Thanks, Zeldar!
I’ll ‘fess up to Anne Murray, then…Love Song was a great vocal pop album, when she was still working with Brian Ahern, later to produce…and marry…Emmylou Harris. Besides, I figure anything that has John Lennon’s favorite cover of a Beatles song can’t be bad. It was also apparently the first album in her catalog mixed to sound good through an FM radio; her earlier ones have that midrange-heavy AM mix designed to sound good on a crappy car radio. (See also early Motown, early Beach Boys, early Wall Of Sound productions, and the original U.S. Beatles’ mixes on vinyl, and much more, obviously.)
Had that one on vinyl, and 8-track, and now CD as an import.
Slight hijack that might be of interest…I’ve discovered that Capitol Records occasionally uses an actual vinyl album to remaster some of the titles for which they’re missing the master tapes. That’s happened with a pretty large percentage of the early Anne Murray stuff, and also with The Band’s Stage Fright album. (If you listen closely, you can hear a little bit of cue burn and the occasional vinyl “pop” as the needle travels the grooves.)
In the case of The Band, Glyn Johns had done one set of mixes, Todd Rundgren did another set. IIRC, Rundgren ended up doing seven songs on the original vinyl Stage Fright and the other three were Johns’. When the first CD version was issued in the early '90s, it had (mostly) the wrong mixes.
So, that means that I’m such a sucker that I had the vinyl, and the first CD issue, and a CD remaster of the vinyl album. I’m not exactly peeved about it, but I do wish they’d said something about it SOMEWHERE in the booklet or on the back cover. (Many other companies take pains to say something, whether it’s East-West/Atlantic on The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968 or Rhino on some of their reissues, so you’re not surprised by the sound…)
Let’s see…I can also add Joplin In Concert (Janis, not Scott) to my list.
Van Morrison It’s Too Late To Stop Now and Tupelo Honey
The George Benson Collection
Steely Dan Gaucho and Countdown To Ecstasy
Still thinking…