"The Green Door" was recorded by Jim Lowe with the High Fives and released in August 1956 on Dot Records on 10" 78 RPM & 7" 45 RPM, The single reached #1 on the Billboard Hot-100 chart for the week of November 17, 1956. Enjoy my DES [Digitally Extracted STEREO] conversion of the great rock and roll hit!
Composed by Bob "Hutch" Davie Lyrics written by Marvin J. Moore
The lyrics describe the allure of a mysterious private club with a green door, behind which "a happy crowd" play piano, smoke and "laugh a lot", and inside which the singer is not allowed. "Green Door" was backed by the orchestra of songwriter Davie, with Davie also playing piano, and by the vocal group the High Fives. The track was arranged by Davie, who added thumbtacks to the hammers of his piano and sped up the tape to give a honky-tonk sound.
About the original MONO mix:
The source was a track from a 50’s compilation CD. It was horrifically bassy with a huge spike in the 80-180 range. The original engineer faded the Pianos in and out between each vocal phrase to highlight the vocals. It was a bitch to normalize this rollercoaster using amplitude gain envelopes. This was undetectable in the MONO mix, but stuck out like a sore thumb when the Pianos were isolated.
About My Mix:
On the vocals, I removed the original plate-reverb and added stereo reverb to add continuity to the stereo image and a brighter EQ. I panned the Pianos Left and made them reverb into the Right and normalized the fade-id and fade-out between each vocal phrase. I panned the Percussion Right and made it reverb into the Left. I centered the bass and cut it drastically via EQ.
Technical Information:
I used iZotope RX-8 to isolate the Vocals, Instruments, Percussion and Bass into 4 separate tracks. Adobe Audition was used for Dynamic Range recovery, Reverb, Delay, EQ, and final mixdown. Sonic Studio’s Amarra Luxe Sound Processor was used for post EQ and upsampling. NERO 2019 Platinum used to generate the final video.
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Enjoy my MONO-to-STEREO conversion of this great mid-50’s rock-and-roll classic: "The Green Door" by Jim Lowe with the High Fives.
This video is strictly for entertainment purposes only. No copyright infringement is intended.
