The Ames Brothers - It's Only A Paper Moon

[Joxer100]

This is one I've been waiting to see on here for a while never could find it along with Destination Moon.I got both on my computer from a record I have.No hisses, crackling or anything like that.Listen to them without annoyances.

Wouldn't mind having more but it's all I wanted at the time.

These guys were the best team of singers at the time.

[carrotjuse]

The Ames Brothers were great. Ed Ames had a resonant baritone voice that commanded attention.

[bingcro]

tks for posting i bought my wife to be one of ames brothers songs you you you way back in 1953

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Is the B side in stereo as well?

[TopshelfTom]

@ttttuuuucccc Yes it is.

[Tim50x]

I meant to write "percussion" ..

Maybe RCA got a newer tape machine at the end of 1957 or start of '58 to use at Webster Hall.

[TopshelfTom]

They had a 2-track tape machine by mid to late 1955 and by 1957 had a 3-track machine that was primarily for backup. recordings, 2-track was still their norm through 1958, but several 3-track recordings from the same time period do still exist.

[Tim50x]

This was maybe among the first songs by the Brothers that engineers got the stereo right. The boys are centered with the percusion and rhythm, the brass and woodwinds are split left and right. Before this the voices were sometimes on one side and the band mostly on the other.

[TopshelfTom]

What surprises me most is this was cut in the middle of some of their other sessions that were done to 2-track yet this was clearly 3 or 4 track...probably recorded at a different studio.... or perhaps 3 track backup tapes existed at one point for their pop recordings but no longer do....i wish i could find out recording dates and studios for all of their releases....unlikely to happen though.