[78-L] Vaughn Meader and Sam Goody

[David Lennick]

Odd about "My Son" not turning up in stereo over the years..I have it, from a 
radio station, and it was in print for years. I also have a mono copy with a 
mono slick and a stereo backside (sounds like a rare medical condition).

I have never seen a stereo First Family Volume II..that probably didn't come 
out in Canada. In fact I don't think Volume I was in stereo in Canada. The 
market wasn't big enough..much of the comedy was on Verve, and Quality almost 
never brought out stereo versions of any of those albums, nor did Sparton 
(Alklen & Rossi et al). Quality was so cheap they wouldn't even do gatefold 
albums unless for a BIG important album, and they even kept the cover on The 
New First Family 1968 in black and white..I didn't know there was color till I 
found a US pressing. Don't get me started on Canadian record companies (even 
the majors) and their penny pinching jackets.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
> 
>> It WAS on Collectors Choice a few years ago, possibly combined with Volume II,
> 
> David Weiner wrote:
> 
>> Both albums are on one CD from Oldies.com. 
> 
> The LP reissue was dubbed off of MONO LPs, and probably also the CD.   I 
> have both LPs in stereo.  The stereo on the first album is minimal 
> although they show a fine multi-mic set-up in the photos.  The second 
> album is great in stereo except for the several cuts that were left off 
> the first album.  When the records were new I NEVER EVER saw a stereo 
> copy of the first one nor of  My Son the Folk Singer.  And I saw 
> thousands of copies of each. And I WAS looking for stereo copies.  But 
> that didn't keep each of them from topping the separate Billboard Stereo 
> LP chart, going back and forth for four or five weeks.  Indeed in all 
> the decades of junking and garage sales I have only found one stereo 
> copy of My Son, three stereos of Family Vol 1 and one of Vol 2.
> 
> I've been planning for decades to do a detailed article about these 
> albums.  I've already done the research but not the writing.  It's quite 
> a story.
> 
> dl (or is it Dl) wrote:
>>> That album was such a fast seller that some stores (maybe\
>>> only in Canada) were forced to sell the discs without the
>>> covers until new ones could be printed up. 
> 
> It must have only been in Canada.  In my research I found that Archie 
> Bleyer INSISTED on not allowing ANY copies be sold without a properly 
> printed cover.  That would invite counterfeiters.  He had execs of the 
> company FLY to California holding the color separation masters of the 
> cover in their laps so the West Coast pressing plants could have the 
> covers printed.  The fly in the ointment was that the Indianapolis RCA 
> Victor plant couldn't get the pebbled surface paper, and the copies 
> found with smooth paper are usually from that plant.  (Discs get 
> switched over the years.)  All three Victor plants, both Columbias, both 
> Capitols, and three independent plants were used, and very tight 
> inventory control was exercised.  I do have examples of nine of the ten 
> pressing plants Vol 1 was pressed in, and two plants for the stereo.  
> And a British and Canadian pressing of Vol 1.
> 
> 
>>>  On Behalf Of Eric Goldberg
>>>
>>> I was working at Sam Goody's the day that John Kennedy was shot. 
>>> All copies of the Vaughan Meader album were pulled from the shelf.
>>> A couple of days later someone wanted to buy a copy of the record and an 
>>> eager salesman went into the back room and brought out a copy. When Goody
>>> (yes Virginia, there was a Sam Goody) saw the record, he ripped it out of
>>> the patron's hand and absolutely refused to sell him the record.
>>>
>>>     
> In addition to Sam Goody pulling all copies, Schwann dropped the albums 
> from the catalog without going thru the Black Diamond stage.  They just 
> disappeared.
> 
> Getting back to Dave Weiner's comments about stereo copies, Goodys would 
> not stock comedy albums in stereo.  I once got into an argument with two 
> salesmen at the Paramus Goodys concerning the MGM Borge's Back album.  
> It has the dual-piano routine he did with Leonard Hambro which I had 
> just seen on TV, and I realized that it would not make any sense in mono 
> if you couldn't see it.  They wouldn't even special order it in stereo 
> for me.  I eventually got a stereo copy as a 59 cent cut-out at Sterns 
> Paramus about a mile away.  (The guys in that store were strange.  Roy 
> Evans used to work there and he has some nifty stories to tell.) 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
> 
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