[78-L] Early 20s Okeh sound

[Taylor Bowie]

That is true!!  Due to different studios and engineers?

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Early 20s Okeh sound


> And yet the OKeh King Olivers sound WORSE than his Gennetts.
>
> dl
>
> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> A lot of early Okehs have an almost magic sound...my 1920 record of the
>> Green Brothers Orch. playing "Palesteena" is not only a fine record,  but 
>> it
>> has a "live" sound which is in many ways superior to most early 
>> electrics,
>> and many later ones as well,  as David notes.
>>
>> Taylor B
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>
>>
>>> Chris Zwarg wrote:
>>>> In the US, Okeh probably had the best acoustic sound on average
>>> No question. Yesterday at the CAPS meeting in Toronto, Jack Litchfield 
>>> was
>>> playing Sophie Tucker recordings and I'd forgotten how incredible the 
>>> ones
>>> from
>>> 1922 sounded..more like electrical than many later 20s records.
>>>  dl
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