[Verdoro 68]

A few recent additions to my collection. Nothing rare or exotic - just some good, solid classics.

I like that the Booker T album was owned by a doctor. Must have been a groovy doc.

The Beatles '65 is a later pressing on the Apple label - they sure did like to layer on the reverb for the US pressings.

[bird72]

Originally Posted by Verdoro 68

A few recent additions to my collection. Nothing rare or exotic - just some good, solid classics.

I like that the Booker T album was owned by a doctor. Must have been a groovy doc.

The Beatles '65 is a later pressing on the Apple label - they sure did like to layer on the reverb for the US pressings.

I have all the old Beatles on Apple!

Booker T and The MG's is a PREMIUM Score!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good Job!!!!!!

[MikeNoun]

Originally Posted by bird72

I have all the old Beatles on Apple!

Booker T and The MG's is a PREMIUM Score!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good Job!!!!!!

The older Capitol Records albums, from "Magical Mystery Tour" (1967) on back, all used the Capitol "rainbow label", which was all black, with a rainbow band. When The Beatles formed Apple, they began re-releasing their older records using their new Apple label. If you have one of those, it may be a bit valuable. They weren't in production long.

Many of their 1964-1967 albums got a sales boost in late 1969 when the whole "Paul Is Dead" rumor started, and fans began buying their earlier releases looking for "clues" in their music. Sales of early albums skyrocketed, most of their early material was suddenly back on the charts, now spinning on the Apple label.

Capitol threw a ton of reverb on those early Beatles albums, which they called Duophonic. It was basically a Phil Spector type Wall Of Sound, and The Beatles hated it, but there was nothing they could do about it. Capitol Records was owned by EMI, the label The Beatles recorded for in England, and if Capitol felt this is how they should release their material in America, they had to accept it.

So Capitol felt The Beatles material needed a "boost", and they slathered on echo and reverb. The Beatles were still against stereo, and preferred mono (in their defense, mono does sound better on a single speaker car radio, where as a stereo mix would sound strange coming through a single speaker. The balance would be off, and the vocal may get buried in the mix).

I don't mind the Duophonic sound, but many hate it. As with all Beatles material, they of course re-released the Duophonic versions of the early U.S. Capitol albums a few years ago on CD and vinyl. Most fans in America remember them sounding this way, as that's all they ever heard of The Beatles throughout the 1960's to the later 1980's, when they began releasing true "non-reverb" recordings on CD.

Mike

[Alvin]

Perhaps some lurkers here maybe are not aware of this change in Beatles music availablity:

Mutiple links HERE pic your fave

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by Alvin

Perhaps some lurkers here maybe are not aware of this change in Beatles music availablity:

Mutiple links HERE pic your fave

So now that they're fully into the 21st Century with streaming...the image below is PERHAPS from 1962...enjoy!