[78-L] Unexpected US Releases was Calling all Goonatics

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
> And then there was the stereo copy of "Bridge On The River Wye" I scooped up 
> for about $3 in NYC in February '68 on my first visit. We'd had that in Canada 
> but as a Capitol mono LP with not even the original cover art. But Canada had 
> long been receptive to British comedy, even getting it via shortwave on the CBC 
> in the 40s.
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I believe I have all of the Parlophone broadcast comedy LPs that George 
Martin did.  My pen-pals could not find stereo copies of TW3 and Michael 
Bentine in London and sent me special-ordered monos, but I finally got 
them in stereo as cut-outs at Record Hunter probably around when you got 
yours.  My presumption is that they stickered and sent ALL their stereo 
copies to the U.S.  I couldn't find a stereo of Milligan Preserved, but 
finally found one in AUSTRALIA! 

The stereo TW3 is a VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENT of George Martin's stereo 
production techniques during the EXACT time of the first two Beatles 
albums.  It shows that contentions of what he would never have done is a 
LIE.  For example, shortly after starting the LP in normal stereo with 
the band spread in stereo around the singer in the center,  he pans 
Millicent Martin singing from the center over to the extreme left with 
the band moved to the extreme right, when placing David Frost's 
narration in the center.  And then he keeps her panned over to the side 
that way. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> Michael Biel wrote:
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>> I know you are talking about Canada, but it was different in the U.S. 
>> from what indicate here.  The two Parlophone imports with the Odeon 
>> stickers did not arrive here until late 1962 or early 1963. These were 
>> strictly mono.  I think the first Public Radio package was also starting 
>> by then, so there was some knowledge in the U.S. by then.  The ONLY 
>> store I ever saw these in was The Record Hunter on 5th Ave at 42nd St.  
>> I bought them in Dec 63 when by British pen pals said I might like them, 
>> and on the same day at a store across the street I got the two Sellers 
>> Angels as cut outs for a buck along with Delirium In Hi-Fi by Elsa 
>> Popping and Her Pixieland Band -- perhaps the greatest album ever 
>> issued.    The Goon series on Pye and then BBC did not come out until 
>> 1965, and we saw them mainly as U.S. pressings.  The two Angel Sellers 
>> and Sellers-Loren LPs were 1961.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>     
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