Boots Randolph - The Fantastic Boots Randolph (1966/2016) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz]

Posted By: HDV

Date: May 4, 2024

Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit "Yakety Sax". Randolph was a major part of the "Nashville sound" for most of his professional career. A transitional album, "The Fantastic Boots Randolph" is the first Randolph album cobbled together from sessions over a substantial period of time. The liner notes boast of the album being two years in the making, which, by Sixties standards (especially Nashville 60s standards), was a lifetime. In reality, the album is essentially a singles compilation: the swaggering "Windy and Warm", one of the best tracks here dates from 1963; seven of the other tracks had appeared on singles between 1964 and mid-1966.

Unsurprisingly, the album is stylistically all over the map, but the first side's "Yakety" songs (except for "King of the Road") share a Memphis-style grittiness, both in Randolph's tone and in the big brassy arrangements. Horn and string sections play a major role on many of these songs, and signal the full-scale move to Hollywood that would begin with Randolph's next album, making this his last album to feature the joyful 'session men cut loose' vibe of his earlier records. This is also the first Randolph album to feature chorused vocals, probably provided by the Anita Kerr Singers, an uber-soulless whitebread conglomeration whose pawprints were all over the mid-sixties Nashville sound: "Miss You", "Honey in Your Heart" (a pretty bad song all around) and Ferlin Husky's "Gone" are completely torpedoed by their presence. The best track, "Theme from a Dream" is a stark, noirish Mancini-esque piece that doesn't sound like anything else in Randolph's catalogue, but the rest (apart from the three vocal-infected tracks) is good stuff as well.

Tracklist:

01 - These Boots Are Made For Walking
02 - Windy And Warm
03 - His Latest Flame
04 - King Of The Road
05 - Lost Sinner
06 - Bordertown
07 - Miss You
08 - Baby Go To Sleep
09 - Theme From A Dream
10 - I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen
11 - Honey In Your Heart
12 - Gone

Produced by Fred Foster. Engineered by Bill Porter.

Dynamic Range Report

Analyzed: Boots Randolph / The Fantastic Boots Randolph
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR8 -0.43 dB -10.77 dB 2:47 01-These Boots Are Made For Walking
DR8 -0.43 dB -9.66 dB 2:13 02-Windy And Warm
DR8 -0.43 dB -10.38 dB 2:01 03-His Latest Flame
DR6 -0.43 dB -9.77 dB 2:27 04-King Of The Road
DR8 -0.43 dB -10.31 dB 2:12 05-Lost Sinner
DR9 -0.43 dB -11.08 dB 2:24 06-Bordertown
DR11 -0.43 dB -13.61 dB 2:13 07-Miss You
DR11 -0.43 dB -13.13 dB 2:19 08-Baby Go To Sleep
DR10 -0.43 dB -12.16 dB 2:17 09-Theme From A Dream
DR10 -0.43 dB -12.20 dB 2:34 10-I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen
DR12 -0.43 dB -14.05 dB 2:18 11-Honey In Your Heart
DR9 -0.43 dB -11.86 dB 2:38 12-Gone
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Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR9

Samplerate: 192000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 5237 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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