[78-L] A "Goons" 78...?!

[Royal Pemberton]

I have that stereo Angel LP.  Boy, when Capitol wanted to screw up
mastering, they did it well!  Both sides of my copy are miles off azimuth.
I think 'I'm so ashamed' is really a mono track; either channel alone sounds
much the same, but it sounds phasey when summed to mono.  (I'll copy it to
Audacity and see what results from re-synchronising the two channels.)

Are YEX.17 and YEX.18 the matrix numbers for Parlophone PCS 3003, or would
those be for PCS 3009?

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:03 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Martin Fenton wrote:
> > I forgot this one:
> >
> > David Lennick wrote:
> >
> >> came "Songs for Swinging Sellers", which as far as I know was also only
> mono on
> >> Parlophone but which was obviously recorded in stereo, since (a) it was
> >> reissued in stereo later as EMI NTS 136
> >
> > Issued in stereo simultaneously with the mono. PCS 3003.
>
> I found that out when I checked the booklet in the big CD box, which listed
> the
> original issues (but not the Angel versions).
> > I had it on
> > gold label (a friend had the later yellow/black label, so it was in
> > catalogue for a while.) I sold it when I got the CD - none of that
> > horrendous end-of-side distortion there!
>
> Ever have any of the Angel issues? Wow, distortion, tape stretch (like,
> right
> in the middle of "Peter Sellers Sings George Gershwin"). We were delighted
> to
> pick up the Parlophone LPs even if the stereo versions weren't distributed
> over
> here.
>
> >
> > "Best of Sellers" stayed in catalogue as a 10" for many years, too - I
> > have it with both black/gold and black/yellow labels.
> >
> >
> >> The ten-incher was reissued as a twelve-incher, still in mono, as
> Starline MRS
> >> 5157.
> >
> > Parlophone Australia issued it in 12" first time around, I believe. (At
> > least I've seen it with their variant of the black/gold label in 12".)
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Mart.
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