My Granpap owned a radio store and sold records too, this was in the late Fifties so he had a lot of the AF titles at home. When he wanted to show-off his new stereo, a Fairchild / Klipsch system he would always put on that Johhny Puleo harmonica LP. I probably still have that same disc around here, but better yet I got the 2trk reel which sounds amazing. He was in the right business at the right time when stereophonic hifi hit the market and had an enviable SOTA stereo system but he didn't have a reel to reel as part of his system. I just remember an old mono Webcor that he made voice recordings with. Thanks for posting this video.
Great history here! How about a video on Everest and Mercury 35mm magnetic film recordings... The late Bert Whyte was a pioneer in this field and 60+ years later their sound continues to floor me - just boggles the mind for what these gifted folks were able to accomplish so long ago. Cheers!
Thanks for this great video. I’m 50 years old and I recently got into vinyl. All of the channels that I watch talk about the best recordings of the 1960’s to present. It’s great to hear about great sounding records pre 1965.
i remenmber the first converted to stereo records, who were like... better to leave them in mono as mono sounds good even today ,i use a dynaco with a powerfull set of speakers ,two that make mono sound coming from everywhere but the speakers even looking at them , some huge cabinets in worked wood like 1.9 meters that seem more like closets with some 70watts that can fill a living room, the turntablçe is a old grarrard from a fm station i started in 1972 ,that were already old professional turntables in the 60´s, it had a dual that i still have but with converted to diamond stylus, both Dual and Garrard and with itn the mono nagra bought by my father, they say the Beatles used them but in the footage, i´ve seen them using studer old reels decks, Beatles records seem to have better sound then the early converted albums first i heard it on the blue and red doble albums , allthough the Abbey road was the only stereo recorded
my house or my family house where my mother still lives with 90 years old , in the hallways there are components in every furniture not damaged but needing a clean ,normally i would see a nice component and i bough it now i have a room in my house ,already calling it a colection but still in my mothers house where the hallways seem bigger than living rooms in modern apartments have components everywhere, amplifiers, cassette decks ,tuners, speaKers, turntables(this normally under the furniture) but it´s really a lot some i bought them in the 90´s like 60 watts maximum for channel and yet to be conected for the first time like a sunsui and a yamaha are two i know.
Hi Richard. New subscribers here Great video. Lots of great information about the early Ampex machines. I remember a lot of those early Lps. I have some of the Command stuff and I think I have some sound effects records. Gotta go unpack some boxes out in the barn. My wife and I are big Dinah fans too. No Rusty Warren records? Matt
Hey Rich, good to see you in good health! Tape and microgroove LPs go hand and hand! You can do direct to disc, but tape allows for editing, which is very important! 😊
With really early reel to reel stereo tape it was a staggered head format due to the difficulty at first getting a stereo pair within one tape head. That format quickly fell out of favor and buyers should be cautious about any tape that says "Staggered Stereo".
I think the first commercially available stereo records were produced by AR Sugden from Yorkshire; to play on his Connoisseur range of record players and stereo pick-ups following the work of Alan Blumlein from EMI.
Stereo was invented by Alan Blumlein at EMI in 1931. Somewhat incredible that you didn’t mention that. And I have a stereo record made by Stokowski in 1940.
@ And invented the 90 degree microphone pair, and the cartridge. He invented the entire system. RCA came to Decca UK in the mid fifties all excited thinking they had invented it all, but Arthur Haddy had to disenchant them and tell them about the Blumlein work and patents.
I think you probably already know this - but Bing Crosby wanted that tape machine so he didn't have to do his live radio show and he could go golfing. Mobile Fidelity got its start making train field recordings. I'm surprised that Stereolab wasn't in discogs since that cover (and name) has been used by modern bands.
Really fascinated looking at a lot of the older technology. Have you come across the "inadvertent" stereo recordings Richard? It was common to use two portable cutters at different locations for live events in case something went wrong. These can now be spliced back together to make a genuinely stereo performance. I believe the earliest examples date back to the 20's, certainly the 30's.
