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I don't see how you can blame Fresh Sounds for the fact that Amazon.de screwed up its website, or for the heightened expectations caused by Amazon's error. The HOT ROD RUMBLE CD itself does not contain any indication that it is in stereo. And it was always apparent that the CDs would be mastered from LPs. I'm pleased with the quality of what I've heard so far.
Glad you like your purchase, Bob. I've just never heard of Fresh Sounds and the errors we've seen don't make for warm, fuzzy feelings. Mastering from LP doesn't help either.
In looking at the back of the CD for COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL, there is the notation "Jazz Orchestra conducted by Franz Waxman." I wonder where Fresh Sounds dug up that credit, as neither the film nor the original soundtrack LP mention Waxman's name.
Can I rest my case? 
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Basil,
I mentioned that horrible quality in a previous post, where I was talking about the Fresh Sounds mid-'80s LP of this score. It seems like excessive noise-reduction was used on that release, like they had to master the re-release from a noisy LP source. The big-band tracks come out a little bit better, although even they exhibit the blemishes of the noise-reduction process. But that score cue is indeed horrible.
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Regarding HELL TO ETERNITY, does anyone have an original stereo Warwick LP from 1960? Does that last track sound as bad there, or this only a problem in the reissue?
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Just noticed two additional new releases in this series:
M Squad + Mike Hammer (Stanley Wilson / Skip Martin)
These two albums have had at least two previous releases on CD--first on separate CDs from RCA Spain in 1997, then paired on a 2001 CD from Collectables. I suspect that this new version is sourced from these earlier releases.
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This past December, the Jazz In the Movies label released their seventh "two-fer" CD (JM 1007), consisting of the LPs for the television series "Checkmate" and "Hong Kong." "Checkmate," of course, was previously issued on a now OOP two-fer by FSM. But the LP for "Hong Kong," a series that ran for only one year on ABC during the 1960-61 season, is making its debut on CD.
Much of the music for "Hong Kong" was composed by Lionel Newman, and he is featured on 9 of the 12 tracks on the LP. A group of top-flight orchestrators, many of them composers in their own right, have orchestrated Newman's tracks--Billy May, Warren Barker, Herb Spencer, Frank Comstock, Earle Hagen, Marty Paich, and Sid Feller. In addition, May, Comstock, and Paich contribute compositions of their own for the album. The original LP (which runs 32:41) was issued on ABC-Paramount Records (ABCS-367).
As for source material for this CD, "Hong Kong" undoubtedly has been mastered from vinyl sources (stereo ones, the producer claims). "Checkmate" may well have been cribbed from the FSM CD.
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