stevel
Joined: Oct 12, 2012
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Hampton Roads, Virginia
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Posted on Mar 08 2016 10:15 PM
I found this video on Youtube of "Original Master Recordings" supposedly from 61-64.
It opens with "Cecilia Ann" by the Surftones. A little digging shows that Steve Hoffman and Frosty someone recorded this - but it appears they did so when the album came out (1989 maybe).
I scanned through a few tunes (the poster didn't link the track times).
Wipeout didn't sound like the version I'm most familiar with...
I'm wondering how "legit" this album is - are they all re-records, or what? A couple of them said "unissued".
Anyone know anything about this?
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JONPAUL
Joined: Apr 29, 2010
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Venice, CA
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Posted on Mar 09 2016 12:30 AM
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simoncoil
Joined: Sep 28, 2012
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Berlin, Germany
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Posted on Mar 09 2016 03:06 AM
I honestly don't know, what I love more about Cecilia Ann: the song itself or the fact that it still manages to convince so many people that it was recorded in the 60s.
I also dig the suggestion of Klas in the thread linked above by JP, that Hoffmann probably put the master tapes of the songs between the other masters of Downey records and thus ensured that later producers of compilations would also take it for an old recording. A real prankster! 
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Last edited: Mar 09, 2016 03:36:39
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stevel
Joined: Oct 12, 2012
Posts: 219
Hampton Roads, Virginia
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Posted on Mar 09 2016 02:03 PM
I consider it disingenuous rather than a prank!
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tigermask
Joined: May 06, 2015
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Posted on Mar 09 2016 07:39 PM
I consider it a modern classic.
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stevel
Joined: Oct 12, 2012
Posts: 219
Hampton Roads, Virginia
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Posted on Mar 10 2016 09:01 PM
tigermask wrote:
I consider it a modern classic.
Touché (or is that "Touchy" )
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