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Title: Hard on the ears
Review: I don't know what album my fellow reviewers were listening to, but the music on my CD is recorded as if at a distance and smothered with a thick gooey echo reminiscent of sixties simulated stereo. The dialogue excerpts (likely from a film or video master) make the music sound worse because they're crisp and clear. (Although we can do without that dead Groucho joke about the elephant. Obviously the film wasn't a laff riot.) Yet another case of bad engineers wreaking havoc on good music, an enjoyable (though not especially memorable) Sherman Brothers concoction from the movie musical's last days. One hopes that whoever next acquires the rights to these "MGM" recordings (AAAAARGH!!!) will do them justice, and not just run old reels through a tape machine, and avoid printing the liner notes like a troublemaking road map.
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