Re: [ARSCLIST] Early stereo mass market tapes

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And I picked up a copy of the Bob and Ray at a Vets Salvage yesterday in Rochester for fifty
cents. That one's much easier to find than a stereo version of B&R On A Platter (with its
out-of-phase sound effects).

dl

Tom Fine wrote:

> I have the Classic Records reissue of that Bob and Ray LP. It is indeed one of the classics.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 5:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Early stereo mass market tapes
>
> > Hi Tom,
> > Didn't bel Canto reissue most of this stuff on Lp ?
> > I'm sure we've all seen those cazy spectrally-coloured
> > vinyl records they issued.Many of these were in
> > print,though not on coloured vinyl,well into the 60s.I
> > must admit I have seen very few of the stereo
> > demonstration recordings on tape.Mostly on vinyl.Last
> > year,I scored one of the real classics of this genre
> > (?) ,"Bob and Ray Stage a Stereo Spectacular" on
> > eBay,for six bucks.
> >                        Roger Kulp
> >
> > --- Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Roger:
> >>
> >> Yes, I totally forgot Omegatapes and Audiophile. The
> >> record labels don't "count" in my interest
> >> because of course they all got into the tape game.
> >> I'm more interested in these little companies
> >> that sprang up to do tapes only. Some did morph into
> >> record labels but it seems like most just died
> >> out after an initial "hifi bug" craze.
> >>
> >> Here's a for instance. Bel Canto did original
> >> recordings back in the mid-50's, before they became
> >> one of the major duping houses in the 60's. One of
> >> their tapes is "That Geller Feller" by Herb
> >> Geller. I think it was recorded while Geller was
> >> under contract to Mercury/Emarcy but the material
> >> was never issued on Mercury to my knowledge. It's a
> >> good album, along the lines of Geller's mid-50's
> >> Emarcy records, which were all mono. So, what
> >> happened to the Bel Canto masters and was this stuff
> >>
> >> ever reissued? That's the kind of info I'm seeking.
> >>
> >> Another thing I'd love to know is what ever became
> >> of some of those crazy stereo demo tapes like
> >> "Sound in the Round"? I have the quarter-track
> >> version, which is vastly inferior to the little
> >> snippet of the 2-track version that's on Ampex's
> >> original 2-track stereo demo tape they included
> >> with their first consumer tape machines.
> >>
> >> There were some funny, interesting and creative
> >> stereophony tricks and gimmicks going on in this
> >> very early tape era that never made it to the stereo
> >> LP era two years later. By the time
> >> quarter-track became the consumer format, the tape
> >> business seemed to be much more just an adjunct
> >> to the LP business like 8-tracks and then cassettes
> >> would later be. The next time tape was king was
> >> the very end of the LP era, right before CD's became
> >> the mass format. The two years between LPs and
> >> CD's, if memory serves, cassettes outsold LPs
> >> because the Walkman was king and the boombox was
> >> still
> >> a very strong presence.
> >>
> >> -- Tom Fine
> >
> >
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