[78-L] Billboard charts

[David Lennick]

By the way, does anyone know if Proper is still in business? I haven't seen any 
titles from them in the Worlds catalog for a few months.

dl

soundthink at aol.com wrote:
> 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
> 
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> 
> 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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