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I agree. It also brings to mind that a lot of education systems around the world, (maybe all education systems), don't allow people the opportunity to shine and demonstrate their ability and potential. I recall that a teacher of Karen and Richard called them 'average students' in print or in a live interview, yet Richard in particular, (probably Karen, too, with her drumming), has demonstrated that he has strong intelligence of a certain type. He also sounds to me in interviews as if he's intelligent, generally. I believe the education system in the US, like a lot of places, was quite test-driven in the past, (and maybe still is). That means lots of chalk and talk, being put to sleep by the teacher, lots of thought control and action control, regurgitating of facts and cramming. Memorising facts and regurgitating them in tests actually exercises one of the lower forms of intelligence. That is, you don't have to be particularly bright to succeed. You just need to be a particular type of thinker, (or non-thinker), prepared to be told what to think and what to do, to be a good listener and be prepared to put time in memorising things. Assessments of whether a person is intelligent or not, particularly back then, would largely depend on the intelligence of the person making the judgement and their ability to perceive the talents of the person they were looking at. Thank goodness Karen and Richard later hit a music department that obviously enthused them and gave them the opportunity to demonstrate what they were capable of and to be creative. We probably have a lot to be thankful for towards Frank Pooler and the other people in the Downey music department in the 60s. I apologise for seeming completely off topic for this thread. However, being aware of Richard clearly demonstrating his intelligence in a number of ways, as in this article and with these areas of his work, and remembering him being described as an average student, therefore, nothing 'out of the box', brought all this to mind.It's clear from this interview that Richard just doesn't love and know music but that he also knows and loves the business side of the industry. Quite an intelligent man on the scientific side of it all as well.
I wished they had done a mono for Merry Christmas Darling and Ave Maria. It's also pretty rare that an artist by the 80's would still be issuing mono 45's. We have quite a few from the MIA album.Wow, I didn't realize so many of the singles had dedicated mono mixes. I'm assuming that the mono 45s were only available as promotional, radio-station copies?
We have quite a few from the MIA album.
Really TTR & YWP was the only true mono single release.
Listen to this mono version of "Hurting Each Other" to hear the slight reverb and compression applied:
I agree and with this recent article uncovered....Richard was very candid about their process in creating mono versions of the singles and why we have them. This would be right up his alley in releasing a set like this on CD and providing liner notes for each mono single. Now wouldn't it be cool if this is already in the pipeline for an upcoming release and we don't even know about it? We didn't even know that Public TV was going to release The Complete Singles Collection, did we?These would make a very cool set, indeed...
I'm going to try that this weekend with a couple of those CSG 45's..will be interesting to hear this.Theoretically if you collapse a CSG track to mono, it will sound the way it would have on a mono radio station.
In Audacity, import the CSG track in its stereo state, select Tracks>Stereo To Mono and that's what you would have heard on a mono station. Now, AM radio stations would also have some compression that they added along with some high frequency roll-off.