I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos

I only have eyes for you - The Flamingos (1959) BEST SOUND IN 480p. The song was written by Harry Warren in 1934, lyrics by Al Dublin, for the movie Dames starring Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, and later featured in the movie A Bronx Tale. FOR MORE INFO ON THIS SONG CLICK HERE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Only_Have_Eyes_for_You Played on a Bang & Olufsen Beogram turntable model RX 2. Playing through a Pioneer SX 1080 Receiver bi-amped using Magneplanar Magnepan speakers with a powerd 12" sub-woofer. B&O is about as sleek and modern in appearance as you can get with their high end ultra modern styled stereo gear, and I found this in a thrift store of all places. These turntables were quite pricey when new, and command a high price used today. The stylus and cartridge are in excellent condition.. It is very elegantly styled with as few knobs etc., as possible to not detract from its sleek clean design. The tonearm does not even have a tonearm rest, it just sits suspended in air. It determines the speed and record size by the spindle. When starting to play you will notice the record rise about 1/4 of an inch off the turntable. If it was a 12" 33RPM record the weight would keep the spindle down and it would change speed to 33 and index for a 12" record. The speed and index sizing can be overridden for odd records like 7" 33 or 12" 45 RPM. The Bang & Olufsen MMC cartridge is a sterling example of Bang & Olufsen's pursuit and execution of superior design and engineering. This turntable has the MMC5. "MMC" stands for Moving Micro-Cross, a design principle that integrated all of the cartridge components - coils, magnet, cantilever, and stylus and which became the patented moving-iron principle upon which all B&O cartridges were based. The MMC moving-iron cartridge is designed to produce the finest groove separation and accurate reproduction of music. For everyday use I still prefer a standard turntable. I like to use a discwasher brush to clean the record on the turntable,and you cannot do that on this turntable due to the suspension being built in the turntable instead of in the deck as most standard turntables. Recommended on line radio station for classic American music from 1920's to 1980'shttp://www.krli.net/

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[Emart9224]

Bad ass fuckin record player what kind is it n where can i get one THATS GANGSTER SHIT

[maynardcat]

@Emart9224 All the info on this on B&O turntable is in the information box, & it is belt driven & the auto return doesn't degrade it's performance. They do come up from time to time on ebay. I also have a Thorens TD-125 turntable, and I am not familiar with the quality of the Thorens Phantasie, but don't care much for its looks. The most highly collectible Thorens is the TD-124 with the Shure SME tonearm. Enter ebay no 220933185428

[PJDooWop]

About ten years ago I was a mobile DJ and I bought a lot of reissue 45s because I didn't want to take my original records out to gigs. I bought a lot of silver label Collectables because most of them were mastered very well, like this one. Most likely they were taken from master tapes. Black label and pink label Collectables 45s are iffy.. Some sound great and some sound terrible.

[maynardcat]

@PJDooWop Hi PJ This stereo silver label Collectable is an impressive recording, & when listening in the room it has excellentt fidelity & sound stage for a 1959 recording, almost like the Flamingos are singing live, but unfortunately none of this can be heard on the video. You're right they do vary in sound quality, but it also might have to do with how the master was recorded, some were poor recordings to begin with. I have 2 END 45s on the jukeboxes I play this only on the turntables.

[PJDooWop]

Flamingos 45s on End are tough when it comes to sound quality. Even clean looking copies might play with noise. They were a popular group and people played their records to death. I do have a few Flamingos End 45s that sound incredible, though. I would say for the most part the Flamingos recordings on End were very well done

[maynardcat]

@PJDooWop Hi PJ Yes i noticed that as well with the END 45's, that is probably why the Collectable sounds so good the master recording was well done. I have one END in nice condition,and the other is a little worn. The better END is in the Seeburg, and the other is in the Wurlitzer 1800. The Wurlitzer 1800 gets all the worn 45's as it still has the Zenith Cobra cartridge which isn't too easy on records. The other two Wurlitzers & the Seeburg have new Pickering stereo magnetic cartridges,

[disorderofdots]

im 20. popular music's had over 50 years to evolve since this...

fuck we went wrong  somewhere.

[abercrombieblondiie]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, anyone?

[sauquoit13456]

JUST MISSED!!! "I Only Have Eyes For You" just missed making the Billboard's Top 10 chart; it peaked at No. 11 and spent a total of 13 weeks in the Top 100 in 1959!!!

[msccryder1968]

This song is the shit!

[ilyarse]

Cool B&O turntable

[sayenshin]

SMALLVILLE - Third season - Relic

[Mayeoli22]

Lovely. I understand Bruno Mars's inspiration now. :D

[123ETERNALDEATH]

Lucy & Pat DiMauro

[jogmas12]

@Emart9224 dude, that a turntable is a Bang and Olufsen. Most likely from the 1980's. you should not judge a turntable on how it looks rather on how it plays records. This B&O turntable i see is a semi automatic. That's not so good because the best sounding turntable are completely manual and belt driven. Check out the phantasie turntable from Thorens.

[jlmusicfan57]

@gunny426plymouth

This song was also featured in the movie "The Right Stuff". In the movie the night before Gus Grissom is about to become the first man in orbit back in '61, he and Scott Carpenter are visiting a bar. This song is playing in the background when two gorgeous young "thangs" walk by looking to tempt any man in the bar. The lyrics in the song were perfect as Gus wanted to do more than "rest up" for his big event the next day! This song is a classic!!