A new year for this Channel and its first video is a track from 1970, "Kalimera Hara". The source of the audio track is the Greek released 7" 45 rpm single (Cat. No. Philips 6060 008) , which is in mono, like all the early Greek Vicky singles. "Kalimera Hara" was featured on the A-side of the single, while on the flip side we find "Mi mou les pos m'agapas" (German version: Medizin fuer Herz). This song is the Greek version of the "Klipp und Klar". released also as a single in Germany the same year, about the same time with "St. Tropez - Gitarren bei Nacht". There's also the French version "Je t'ai dit au revoir", released as a single in Canada in 1970 and also included in the compilation album "Les Grands Succes de Vicky". There's in YT a wonderful video with a youthful, groovy and very beautiful Vicky singing the french version. Also we mention here the very rare today Italian version "Sei securo di te", included in a promo album released in Italy by Philips in 1969. This album has on the A-side tracks performed in Italian by the Croatian singer Tereza Kesovijia and the B-side tracks performed, also in Italian, by Vicky. This album is very rare today. The Greek version (stereo mix) was included also in the Greek 1973 compilation album "Oi epitychies tis Vicky". This track, among few others released in 1970 marks the end of Vicky's early teen period. Already, from the beginning of 1970, major changes were to be made about Vicky's public image as an artist. On Spring of that year, for the first time, the new stage name "Vicky Leandros" made its first appearance (used for the first time on the Ich Bin...Vicky Leandros TV Special and on the cover of "St. Tropez - Gitarren bei Nacht" single". Vicky, at her early 20's, from now on had to leave behind her the teen girl image and emerge as a mature female artist.
In the video we see first the A-side of the Greek single, which credits M. Panas (Leo Leandros alias), Ralph Arnie and Sevi Tiliakou (the Greek lyricist). At the end we see a wonderful autographed b/w Vicky photo, posing with her platinum record awards for her first million records sales in Canada (circa 1969).
The equipment used for the transfer is the Pro-Ject Debut III turntable fitted with an Ortofon OM20 cartirdge/stylus, aligned according to the Baerwald method with a protractor, a home made phono stage using Burr Brown OPA2134 dual op-amp and WIMA polypropylene caps, carefully hand-picked for best accuracy of the RIAA curve, and the internal AC-97 soundcard of my desktop PC with Audacity as the recording software. This time the sampling rate was 16bit/96KHz, trying this way to capture more detail.. Between line-in of the PC and the output of the phono preamp, I used a single vacuum tube home made line preamplifier. It was made with a single double-triode vintage RCA 12AU7 (ECC82) tube from the 50's and IRF610A MOSFET's.
The sound quality of this Greek pressing is quite acceptable, given its a mono mix and also considering that the vinyls condition is very poor, with lots of scratches. I cleaned very well this single using the wood glue method. This way is the only (as I don't have an expensive vacuum record cleaning machine) to remove the dirt accumulated after 4 decades in the grooves. It's not by any means a Hi-fi pressing, lacking of detail and clarity. But, anyway you can have an idea of the sound of a typical single from that era, made to be played mainly in cheap portable "electrophones" with heavy ceramic cartridges.
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Vicky Leandros - Ich Bin (HQ)by malleep2,802 views
Thank you everyone!! Hope you like the sound quality. i put my best as the 7" single was very scratchy and in poor condition. Happy new year!
evarlam 1 month ago