were ruined by some kind of deaf sound engineer who was addicted to adding way too much reverb.

Does anyone know if there was ever a good CD release of this, or is finding an LP still the way to go?

[chromebone]

This is an original vinyl rip of the album on YouTube, reverb is the same as the one you posted and sounds pretty typical for the era. Keep in mind home stereo was a pretty new thing in 1962 and trying to emulate a wide soundstage with reverb was the rage in the early ‘60’s.

[AndrewMeronek]

Interesting!

The reverb on that LP rip is also pretty aggressive. But on the link I found it's worse.

I know that some of the music companies actually re-recorded the dry mix in a reverb room. I wonder if that's what they originally did for this. That kind of reverb tends to sound a bit warmer and less like a vibrating can of aluminum foil like some of the worst digital reverb does.