Rca: The Very Best of Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 7, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B00005LN5S
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #184,403 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Original Hit Recordings but " Tampered " sound, September 26, 2010

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Still Spinning Vinyl "It's not final for vinyl" (New York USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Rca: The Very Best of Neil Sedaka (Audio CD)

I have most of Neil Sedakas Hit Singles from when they were first released on 45 RPM so I am more than familiar with the original sound. I bought this CD as it contained those songs plus a few additional ones that I do not recall as being Hits here in the USA.

As with many re-issues of older material on CD, the sound has been so called " Digitally ReMastered " which to me, makes this CD not as authentic as the orignal 45RPM issues of Neils original Hits. What I think I am going to have to do is re-record this CD ( for my own personal use ) by putting both stereo channels together and hope the Monaural sound comes closer to the way these songs were originally meant to be heard.

It is a good CD if you want a clean sound, they are the original RCA Victor Hit recordings, just separated into 2 channels. I wish on these re-issue CD recordings they would not " Tamper " with the original presentation, even if it is Mono.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best package of Neil's RCA hits, June 11, 2010

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Jeff Pearlman (Lakeland, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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I've done the research, and I'm (pretty) sure this is the only CD that has all 13 of Neil's Top 40 hits for RCA from 1959-63. It also has better sound and photos than its prime competitor, "All-Time Greatest Hits". While "ATGH" has no liner notes, "Very Best Of" has pretty good ones written by Michael Hill. Despite all this, ATGH remains in print while VBO, tied in to the increasingly-less-timely 100th anniversary of RCA's inception in 2001, is not. Grab this while it's still available used, and cheap!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sedaka, June 6, 2011

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Ed Pollock (Julian, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Very good recordings for the Sedaka fans out there. It is real easy to let it repeat on those long drives. I'm happy I made this purchase. No complaining about new version vs. old, etc., etc. Sedaka is just plain good, go see him in concert.