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“Better still, particularly as the midband always trumps the frequency extremes in my little world, the contrasting vocals blended beautifully, Peter’s higher registers and Gordon’s deeper counterpoint. As with the CBS compilation, the stereo spread was wide and precise, if not quite as deep as I have heard from various belt-drives. What the drive topology has to do with these qualities I am at a loss to explain. I can only describe what I heard. And what made me brim with respect, admiration and a lot of love for the HW-40 Anniversary was its masterful reproduction of the majestic title track from Jackie De Shannon’s Put A Little Love In Your Heart [Liberty LP12442].

As with many of the artists on the Best Of ’66… compilation, De Shannon is criminally undervalued. Gorgeous voice, sublime song-writing skills – she composed ‘When You Walk In The Room’ and ‘Bette Davis’ Eyes’ among others. Anyway, the title track is one of those jaw-dropping, everything-including-the-kitchen-sink productions which would stop people dead in their tracks if it were played at hi-fi shows.

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