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

[David Lennick]

Interesting..that was one of the 3 tracks that appeared to have decent stereo 
depth if not wide separation when I checked them. Try "Balham" and "Party 
Political Speech". If they're fake stereo, they're pretty good fake stereo.

I no longer have the mono Angel version of "Best Of".

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> 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.
>>>>>> _______________