Re: [ARSCLIST] The dawn of commercial digital recordings

[Roger and Allison Kulp <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>]

Frank Zappa interview on digital recording 1984
http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/interviews/Digital_Audio.html

The English Beat's "Special Beat Service"was also digitally recorded in 1982.

But the first one  was,indeed "Bop 'Til You Drop"
bop till you drop - album reviews                 Following his conceptual 1978 release, Jazz, Ry Cooder returned the next year with the R&B/soul-based Bop Till You Drop. The first major-label, digitally recorded album,   ~ Brett Hartenbach, All Music Guide


According to the Billboard page, http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/discography/more.jsp?tp=albums&pid=4347&aid=4687
it did not chart.According to Billboard,The Beat album did not chart either.I don't want to sit here and plug album names from 1979-82 into "Google",to see what was the first digitally recorded album to make the pop charts.But you can do this as well as I can.


Roger



Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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

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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

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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


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