[78-L] Another Goon's Question

[David Lennick]

agp wrote:
> At 23:48 26/07/2009, you wrote:
>> I have it on all 3 speeds..Decca 78, 45 EP, 10-inch LP and fake 
>> stereo LP. I've
>> never played the 78 which will likely be the same as yours, unless they recut
>> it..don't remember any false start on the other issues.
> 
> I have the ep somewhere .. just not at hand as I'm reorganising 
> stuff, so I can't check it.
> 
> The matrix numbers in the run off are DRX-22325-T1-1 (machine stamped)
> 
> BTW -- just purcased a US 45 of I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas 
> on London 45-1684.
> 
> T
> 

After all that, I don't seem to have Ying Tong on 78 where I thought it should 
have been..the other 3 Deccas are there, followed by an empty pocket.

London/Decca was capable of all sorts of major and minor screw-ups. I found an 
edit someone forgot to remove in a Richmond LP, Ansermet conducting Le Sacre du 
Printemps (who'd notice an extra half line of music in Stravinsky?), Don 
Chichester has a 45 of Frank Chacksfield's "Ebb Tide" that plays backwards, 
they reissued Gilbert and Sullivan sets minus certain arias that had been 
snipped out for highlights albums and never returned to the master reels..

It's all rather confusing, really.

dl