Hot Stamper Pressings of Ella Fitzgerald’s Albums Available Now
Reviews and Commentaries for Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
Sonic Grade: F
There is no reissue, and there will never be a reissue, that will sound as good as a good vintage pressing of Clap Hands.
The Classic Heavy Vinyl Reissue is a disgrace. I would rather play the CD.
(20 years ago, when I still had a CD player in my system, the CD was one of my favorites for testing, along with Blue and dozens of other well-recorded vocal albums.)
Long time customers know that I have been raving about this album from way back in 1990 or so – ever since I first heard it in fact. I consider it the finest female vocal album in the history of the world. I could go on for pages about this music. Suffice to say this is a record that belongs in every human being’s record collection.
Just not the Classic Records pressing of it.
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Note that most of the entries are audiophile remasterings of one kind or another.
The reason for this is simple: we’ve gone through the all-too-often unpleasant experience of comparing them head to head with our best Hot Stamper pressings.
When you can hear them that way, up against an exceptionally good record, their flaws become that much more obvious and, frankly, that much more intolerable.
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