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Master Tapes usually reside in the country of origin so I'm sure a lot of those original masters are in non American vaults.
Can Vocalion Find Universal Music Quad Tapes for Multichannel SACD Release?
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Master Tapes usually reside in the country of origin so I'm sure a lot of those original masters are in non American vaults.
I'm still wondering if they can't access from local (for Dutton UK) some of the many UMG sub labels for LONDON , MAM , PARROT , DERAM (DECCA).??
Well we have both likely candidates with artists such as Gilbert O'Sullivan and Tom Jones who both had Quads issued prior ?
Not too certain who else Dutton with their love of M.O.R. would or could accept into their quad re-issue family , but on CURTOM and GROOVE MERCHANT for some soul and jazz come to mind via U.S. artists such as Buddy Rich , Groove R Holmes , Curtis Mayfield and others from those UMG/LONDON sub labels .
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Well we have both likely candidates with artists such as Gilbert O'Sullivan and Tom Jones who both had Quads issued prior ?
Not too certain who else Dutton with their love of M.O.R. would or could accept into their quad re-issue family , but on CURTOM and GROOVE MERCHANT for some soul and jazz come to mind via U.S. artists such as Buddy Rich , Groove R Holmes , Curtis Mayfield and others from those UMG/LONDON sub labels .
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And perhaps JAPANESE vaults , much like Sony ! I'm hoping Phillips/Phonogram Japan as they had a number of Asian marketed quads of English acts from the 70's of some very big artists from ENGLAND , U.S.A., and CANADA .
There are a number of great releases from EMI that are now under UMG. I'd certainly like to see them tap into those, and they came to UMG well after the fire.
I'm not sure which albums you're referring to specifically, but a lot of the quad material that was originally released on the EMI label (take the Mandingo albums, for example) is now under control of Warners. It was one of the conditions the deal to sell EMI to Universal Music had to meet to satisfy US anti-trust regulations, they had to break up some of their recorded music division.
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CORRECT. Warners purchased the EMI/Angel Classical catalogue including literally hundreds of classical QUAD titles but so far has only released a sparse amount as hybrid Stereo SACDs in Japan.
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That would leave the popular titles under UMG. If they had been under Warner, Rhino could have their pick of the titles there. But if UMG owns the rights to the pop titles, they should do something with them.
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Universal acquired Polygram and all associated labels (Mercury, Island etc) about 20 years ago. The Master Tapes for those labels at that time were located in the Polygram Tape Facility in Edison, NJ. I knew somebody that worked there back in the 1990's. All that Thin Lizzy stuff just being released now has been rotting away in there for 40 years.
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Regardless it still sounds AMAZING!!!.......Everything about this set is AMAZING!!! Yes it would have been AWESOME if at least one of the DISCS in this set was MULTI-CHANNEL sound!!
IMHO it should also get at least a nomination for a GRAMMY for "Box Set of the Year"
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