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Hi!

I'm new here. My name is Mark and I come from Germany. I recently ordered some Dionne Warwick CD's from the Collector's Choice label. What about the sound quality? Is it good?

Greetings!


Mark

Hi Mark!

Welcome to the forum. Since you have already ordered them - you will soon be able to answer that question for yourself! ........ In general - most are quite good with the exception of the recent live CD's and the Concord released CD - "My Friends and Me" ..... Especially great are the 4 Rhino Handmade CD's ........ "THE WINDOWS OF THE WORLD / VALLEY OF THE DOLLS" ........."SOULFUL" ....... "PROMISES PROMISES / I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN" .... and .... "VERY DIONNE". Each of these 4 CD's is loaded with bonus tracks - many were never previously released!
One more worthy recording is - "HOT, LIVE and OTHERWISE" and is available at David Nathan's Soul Music Store or at tower.com ........ Originally released in 1981 or 1982 - it contains some terrific live performances including a well executed medley of many Dionne classics as well as 4 or 5 studio cuts.

Enjoy!

Ron

Hey Ron!

Thanks for your reply! I must say that the Collector's Choice CDs are a big dissapointment. The sound quality is very bad. I also have the Sequel Records releases from 1995 and they are OK, so it's not a big problem. You're absolutely right about the Rhino Handmade CDs. They are brilliant! I can't understand why they didn't gave the same treatment to the other albums.

Greetings from Germany!


Mark

Hi Mark,
2 weeks from now Rhino (Warner) is releasing a box-set in their Original Album Series here in Germany. It contains the "Presenting..."; "Anyone Who...";"Make Way...";"The Windows..."and "Valley..." albums. No bonus material, no extra booklet etc. it seems - just the original albums. I assume Rhino has done -as always - a good job remastering. Amazon.de lists an amazing price tag of only 19.99 for the whole 5 CD set. Cheers from Berlin, Andreas