söndag 29 augusti 2021

THE BEATLES/THE BEATLES' SECOND ALBUM ST 2080 (-64) US STEREO

 


 One of those early US Beatles LP:s that hardly ever showed up in my Swedish home town Luleå in the sixties and therefore was a great joy to find back then.  For us up in the far north they were oddities and sometimes had formats we couldn't get anywhere else - like this, carrying stereo versions of  "I Call Your Name" and "Long Tall Sally", whereof the former was a lot different to the more common UK mono version (and as it turned out much later also dissimilar to the original UK stereo, first issued on the 1976 "Rock'n'Roll Music" album). I didn't care back then that the whole album was drenched in reverb, thus making it come out far from the band's initial intentions. Later, however, as I got more orthodox in my Beatles listening it started to annoy me and got lost in a trade. Now after finding another copy over forty years later I'm listening with more mature ears and finding it's not that bad.  For me more accustomed to the drier UK versions the reverb is still kind of annoying, but it adds some extra width and power, making it more embracing...if you're into that kind of hugs. And above all - it is an early US Beatles original, which makes it an important part of the band's history whether you like it or not. So in a way this copy is a keeper, not in spite of the sometimes disturbing reverb but because of it...because it's something else.  Issued and reissued on vinyl and CD all over the world through the years, also US reel, 8-track and cassette. UK export press on Parlophone (CPCS 103). Pressed in so many places in US during the sixties it's hard to find the exact origin for this copy, but as far as I can figure out from checking the net ones with the here shown label design are 1965 Jacksonville pressings.  (BÄ*)  (YZÄ*)  (LGÅ*)


 



 


                                            


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