Hollywood studios had multi-channel, high-fidelity sound-on-film recording technology long before stereo in the recording industry. "Fantasia" is the best-known example. Outfits like the Glenn Miller band made their best audio-quality recordings when making movies on the West Coast.
Thank you for the comment. I'm familiar with that era but for brevity's sake I focused on a 5 year period from 57 to 62 which is when the commercial aspects exploded..
Les Paul and Mary Ford were one of the first to record in multitrack recordings. I don’t think they were mentioned. Wasn’t Spike Jones and his City Slickers a kind of Dixie land even though they were comedy? 🤔
Thanks so much. Why were some vinyl recordings still mono in the middle 1960s? And some of the same albums were recorded in both stereo AND mono. Was mono cheaper to reproduce?
Excellent , realy enjoyed this music review. Was their anything like " living stereo" to be issued in the UK? We had a Decca stereogram when I was a boy. I'll try find a copy of Terry Snyder And The All Stars - Persuasive Percussion here
@richardriley4415 yes I know their was stereo as we had record player in 1958 , think prob Decca label but wondered if their was living stereo, never seen that,
It's ironic that mono recordings of the Beatles and other groups is now valued more than the stereo mixes. Some insist that the mono mixes sound better. As an opera listener, I have quite a few mono recordings on vinyl and CD. The voices sound fuller on the mono recordings, maybe because the image hangs between the speakers and not on either the right or the left. Stereo gives you a greater sense of depth and space. But mono has its place.
The stereo mixes on the early Beatles records was not good because they just hard panned the voices / individual instruments to the left or the right. Someone made me a Beatles Mono reel to reel tape from the expensive vinyl set and it is eye-opening, or ear-opening, yes. In true monaural, with two speakers the music comes at you right from center field - if you have not heard those Beatles classics this way should check them out,
The Beatles' home market, the U.K., probably had more monophonic equipment than stereo in the 1960s. As late as the late Sixties, the Beatles were releasing entirely separate mono mixes of tracks like "Helter Skelter", with different instruments highlighted, etc., to compensate for the lack of the stereo soundstage.
@@steelers6titles There were stereo recordings in the 1950s before the records became widely available in 1958. Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra and A Hero's Life, recorded by Frtiz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony in 1954, is an example. Similarly, digital recordings were issued on vinyl before CDs and CD players became available.
Right, the story of the Magnetophon is pretty cool, sure you can find it online somewhere. The world can thank German technology for high fidelity sound. Though someone else would have come up with the idea if they hadn't.
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My Granpap owned a radio store and sold records too, this was in the late Fifties so he had a lot of the AF titles at home. When he wanted to show-off his new stereo, a Fairchild / Klipsch system he would always put on that Johhny Puleo harmonica LP. I probably still have that same disc around here, but better yet I got the 2trk reel which sounds amazing.
He was in the right business at the right time when stereophonic hifi hit the market and had an enviable SOTA stereo system but he didn't have a reel to reel as part of his system. I just remember an old mono Webcor that he made voice recordings with. Thanks for posting this video.
Thank You for sharing.
Great history here! How about a video on Everest and Mercury 35mm magnetic film recordings...
The late Bert Whyte was a pioneer in this field and 60+ years later their sound continues to floor me - just boggles the mind for what these gifted folks were able to accomplish so long ago. Cheers!
Thank you. I did mention Mercury of which I have many. I also have a few Everest. The history of all of this is fascinating.
I had a LP from 1957 in Stereo. «The arrival of Victor Feldman».Great sound
Great taste - Scott La Faro and Stan Levey in the boat. Vic (1934-1987) was a great British musician (piano/vibes/drums) who made it big in America
the net went off, i hear my youngest daughters and grandaughters shouting bellow
Thanks for this great video. I’m 50 years old and I recently got into vinyl. All of the channels that I watch talk about the best recordings of the 1960’s to present. It’s great to hear about great sounding records pre 1965.
Thanks for the comment. I'm 82 so this early stuff is probably more interesting to me.
