Love And Marriage-Best Version

[Wrahn]

First, I am an amateur and not musically trained so I can t give you much expertise on the music. I also don t know what the FS version is. However, there is no key indicated when the song starts and there are two parts to the music. One is very pleasant and professionally done and sounds great and the other is a faint background single instrument playing the melody. I believe it is a mini sound. There also is an instrument rest with a video picture of a horse and carriage in a major city which is very nice.

I usually don t like a background instrument playing melody and prefer just chords playing and the singer singing the melody, but a faint melody does help if the singer does not know the song and there is no multiplex.

Not sure this helps you.

[Lonman]

No backup vocals on the Chartbuster or Sweet Georgia Brown - which musically are identical BTW (Chartbuster oddly had many tracks that coincided with SGB i\\\\\\\'m beginning to find out). No vocals on the Sound Choice. Do not have the DK version to listen to. But that e-bay auction for the Applause series disc above is legit, however not being able to hear it, most of the tv theme discs I have are only what you hear on the actual show and not full songs, not saying this is the case here but be prepared.

[jahern]

Wrahn By FS I simply meant how Frank Sinatra sings it. Some versions change the key for some reason. I am trained a little in music, but the only way for me to know is to hear them side by side. I do not have perfect pitch or anything like that. Absent actual posted keys on both versions which is rare. Also I have heard versions where it is all synthesized and none of the instruments sound real. That usually is not the case with the original 99 discs of DK. They do include that lead melody track in those discs. I like it. It is amazing how many people pick a song to sing then realize that they need to sing along to the melody.

Lonman, thanks for the rundown. I am hoping that if I get this DK version I get a general sense of real sounding instruments

[justinelias]

I will fill you all in on a secret. SGB, ALLHITS, PS, Legends (some of them), and the list goes on were all done by Bob Blank with Blank Productions. You can do side by side comparisons. Chartbuster bought a lot of track from Bob Blank and the new karaoke net site is going to have the exact same songs and versions except with the sybersound logo. Karaoke Versions might be the best place to go but they also bought and licensed a LOT of Bob Blank\'s songs. If you need proof just look up Runaway by Bonnie Raitt. JVC (OLD CDG) and Singing Machine were the only ones who did not use the Blank Productions version. You will notice AllStar has a lot of Blank\'s stuff too. There are some on All Hits, Nutech, Top Tunes just to name a few. I thought I would just let you know I did some work for him as a guide vocalist and so did my friend Fonda. One thing I could not stand was his one snare he used on EVERYTHING.

If push comes to shove and you need a good version, I do make custom backing tracks and have done that song down to the exact match. I would suggest you try to listen to ALL the ones Ameritz has and Karaoke Versions. Karaoke Versions is slowly doing away with Bob\'s and doing their own.

I hope that helped some