World Pacific - Latest Updates

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

Uploaded a variant side 2 label with the album title on two lines. (My side 1 label is the same as the second one displayed here.)

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Comment by robozuc:

Band info

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Comment by robozuc:

@Kevin Walsh 1
I apologize for the distracting error, probably the effects of Saturday night :)
Anyway, so many albums in 1967! We need to investigate a little more, keep us updated if you discover something new, bye.

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

@robozuc thanks for the info.
That label is World Pacific (not Pacific World).
My puzzlement over the two 1966-67 issues is this: an artist usually has an exclusive contract with one label, or the master of a given work is owned by one company. But in this case World Pacific (owned by Liberty) and Capitol (owned by EMI) were issuing the same material almost simultaneously. I imagine that these old EMI recordings had been offered to Capitol first, as the 1957 Angel release shows. But Shankar then had a steady series of US World Pacific albums, some consisting of older material licensed from EMI, and some newly recorded in L.A.

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Comment by robozuc:

Originally published in 1956 on Master's Voice ALPC 7 (UK mono)

The first Stereo version appears in 1967 on Pacific World Rec. WPS-21438 (USA stereo)
and Capitol DT 2720 "Duophonic" Stereo.

I don't know if there are months between the releases of the stereo versions but this detail doesn't seem so important to me.

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

The 2013 Real Gone CD reissue of this material shows it as recorded in 1959.

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

The 2013 Real Gone CD reissue of this material shows it as recorded in 1958. EMI’s 2010 “The Very Best of Ravi Shankar” shows this material as recorded in 1963 and copyrighted 1965. The corresponding UK Fontana LP has a copyright date of 1962.

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

The 2013 Real Gone CD reissue of this material shows it as recorded in 1958. EMI’s 2010 “The Very Best of Ravi Shankar” shows this material as recorded in 1963 and copyrighted 1965. The corresponding UK Fontana LP has a copyright date of 1962.

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

Also issued in mono as WP-1432.
EMI’s 2010 “The Very Best of Ravi Shankar” shows this material as recorded in 1964.

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

Also issued in mono as WP-1434.
EMI’s 2010 “The Very Best of Ravi Shankar” shows this material as recorded in February 1965 and copyrighted 1965.

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

Also issued in mono as WP-1442.

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

Also issued in mono, WP-1441.

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

Also issued in mono, WP-1438.
The 2013 Real Gone CD reissue of this material shows it as recorded in 1956.
The 1966 World Pacific release is stereo, but the 1967 Capitol release is Duophonic. Does anyone know why these two labels issued the same material within less than a year?

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

Issued in the UK in 1962. Also issued in mono as WP-1430. My copy has a stereo sleeve with a mono liner.