An old-style reel-to-reel multitrack analogue tape recorder! A real beauty!
i remenmber the first converted to stereo records, who were like... better to leave them in mono as mono sounds good even today ,i use a dynaco with a powerfull set of speakers ,two that make mono sound coming from everywhere but the speakers even looking at them , some huge cabinets in worked wood like 1.9 meters that seem more like closets with some 70watts that can fill a living room, the turntablçe is a old grarrard from a fm station i started in 1972 ,that were already old professional turntables in the 60´s, it had a dual that i still have but with converted to diamond stylus, both Dual and Garrard and with itn the mono nagra bought by my father, they say the Beatles used them but in the footage, i´ve seen them using studer old reels decks, Beatles records seem to have better sound then the early converted albums first i heard it on the blue and red doble albums , allthough the Abbey road was the only stereo recorded
Nice Video !!!
Thanks
my house or my family house where my mother still lives with 90 years old , in the hallways there are components in every furniture not damaged but needing a clean ,normally i would see a nice component and i bough it now i have a room in my house ,already calling it a colection but still in my mothers house where the hallways seem bigger than living rooms in modern apartments have components everywhere, amplifiers, cassette decks ,tuners, speaKers, turntables(this normally under the furniture) but it´s really a lot some i bought them in the 90´s like 60 watts maximum for channel and yet to be conected for the first time like a sunsui and a yamaha are two i know.
Thanks for the comment.
Fantastic Richard!
Thanks for dropping by.
Hi Richard. New subscribers here Great video. Lots of great information about the early Ampex machines. I remember a lot of those early Lps. I have some of the Command stuff and I think I have some sound effects records. Gotta go unpack some boxes out in the barn. My wife and I are big Dinah fans too. No Rusty Warren records?
Matt
Thanks for the Sub. I do have a couple Rusty Warren records. Check out my video on Dinah a few months ago.
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Hey Rich, good to see you in good health! Tape and microgroove LPs go hand and hand! You can do direct to disc, but tape allows for editing, which is very important! 😊
Tape has now gotten really expensive.
the color on those jackets is beautiful
They went all out at the beginning and ten tears ago you could get much of that stuff for $1 each which is what sucked me in..
Magnavox and Zenith were starting to make stereos about that time too[1958]
Mid Century Modern. They didn't really take off until the mid 60s. In 1967 I bought an RCA console. I wish I still had it.
With really early reel to reel stereo tape it was a staggered head format due to the difficulty at first getting a stereo pair within one tape head. That format quickly fell out of favor and buyers should be cautious about any tape that says "Staggered Stereo".
Thanks
So if you tried to play it on a recent reel to reel the two channels would. well out of sync?
I think the first commercially available stereo records were produced by AR Sugden from Yorkshire; to play on his Connoisseur range of record players and stereo pick-ups following the work of Alan Blumlein from EMI.
Thanks for the info.
Stereo was invented by Alan Blumlein at EMI in 1931. Somewhat incredible that you didn’t mention that. And I have a stereo record made by Stokowski in 1940.
Thanks. I tried to keep it from 57 to 62 for time.
Blumlein built and used a stereo 45/45 cutter, the first of its kind.
@ And invented the 90 degree microphone pair, and the cartridge. He invented the entire system. RCA came to Decca UK in the mid fifties all excited thinking they had invented it all, but Arthur Haddy had to disenchant them and tell them about the Blumlein work and patents.
I think you probably already know this - but Bing Crosby wanted that tape machine so he didn't have to do his live radio show and he could go golfing. Mobile Fidelity got its start making train field recordings. I'm surprised that Stereolab wasn't in discogs since that cover (and name) has been used by modern bands.
It might be in discogs now. I have a number of records that were not there 6 or 7 years ago and when I check now they are there. I love the history.
Really fascinated looking at a lot of the older technology. Have you come across the "inadvertent" stereo recordings Richard? It was common to use two portable cutters at different locations for live events in case something went wrong. These can now be spliced back together to make a genuinely stereo performance. I believe the earliest examples date back to the 20's, certainly the 30's.
Doing some research is my favorite part.
