Monday, September 12, 2005

Stereo albums in the 60's

I'm reading several articles about the Beatles and one says something interesting: that bands used to record different versions of their songs (mono and stereo) and that the stereo version of an album was always more expensive ($1 more in the USA).

I knew that there were mono versions of Beatles songs different to the stereo ones, particularly from the Sgt Pepper's era, but never listened to them. Some songs differ in duration about 20 secons so the differences are important... So we are talking of different albums with different takes...

I've seen some old albums that say "stereo/ also playable in mono" so they probably were able to standarize the system later...

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