[78-L] Billboard charts

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This is the same M.O. used by imProper on our western swing releases. They brazenly stole our transfers, re-EQ'd them to actually make them sound WORSE and then ripped off our photos. You can see the pixillation distortion where they tried to make a small picture larger. Shameless. We're copyrighting the photos on our next release and noting this in the CD booklet but I doubt it will do any good. 

Cary Ginell
Origin Jazz Library
www.originjazz.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Zwarg <doctordisc at truesoundtransfers.de>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:21 am
Subject: Re: [78-L] Billboard charts



At 20:05 11.11.2008, you wrote:
From: "David Weiner" <djwein at earthlink.net>
> Man, do I hate Joel Whitburn!
> http://membran.net/Serien_Label/Jazz_Blues/Jazz_in_the_Charts/index.html

Actually there are 100 CDs of good stuff here, but I find no info
specifying they did the selection via Pop Memories.  It is not as if
each CD is one year.  As we all know, jazz was not really the best
selling records in those (or nearly any) years, so it is not as if these
are picking the top selling records.  They might be picking the "best
selling" JAZZ records, but I do not have Pop Memories so I can not tell
if that is the case. 
Any indication of price of these?  Are the perhaps in one or two huge
boxes for a small price per disc?  
Probably - after all, Membran must be the World's leading pirate CD producer 
outside China that is...). Probably nobody in this company has ever seen, let 
lone handled, an original 78; everything derives from earlier reissues. 
sually, their 4-CD / 100 song packages go for € 9.99 (ca. $ 12.00) or less, and 
ou see piles of them everywhere *except* in reputable CD shops. dl will 
robably recognize some of his work in their catalogue which he did for other 
ompanies, and so do I. They even swipe photos off other CD booklets, in at 
east one case including a faithful reproduction of the staple that held the 
riginal booklet together :o)
I have no sympathies for them whatever, as they drove two of my former steady 
emastering clients into bankruptcy a few years ago; earlier this year, they 
ried to talk me into doing "mastering" (read: swiping and recompiling CD 
racks) for them for a ridiculously low payment, expressly stating that my job 
ould be make the tracks "different" (read: disguise their origin) by changing 
he sound in terms of EQ and pitch, no matter whether the result would be an 
mprovement or not.....
Chris Zwarg 
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