[78-L] Beach Boys 78s

[Royal Pemberton]

I meant (please forgive my scrambled reply) that Beach Boys recordings had
the same mixes worldwide; none of their recordings had special mixes for
other countries.  Capitol was (to me) a bit schizoid with regard to what
they decided they'd deem stereo albums, and what they'd deem Duophonic
albums, in the instances where both Duophonic and stereo tracks appear on
the same record.  For instance, MEET THE BEATLES (ST 2047) has two tracks in
Duophonic, the other ten in stereo, and is represented as a stereo release;
BEST OF THE BEACH BOYS (DT 2545) likewise has only two of its twelve titles
in Duophonic, the rest in stereo, yet is represented as a Duophonic LP.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:42 AM, David Breneman <david_breneman at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> --- On Mon, 4/18/11, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wrote:
> > > OK, so I pulled out these albums.  "Endless
> > > Summer" is C152-81758/59 and "Spirit of America"
> > > is C152-81887/88. Both have the solid orange Capitol
> > > labels current in the 1970s, but the albums themselves
> > > were released by EMI-Electrola GMBH in Köln, Germany.
> > > The labels say "STEREO" on them, and have an "ST-33"
> > > logo.  Maybe Brian Wilson's creative control didn't
> > > reach outside North America, but I doubt that these
> > > records would have been remixed to something different
> > > than what was sold in the US.  So, at least in the 70s,
> > > there were stereo Beach Boys records.
> > >
> > Nope.  Whatever was Duophonic in
> > the US was Duophonic anywhere in the world
> > there was a stereo release.
>
> I'm sorry, but I don't understand which of my statements
> your "Nope" is in response to, and I don't understand
> how this relates to the discussion of Duophonic processing.
> The word "Duophonic" appears nowhere on either album
> nor on any of the disks.  Please elaborate.
>
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