[78-L] Enhanced for Stereo, was Re: Fake stereo

[David Lennick]

One of my favorite descriptions is on a Credibility Gap album, "More Like Mono 
Than Stereo".

dl

On 3/3/2013 10:40 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
> I meant to mention it before.  In case any of you have ever wondered why
> Decca sometimes used these HUGE 2x4 inch white stickers with the HUGE
> black lettering, it was because they lost some kind of lawsuit
> concerning only marking phony stereo discs "Stereo", and that Segovia
> might be an example.  It is part of the reason why in later years most
> record companies stopped marking whether their records were mono,
> stereo, electronic stereo, electrical, acoustical, worth the money, a
> piece of crap, etc.  BUT they did have to put that parental advisory
> sticker on them.  Any of you ever give or receive any parental advising
> concerning the language of the lyrics?  Sure, plenty of saying that the
> stuff is crap using language worse than on the record . . .   As Jimmy
> Durante used to say "Everybody's a critic, hot cha cha."
>
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [78-L] Enhanced for Stereo, was Re: Fake stereo
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Date: Sat, March 02, 2013 11:09 pm
> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
> Decca (wouldn't you know it!) put out an Andres Segovia album, THREE
> CENTURIES
> OF THE GUITAR, DL 710034, in 1961. STEREO on the front. STEREO on the
> label.
> THIS IS A HI-FI STEREOPHONIC RECORD! on the back, and in smaller
> type..ENHANCED
> FOR STEREO. They also gave it a new number, implying that in mono it was
> DL
> 10034, when in fact it had been issued in mono 3 years earlier as DL
> 9995. The
> surprising thing is that it's not bad..the mono lp is terrible, dull,
> cavernous, while the "enhanced" has far more presence.
>
> What's really odd is that the mono lp is part of the Golden Jubilee box
> set and
> that the other two discs in that set, DL 9996 and 9997, came out in real
> stereo
> later.
>
> dl