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In Reply to: RE: Which Belafonte? posted by Jeff Starr on September 23, 2016 at 19:37:07
Please take this as gentle kidding, not mean spiritedness, but isn't it odd that you feel you cannot take the time to compare the LPs, but you do have the time to make a digital copy of one of the two versions? Will you ever have time to listen to the digitized version, whichever one you choose? Another way of looking at this is that it is not important what any of us think; if you only save one of the two versions, that's the only one you will ever hear.
Having registered my sense of irony, I would vote for mono, strictly as an audio purist.
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Of course he may have listened but may still want to query for an opinion.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
I am sure I listened to one of them a long time ago. I must not have cared for it.
I happened to be reading something and there was a reference to that album. I had noticed one of them and while looking for something else I saw the other one.
I find it easier to program albums I have digitized as I can be doing other stuff. With an album you are up every 15-25 minutes. I can do the recording while watching TV. :
I would have done a search but never thought the topic would have been discussed.
I thought maybe one was considered the version to have.
As to the guy who doesn't approve of or questioned my time management skills, well they need work. I'm very aware of that.
As a young kid, HB at Carnegie was one of my favorite albums, and I came to learn to sing every song on there. That version that I enjoyed so much must have been the mono one, because that's all we had back in the late 50s. That is why I recommended the mono version.
To the guy who mentioned that the mono and the stereo were recorded on the same date, are you sure? Because I recently purchased the re-issue of the stereo, and I don't love it as much. Either this is due to the mere 55 or so years that have passed, or there is something different about some of the renditions of the songs that I don't like as much. "Mathilda", for example, sounds different from my memory of it.
Both albums I have are original releases, same recording dates. I was going to pull it up on Discogs as that is the data base that Vinyl Studio uses. That is when I noticed they had different letters, LOC and LSO 6006.
Yep, I'm 100% sure.
I had no idea the 2 versions existed, so when I came upon the mono version a year or two ago I posted a similar question to the OP and someone said they thought it was the exact recording on the same night at Carnegie Hall.
So I played the recordings side by side to listen for audience reactions and little inflections by HB himself and sure enough, they are identical.
Without ever having done such a meticulous comparison, because I no longer have the mono version, I would have said that, for one thing, there are more choruses on "Mathilda" in mono than on "Mathilda" in stereo. Gone are the days when anyone in his or her right mind would "run Venezuela", anyway.
I am going to have to buy an original mono version to see if there is any other reason why my memory of this LP in mono is superior to the reality of the stereo version.
I was a big Johnny Mathis fan back then, too.
Could depend on a lot of things.. Maybe your mono pressing was better/earlier on the master die (is that the correct spelling?...the metal negative that prints the vinyl). It's well known that as they spit out pressings, the quality of the copy diminishes until the metal negative "wears out" or whatever happens.
Seeing as this was the first LP to sell a million copies, I'm sure there are plenty of mono that are better than stereo and vice versa.
It may have been the first double LP to achieve a million is sales. Not sure about that. Elvis Presley RCA debut sold more than a million in 1956.
-Wendell
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