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Thank you, Karen, for stopping by! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you, Mr60smusicman! Glad you enjoyed my “stereoization” of this classic!

Sorry about thank, Michael… Wasn’t paying attention when I was putting this video together many years ago…

I loved it too, Mary! I know exactly when they would play it on my AM radio station every night!

Thanks for stopping by! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks, Tiger! doing the DES was not hard. The hard part was trying to make this ultra-compressed piece of crap sound halfway decent. I had to severely compress the highs, which needed a LOT more. It's good enough for government work. Sammy did a fabulous job synching my DES to this live performance video.

Thanks, David! Yes indeed! THIS was a chart-topper back in '72. The original studio recording it so horrifically compressed and super-shrill. I tried my best to make it sound decent. THe original stereo recording didn't have any stereo at all.Sammy did a spectacular job synching this studio recording with this live TV performance!

@@bobzwol Thanks very much, Bob! Your DES sounds so much better and enjoyable than the original distorted track!

Thanks David!

Thanks or stopping by, CountryDJDave! Glad you enjoyed my remix of this classic!

Actually, I've never heard this song before, nor could I find any information on it! But I LOVE this performance by Pet! I just HAD to "stereoize"it!

Thanks, neighbor! Glad you liked this one!

MACHOLOCOCO! Thanks for stopping by! Glad you enjoyed it!

Hi, Paul. Thanks for stopping by, Yes, the “Yee Haah” was almost non-existent in the original mono mix. Thanks for supplying the link to the original stereo version. I fondly remember that I hated it when it came out. The left channel was way to “busy” supporting the drums, bass AND acoustic rhythm guitars. I only had the mono version growing up. That alternate version is very interesting! But it’s amazing what happens when you have a good producer to make it sound great, as the released version was. I DO have the mono version of “Solitary Man”. I may do a DES of it in the future. I don’t want to suddenly have an homage to Neil on my channel. Thanks again for your divine presence. Always a treat.

Love YOU, Arthur! Thanks! 58 years later and it's still a favorite. Glad you enjoyed it!

MOTOWN MAN! YEEHAAH! Glad you liked this one! I remember hearing the original stereo version back in the day and remembered that it sucked. I like mine! Thanks for stopping by!!

Thank you, David! Stay safe, my good friend!

@@bobzwol Doing my best. Thanks Bob for caring.

Thanks, Sammy! Yes! I'd LOVE to do "I Wanna Be With You"! I don't recall if I have a loseless digital version of it... I'll reach you via e-mail.

Thanks, bro! Glad you liked it! I didn't realize this was Neil's very 1st hit! The original stereo versioin was crappy and never cared for it. Now I have it the way I've always wanted it!

Gracias por tu visita. ¡Me alegro que te haya gustado!

Thank you, Manuel, for stopping by! Glad you enjoyed my mono-to-stereo remix of this classic!

Thanks for stopping by! Glad you enjoyed this blast from the past from 60+ years ago! Yep! The young lass had talent!

Thank you for stopping by, Michael! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you, Leslie, for stopping by! So glad you enjoyed my “stereoization” of this classic performance by Bobby!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Glad you enjoyed my “stereoization” of this great recording by Tony!

Thank you, Nathan, for stopping by! Glad you liked my “Stereoization” of this classic recording!

Thank you, Ivan, for stopping by! Using NERO Video, I adjusted the Brightness, Contrast and sharpened it a bit. I do have much better video cleanup programs, but did not use them in this case. [Although TOPAZ would have done a better restoration job].

@@bobzwol does it take a gaming-powered computer to do this kind of video processing? i tried back in the day with a pentium IV and it just would not do it.

@@ivanwashington3186 Ivan, A Pentium IV? THAT went out on the stone-age back before 1998! I didn’t use either of my video restoration programs [TOPAZ Video AI or DaVinci Resolve Studio]. All I did in this case was adjust the contrast, brightness and sharpness before I exported the video in NERO 2019. I SHOULD have tried TOPAZ to see if it would have been better. Sometimes, TOPAZ makes it too “cartoonish”. TOPAZ would have taken several hours to render, and I didn’t want to wait that long.

@@ivanwashington3186 That is correct. My last Pentium IV was in 1998. My 1st Pentium V was in 2000. I bought my latest Laptop at Costco 4-or-5 years ago. It has just enough power to run heavy video restoration programs. It STILL takes up to 6-hours to render a 6 minute video, depending on how much it has to clean up.

Thank you for stopping by! Glad you enjoyed this snippet of classic Hollywood. Well, this was 1953 and they didn’t want them looking too made-up…

Thank you for stopping by! Glad you enjoyed my "stereoization" of this incredible performance!

Thanks, Sammy! The audio was pitiful, to say the least. I managed to squeeze out some good sounds out of it.

@@bobzwol Bob, are you up to doing another Raspberries? How about this one: czcams.com/video/pez7lp97g1o/video.html

Thank you, David! Yes... After 60 years, I still love Pet and her string of hits from the 60's. I'll get to that French version of "It's A Sign Of The Times" [Si Tu Prenais Le Temps ] shortly.

Thank you, Chris, for chiming in! I still love both Pet & Dusty. SO glad our darling Ms. Clark is still with us! When I stumbled upon this video the other day, I just HAD to restore it and convert it to STEREO! Glad you liked it!

Hah! I did not notce it! Now I can't "unsee" it for the rest of my life! Indeed! A "spike" mark is usually a line of an "X" made up of 3" strips of colored tape. THIS one must have been made for those that are almost blind!

