[78-L] Tom Lehrer question (borderline ^)

[David Lennick]

Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 11:24 -0400, David Lennick wrote:
>> Yesterday at the Kingston Symphony rummage sale I picked up "An Evening Wasted 
>> with Tom Lehrer" on English Decca SKL 4097..right, stereo. Aside from TL 202S, 
>> the original 1959 issue on Lehrer's own label, is this the only genuine stereo 
>> issue? Reprise apparently issued it in fake stereo and Rhino used that master, 
>> then reduced it to mono, per the extensive TL discography below.
> 
> Believe it or not, the box set "Remains of Tom Lehrer" contains "And
> Evening Wasted" in its stereo version.  
> 
> The only TL record that was ever issued in stereo at one point that has
> not seen a stereo release since its original LP issue is his second
> album, "More of Tom Lehrer".   Despite its late release (1960), his
> other live album, "Tom Lehrer Revisited", was never released in stereo
> at all.
> 
> MS
> 

By yiminy..wonder why they didn't use the stereo master for "More of" on Rhino, 
unless it was no longer playable? There's no reference to mono or stereo that I 
can see anywhere on "Songs & More Songs By..". There IS one stereo track, and 
that's "I Got It From Agnes".

dl (who owns a near mint copy of the Capricorn 45)