1STEP Process 180g 45rpm Double LP Pressed on VR900-Supreme Vinyl!
Mastered from the Original Analog Mix-Down Tapes by Chris Bellman & Andreas Meyer!
Heavy-Stock 3-Sleeve Monster Pack Jacket with Gorgeous Tip-In 36-Page Booklet & Luxe Color-Matched Slipcase!
Strictly Limited to 5,000 Numbered Pressings!
Introducing a very special limited edition of Frank Sinatra's historic Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra on Impex 1STEP! The all-analog 2-LP set adds further narrative substance and sonic greatness to The Voice's first big-band jazz long-play vinyl "concept" album! The 33.3 release from Impex was a landmark reissue, but this is a whole other level!
Like all Impex 1STEPs, this audiophile recording is pressed at 45-RPM on high-definition, VR-900 Supreme vinyl for incredible clarity, immediacy and a tonal depth that virtually mirrors the original monophonic master tape. Additionally, the tapes and discs mastered from have rarely been used by other labels, delivering the original recording sessions closer than releases whose tapes have gone through mastering chains over and over. Silent, flat surfaces provide for near-perfect audio playback without distracting non-fill issues.
Exclusive to the Impex 1STEP edition are two previously unreleased bonus recordings and an extended version of the "It All Depends On You" Session + Take, where Sinatra capably arranges the musicians in real time!
The luxurious 1STEP packaging includes a gorgeous 36-page full-color booklet with expanded historical liner notes, unique photos and graphics, and a deluxe slipcase. It provides an excellent listening experience and a "coffee table book" for your living room or den! Just another way you get more from Impex Records!
The 1STEP Process:
The Impex 1STEP process relies on short, tightly-controlled runs that require a new lacquer after each 500 pressings. This unforgiving format has the lacquer skipping the regular father-mother process, going right to a single convert and then pressing. Though this dramatically increases mastering and production costs, it also assures each run is more consistent from disc to disc, with less noise, clearer details and deeper bass.
Reducing production complexity to just a single "convert" disc between the lacquer and the press greatly improves groove integrity, diminishes non-fill anomalies and increases signal integrity from the master tape to your system.
Features
The ultimate edition of Frank Sinatra's famed 1950 concept album
Mastered from the original analog mix-down tapes by Chris Bellman and Andreas Meyer
Two 45-rpm 1STEP LPs pressed by RTI on VR900 Supreme Vinyl
New lacquers cut after each run of 500 pressings
Distinctive Impex 1STEP packaging featuring a gorgeous tip-in 36-page booklet with exclusive photography and period graphics, an expanded historical essay by Charles L. Granata, a heavy-stock two-sleeve Monster Pack jacket by Stoughton Printing and a luxe color-matched slip case
Strictly limited to 5,000 individually-numbered copies
Tracks
Side A:
Lover
It's Only a Paper Moon
My Blue Heaven
It All Depends on You
You Do Something to Me
Should I
Side B:
The Continental
When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)
You Do Something to Me (Orchestral backing track / False starts / Alternate vocal take)
It's Only a Paper Moon - Alternate Take
Side C:
Farewell, Farewell to Love ("Barbecue Riffs")
Deep Night
American Beauty Rose (Orchestral Backing Track)
American Beauty Rose (Vocal Take)
Mee Me at the Copa
Side D:
It All Depends on You (Includes Previously Unreleased Session Material)
UPC: 190759631713
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