More Harry Belafonte
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- This wonderful recording from 1959 returns to the site for the first time in years, here with INSANELY GOOD Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) Living Stereo sound throughout this original pressing
- The notes for our top copy on side one are all raves, “big, dynamic and rich vocals / very full and rich,” etc.
- For side two, track one, the notes read, “So sweet and rich, can’t complain” followed by “This is a serious step up! crazy good.”
- If you want to hear a record with sound like that, focus your attention on the pressings made in 1959 – that’s where that sound can be found, and you will have a hard time finding it on any record made in the last 50 years, no matter what anybody may tell you
- If someone disagrees with that assessment, have them play you the record that beats this one, something they will have a devil of a time trying to do
- “The first of Belafonte’s duet albums with female performers, this one paired two attractive black American singers at the peak of their respective talents.”
A Living Stereo knockout! We often forget to spend time with records like this when there are Zeppelin and Floyd records to play. We’ve always enjoyed Belafonte At Carnegie Hall, but when we’ve dug further into his catalog we’ve been left cold more often than not. However, when we finally got around to dropping the needle on a few of these we were very impressed by the music and blown away by the sound on the better pressings.