BASEBALL'S GREATEST HITS [Rhino/Rainbo] TEST PRESSING USA LP Bruce Springsteen+

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  Baseball's Greatest Hits Label: Rhino Records (2) ?– R11 70170, Rainbo Records ?– R11 70170 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Test Pressing  Country: US Released: 02 Mar 1989 Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul, Non-Music, Pop, Children's, Folk, World, & Country Style: Comedy, Spoken Word Tracklist A1 –Doc & Merle Watson Take Me Out To The Ball Game 0:30 A2 –Abbott & Costello Who's On First? 5:20 A3 –Les Brown & His Orchestra* Joltin' Joe Dimaggio 2:55 A4 –The Treniers Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song) 3:11 A5 –Mickey Mantle, Teresa Brewer I Love Mickey 1:45 A6 –Dave Frishberg Van Lingle Mungo 2:59 A7 –Lou Gehrig (3) Farewell Speech 0:25 A8 –Danny Kaye (2) D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song (Oh, Really? No, O'Malley) 5:00 A9 –Bill Slayback Move Over Babe (Here Comes Henry) 2:00 B1 –Bruce Springsteen Take Me Out To The Ballgame 2:40 B2 –The Intruders (Love Is Like A) Baseball Game 2:45 B3 –Terry Cashman Willie, Mickey & The Duke (Talkin' Baseball) 3:10 B4 –Tommy Lasorda Talkin' About Dave Kingman 1:20 B5 –Rockin' Ritchie Ray* Baseball Card Lover 2:10 B6 –Steve Goodman A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request 6:28 B7 –The Naturals, Mel Allen Baseball Dreams 4:32 B8 –Bobby Thompson Shot Heard 'Round The World 1:30 B9 –DeWolf Hopper* Casey At The Bat 4:42 Companies, etc. Lacquer Cut At – Allied Record Company Mastered At – K Disc Mastering Credits Compiled By – Warner Fusselle Concept By – James Austin, Richard Foos Design – Tracy Bader Mastered By – Bill Kipper Photography – Earl German Notes Test pressing with hand written labels in plain card sleeve. 

USA TEST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH GENERIC WHITE INNER SLEEVE AND PLAIN WHITE CARD OUTER SLEEVE.

MATRIX:  SIDE A:  R11H-7010A kdisc KP S-21471 1-1 ? ?24434  /  SIDE B:  R11H-7010B ? ?24434-X kdisc KP 1-1 S-21472.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.   INNER SLEEVE[S] VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC[S]: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES AND FINGERPRINTS. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

     
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