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

[David Lennick]

And some early National maroon labels by Raymond Scott, oversized to boot..feel 
and sound like concrete.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> 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>
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> 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