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Posted by bublitchki (A) on September 04, 2002 at 12:48:54

In Reply to: Re: I don't want White Heat and The Sea Hawk 16/9 and THX-EX posted by sam9 on August 13, 2002 at 13:29:35:

It was? I always thought the "multitrack" versions of "Singin' in the Rain" derived at least in part from the MGM "angle" recordings: multiple microphone pickups not originally intended for multitrack reproduction (but remixed as such today). The Rhino/Turner soundtrack CD of "Singin'" is mostly in mono, with a few selections in stereo (again derived from the angle recordings).

These angle recordings were used to make the "stereo" LD version of "Meet Me in St. Louis." Parts of "The Wizard of Oz" were also recorded this way. The recent "Sinatra in Hollywood" CD box set includes a number of excerpts from Sinatra's MGM musicals remixed to stereo, also from these sources.

Anyway, AFAIK "Singin' in the Rain" was meant to be presented in mono. Any multitrack recordings were purely incidental and not originally intended for multichannel use.