[78-L] "Deluxe"...NOT

[Taylor Bowie]

I once bought a gross little lot of Radiex on eBay...there was one in there 
I wanted,  and the rest were odious vocals of the worst sort of 
Mother-Baggage Coach-Sweetheart's Grave sort of tunes.

The sound of one of them was so faint I thought for a minute that it was 
some sort of vertical cut which wouldn't play on my machine...the worst I've 
ever heard...and of course the surface was crappy as well.

No one has mentioned those amazingly terrible pressings on Deluxe...all 
those fine Billy Eckstine Orch sides with Gene Ammons,  Dexter Gordon,  etc. 
Someone once wrote that they sound like they were pressed on cement...and 
the recording sound on them is the worst I've heard from the electric era. 
ARA sounds like 1929 Columbias compared with Deluxe.


Taylor B



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Dnjchi at aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Rubbish Quality Records (was Major Records Sound 
Effects78's)


> Some of the early MGM pressings were hissy in the mint condition.  As  a 
> kid,
> I bought a Jimmy Durante disc and played it at the store.  It hissed
> terribly, but the salesman said there was nothing wrong.(!) Perhaps that 
> is why  MGM
> pushed the preemphasis so much higher--to get rid of the hiss!
>
> Don Chichester
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