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

Royal Pemberton ampex354 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 09:07:03 PDT 2009


Must have been a goof on my part.  What I'd said at the end is, I did
re-sync the two channels on 'I'm so ashamed' and it came out normal mono.

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Is there a response or missing attachment anywhere in this message? And the
> stereo versions on Parlophone and Angel have different matrix numbers.
> Higher
> numbers and an extra X in the prefix.
>
> dl
>
> Royal Pemberton wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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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