[78-L] War of the Worlds (was NBC, was YOU)

[David Lennick]

The overlap occurs on the 1969 LP issue on Evolution, a minute into side 2, and 
the same tape source is on a single LP on Longines in better sound, except for 
an unfortunate second or second and a half of dead air at one point. I forget 
where that occurs and when I transferred it to open reel it was easy to snip 
out the ten inches of tape. Not a dropout but an edit that somebody missed 
somehow. The overlap is evidence that the Manny Fox transfer was made by 
playing the sixteen-inch discs on consecutive turntables, the way we used to 
run 'em in the old days live to air, and did anyone ever find out what his 
source was? Maybe he had that tape transfer and that was it.

That Radio Spittoons issue is a joke.

dl

On 10/14/2010 10:45 PM, Sammy Jones wrote:
> I was very pleasantly surprised to win it, but it was expensive...
>
> I don't have the LP version, only the old Metacom and newer Radio Spirits CD
> releases.  These are obviously from the same source, though the Radio
> Spirits one is supposed to be "digitally remastered."  It actually sounds
> much worse than Metacom's.  I've always assumed that both of these were
> sourced from one of the LPs.  Was there ever a complete (except for the
> station break) LP version released?
>
> My 12" lacquers could very well be dubs.  The sound is not great, and there
> is a good bit of inner-groove distortion at the ends of the sides.  However,
> they are recorded in "automatic" sequence: 1/3, 2/4, etc. and have a bit of
> overlap from side to side, suggesting they may be originals.
>
> Carl Phillips's missing words come at about 15:30 into the show.  The words
> in question are, "Someone's crawling out of the hollow top.  Someone, or
> something I can see staring out of that black hole through luminous
> discs..."  The reissues lose "crawling out of the hollow top."  Also the two
> "someones" are overlapped a bit with each other.  Since it's around
> 15-minutes in, it's probably a side join on the 16" originals, or an attempt
> to edit the two sides together on tape.  My 78s don't appear to be dubbed
> from a source that had side joins at that point: the nature of the sound and
> surface noise doesn't change during that sentence.
>
> What is the source of your master tape?
>
> Sammy Jones
>
>
> Mike Biel wrote:
> So YOU got that set!!  I saw it listed. I figured it would go for more
> than I could afford so I didn't bid.
> ....
> What are the words and where are they in the recording?  I really only
> have played my tape and although I have the LPs I don't know where this
> glitch is that everybody mentions.  If yours plays thru it, I need to
> compare it with my tape (on CD) and the LPs and CDs -- which all seem to
> be derived from the Evolution Manheim Fox version.  I got my tape a year
> before any of the LPs.  Have you transferred your discs yet?
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
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