Listen: Summertime / Billy Stewart BillyStewartSummertime.mp3
This is one of the songs, well versions, you do NOT hear anymore. On the rare occasion when it’s gets a ‘solid gold’ spin, it’s the unedited, different, cleaned up one. I bet they don’t know any better.
All the fussy, remastered, newly found stereo takes that infest artist compilations and box sets have virtually eliminated many original mono versions. Those are the ones able to truly bring the listener back to that place in time. Heard the original of ‘The Sounds Of Silence’, ‘Good Vibrations’ or ‘Dancing In The Streets’ lately. No.
Well here’s the hit version, from booming, deep groove Chess vinyl. There’s just no comparison.