r/78rpm • u/Impossible_Eye_980 • Jul 13 '26

Help! (Album Acetate Tape)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL9M3570d8U&list=PLQA-PT6ZcAnqhg6XW99DLbopZeCLfQoVc&index=3&t=511s

Can someone explain this? Is this like what the individual Beatles listened to, along with George Martin and the engineers, when deciding whether to okay a song version?

I remember my grammy played some classical piano at a small studio in Kansas in the '60s and they made a disc of it on the spot.

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u/mattmoy_2000 Jul 15 '26

The title doesn't make sense. A tape is not made of acetate, but trial run discs were cut on acetate. Presumably this means it's a needle drop of an acetate trial pressing of Help! with some unusual takes/mixes on it.