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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 16:31:07 GMT
Often the hit versions of a song are in mono (particularly 45s). These same songs were later remixed or even rerecorded in stereo for 33's (albums). If you're an album rock station, then playing the album version makes sense. But if you're a purist & want the hit version, then mono is the way to go. Different strokes...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2017 14:36:46 GMT
Knowing Jack Squat
It is quite interesting to explore "album oriented rock" prior to the invention of the album.
As a matter of fact it didn't exist. Without the "album", nominally the 33-1/3 RPM long-play record and its distinctive printed cover, long-form rock music had no medium.
In fact, only three-days before that, rock music itself didn't exist.
Little known aspiring musician Elmo Prosley threw out an entire dumpster filled with conventional musical instruments and determined to make a name for himself singing to a battery operated plastic guitar he found at the K-Mart toy department. His recording apparatus wasn't real, it was only make-believe, otherwise Prosley would be remembered as the father of rock music.
It was over three-weeks until some other guy actually started the genre after flunking out of music class in the 1st grade. His name goes un-remembered to this day.
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Post by thelegacy on Dec 22, 2017 17:36:58 GMT
Great Track Never Marry A Railroad Man by Shocking Blue. I had the Stereo Version on my playlist. I do use the Youtube Downloader. The one's I use are Keepvid Music and Replay Media Catcher. Keepvid Music also has an audio recorder that will auto tag music. Replay Media Catcher will download from subscription music services like Tidal and Keepvid Music will Download from Spotify.
If you want all our music in 320K subscribe to Tidal HiFi for $20/Month. The songs are really high quality. There are those few I have to use youtube, Mp3monkey.net or something like that to get my tracks.
Hope this helps everyone out there.
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Post by MrBruce on Dec 23, 2017 4:52:50 GMT
WFPN Radio is an ALBUM Rock Station Proof is in the photo. Plus 45s as well. That's only 40% of my collection by the way. The photo is kind of large so you'll have to scroll at the bottom to see more of the 33 1/3 vinyl LPs.  Bruce. |
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Post by mark on Dec 23, 2017 5:26:07 GMT
Wow! that's some record collection.
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Post by part15engineer on Dec 23, 2017 16:34:08 GMT
i often wonder about the stir that "My Ding A Ling" caused back in the 70's when it first came out. it was a few years before my time.
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Post by MrBruce on Dec 23, 2017 18:15:46 GMT
I have all the songs that have so far been talked about in this thread, including the 45 RPM single versions, I am familiar with the T-Set I have the 45 RPM single of "Ma Belle Amie" on Colossus records label # CS 107 in Stereo and Chuck Berry's "My Ding A Ling" on Chess records label # CH2131 I am not sure if it is in stereo off hand as it is not marked as a stereo record on the label.
Bruce.
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Post by thelegacy on Dec 24, 2017 0:03:57 GMT
Yea Bruce your station reminds me of WOCR in Olivet Michigan (When the Pirate WOCR in Ocean City, MD was killed) I worked at that station as an intern in 1979 while in Work Experience class in High School. When the High School teacher asked me what I wanted to be I said without missing a beat "A DJ of an Album Rock station." and since the teacher knew the administrator of that station he made that a reality for me.
Of course my Real Mom thought Radio was a stupid career for me to get started in because of it being so competitive but at least I had a chance at it for a summer. They were a 10 Watt LPFM station on 89.7 FM and played top 40 and Album Rock depending on the DJ.
Their mixing board was a Mcmartin with the round knobs. It was gray with the black large round knobs and easy to see analog meters. It was easy to tell when I over modulated so I'd watch those meters twisting my head left and right as fast as I could because I have tunnel vision.
They had Paris turntables with Sure cartridges which sounded nice. They were a little weak in the low end I think the station had no audio processing I only saw a transmitter in the rack and a EAS system and a receiver to monitor the station. I did hear that they were supposed to get a sound shaping device but it never happened when I worked there.
