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Very legit, I believe
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A label called Dutton Vocalion in the UK is advertising newly remastered SACD quadraphonic recordings of a couple of well known OBC recordings, COMPANY and A CHORUS LINE. Could these possibly be legitimate? Would SONY allow another label access to the original session masters of such classic recordings?
Dutton Vocalion has been around for many years. I have a number of their discs and they are excellent at least to my ears. They have a wide range of music including historic recordings, pop, rock, jazz, classical, film music, etc. Everything is legitimate.
Their SACD discs are playable on any CD player. Check out their website.
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Why do you think they didn’t have access?
Yavar
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In fact, there's been a lot of discussion on this Board about Dutton and the Gerhardts, so I was surprised to see this thread. But then, I miss a lot of things on the Board all the time...
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Has Sony ever licensed another label and given it access to original music sessions to remaster and release well known recordings such as these? Just asking.
Literally all the time. They typically cooperate and provide transfers of elements in their possession, to labels who pay to sub-license things in their catalogue. That’s how, for example, the new-ish Kritzerland editions of Moross’s The Cardinal and Fielding’s Advise & Consent (the first time these scores had been released on CD from the original tapes, apparently) came about, in much better sound quality than any prior editions.
There was a point this past year when it looked as if Sony had ceased any further sub-licensing of their catalogue (they sent out an official letter to the labels) but that was either short lived or a false alarm, because MV stated a few months ago that Sony Music was back open to sub-licensing (but then the pandemic hit and everything slowed down).
Yavar
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A label called Dutton Vocalion in the UK is advertising newly remastered SACD quadraphonic recordings of a couple of well known OBC recordings, COMPANY and A CHORUS LINE. Could these possibly be legitimate? Would SONY allow another label access to the original session masters of such classic recordings?
Dutton Vocalion has been around for many years. I have a number of their discs and they are excellent at least to my ears. They have a wide range of music including historic recordings, pop, rock, jazz, classical, film music, etc. Everything is legitimate.
Their SACD discs are playable on any CD player. Check out their website.
They are advertising that the 2 recordings I mentioned were newly remastered in Aug., 2020. How is that possible without access to the original session masters?
They don't get the actual session masters, they get the ALBUM masters - a whole different kettle of fish. Then they master those. But the short answer is, we got the three-track session masters for most of the soundtracks we've issued. They don't send the TAPES, obviously, they send digital files, we combine the three tracks into two and voila. But that's NOT what Dutton is doing here. They're using the album master of the two-track and the quad mixes that were done for those albums back in the day.
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Dutton-Vocalion are great. Their masterings of the Charles Gerhardt RCA series are fantastic.
Cheers
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