Ralph Sharon - Modern Innovations On Country And Western Themes (1963) [VINYL] - MONO - 24-bit/96kHz plus CD-compatible format

Tony Bennett's musical director recorded this in Dallas as bit of a change-up from Ray Charles' country-soul blends. Here is country-jazz.

Ralph Sharon is perhaps best known as Tony Bennett's piano player and musical director. Oh so many moons ago, he was the man that Tony turned to for a new song for an upcoming concert in San Francisco. History was made that night, my lovlies. Oh, yes! Off and on, Ralph would record an LP, and this one was done after the country-crossover craze made possible by Brother Ray Charles. The results are mixed. Technically, the recording is poor, and to be fair, the LP I had wasn't in the best shape. A couple songs end prematurely. It all sounds like it was recorded from inside a tin can. C'est le vie. And so it goes. It is what it is. It is a rare record, so I offer it here for your enjoyment.

I present the package here in two versions. 1) declicked and folded to mono, like usual, and 2) same as 1) but also run through the DeNoise program from the DeClick guy. Take your pick! Or take both.

The kicker here, is that I have another copy of this LP, still sealed. I just can't talk myself into opening it as it's quite the collectors item. All in all, folks, Ralph's playing shines thru well enough that I wanted to share. It's a rare disk, and they're not making any more of them. And they're not making any more Ralph's either :-(



01 - A Faded Summer Love.flac
02 - Just Because.flac
03 - San Antonio Rose.flac
04 - Jole Blon.flac
05 - Alabama Jubilee.flac
06 - Black Mt Rag.flac
07 - Night Prowler.flac
08 - Lady Bird.flac
09 - Seasons Of My Heart.flac
10 - Waltz Of The Angels.flac
11 - I'm Sorry For You My Friend.flac
12 - You Win Again.flac




LP > Rega P1 with Ortofon Super 30 > TC-750LC > E-Mu 0202 > Adobe Audition 3 (AA) @ 96kHz 32bit float > Manual click removal in AA > Click Repair set @ 20 > Equalizer (from the ClickRepair guy) used to combine into mono) > AA used to split tracks, fade in/out, and for manual click removal > RX Advanced to resample > RX Advanced to dither MBIT+ > TLH to FLAC and sector align (16bit, pad) > MP3 Tagger to edit tags.

"16bit" = 16bit at 44.1kHz
"24bit" = 24bit at 96kHz

No music was harmed in the making of this vinyl rip.