Customer Reviews

Lay Down Your Arms

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1. Answer Me (Anne Shelton)
2. The Bridge Of Sighs (Anne Shelton)
3. The Book (Anne Shelton)
4. Why Does It Have To Be Me (Anne Shelton)
5. Cross Over The Bridge (Anne Shelton)
6. I Get So Lonely (Anne Shelton)
7. My Gypsy Heart (Anne Shelton)
8. Teach Me Tonight (Anne Shelton)
9. Arrividerci Darling (Anne Shelton)
10. Seven Days (Anne Shelton)
11. Goodnight, Well It's Time To Go (Anne Shelton)
12. Lay Down Your Arms (Anne Shelton with Wally Stott, His Orchestra & Chorus)
13. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (Anne Shelton with Ambrose & His Orchestra)
14. Don't Leave Me Now (Anne Shelton)
15. Kiss Of Fire (Anne Shelton)
16. And The Angels Sing (Anne Shelton)
17. Too Young To Go Steady (Anne Shelton)
18. The Madonna In Blue (Anne Shelton)
19. Crystal Ball (Anne Shelton)
20. How Deep Is The Ocean (Anne Shelton)

A lot of the tracks on this cd are fake stereo, in which a mono recording was electronically transformed into artificial stereo. The transformation was very poorly, amateurishly, done: it resulted in very noticeable noises which ruin the listening experience. The noises can resemble distortion, but include other sounds. I disliked hearing the normal, natural sounds being preceded by faint pre-echos of them.

The result here is a cd with so many loud, odd noises in the tracks that one does not want to listen to the cd a second time.

I do not like fake stereo at all, and always prefer to hear a track in its original mono; but there is good fake stereo, and bad fake stereo, and this is very bad fake stereo. This fake stereo is intolerable.

This cd does contain a few rare Anne Shelton tracks. But of course they are rare because they are not quite as good as the more common tracks. Also, one always has the option of downloading individual mp3s of the rare tracks.