HiRez Poll Milsap, Ronnie - PURE LOVE & A LEGEND IN MY TIME [SACD]

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Please post your thoughts and comments on this 2019 Multichannel SACD release from Dutton Vocalion, available to purchase here: https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=CDLK4617



Pure Love
LP APL1 0500 (1974) STEREO APD1 0500 QUADRAPHONIC

1. My Love is Deep, My Love is Wide (Peters)
2. Amazing Love (Schweers)
3. Pure Love (Rabbitt)
4. Four Walls (Moore; Campbell)
5. Streets of Gold (Lunsford)
6. Love the Second Time Around (Schweers)
7. Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends (Kristofferson)
8. All My Roads (Lead Back to You) (Morrison)
9. Behind Closed Doors (O’Dell)
10. Blue Ridge Mountains Turnin’ Green (Lunsford)

THE JORDANAIRES (background vocals) [1-2, 4-5, 8-10]
THE NASHVILLE EDITION (background vocals) [3, 6-7]

A Legend in My Time
LP APL1 0846 (1975) STEREO APD1 0846 QUADRAPHONIC

11. The Busiest Memory in Town (Morgan)
12. Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry (Dexter)
13. (I’d Be) A Legend in My Time (Gibson)
14. The Biggest Lie (Schweers)
15. Country Cookin’ (Milsap)
16. She Came Here for the Change (Barker; Quillen)
17. I’ll Leave this World Loving You (Kemp)
18. I’m Still Not Over You (Milsap)
19. I Honestly Love You (Allen; Barry)
20. Clap Your Hands (Robbins)

Remastered from the original analogue tapes by Michael J. Dutton

Multi-ch Stereo
All tracks available in stereo and multi-channel

SA-CD
This hybrid CD can be played on any standard CD players

 

[Scott65]

A 9. Another quality DV release. I have to be 'in the mood' for this type of music, so I will not play this disc often, but when I do I will thoroughly enjoy it.

 

[rasalas]

I just picked this up and gave it a 7. That's not bad; it's just nothing spectacular. I grew up with many of these songs, played by my parents on the country station in the car, so it's a sentimental purchase. The strongest aspect of this release is Ronnie Milsap's incredible voice. And this is an excellent value, with two albums on one disc. The surround mix is discrete but tends to be broad and simplistic. The biggest downside is that a few songs, including favorites My Love Is Deep, My Love Is Wide and Pure Love, have a stridency and sibilance in the high part of the background vocals that make them difficult to listen to. It's actually jarring when they enter abruptly in the rear channels during Pure Love. Also, as good as Milsap's vocals are, their volume varies within songs. These might be from the original sessions/mix. I don't regret getting this disc, but these negative aspects temper my enthusiasm.

 

[mandrix]

There are other Milsap songs I like better than this round. But it's not bad. Love his voice.