Tom,

Still have yet to find any solid link between Livingston and Atlantic, but these Billboard articles gleans a little light on the connection to Cook and dual cartridge stereo disk playback (I have to admit that I haven't read all the articles celebrating Livingstons 18th).
Ched Smiley looks to be the fellow responsible for Livingston's early pursuit of tape and stereo reproduction but I haven't found very much other than the linked Billboard.

http://books.google.com/books?id=NSgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36-IA3&lpg=PA36-http://books.google.com/books?id=NSgEAAAAMBAJ&q=Livingston+Audio+Products&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3#v=snippet&q=Livingston%20Audio%20Products&f=false

In case this huge link doesn't work, google Billboard March 14th 1970. The Livingston articles begin on page 36.

steve koto


On Nov 15, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Tom Fine wrote:

> Hi Steve:
>
> Atlantic's tapes seem to be the connector between Livingston and Cook. They are featured in both catalogs. Was Livingston more a duplicating operation than a recording operation? I have a Livingston-branded tape of Lenny Herman "mightiest little band in the land." I think they were basically a hotel-bar band in the NYC area. Livingston also put out tapes under their own brand of Bill Thomson playing a Hammond organ.
>
> So who was behind Livingston, and how did they connect to Cook and Atlantic? Were they one of the early self-made duplicating operations? The earliest documentation I've seen of a tape duplication operation was in a 1952 Radio & TV News article, about a setup in NY using Ampex 300's modified in a way that was strikingly similar to what Ampex ended up doing with their 3200 duplicator system two years later.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Livingston and early Atlantic 2-track "binaural" reels
>
>
> Hey Tom,
>
> A quick check of a couple of my binaural tapes reveals the following text on the back of the boxes;
>
> "A Binaural tape of The Atlantic Tape Library
> duplicated and distributed exclusively by
> Livingston Electronic Corporation"
>
> The 2 tapes I checked;
> Paul Barbarin and his New Orleans Jazz is listed in the Atlantic Records discography as lp # 1253
> New Orleans Jazz by Wilbur de Paris and his Rampart Street Ramblers is listed as lp# 1208
>
> I'm not sure about the dates for the Wilbur de Paris but according to the All Music Guide, the Barbarin was recorded in 1955 for Atlantic.
>
> steve koto
> On Nov 15, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
>
>> What was the story with Livingston and Atlantic and their early 2-track reels? The Atlantic titles were listed in both the Livingston and Cook catalogs that were included with Livingston and Cook reels. Did Emory Cook make all of these recordings?
>>
>> -- Tom Fine