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

[David Lennick]

I stand corrected..the Segovia album IS listed in mono in schwann as DL 10034, 
stereo DL 710034, and also as part of box set DX 148 which consists of 
individual mono lps DL 9995/7. Contents are identical, as far as I can see, so 
here was Decca not only hiding the stereo enhancement (which as I say was 
actually an improvement in this instance) but passing off a previously issued 
1958 recording with a 1961 Library of Incongruousness number.

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
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