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From: "charel196" <charel196@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:03 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Tron choir history?


> What was the first use of the choir tapes on record? I think the
> first I heard it was on Six Wives by RW....I have the Chamberlin solo
> voices on the Pinder CD Rom.Did Harry ever record a full choir sound?
> Those solo voices are too vibrato heavy for much use.Whose idea was
> the choir for the tron(Martin??)?

It's got to be either '6 Wives' or the Strawbs' 'Bursting at the Seams', on
'Lay Down' and 'Down By The Sea'. According to one of my reference books,
they both appeared in the same month, Feb.'73, so it's a toss-up as to who
actually recorded with it first.

Andy T.