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Post by mark on Dec 24, 2017 0:21:29 GMT
i often wonder about the stir that "My Ding A Ling" caused back in the 70's when it first came out. it was a few years before my time. Didn't cause anything.......was Chuck Berry's only no. one hit. |
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Post by cthuskyman on Jan 12, 2018 0:21:33 GMT
Reply to Thelegacy I know how you feel. My blood pressure goes up I'm sure when Rap and the synthesized junk/pop you hear on radio is called music. Or when I hear it at all. Those kids think they are listening to music but they don't know what a real instrument is and remember the kid in a past post that said when listening to Led Zeppelin "I don't like real instruments in music" Just the crap you hear from the boom cars that shake the building a block away makes me wish I had a rocket launcher...especially when the car stops and keeps it on in front of my house. Rap is just vulgar. But it's not all lost....I was in a high end hi-fi place here in Toronto recently and they also carry records and I asked what you sell more of and to who and to my surprise turntables and integrated amps and to younger people more than old! He went on to say there was a 16 year old girl just here before with an armful of beatle albums who's parents just bought her a $1000 turntable. I don't like the fact that radio doesn't play what we grew up with and that's why I do this too....to keep rock and roll and what I like and grew up with on the radio. My era my be more Elvis to the Beatles and everything in between(including the 70s) but we are on the same page. There's also country and that for the most part isn't synthesized and in the USA this is the most listened to music on radio, the number 1 format. I hear you and we have an obligation to save MUSIC not just musical ignorance. I feel you, guys. Kids today don't seem to know anything about actual GOOD music. Would anyone be down with helping me produce a music educational themed show for my station? I envision it as a kind of "behind the music/behind the lyrics" type of show. |
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Post by mighty1650 on Jan 12, 2018 12:50:11 GMT
Ma Bella Amie was not banned, in fact the stereo version is included on the KLIF Klassics Album. (As is the Stereo cut of Venus)
KLIF was THE Top 40 station in Dallas at the time. Come to think of it, I think Little Green Bag is on the same album.
The US does not ban songs as it would violate the 1st Amendment, however if a radio station didn't want to play a song that's on them.
FWIW, Yesterdays Rock is Todays Rap and the old fogies then were saying the EXACT same thing Ya'll are saying about current pop tunes now. Before that it was Jazz, I'm sure way back when there were folks that thought Bach was just noise.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2018 16:58:18 GMT
Looking Back on Bach
Mighty 1650 is Onto Something: "I'm sure way back when there were folks that thought Bach was just noise."
The composer whose name, if not his actual music, is known today, made most of his income by writing church music for Lutheran Services. The church officials were unhappy that Bach also wrote non-religious music, even though it was on his own time. They even threatened to fire him if he kept writing secular (non-church) music.
After Bach died he was mostly forgotten until many years later some musicians ran across his musical manuscripts in a library and began performing it. Soon the popularity of the music swept the world and now Bach is considered one of the greatest composers ever to live.
In the early 1970s some of Bach's tunes began popular hits played on the Moog Synthesizer by Walter (now Wendy) Carlos on albums named "Switched On Bach". At that time album rock was invented and played alongside Bach on the new breed of stereo FM stations that popularized the FM band causing the dial to fill up to capacity which is where we find ourselves today.
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2018 18:10:11 GMT
Well Tempered Synthesizer was another of Walter's (Wendy's) hit classical albums performed on the Synthesizer.
One of the few albums I purchased while in high school late sixties.
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Post by mark on Jan 12, 2018 23:25:13 GMT
cthuskyman said:
"I feel you, guys. Kids today don't seem to know anything about actual GOOD music. Would anyone be down with helping me produce a music educational themed show for my station? I envision it as a kind of "behind the music/behind the lyrics" type of show."
Sounds like a good idea for a show. Thing is it's not just kids anymore....it's people in their 30s now and older. Adults. They call all this synthesised pop "Adult contemporary". Even the vulgar rap you hear shaking the car 5 cars down isn't being listened to by just kids. Don't know how to help with your idea for a show from here(Canada)though.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 16:44:36 GMT
Back to BachThere was another artist during the hippie album rock era who brought Bach to the Light Show... an organist named Virgil Fox Dance the Gigue
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