Hollywood studios had multi-channel, high-fidelity sound-on-film recording technology long before stereo in the recording industry. "Fantasia" is the best-known example. Outfits like the Glenn Miller band made their best audio-quality recordings when making movies on the West Coast.
Thank you for the comment. I'm familiar with that era but for brevity's sake I focused on a 5 year period from 57 to 62 which is when the commercial aspects exploded..
@@richardriley4415 Right. Thanks.
Les Paul and Mary Ford were one of the first to record in multitrack recordings. I don’t think they were mentioned. Wasn’t Spike Jones and his City Slickers a kind of Dixie land even though they were comedy? 🤔
The early Herb Alpert recordings on A&M had different series numbers for Mono and Stereo versions.
@@glennso47 Some of Les’s early recording equipment is on display at the Rock Hall in Cleveland.
My dad had several LPs in the "Kings of Dixieland" series. Top session musicians.
My also introduced me to this music.
Mr.Bob you need to listen too Super Audio Disc 🤣
Thanks so much. Why were some vinyl recordings still mono in the middle 1960s? And some of the same albums were recorded in both stereo AND mono. Was mono cheaper to reproduce?
I think the cost was about the same.
what did you record it with? it sounds quite good actually! you got some EQ on that as well?
just clips from youtube.
Really good question actually, just about every brand had their own pre-emphasis curves!
Wow, I thought I knew a thing or two about stereo history, but you put me to shame. Great information.
Excellent , realy enjoyed this music review. Was their anything like " living stereo" to be issued in the UK? We had a Decca stereogram when I was a boy. I'll try find a copy of Terry Snyder And The All Stars - Persuasive Percussion here
Similar efforts were going on in the UK and Europe but I just focused on the US.
@richardriley4415 yes I know their was stereo as we had record player in 1958 , think prob Decca label but wondered if their was living stereo, never seen that,
Most to all of charles holley(buddy holly) were actually recorded in stereo..I may or may not know what the tracks sound like!
I have yet found any stereo tracks on you tube… fake stereo if any
It's ironic that mono recordings of the Beatles and other groups is now valued more than the stereo mixes. Some insist that the mono mixes sound better. As an opera listener, I have quite a few mono recordings on vinyl and CD. The voices sound fuller on the mono recordings, maybe because the image hangs between the speakers and not on either the right or the left. Stereo gives you a greater sense of depth and space. But mono has its place.
The stereo mixes on the early Beatles records was not good because they just hard panned the voices / individual instruments to the left or the right.
Someone made me a Beatles Mono reel to reel tape from the expensive vinyl set and it is eye-opening, or ear-opening, yes. In true monaural, with two speakers the music comes at you right from center field - if you have not heard those Beatles classics this way should check them out,
It took them awhile to figure out how to do stereo right consistently.
The Beatles' home market, the U.K., probably had more monophonic equipment than stereo in the 1960s. As late as the late Sixties, the Beatles were releasing entirely separate mono mixes of tracks like "Helter Skelter", with different instruments highlighted, etc., to compensate for the lack of the stereo soundstage.
@@steelers6titles There were stereo recordings in the 1950s before the records became widely available in 1958. Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra and A Hero's Life, recorded by Frtiz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony in 1954, is an example. Similarly, digital recordings were issued on vinyl before CDs and CD players became available.
the first convertions to stereo were a bit like...should had kept them in mono
True
Didn't early tape technology benefit from the Allies captured tech from Ze Germans at the end of WWII?
Exactly, in part that's how Ampex came up with the 200A
Right, the story of the Magnetophon is pretty cool, sure you can find it online somewhere. The world can thank German technology for high fidelity sound. Though someone else would have come up with the idea if they hadn't.
Never an RCA fan.
Thanks for the comment. What is your favorite label ? It's hard to beat Atlantic.
These videos are getting long
I don't want you to be bored and then get in trouble.
Much, much prefered.
Long form video = win
Short form dopamine junk vertical video= lame
@@CuttinChopps This is my daughter. Lol.
@@richardriley4415I am one of the few people who kept my nice living room stereo I have a mitsubishi turntable and a bang and olufsen