[78-L] Fwd: Story of the LP (queries)

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

>
> Commercial, to me, means "available in shops to the general public".
>
> I've seen an ad in the New York Times for the Atlantic Wilbur de Paris 
> record (March 1953), $5.85 , ref. ALS1208BN. The Cook system IS 
> credited.
>
> I know that Cook binaurals were demonstrated at various audio Fairs 
> during 1952, but I don't have release dates for commercial LPs.
> Anyway, the De Paris sides were recorded on September 11, 1952, same 
> day as the first (mono) Ray Charles sides for Atlantic ! Ray Charles 
> got his revenge later with the "8-track Stereo" Atlantic LP...
>
> However, I have a Cook test LP: "Cook Series "N-A" Beam test record" 
> with a side dedicated to the testing of amplifiers and speakers in 
> Binaural. Date unknown.
>
> One other record I have is Audio Collector 1093BN (red vinyl) "Voices 
> From Vienna" Leo Lehner conducting the Young Vienna Choir. Recorded in 
> Vienna for Audiosphere (Newark).
>
> If I remember correctly the NY Times article about the first Audio 
> Fidelity stereo LP's cost $5.95 but only technicians were buying it 
> because no appropriate cartdridge was available.
>
> BC
> Le 26 nov. 08, à 19:32, Michael Biel a écrit :
>
>>
>> Bertrand CHAUMELLE wrote:
>>> Yes, the 10" microgroove is also a LP. In Europe, they were sometimes
>>> called 'Medium-Play' (Decca, Telefunken).
>>>
>>> Harold A. Harley from Britain started "High Fidelity" en 1926, and 
>>> the
>>> term became popular in 1934.
>>>
>>> The first commercial stereo recordings were released by Atlantic in
>>> March 1953: left and right channels recorded on two separate grooves.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It all depends on what you mean by "commercial".  The dual groove
>> "Binaural" system was created and marketed by Cook, and he released 20
>> or 30 of them on his own label, which was an established commercial
>> label..  The Wilbur de Paris record on Atlantic (which I have) was
>> obviously cut by Cook -- his large and deep scribed matrix numbers 
>> were
>> very distinctive.   While I have Cook catalogs, Schwann and The Long
>> Player did not list the Binaruals separately, so I don't have listings
>> of release dates or what other non-Cook records came out on this
>> system.  Anybody have this info?
>>
>>
>>> The first commercial stereo recordings in their current format (only
>>> one groove) were released by Audio Fidelity in November 1957.
>>>
>>>
>>> BC
>>>
>>
>> For many years I started doubting the existance of this one release
>> because it was never in any catalog, even their own.  But I now have a
>> dub and scans of the labels and cover.   Their  first four regular
>> releases hit the stores in probably March 58 and were not mentioned in
>> their ads in the Feb Schwann. The November sampler is nowhere to be 
>> seen.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>
>>
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