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

[David Weiner]

I still don't get why stereo discs were so hard to come by in the mid-60s -
not only comedy, but Beatles original issues, for instance - despite the
extra dollar in cost, hadn't all the ad copy screaming about stereo
superiority worked at all? Or had consumer interest in stereo waned by 1963?

Was it easier to find a stereo issue say, in 1960 than in 1963? 

Dave W.

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[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
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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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