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March is winding down and the Random number generator keeps us in the 60’s, 1965 to be exact. But for the first time, number 1 comes up and what a great song. At #72, is composer and conductor John Barry. He composed the soundtracks for eleven Bond films between 1963 and 1987. He also arranged and performed the “The James Bond Theme” for Dr. No. He received 5 academy awards during his career.

1 – The Supremes “Stop In The Name Of Love”

35 – Tony Bennett “If I Ruled The World”

54 – Frank Sinatra “Anytime At All”

72 – John Barry and his Orchestra “Goldfinger”

74 – Glenn Yarbrough “Baby The Rain Must Fall”

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I love the stereo mixes for some of these… Why don’t we still separate instrumentation like that anymore? It makes it feel so much more real. Like you’re in the room with the band.

Obviously, modern recording methods mean higher fidelity of certain instruments, but there’s no reason we couldn’t recreate this effect artificially with modern tech.

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I knew all of these songs except this one. What a treat!! I love his voice!

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Ah, the Goldfinger music. One of the best Bond themes, and I love this background music version of it.

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Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra :pinched_fingers:

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Engineers and producers had just discovered stereo in the 60s and it shows. I was listening to Buffalo Springfield in the car and some instruments are only on the left or right channel, and some recordings have the instruments move across the stage. By the 70s stereo effects had settled down but poeple were still playing with dynamic range and tricks like David Bowie’s Heroes where the producer set up several microphones at varying distances from Bowie. Then came the loudness wars in the 90s followed by Autotune and music production quality fell off a cliff, to the point where some “producers” can’t even be bothered to reprogram the drum machine between tracks

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When you are creating droning, repetitive tracks, why even bother. Club zombies tripping on the latest designer chemicals have little idea what they are listening to anyway. Fandom has replaced talent for the most part.