[78-L] Canadian Victors

[David Lennick]

Their performances were at the Coloseum. I still wonder if they were cut on the 
spot or taken off a line, and whether they were dubbed..if there aren't long 
pauses at the beginning of each side, you can be sure they're dubs. The 
Associated Glee Club Columbia sides are originals..long start-up, music too 
short for the amount of groove space they allotted.

Victor didn't get it any better 20 years later when they recorded the Leslie 
Bell Singers on 78s.

dl

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
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> These recordings seem to suffer from mike overload, (particularly, surprisingly "Londonderry Air" which is the softest number they recorded).  A similar effect to the affliction which blights the D'Oyle Carte recording of "Yeoman of the Guard" where the choruses are unbearable.  I can only assume the engineers were not yet aware that mike signals can overload an input stage even though the meters will show that everything is fine.  According to the labels, the CNE recordings were made at a performance so it's not likely they had the chorus in the audience area of an auditorium.  Also there is no applause and while you can hear noisy ambience being cut off at the end of the pieces, there's no sign that applause was starting.  As I recall I think the Associated Glee Club recording of the same period had the beginnings of applause that was abruptly cut-off.
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