Does the Decca audition tape still exist?
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From: "Mint Records" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] 'Holy Grail' Beatles record to be auctioned
>I think it was the only speed available to be cut by HMV Oxford street at
> the time. Associated Redifusion - a UK ITV franchise - were also still
> cutting 78rpm acetates at this stage too.
>
> Are these not just cuts from the Decca audition tape? If so the recordings
> themselves are not that rare, which hardly makes them holy grail territory.
> If not then it's something different altogether.
>
> As a historical artifact, however, as a disc made personally for George
> Martin by Brian Epstein and pretty much the reason why they got their
> contract, it's something altogether different.
>
> I would have thought the acetate made in Hamburg with Lu Walters would be
> the ultimate holy grail though.
>
> On 26 February 2016 at 13:05, seva, soundcurrent mastering <
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>> i'd think it's a 78 simply because there were so many of those machines
>> already in place, it's cheaper and straight to portable product playable
>> "anywhere". there's been a few 78s from the mid 50's to early 60's people
>> have brought to me for transcription (although most are wartime, 2 decades
>> previous). after all, if it works, don't buy something new. j
>>
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>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
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>> > Why would they have made a 78RPM disk in 1962? Was this cut on an old
>> > 78-era disk recorder, no tape involved? If so, why, in 1962?
>> >
>> > -- Tom Fine
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "CJB" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 5:42 AM
>> > Subject: [ARSCLIST] 'Holy Grail' Beatles record to be auctioned
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > An extremely rare and valuable Beatles record that was found
>> >> languishing in a loft is to be auctioned next month.
>> >>
>> >> Described as "a Holy Grail item", the 1962 10-inch record of Till
>> >> There Was You and Hello Little Girl lay forgotten in the home of Les
>> >> Maguire for decades.
>> >>
>> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-35660169
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>>
>> --
>> best
>> seva
>>
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