The tapes of South Pacific were back-ups. What is your evidence that
the laquers were transferred to tape for the LP issue? I know about the
quality of the 45 set. When my father brought home the world's fastest
changer he also bought, among other things, South Pacific, which sounded
great through the 15" speaker in our Dumont television set.
Maybe, "I can hear it now" was the first set. However, the statement
that "tape was in the studios in 1948" is somewhat ambiguous. I take it
to mean that tape was in the broadcast studios in 1948. Everyone knows
Crosby was recording his shows on tape. This leaves me with two
questions for clarification. When was "I can hear it now" issued on LP
and when was the first recording of music issued on LP?
SA
I think that the South Pacific tape that was used in the '90s was a copy
of the original, hence the wow and flutter. Someone, Dave Weiner, I
think, said this on 78l several years ago.
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I CAN HEAR IT NOW was definitely issued from tape and the liner notes
(maybe only on the 78 version, not sure) referred to this, so tape was
in the studios in 1948.
SOUTH PACIFIC was recorded simultaneously on tape and lacquers, issued
from the lacquers (which were transferred to tape for the LP issue).
The original tape wasn't used till the 90s and sounded
gawdawful..distorted and running off speed. The 45 edition, curiously,
was transferred directly from the lacquers, not from the tape dub..you
can hear the clunk at the beginning of several sides.
dl
Steve Abrams wrote:
Everybody knows that the first microgroove LPs were issued by
American Columbia circa June, 1948. All of these recordings were
dubbed from macrogrooved originals. So far as I have been able to
ascertain, there were no LP recordings dubbed from tape for about
another year. I believe that Columbia, HMV and RCA began recording
on tape in the spring of 1949. Columbia and HMV used tape as
back-up, but RCA may have used tape originals. That is one question
I would like answered. Is there anyone who knows and can cite
examples of the earliest issued LPs from tapes.
Another question arises. I have raised it in various places and
never received an answer. If a year went by before tape came in,
someone must have been tempted to do direct cut LPs. Who and when
and what?
I am interested in the first LPs to be issued from tape. That is an
entirely different question from the first tapes to be issued on LP.
Steve Abrams