Re: [ARSCLIST] The dawn of commercial digital recordings

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Roger! This is all good info, too.

There are some web-rumors about an unreleased Stephen Stills album being recorded all-digital before 
Bop, but since it was not released, I don't count it even if it isn't web-induced vapor-ware.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 3:10 PM
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> 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
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jonathan Wise"
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] The dawn of commercial digital recordings
>
>
> 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:
>
> -----------------------------
> 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.
> ----------------------------
>
> 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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