Original release notes:
Bella Donna is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks. Released on July 27, 1981, the album hit #1 on the U.S. Billboard charts in September of that year, remaining there for one week. Bella Donna was awarded Platinum status by the RIAA three months after its release on October 7, 1981, and has sold over 4 million copies in the U.S. and remains her best-selling solo album to date worldwide.
The album spawned four substantial hit singles during 1981 and 1982: the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-penned duet "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (#3), the Don Henley duet "Leather and Lace" (#6), the iconic "Edge of Seventeen" (#11), and country-tinged "After the Glitter Fades" (#32).
Bella Donna would mark the beginning of Nicks' trend of calling upon her many musician friends and connections to fully realize her sparse demo recordings. Along with friends Tom Petty and Don Henley, Nicks brought in famed session musician Waddy Wachtel, Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band pianist Roy Bittan, and Muscle Shoals session man Donald "Duck" Dunn of Booker T. & the MGs. Though Bella Donna's personnel list includes some 20 musicians, the album is very much Nicks' own work, with all but one of the songs on the record written by her.
The album also marked the first recording featuring Nicks' backing vocalists, Sharon Celani and Lori Perry, who still record and tour with Nicks today.
Vinyl Ripping Equiptment
Technics SL-1200MK2 Turntable (Modified with DB Link Platinum Series Cables)
Shure V15VxMR Audiophile Cartridge
LP Gear SHVN5xMRSAS Super Analogue Stylus
Sonic Bliss Audiophile Turntable Mat
Bellari VP130 (12AX7 Tube) Phono Preamp
DB Link Platinum Series Cables
Creative E-MU 0404 Studio Sound Card
Adobe Audition 3.1 Recording Software
These are all rips from my orignal MFSL collection. I ripped them when I still owned them. I ripped them @ 24-Bit/96kHz orignally and saved them to my storage hard drive. I then converted copies to 16-Bit/44kHz redbook and backed that up to DVD ROM disc's. Not too long ago, my storage hard drive was destroyed so I lost all my original 24/96 files. What I am posting here are the 16-Bit/96kHz redbook copies converted from my original 24-Bit/96kHz rips of my MFSL LP's from my back up DVD's. So these are the only existing copies I have left from the original rips.
Yes, they are MFSL rips.
Yes, they were ripped @ 24-Bit/96kHz originally.
No, I do not have the 24/96 files any longer.