Only a northern song

Вы тоже иронизируете, 12barman, или мне только кажется?

ничего не понял.
хотя нет - понял, вы спросили, тоже ли я иронизирую,
это говорит о том, что вы все-таки иронизируете, хотя над чем - пока для меня загадка.

так вот: я - нет, я говорил о песне 'Only a Northern Song'.))

Голубяка

"Любопытная деталь: первый стерео-микс этой песни был приготовлен аж в 1999 году, то есть, совсем недавно - для переиздания мульта. Всё это время песню слушали в моно"

А в "хлебнице" от EMI она в стерео

2bk:

>А в "хлебнице" от EMI она в стерео

Не имею хлебницы, но смею предположить, что в неё вкладывался CD "Yellow Submarine" образца 1987 года под номером EMI CDP 7 46445 2.
На этом диске - псевдо-стерео микс сабжа.

Вот что вообще пишут умные зарубежные дядьки:

"The first generation, take 3, was mixed down to take 12 and overdubs added; then tracks of take 3 were wiped and overdubs added. The mono mix is made from both synchronized, mainly from 12. No attempt was made to make stereo. [a] was used in mono in the original film print of Yellow Submarine.
The Anthology mix [b] is also synchronized from tracks on different original tapes, but deliberately has different tracks mixed in, including a different lead vocal; and it is speeded up just over 2 per cent for no stated reason".

(by Joseph Brennan)
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"It's Only A Northern Song" was begun on February 13th, 1967 with nine takes (E.M.I. tape E63259). Take 3 was subsequently reduced to create takes 10-12 the next day (E63266). This was certainly an unusual recording, in that the final version was created by synching two multi-track tapes. As Lewisohn explains, on April 20th they returned to the song and went back to take 3 from the February 13th session, wiping one of the tracks and recording some further instrumentation. Then they created another tape from the February 14th mixdown (take 11) — even though it contains the vocals, it was notated as "music track II" (E64018) with a note that it is meant to be played in unison with take 3 from E63259. This synch was given 11 mono mixes the next day (E64019), and is undoubtedly the reason that the song was never initially mixed into stereo.
"Anthology 2" featured an edited, sped up version of the basic tracks (take 3) with a dif¬ferent vocal. This claims to be "overdubbed on to a separate 'reduction,' take 12" — whatever that means. If you're interested, you can hear this speed-corrected on the "Upgraded Collection — Highlights" CD.
The only sources for the genuine mono mix of "Only a Northern Song" are either the actual soundtrack from the "Yellow Submarine" film, or (preferably) the bootleg "Secret Songs In Pepperland." The legitimately issued mono version of this song is simply a reduc¬tion from the mock stereo.
A true stereo remix was finally issued in 1999 on the "Yellow Submarine Songtrack" CD, issued to correspond to the home video release of that film".

(by Doug Sulpy)

Так что я всё-таки облажался: первая стерео-версия вышла в 1996-м на "Антологии". Правда, это был не мастер...

>12barman:

Замечательно, что мы понимаем друг друга ;-)

Вчитался внимательно во вторую приведённую самим же цитату и тут до меня дошло: выходит, не только стерео-версии этой песни не существовало в течение долгих лет, но и моно - как таковой!!! Уникальный случай в истории битловских миксов...