Re: [ARSCLIST] The dawn of commercial digital recordings

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, Bop 'Til You Drop was definitely recorded all-digital. What might have happened, but I doubt it, 
is that the Ry Cooder album wasn't out on CD before Brothers In Arms. But that wasn't my question --  
the question was what was the first made-all-digital rock album and I am not 90+% sure it was Ry 
Cooder.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Wise" <jonathan.wise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I thought Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms" (1985) was the first DDD
recording. I think this was also the first CD to sell more than a
million copies.

- Jonathan Wise

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:59 PM
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> From one of the links below:

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quote:
The first digitally recorded (DDD) popular music album was Bop Till You
Drop by Ry Cooder, recorded
in late 1978; it was unmixed, being recorded straight to a two-track 3M
digital recorder in the
studio.
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I do not think this is true. If I remember 3M's marketing from the time,
this album was recorded to
a 3M multi-track and then mixed down to a 3M 2-track master. Does anyone
have any literature or
press materials from that time to clarify this?

Thanks!

-- Tom Fine