Thank you, Chrstopher! The original audio from this video was much to be desired, It was a tinny, crappy, distorted over-compressed mess. I brought out all of the goodness I could. It was a treat to see Petula so young before she made it big in the states.

Hi, Paul. Yes indeed! She recently turned 92 and still with us! It's such a treat to see her do this swingin’ jazz number instead of the pop stuff she did after Tony Hatch came up with “Downtown” and her string of pop hits that followed. I have a few videos that she did for the French market as well and will “stereoize” one in the near future. Thanks again for stopping by!

@@bobzwol Petula turns 92 in December. I look forward to these French language videos. I picked up one on CZcams of Petula and Noel Harrison talking to each other and singing together in French.

It was the British Invasion that promoted her into the American Scene where Petula and Dusty were deemed as the female part of the British Invasion, although both started long before The Beatles. Petula then had the privilege of sharing the stage with The Rolling Stones on the Ed Sullivan show. But previous to the British Invasion, like any other British artist, she was completely ignored in the States, and had few records released there, then.

Thank you, sir Hoffmann for stopping by! I had forgotten that she started when she was very young! This was before she was known in the US. I will change my comments to reflect that AND add some information from her earlier career. Glad you enjoyed this “stereoized” snippet of her.

Thank you, Daldie, for stopping by! I’m surprised you can watch this video, as CZcams blocked it in most countries the minute I uploaded it! Glad you liked my “stereoization” of this great hit by Bobby!

Thank you, Lyall G, for stopping by! Tony recorded this one twice, the 1st one was in 1950. This one was 5 years later in 1955 with a much better arrangement. Glad you liked it.

@@bobzwol …I do regret never seeing him live, and many others of that timeline. I have shared this video on a couple of music groups.🙂

Thank you, Paul, for chiming in. I know I called-up the original 1950 version on CZcams, but have forgotten what it sounded like and need to listen to it again. As for the duplicated tracks, that’s easily caused by the mastering engineer dragging/dropping the wrong track into the “burn” list when the 2 track names are almost identical. Obviously, the engineer wasn’t familiar with Tony’s recordings and wouldn’t have caught that error, if he/she did any QA/QC at all... This track just screamed at me to convert to stereo! Its original mono mix was so perfect that I didn’t have to alter any EQ, dynamics or amplitude to make it sound great in stereo! Thanks again for stopping by! Always appreciated!

Thanks, Sammy! Didn't have to alter any EQ or amplitude. The original mono recording was great right out of the box. This one took quite a bit of manual labor to separate the reeds and the bass, but the results are worth it. The man sure could sing!

@@bobzwol Yes he sure could!

Thank you, neighbor!!! Glad you liked this one!

Thank you for stopping by! Tony was the absloute best! Glad you enjoyed my "stereoization" of this great recording!

Thank you, Christopher! This one just begged me to do a DES of it! What a great singer he was! With outside temps being 112-121 degrees for the next few months here in the desert, you betcha I’ll be DESsing a bit!

Yes, Arthur, I'M BACK! I KNEW you'd like this one by Tony. I know he demanded YOU whenever he was in N.I. or the U.K. What a great voice he had and what an incredible person he was! What a legacy he left. This track just screamed at me for a DES.

Thank you, sire! Glad you liked it!

Thanks, Pete! Glad you’ve found my channel! Wow! I haven’t played this one in years! This is one of my earlier MONO-to-STEREO conversions. I’ve since purchased much better sound-separation software and can do a much better job on it by isolating the violin sole and separate the backing vocals from Frank’s lead vocal. I might have to revisit this one. It’s such an incredible song. Glad you liked it!

Thank you for stopping by, Pete! SO glad you liked my “stereoization” of this Christmas classic.

Thank you, Leigh, for stopping by! I hadn’t realized that this ending was an out-take that the director kept in the final cut! The guys snapped into position and saved this scene perfectly! It really worked well! It would have wasted the entire day’s shoot if they had to reset her hair and dry her costume to film it all over again.

Hi Sammy! Yes... I'm back! I took a 6-month DES hiatus. I needed to do stuff around the house. It's going to take me MONTHS to catch up with what YOU'VE done in the interim. It's 116-degrees here in the So Cal desert. Can't do much outside. So I;ll stay in and DES my little heart out. As for this video, one of my buddies asked me to restore it. I kindly obliged. I wish I could have done a better job on restoring the video-portion. TOPAZ couln't do much for it. Neither could DaVinci Resolve Studio. I remember you asked me to redo one for you. Please remind me which one that was.

@@bobzwol Bob, that's really hot out there! Topaz has its limits with certain poorer material. Sometimes I won't use it for that reason. It was the Vanilla Fudge if you'd like to upgrade it. Great hearing from you!

@@smurfstoolsoldiesmusictimemach Thanks again for dropping by, Sammy and keeping the connection. Indeed. TOPAZ tends to make features too "cartoonish" if the source video is poor. Very annoying after it took 2-to-4 hours to render. I have around 20 DES projects started but couldn’t bring myself to do the tedious cleanup work in a Spectral Editor. I’ll get to ‘em sooner or later. Right now, I’m going to hop on to your channel and check out what you’ve been up to.

Thank you, sir Hoffmann, for stopping by! I tried several video software products to clean up the crappy 360p source video, but I couldn’t get decent results. One of my friends from Los Angeles asked me restore this snippet of LA transit history. I was happy to do so.