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Re: [ARSCLIST] Philips U.S. releases in the 60's
In the October of 1957, Sun Records established a subsidiary label called Phillips International. This label had successful releases by Charlie Rich, Carl Mann and Bill Justis. Sam Phillips opened a new studio in Memphis (at 639 Madison Ave.) in mid-1960, replacing the studio at 706 Union. He also opened another studio on 17th Street in Nashville in February, 1961. Both studios were popular, gaining revenue for the Phillips corporation by recording music for other labels in addition to Sun and Phillips International.
The move to the new studio on Madison Avenue in Memphis was important for another reason. Apparently, the old studio on Union Street was for most of the years only equipped with monaural recorders. The new studio featured an upgrade to stereo machines, and the stereo material released from Sun mostly seem to have been recorded, or at least overdubbed, after the move. The original issues of the albums on Sun, Phillips International, and Judd were all mono, to our knowledge. Reissues of these albums have turned up in rechanneled stereo, but it apparently wasn't until the late 1960s that the original tapes were dug out and some of the original stereo issued on vinyl. A recent CD on the AVI/Sun label featuring Charlie Rich's recordings from 1959 show that Sun's Union Avenue studios did have some stereo capability before the move, but the stereo recordings from that era are few and far between.
http://www.bsnpubs.com/tennessee/sunstory.html
http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/labels/p/p901.htm
A liitle later,but still great : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPnERXUb3jU
If you have the original 1960 Lp in M-,you'd have at least a $3500.00 record !
Even more for the Carl Mann.Betcha the guy with the "$3,000,000,000 +" collection didn't have 'em.
Roger
David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Yup, was a Sam Phil(l)ips label. I have a copy and it is indeed Raunchy by bill
Justis.
dl
Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
> Rather odd, but related, question...
>
> As a teen-ager, back in the late fifties, I recall buying at least
> ONE hit ("Raunchy," IIRC...?!)...which was on a Phil(l)ips label...
> that I suspect had no connection with the Dutch firm...?
>
> Anybody know details...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
>
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