The Good Vibrations - I Get Around (DJ L33 Full Album Remaster) 5 Disco Covers of The Beach Boys '78
Luther Vandross a Beach Boys Fan! This upload is for The Beach Boys (and I guess Luther) completists out there. This is a 1978 12\" Vinyl only release of disco covers of 5 Beach Boys songs. The GROUP is called \"The Good Vibrations\" and the ALBUM is entitled \"I Get Around\", which was difficult enough to figure out even holding the album in front of me! It was released by Millennium / Quality Records and mostly distributed from Canada. However the artists and production itself was American and recorded, mixed and mastered in New York.
CHAPTER TIME: Chapter Title
0:00 I Get Around
6:33 Good Vibrations
13:57 Don't Worry Baby
21:40 Darlin'
27:25 God Only Knows
BONUS FEATURE:
31:24 Before and After Restoration and Remastering
It's hard to tell if this is meant to be a short full album or a 12\" single. While disco really rung in the 12\" single era and were very popular, 12\" singles usually advertised it proudly in words on the sleeve (12\" single or Disco single). Also the tracks would say extended version or dance version or mix or whatever. So while at first I was learning toward thinking it was a 12\" single, I now think it's a short album, because there is no alternate release with more tracks like an Album would have, and there are no shorter or album versions of the songs as opposed to this.
Of strange notable mention, most of the vocals are by Luther Vandross, and the album was produced by Stewart Levine, who's is best known for working with Lionel Richie, Huey Lewis And The News, Killing Joke, Boy George, Sly Stone, Simply Red, Aaron Neville, Joe Cocker and others.
I'm guessing this is one of Luther's early recordings.
I know this will not be a lot of Beach Boy fans favorite takes of the songs, but it is part of the history of the reach of the band even during the disco era. This came at the same time as The Beach Boys were working on the disco version of Here Comes The Night.
Please don't thumbs down the video because it's disco. This is for the people who do enjoy it or just would love to hear anyone that sang Beach Boy material whether they like it or not. And a lot of work was put into remastering this vinyl.
This was only released on vinyl and it wasn't the best pressing so it was very noisy and lacking top and bottom end. I spent about 5 hours manually de-clicking vinyl noise after already running many processes to remove it, and I also applied custom noise profiles and filtering.
Disco and Dance Mixes where the 4/4 kick drum is isolated with nothing much in the background in terms of instrumentation is the hardest vinyl to restore. The clicking and scratches and noise is very loud between kicks. When you try to run software on it to automatically remove clicks, it also makes a sharp kick drum with a snap turn into a dull muted thud. So I used a method of reducing noise by processing the kick sections backwards, but that only did about 25% of the job. I had to then manually de-noise every section between bass drum kicks...hundreds of segments and tweak. I had to really pay attention to what I was doing, because when I remaster it at the end, it will amplify the noise and clicking I missed or didn't reduce enough. Disco isn't really my thing, but The Beach Boys are, as are the subscribers on the page who are completists, so it was worth it, even if loosely related.
At the tail end I remastered it to compensate for the limitations of the vinyl itself. It has a lot more body, stereo width and top and bottom end with a warmer sound. Before and After are in the bonus feature.
Now you can hear another lost piece of Beach Boys related history in good quality.
One notable mention, the beginning of this cover of Darlin' uses a drum progression that reminds me of Madness - Our House and another song that escapes me. Our House was released on their 1982 album The Rise & Fall. They were a punk / ska UK band. That would make it a strange influence since the punk genre was an opposing reaction to Disco. Strange how the same drum flow could be used on both ends of the music genre spectrum! Compare the two songs sometime.
Enjoy!
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