Fats Domino Bear Family I've Been Around Review

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   J.A.W. Music Aficionado Thread Starter

   This was mentioned in the Lefty Frizzzell thread: Lefty Frizzell - Life'south Like Poesy Box Reprint

   @Mychael
   I hope they will address the shortcomings that were mentioned in this mail and elsewhere:
   Fats Domino Box Sets - They Call Me The Fatty Homo or Walking To New Orleans?

   Last edited: Jan 12, 2018

2. Hi, this is Jan-Jaap Been
   I run the Official FATS Domino sites on FACEBOOK, MyHeritage and YOU TUBE.
   I worked on the box with Scott Parker, Richard Weize and Hank Davis.

   The box will feature some surprising additions (for case, the start version of "Let The Four Winds Blow"( 1957)
   Also added is a CD with tracks where Fats was featured as a session man (Lloyd Price, Joe Turner a.o.)

   Equally far equally I know (and I pushed really hard!) the instrumentals featured on "Dance With Domino" are still left out. That'due south a pity. I think everything that's released on a Fats Domino album should be on it. Same as the overdubbed songs, just maybe they put it on a extra CD equally a bonus. The songs are chronological released. The unreleased/edited or extended versions are on a single CD.

   More subsequently!

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   J.A.W. Music Addict Thread Starter

   What virtually the shortcomings of the earlier box mentioned in my first mail? Take they been addressed?

   mpayan and C6H12O6 like this.

5. Double the size?
   Hmmmm...

   I recall that the track "The Fat Man" from " They Telephone call Me The Fat Man..." - The Legendary Purple Recordings sounded so rough that I never figured out if it was done on purpose.

6. Fats is someone who should be mentioned in those underrated or forgotten threads nosotros have so many of hither.

7. Yeah, this is more than of import than annihilation else. I was very disappointed how the old Behave Family box set sounded and passed on it.

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   J.A.W. Music Addict Thread Starter

   No reply yet...

   Possibly @fatsfan can post some answers.

9. This was discussed by Mychael in this thread some pages dorsum:
   Your favourite Comport Family releases

10. 

    J.A.W. Music Aficionado Thread Starter

    Here's a link to the actual post: Your favourite Bear Family releases

    I hadn't seen that because I don't follow that full general BF thread. I posted this dedicated thread over a year ago, in January 2018, to try and go some answers, and information technology was revived only a few days ago.

    Last edited: Feb 23, 2019

11. I'chiliad happy it'due south being released. I exercise have CDs of all the albums and/or the vinyl albums themselves. Is the box to include only the Imperial label recordings or does it go all the style up to "Sleeping on the Job"?

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    J.A.Westward. Music Aficionado Thread Starter

    According to the post I quoted higher up it as well has the ABC studio masters.

13. In the above link, exercise I read this correctly?
    Everything on these fourteen discs is newly remastered.
    Fourteen discs?

14. Full data about the new Bear Family set:
    Fats Domino Box set: I've Been Around - The Consummate Majestic and ABC Recordings (12-CD & DVD) - Carry Family unit Records

    Read all about the remastering and tape comparing on folio 7-ix in the volume preview:
    preview_BCD17579

15. This looks wonderful - a must buy, as usual!

    I can't tell from the text - is Blueberry Hill the original 78rpm version (which I don't call up has always appeared on CD)?
    Or is it the looped/edited version from the 1970s - the version that every other CD reissue (including the commencement BF box) uses?

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    J.A.W. Music Addict Thread Starter

    That looks wonderful. Cheers for posting.

17. There are two versions of "Blueberry Hill" in the set – the original IMP 5407 (78rpm) version and a "correct speed" studio master in the original cardinal.

18. Wonderful!
    They must take dubbed it from from disc (or found a 'unlike' tape) since the wrong edited primary has been the but ane used for the last 40 years!

19. Just listening to the difference in sound between my "Out of New Orleans" set and the sound samples on Bear Families website is amazing.

20. As I made the same determination & stuck with "They Call Me The Fatty Man" & sadly for digital box gear up it remains every bit good as we volition always get for Fats...

    Reads & looks promising just I'm apprehensive until hearing from an actual buyer

    Last edited: Jun 22, 2019

21. I've got a load of Fats stuff merely this looks like being the definitive place to bag the the lot in the best sounding parcel.

    And in that location'southward xx% off the price if you order from Acquit Family unit before the end of July.

    I'm in.

