Don't Make My Baby Blue - TOTP!

[drakula63]

Here's something I never thought I'd see! I have now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyo_xsbO-JM

[TimRyland]

Great track, one of my favourites. I certainly haven’t seen this before.

Tim.

[Iain Purdon]

Well found Chris. New to me also.

[Moderne]

Wow! Thanks Chris!!

[Fenderman]

Fine quality although the indent kind of got in the way a bit.
In stereo too!

[johnc]

Fine quality although the indent kind of got in the way a bit.
In stereo too!

It sounded like Hank's lead vocal was double tracked to my ears..or was it Abbey Road's ADT effect which the Beatles used a lot?

Pity it had to be mimed and wasn't played live...

I hate to say it, but I think Hank's fuzz solo on this great track is one of the poorest he ever played on a recording. He sounded like he was struggling to play a hip trendy fuzzbox contemporary 'wild' solo and failing...lighter gauge strings may have helped, but the bent notes always sound off-pitch to my ears..

[Fenderman]

I'm not sure ADT was used yet at Abbey Road, i'm pretty sure it wasn't installed until 1966 but i'm sure other people could correct me if i'm wrong.

[drakula63]

Fine quality although the indent kind of got in the way a bit.
In stereo too!

A shame about that, but the timecode (which it covers up) would have been more distracting with its constantly changing numbers. This is one of the pieces that I know to exist in the BBC archives and it looks like someone borrowed a 'preview' or 'review' copy and, er, copied it.

[iefje]

Fine quality although the indent kind of got in the way a bit.
In stereo too!

A shame about that, but the timecode (which it covers up) would have been more distracting with its constantly changing numbers. This is one of the pieces that I know to exist in the BBC archives and it looks like someone borrowed a 'preview' or 'review' copy and, er, copied it.

The audiotrack is most certainly taken from a CD issue of "Don't Make My Baby Blue", dubbed on by the person who posted the video on YouTube, as the original soundtracks for 1960's TV footage were always mono.

[Uncle Fiesta]

Both the vocal parts seem to be double tracked and panned hard left and right, with all the instrumental tracks in the middle in mono. I just dug out my CD copy of More Hits, and it sounds identical to my ears - as does the one on Complete Singles As & Bs 1959-1980.

I don't have any other copies to compare - sorry!