...is very, very odd.
I didn't even know this thing existed 'til I won it on eBay.
There's very little top end, everything is mastered really quietly...I'm pretty sure it's a knockdown, but it's very hard to tell.
Anybody know anything about this here record?
Family that Plays Together Mono
Family that Plays Together Mono
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"Fuckin' Koreans" - Reno 911
"Fuckin' Koreans" - Reno 911
No, which is what fascinates me. What's the label, number, the usual 9 yards? Released in December 1968, this is well past Columbia's mono/stereo window(which ended somewhere around May 1968). I'd never heard of one, though of course many overseas pressings in certain nations started out in stereo and somehow got folded down to mono(I have an ABBEY ROAD from some South American country like that; very obviously a fold, kinda strange to hear....
Had this been an indigenous UK or German Lp, especially, I would have said, yeah, very possible. Some labels still mixed certain Lp's to mono going into 1969, and Decca was still issuing some comps in both mono and stereo as late as 1971.
ED
Had this been an indigenous UK or German Lp, especially, I would have said, yeah, very possible. Some labels still mixed certain Lp's to mono going into 1969, and Decca was still issuing some comps in both mono and stereo as late as 1971.
ED
When remixing vintage tapes, imagine you are back in the time those recordings were made, and mix accordingly. forget Today's Sound Sensibilities....
Well, it seems like a UK pressing....it's CBS 63523, so well within the UK cutoff for mono records. The outside jacket is somewhat flimsy (and the "colors" aren't printed too well). The inner sleeve, which appears to be an original, is really fanciful: a green thing, with CBS - THE MUSIC PEOPLE on one side.
The record itself has a red CBS label, an M 63523 designation (with a Z12-44014 subscript...could this be a reissue?), and a 1969 copyright. The separate M designation on the label--combined with a decided absence of any sort of "MONO" designation on the jacket (heck, there's a note about how STEREO CBS RECORDS ARE REPRODUCABLE ON MONO PHONOGRAPHS)--leads me to believe that this run of albums probably had identical stereo/mono sleeves.
An odd one. The vinyl itself looks pretty shiny, but is actually fairly noisy, disappointingly enough. Oh well. It's a rare enough item so that I'm pleased, even if it's a fold-down (which, Spirit being an American group, it probably is).
Somewhat OT, "Family"'s CD remix is nothing short of stunning. The album sounds somewhat clunky in its original incarnation (sloppy segues, loads of tape-hiss thanks to the likely generations of dub-downs, poorly-mixed strings), but is absolutely stellar in remixed format. Vic did a good job! There's even an "even more remixed" version of "Line" on Time Circle, where the channels are even more separated and the segue to It Shall Be doesn't exist.
-D
The record itself has a red CBS label, an M 63523 designation (with a Z12-44014 subscript...could this be a reissue?), and a 1969 copyright. The separate M designation on the label--combined with a decided absence of any sort of "MONO" designation on the jacket (heck, there's a note about how STEREO CBS RECORDS ARE REPRODUCABLE ON MONO PHONOGRAPHS)--leads me to believe that this run of albums probably had identical stereo/mono sleeves.
An odd one. The vinyl itself looks pretty shiny, but is actually fairly noisy, disappointingly enough. Oh well. It's a rare enough item so that I'm pleased, even if it's a fold-down (which, Spirit being an American group, it probably is).
Somewhat OT, "Family"'s CD remix is nothing short of stunning. The album sounds somewhat clunky in its original incarnation (sloppy segues, loads of tape-hiss thanks to the likely generations of dub-downs, poorly-mixed strings), but is absolutely stellar in remixed format. Vic did a good job! There's even an "even more remixed" version of "Line" on Time Circle, where the channels are even more separated and the segue to It Shall Be doesn't exist.
-D
I'll have to check out that remixed FAMILY; sounds like something worth having. And I agree, Vic's pretty good at what he does.
I would guess you've got an original pressing. The british CBS's I have from that period all have orange labels, not red, and the stereo is plainly noted(and yes, the US serial number is found under the UK number). The soundtracks I've come across--including THE GRADUATE--have a blue label. However, since Ode was a CBS-distributed label at the time, probably makes sense the Spirit Lp has a red label, they may have used that one for subsidiaries. That it's mono and doesn't sound all that great does make ya wonder if a screwup happened, or, if they were still pressing mono/stereo editions on a regular basis, a decision was made to fold it down and nobody bothered to Eq it to balance the highs and lows....very interesting, all the same!
ED
I would guess you've got an original pressing. The british CBS's I have from that period all have orange labels, not red, and the stereo is plainly noted(and yes, the US serial number is found under the UK number). The soundtracks I've come across--including THE GRADUATE--have a blue label. However, since Ode was a CBS-distributed label at the time, probably makes sense the Spirit Lp has a red label, they may have used that one for subsidiaries. That it's mono and doesn't sound all that great does make ya wonder if a screwup happened, or, if they were still pressing mono/stereo editions on a regular basis, a decision was made to fold it down and nobody bothered to Eq it to balance the highs and lows....very interesting, all the same!
ED
When remixing vintage tapes, imagine you are back in the time those recordings were made, and mix accordingly. forget Today's Sound Sensibilities....
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