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

[Royal Pemberton]

Everything else on the LP is in true (at least pop record true) stereo.

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> 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.
> >>>>>> _______________
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