Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band - The Eggplant That Ate Chicago
This track missed the top 40, but almost made the top 50. The https://www.discogs.com/master/416924-Dr-Wests-Medicine-Show-And-Junk-Band-The-Eggplant-That-Ate-Chicago - source album of the same name claims to have been in released in stereo as well as mono. I don't see any evidence the single (which is the same length as the LP version) was ever released in stereo.
I give so much detail about mono / stereo because I'm listening to this track on the Dr. Demento "Greatest Novelty Records of All Time" collection and I can't tell if this is actually stereo or maybe pseudo-stereo, or just stereo reverb. I'm having a difficult time hearing any isolated instruments panned left or right, but when I try to eliminate the central channel, I still hear a ton of music... suggesting to me maybe one of those comb-filter EQ processes to try to create a fake stereo effect.
I ask all of THIS because if this is fake stereo and I would get closer to the original single by either folding it down or grabbing only one channel (or if there's a clean true stereo source for it), that's what I'd like to do for my Halloween station.
(I also suspect this is a vinyl source based on a "click" early on in the recording... making me wonder if it's a stereo needle playing a mono record.)
Anything know anything much about the channeling and / or re-channeling of this novelty single that was written and sung by Norman Greenbaum (who had more success with "Spirit In The Sky")?
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Gene Savage
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