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In Reply to: RE:Year of the Cat posted by belyin on November 19, 2023 at 10:39:08:
Mobile Fidelity was a label that specialized in recording antique steam train pass-bys. Really. If you want the whole story, read my article at the link.
When they decided to get into the reissue business, they added "Sound Lab" to the name.
Quoting from my article:
"Some time around 1976, Miller retrieved The Mystic Moods Orchestra's Stormy Weekend master tapes (from 1970) and sent them off to Nippon Phonogram Co., Ltd. in Japan for "audiophile-quality" remastering and vinyl pressing. In that same general time frame, Miller changed his label's name, by adding "Sound Lab."
"Stormy Weekend was Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's catalog number MFSL 003. (Please note, projects were not necessarily released in the chronological order in which they had been remastered.)
"In fact, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's first three LP releases were all by the The Mystic Moods Orchestra. Who knew? MFSL 001 was Emotions, and MFSL 002 was Cosmic Force; both are from 1968.
"MFSL 004 was The Power and the Majesty, which was ambient thunder and train sounds. MoFi's own website's "Archive" page misidentifies this recording as a Mystic Moods Orchestra project; but it's quite obviously another steam-trains-and-bad-weather program.
If you are curious as to what came next in those earliest days, Supertramp's Crime of the Century was MFSL 005; John Klemmer's Touch was 006; Steely Dan's Katy Lied was 007; the Los Angeles Philharmonic/Zubin Mehta Star Wars & Close Encounters of the Third Kind was 008; Al Stewart's Year of the Cat was 009; and The Crusaders' Chain Reaction was 010."
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The first four MFSL album releases were novelty or gimmick releases. So, I think that would drive the prices of the early MFSL LPs that were "serious" music up.
On the other hand, the first recording project I managed from conception in the early 1980s to the recent re-releases, Arturo Delmoni's "Songs My Mother Taught Me," in the North Star LP release has sold for over $400, and the JMR Bob Ludwig remastering (better in every way) has sold for over $325. So, mighty oaks were once little nuts.
ciao,
john
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Follow Ups
- Funny, I was surprised that the MFSL was not a lot more expensive - John Marks 14:57:17 11/19/23 (6)
- Like this . . . - alaskahiatt 18:29:54 11/19/23 (4)
- Right. - John Marks 04:38:26 11/20/23 (3)
- Haha. I am not fond of Brad Miller's train enthusiasm either, but I do understand - alaskahiatt 10:58:05 11/20/23 (2)
- you would understand the train enthusiasm of you witnessed it up close - Story 11:11:39 11/20/23 (1)
- I did feel the wind blast while walking near the track at the Michigan 500. - alaskahiatt 11:47:01 11/20/23 (0)
- "MFSL 004 was The Power and the Majesty, which was ambient thunder and train sounds." I wonder if that was ... - J. S. Bach 15:14:36 11/19/23 (0)
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