What are you listening to right now?

[tmazz]

Nat King Cole: Forever Yours



Got this six LP set at the Crack House for only 52 cents. That's less than 9 cents per record. 

Amazing price and nice sounding LPs as well.

Also found two other 6 LP sets from Capitol at the same price (18 LPs for less than $2, including sales tax!!!) One by Jackie Gleason caled "The Sound of Romance For Lovers Only" and the third set wasby Guy Lombardo and was entitled "Happy Memories".

The Cole and Gleason LPs ar both marked "Stereo" but the Lombardo set is all marked "Duophonic". Does anyone have any ideas on how Duophinc differed from Stereo?

[tmazz]

Simon & Garfunkel: Sounds of Silence



Vintage 60s vinyl and timeless music that sound as fresh today as it did when the album was first released in 1966.

[bpape]

Needed a little more upbeat, retro feel this morning with coffee.

Zombies - Absolutely the Best

[richidoo]

Nice haul on the old LPs tom. Duophonic.  Hard to believe those old capitol records are worthless, but a lot of the people who prized them have passed away. I have my grandfather's prized Nat Cole "Love it the Thing" record.

[bpape]

And now for something a little different.

[allenzachary]

And now for something a little different.

On of my all-time guilty pleasures.

[tmazz]

S&G, ELP, The Zombies.... Looks like it's "Retro Weekend"!!!   

OK guys, let's all go all the way to the back of the closets and see what other golden nuggets we can pull out. 

[tmazz]

Nice haul on the old LPs tom. Duophonic.  Hard to believe those old capitol records are worthless, but a lot of the people who prized them have passed away. I have my grandfather's prized Nat Cole "Love it the Thing" record.

Although if got them on the cheap (like everything in that store  ) there are some people that value them because when I looked the albums up on Amazon to try and get a cover picture they were all selling for $20 and up.

I was actually quite pleasantly surprised at just how good all three sets sounded. The music may or may not do anything for you, but the sound is quite credible.

As for the Duophonic thing, I looked it up on Wikipedia and it is nothing more than Capitol's marketing name for fake stereo.

Here is the Wiki write-up:

    * Duophonic is also a term used to refer to a sound process by which a monaural recording is turned into a kind of "fake stereo" by splitting the signal into two channels, delaying the left and the right channels by means of delay lines  and other circuits, desynchronizing the two channels by fractions of a second, and cutting the bass frequencies in one channel with a high-pass filter, then cutting the treble frequencies in the other channel with a low-pass filter. The end result was a synthesized stereo effect, without giving the listener the true directional sound characteristics of real stereo. In some cases, the effect was enhanced with reverb and other technical tricks, sometimes adding stereo echo to mono tracks in an attempt to fool the listener.

"Duophonic" was used as a trade name for the process by Capitol Records for re-releases of mono recordings from June of 1961 through the 1970s. Capitol employed this technique in order to increase their inventory of stereo LPs, to satisfy retailer demand for more stereo content (and help promote the sale of stereo receivers and turntables). For nearly ten years, Capitol used the banner "DUOPHONIC-For Stereo Phonographs Only" to differentiate their true stereo LPs from the Duophonic LPs.

The process was used for some of their biggest releases, including a variety of albums by The Beach Boys and Frank Sinatra. Over the years however, some Duophonic tapes were confused with true stereo recordings in Capitol Records' vaults, and wound up getting accidentally reissued on CD throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In recent years, Capitol reissued some of The Beatles' Duophonic mixes on The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 and The Capitol Albums, Volume 2, in 2004 and 2006, respectively.

Other record companies used similar processing of monophonic material to create a stereo effect, but referred to the process by other names. For example, Columbia Records used the logo, "Electronically Re-channeled for Stereo" on records issued with their particular process. As with Capitol, Columbia's fake stereo issues included albums by major artists, such as Miles Davis ('Round About Midnight-CL 949 mono, reissued in stereo as PC 8649).

[bpape]

S&G, ELP, The Zombies.... Looks like it's "Retro Weekend"!!!    

OK guys, let's all go all the way to the back of the closets and see what other golden nuggets we can pull out.  

My closet goes pretty far back and pretty far to the left.  You sure you want to go there? 

[richidoo]

Columbia used the same fake stereo on some records too. Like Miles Davis "Milestones". New CDs of that recording have a much more tasteful fake stereo than my 70s LP with left right EQ and about .1 sec of delay.

I love that old 40s music. I have Glenn Miller, Stan Kenton and Anita O'Day stations on my Pandora.   

I like the retro weekend! I'll dig some out

[richidoo]

on Vinyl...

[richidoo]

My son is learning Tea for Two on piano. I promised him I would find Bud Powell's recording of it to show him what's possible with a little practice     I came across this gem LP while hunting.

[bpape]

Child is Father To The Man - Blood Sweat and Tears

[lonewolfny42]

Looks like it's "Retro Weekend"!!!

......................

Spent yesterday at Lincoln Center....check out the artist list...


http://www.ponderosastomp.com/lincoln-center_detroit-breakdown_2010.php

It was a good show.....

Now playing....



Sly & The Family Stone - "Greatest Hits"

Dance To The Music.....

[lonewolfny42]

A little taste....I'm checking YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUbCX0-sw8A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJU8lNUdvfQ


Now this.....is funny !!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctqnBqZVK1Q&feature=player_embedded