now available through Amazon; mostly it's download sales but we've made up a few CD packs which will sell out very fast. It really is the collection of the year.

Do you have a link as no search will find it...

Ooooh you've got to have it TANGIBLE, haven't you?

Oh yes, you've got to be able to put your hands on it.

Oooh, innee bold?!

The packs have only just been sent to Amazon BB so may take a day or two to go up.

Here you go BTB!

www.amazon.co.uk/Records-Great-Hits-60s-...n=229816&s=music

Hi

Is there a booklet with the cd set giving any details on the tracks/ Ie year of release, cat number of the 45, info on the artists etc.

Ivan

Yes Ivan; much in the pack and a separate leaflet with extra sleevenotes.

Several requests from top Americans for a promo pack including the mighty Bob Lefsetz.

JK2006 wrote:
Yes Ivan; much in the pack and a separate leaflet with extra sleevenotes.

JK, is there any chance of making this information available (perhaps as a PDF file) for those of us who have purchased the MP3 version of the album? It would be useful to have the recording dates, since all the files I have bought from Amazon give the date as 2013, rather than the original year of recording.

As mentioned, the CD pack does come with info and sleevenotes; it's been driving me mad trying to get them (plus artwork) onto Downloads.

All the tracks have been totally remastered - from simple basics like removing vinyl scratches to boosting bass or volume and more time consuming repair of the loss of quality from converting to MP3 (which is crap, sound quality-wise). People who never heard the top quality versions have no idea how much gets lost over time, with these brave new digital "improvements".

I've already had e-mails from America thanking me for restoring some of these classics; in many ways it was like doing a job on a great painting.

Total kudos goes to the mighty Steve Levine (that's why I spent so much time up in Liverpool in his fantastic new complex there).

JK2006 wrote:
As mentioned, the CD pack does come with info and sleevenotes; it's been driving me mad trying to get them (plus artwork) onto Downloads.

All the tracks have been totally remastered - from simple basics like removing vinyl scratches to boosting bass or volume and more time consuming repair of the loss of quality from converting to MP3 (which is crap, sound quality-wise). People who never heard the top quality versions have no idea how much gets lost over time, with these brave new digital "improvements".

I've already had e-mails from America thanking me for restoring some of these classics; in many ways it was like doing a job on a great painting.

Total kudos goes to the mighty Steve Levine (that's why I spent so much time up in Liverpool in his fantastic new complex there).

Sorry Jk - you are going to hate me for saying this - but I am not a huge fan of remastering. Done well it can be an improvement but done badly it completely destroys the dynamic range of a recording. The other thing that bugs me about remastering is the old adage that you can 'take a recording out of the 60's/70's etc but you cannot make it a 2013 record'. Not only this but people buy old compilations of favourite hits or from a favourite era because they remember the songs as they were. When a remaster makes an old record lose its vintage sound it makes it sound like a cover version.

Graceland is awful remastered it's too loud, how comes lots of compilations are re-recordings ?

ReMastering doesn't always mean rerecording Andrew and Tony; in our case, we took the original masters, where possible, and made sure all levels were OK - volume, bass, treble etc. In some cases (lost masters) we had to take them from the original vinyl pressings and descratch or declick them, remove any distortion or hiss through wear and tear, correct volumes and clarity.

I think you'll find the results are as close to the originals (some 50 years old) as possible.

Some raves about tracks included - Rock'n'Roll I gave you the best years of my life is getting lots of attention; so is Dion's superb original hit version of Abe, Mart & JFK... and much adoration for Paper Moon with my friend Bob Woffinden asking me who the wonderful NEMO is!!!

The CD set has been out of stock at Amazon since last Monday.

Either those incapables at Arvato are responsible or JK only burned a handful of copies. This hardcopy product was absolutely going to sell (in spite of the owner originally intending to only flog it as download).

Amazon have ordered a load more; they should be back in stock by now.

Hi

Are the booklets/artwork available to download for those that have purchased without.

Ivan

Should be available within minutes Ivan!

That is great and much appreciated.

Being a bit of an I Tunes novice I would be very grateful if you could advise as where and how I download it.

Ivan

They're out of stock almost all the time (like now for instance). Their sophisticated systems ought to ensure sufficient stock for imminent and future orders.