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From: "ClayE" <ecclesreinson@rogers.com>
To: <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:07 AM
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mellotron Choir



> The 8VC was recorded for the M400 (prior to 1970 I guess). Wakeman's
> Hallelujah Chorus live was recorded 1n December 1972. Is that the first
> appearance on a recording? (SEBTP was recorded about a year after
> Wakeman's live Hallelujah Chorus).

I doubt whether the sound was recorded before, say, mid-'72, as its first
uses are around the same time - Wakey's Hallelujah Chorus (and is it on '6
Wives'?) and The Strawbs' Lay Down, recorded late '72.

Yours nit-pickingly,
Andy T.