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

[David Lennick]

Didn't even know TW3 had been done in stereo. Another one we had on Canadian 
Capitol, in mono..and as a Parlophone import, but again in mono. Not enough 
stereo sales to bother bringing them into Canada at that time.

I didn't get Milligan Preserved in stereo till the reissue (on NOTE, I think).

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> dl
>>
>>   
> 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:
>>   
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> 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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