Teasing the Korean

Cannonball - Soul of the Bible

Nat Adderley - Double Exposure Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Zero Time

Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind (Tamla)

Stevie Wonder - Where I'm Coming From (Motown reissue)

World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht), a 1973 German sci fi TV serial, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, courtesy of the Criterion Channel. Very prescient.

Wow!

Yes, I noticed this! I have the run from Where I'm Coming From through Key of Life, plus Musiquarium. I am missing the 7" EP from Key of Life though.

My 2024 July 4th selection: Gary McFarland - America the Beautiful: An Account of Its Disappearance (Skye)

Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale (UK pressing on EMI/Tamla Motown)

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (Tamla)

Lionel Newman - Exciting Hong Kong (ABC Paramount, mono) Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (Tamla)

I think he plays some kind of a cop or quasi-father figure to the little girl, I can't remember. It's been a while. Incidentally, it is difficult, it not impossible, to find the original, complete version of this film. We have a grainy DVR burned for us from a friend who was a film freak, and it is purportedly complete, or at least the most complete version available. Since then, we got the Blu-ray from Network - which may or may not work with most US players - and it is apparently the most complete commercially available version. I have not yet carefully compared the two, but that is on my to-do list. I always remember Jan Murray from Hollywood Squares, with the hippy beads and medallions in his chest hair. Even as a little kid, I knew instinctively that there was something terribly wrong about this.

I don't have them, but they are/were on YouTube. One pet peeve was that two of the contemporaneous covers miss my favorite chord in the tune. There was a cover by a female British singer from more recent decades, and I liked her version. Here is the film version, by Rita Dyson, apparently released on a promotional EP. It's the Leslie Uggams version that misses my favorite chord.

Thanks, and good to know. My skepticism stems from the fact that I have long been intrigued by these mono cartridges, but I haven't received satisfactory explanations as to the stylus details. Maybe I'll reach out to Ortofon and see what they say. 👍

That may be correct, but for quite a while, people were attributing the theme to various singers who covered it. There were a few contemporaneous 45s, one by Leslie Uggams IIRC!

None of the cover versions of the theme are as good as the film version. I don't think that version was ever commercially released, and the singer may not have been correctly identified either.

Thank you. I have read about various mono cartridges, but none of the descriptions that I've encountered have articulated precisely how their stylus handles the two very different types of grooves. If there is more going on than summing the left and right, I would love to read a clear explanation. Both speakers will function, but you will be sending an identical signal to both speakers. I have used the Y cable between the turntable cables and phono input on the amp. I would suggest using this just with LPs and not with CDs, as some mono CDs were mastered with stereo tape heads, and as a result, there can be azimuth issues when these are played back in mono.

Assuming you are talking about mono LPs from the mono-only era. Mono LPs pressed during the past 7 decades - including reissues of earlier mono albums - use stereo groove configurations, so a mono stylus is useless for them.

A Y converter is much cheaper and just as effective. The only catch is that you would need easy access to the jacks.

So Ortofon is making the claim that their stylus is cut to work equally well for both pre- and post-1958 mono LPs? I don't buy it.

There were a few different technologies with rechanneled stereo. Records with mild EQ differences between left and right generally folded well to mono without discernible issues. But some labels - notably Capitol and RCA - would place one channel on a split-second delay. This type of rechanneled stereo resulted in phase issues.

Thanks. I finally tested negative yesterday. If I test negative again on Tuesday, I am supposedly out of the woods.

If it was rechanneled stereo, that may explain the phase issues.

It depends on how the stereo album is mixed and if it is in phase. Generally, what happens is that whatever is mixed in the center is increased by about 6 dB relative to what is placed on the left or right. So, this can a be a good or bad thing, or negligible, depending on the particulars. Most Blue Note stereo albums are IMO improved when you play them back in mono, because RVG made the mono albums from the stereo tapes, and set the levels so that the stereo would collapse well to mono.