Golden Earring – On The Double

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Golden Earring’s ‘On The Double’ was the band’s first double album, released in January 1969. It contains tracks ranging from pop songs and acoustics to their well-known heavy rock tracks. The album includes the band’s first piano-based ballad entitled ‘The Grand Piano’. However, most connoisseurs will associate this album with the song ‘Just A Little It Of Peace In My Heart’, which reached number 2 in the singles charts in their home country of the Netherlands. The band toured extensively throughout the country and slowly began to attract attention in countries around the world. With the release of ‘On The Double’, Golden Earring finally began to take the international music business seriously. Our highly acclaimed series of remastered and expanded Golden Earring editions continues with ‘On The Double’. Wouter Bessels has gone back through the Red Bullet archives and found the original quarter-inch master tapes of the first generation of this classic 1969 album. These particular tapes have never been used for a release, as it was common practice in the analog days of mixing and mastering to run a series of equalized tape copies – with compression and sometimes reverb – for release on vinyl and cassette. The first generation tapes sound dynamic and have a wonderful late 60s brilliance. You’ve probably never heard the lush orchestral arrangement of ‘Just A Little Bit Of Peace In My Heart’ sound so dynamic and fresh. These tapes have been digitally transferred in high resolution and carefully remastered by Wouter Bessels. In addition, real stereo mixes of ‘Dong-Dong-Di-Ki-Di-Gi-Dong’ and its B-side ‘Wake Up-Breakfast!’ have been found. Since the ‘On The Double’ album was mixed in glorious stereo, we’ve included these never-before-released stereo mixes (in place of the original 1968 mono mixes) along with the original stereo mixes of ‘Where Would I Be’/’It’s Alright, But I Admit It Could Be Better’, the single that appeared after ‘On The Double’. All in all, this expanded version of ‘On The Double’ contains everything Golden Earrings released between the albums ‘Miracle Mirror’ and ‘Eight Miles High’ and, with the original stereo mixes, fills another important gap in the band’s reissue program. ‘On The Double’ (remastered and expanded) is now available in an individually numbered edition of 1000 copies on Crystal Clear Vinyl. It includes an insert, printed inner sleeves with liner notes by renowned Golden Earring biographer and archivist Jeroen Ras and additional remastering notes and comes in a gatefold sleeve.