Re: [ARSCLIST] The first direct cut and taped lps

[Roderic G Stephens <savecal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the liner notes from my LP "ml (no caps in album
cover stylized printing) 4095" it says,

 "To us, the collectors, assembling these sounds was
distinctly a labor of love.  We spent the better part
of two years listening to more than five houndred
hours of old broadcasts. More than one hundred hours
were transferred onto magnetic tape, and it was from
these one hundred hours that the forty-five minutes of
"I Can Hear It Now" were distilled.  Our regret is
that in those priceless ninety-nine hours and fifteen
minutes we left on the cutting-room floor was
contained enough material for a dozen more albums, any
one of them as useful as the one we have assembled.

 Perhaps these miles of sound tape, magnetized with
the magic of history, may yet be salvaged, and we may
try our hand at a book for ear devoted solely to those
five days of Munich, or the twenty-four hours of
D-Day, or the saga of atomic fission, or the first
ninety days of the New Deal.  We like to think we
will.

Edward R. Morrow and Fred W. Friendly"

And, of course they did, and "the rest is history"!

On the back cover is "A Partial Listing of the Many
Superb Columbia LP Records" with similar numbers to
the Morrow album (i.e., ML 4000 series, a couple of
the ML 2000s and the "popular records" CL 6000s),so
one would guess that magnetic tape was used at least
for those numbers higher than the Morrow ML 4095.

Rod Stephens
--- David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> > 
> > 
>