Creedence on vinyl

Excellent @tylermunns! Analogue Productions also has fantastic LP’s of Elvis and Roy Orbison titles featuring glorious 1950’s sound, recordings made with tube equipment, vocals often captured with the legendary Neumann/Telefunken U47 tube microphone. Far better than most 1960’s Rock ’n’ Roll recordings, just as is true of Jazz and Classical recordings, most notably Blue Note and Prestige for the former, RCA and Mercury for the latter.

In the late-80’s I met and spoke with Bill Inglot, the engineer responsible for most of the Rock ’n’ Roll LP reissues and compilations Rhino released that decade. I risked offending him by saying I found the Ace LP’s of the same titles he had made for Rhino to sound better than his. He was cool, and admitted he agreed with me. He attributed it to the superior equipment Ace provided their engineer, Bob Jones. By the way, another good UK reissue label is Edsel (appropriate name ;-), an offshoot of Ace if I’m not mistaken.

@tylermunns: Good news! Analogue Productions has reissued the debut Buddy Holly LP, and it is spectacular! Considerably better than the version issued by MCA Records in 1988. AP has issued the Crickets LP as well, and it is not far behind.

As for the From The Original Master Tapes LP on MCA, if you go to the credits on the back of the cover (near the bottom), you’ll find this statement: "Digitally transferred from the original stereo and mono master tapes." That LP was issued in 1985, when digital was still in it’s infancy. I own it for the music, not the sound.

And if you like 50's Rock 'n' Roll in general, The Everly Brothers were also recorded well. I have originals (on Barnaby and Warner Brothers), and reissues done by both Rhino Records and Ace records (a great U.K. label), and they all sound great. Fantastic music too, of course. No Everly Brothers = no Beatles. ;-)