22. Frequently Asked Questions most our new Fats Domino Box Ready!

    Q: I have the old Fats Domino Box on Bear Family which was released 25 years ago. Why should I buy this box?
    A: It's been upgraded and increased in size (12 CDs - 312 tracks versus 8 in the old box; 240-folio book versus threescore in the 1993 box). Much new cloth has been added including unreleased alt takes, undubbed and unedited masters, and instrumental backing tracks.

    As well for the first time anywhere we present some of Fats's biggest hits as they were originally recorded, not sped-upwardly for release. The completely revised book contains a wealth of previously unpublished images, rail-by-runway musical commentary by the producers, as well as updated and extended notes by Fats biographer Rick Coleman. The box likewise includes an acclaimed video documentary on Fats's life and music.

    Q: Isn't this new box very expensive?
    A: Not for what it is. On top of that, Bear Family has set an unprecedented introductory cost too as a 20% discount until July 31. Remember, this project took years to complete and thousands of hours. Sure, there is a lot of cheap Fats Domino product out there – and information technology looks and sounds it. The book production here, the pictures, the remastering, the background story – these are available nowhere else.

    And we licensed primary sources to principal from. None of these were inexpensive. Putting it simply: the music sounds much better on this box set than it ever has before due to the brilliant remastering from the original tapes. Second, the book that we include is much meliorate – in terms of both the writing and the images – than anything anyone has washed before, Carry Family included. The new box set is actually a bargain – especially if yous take advantage of the introductory discounted price.

    Q: Yous mentioned songs in different speeds? Please explain that to me.
    A: Many of Fats's biggest hits were artificially sped upward for release to make him sound more "youthful". This box includes both the familiar sped upward versions and never-before-heard accurate versions.

    Q: How many of the Fats songs were sped up?
    A: Twenty-vii songs were originally released sped upwardly as singles. But in one case Imperial had success with the new sped-up version of Fats, they began to speed-up one-time recordings when they appeared equally "filler" on LPs. Information technology took a lot of sleuth-work and engineering to become things right.

    Q: Who did the speed up on Fats, his producers or the record company?
    A: Imperial Records authorized it. But the speed-ups were proposed and carried out by the sound engineer where the records were mastered, a man named Abraham "Bunny" Robyn.

    Q: Why were the songs sped up in the beginning place?
    A: "Bunny" Robyn idea some of Fats's records sounded "logey" – not lively enough -- and convinced Lew Chudd at Regal to let him try doing it. The beginning record he sped up was Ain't It a Shame, a huge success.

    Q: Do I get all the Fats Domino songs I love?
    A: If they were recorded for Regal and ABC-Paramount, yes you lot practice.

    Q: Every bit Fats experts know, reissues of "Huckleberry Colina" reliably utilize the patched-together repaired primary because of a ruined stretch of tape. What is in this box?
    A: We mastered from a pristine copy of the US-issued Imperial 78 rpm release – the only version that didn't require repair. Huckleberry Hill is ane of the tracks that got sped up so we as well include a repaired version slowed down to its authentic operation speed. Our book discusses this odd episode in Fats'southward recording career.
    
    Q: Are all the CDs remastered or is it just the ones that were sped upwardly?
    A: Every track in this box has been advisedly remastered. You will be delighted and in many cases surprised at how expert they sound.

    Q: I meet there are recordings by other musicians. Why?
    A: Early in his career, Fats sometimes worked every bit a session pianist for other artists similar Joe Turner, Lloyd Cost and Smiley Lewis. We've included some examples of those recordings. In addition, Fats was an incredibly influential performer whose style was oftentimes imitated. Nosotros include some examples of that likewise.

    Q: Does the Discography in the new box include consummate session data?
    A: It contains everything that is known. The Imperial sessions are a lot meliorate documented. Unfortunately, the ABC sessions contain some personnel gaps, but rest assured - you are getting everything that is known.

    Q: What nearly the video? Why is information technology part of the box?
    A: We were fortunate enough to secure the rights to the widely acclaimed PBS documentary about Fats and his identify in stone & roll history. It includes interviews with Dave Bartholomew and legendary New Orleans recording engineer Cosimo Matassa.

    Q: I've heard at that place is a longer "manager's cut" of the documentary. Do I get that besides?
    A: Yep, yous practice. Both are on the DVD.

    Q: Who are the producers, Hank Davis and Scott Parker?
    A: They are musicians and rock & roll historians who have loved Fats'southward music for over 60 years. They have been involved in the production of more than than 50 projects for Behave Family Records.

24. Carefully remastered?? I'll expect

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    J.A.W. Music Addict Thread Starter

    @Mychael

    Same here. The Fats Domino compilation Fats Rocks (Bear Family BCD 16825) sounded awful to my ears, pumped up/loud/harsh. If the new box sounds anything similar that I'll pass.

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